New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-18

Tor discusson and decision to the proper Tribunals
the sovereign Ssie- Of the Union. Such is our optn-
ron Of this American movement-we expect tbs
will XII out every organized principle which initiates
egsinst the harmony, the purity or the perpetuty oil
the American Union"
To the same effect, Tk Am<rieaz Orgss. just
starred at Warrington, and edited by Vespssian
Ellis. says:
al. there politician in this nation bold and reck-
less enough 20 assert thar the American party, IN
any respect or 10 any extent seeks to stand On any
oiher platform than the Constitution and the mon
=" l. there aIy rlgh guaranteed byt tie CONSTITUTION
either 10 the States or - individuals, wnlcn We 90
Dot maintain Ia ITS purity and In 's full length ana
breadth We shall rlatafais an dCeHf me C'n"'-
fufoh as II stands tie UHi0s as n erIsts, ami me
right ef tie States rIti0t GiniHEtos, as guIraH-
ted hreby opposiRg at all tHes, and TO ne eLtea'
81 our abffitg aud fHesce all rho may dssaH teer
or e1,hey Of them To this doctrine we stand
pledged ana we defy our opponents to point 70 one
sir Gle act done or oue sentiment expressed oy tue
American party in conflict with this doctrine Wno
ai the North assss principles, as IN
our firs, number Who at The South can assai them
owns, rights of the Northern STATES 90 we op,
nose What rights of the Southern States do We NOT
maintain What rights of either will we not defend
10 the last extremity None. The American
"party WIS formed on the basis OF the Constitution
and tbe Union aud il destined TO pres ooth, oy
purifying the body polite, and exercising eosc.e'-
IRE influence wherever its organizations prevail
We might quote enough more of the sane sort,
but it ia needless Suffice it that the Know
"Notbing movement is in the hands Of the
Unionsa savers of 1850, and will be steadily shaped
to their ends. Individuals, and perhaps certain
localities, may demur; but the movement is the
latest dodge of Hnnkerism. Nobody believes that
an earnest con,emner of Slavery will be pushed
by 1t for the Presidency; nobody doubts that the
nomination by it Of any such man as Charles Sum-
n.r or s. P. Chase for the Presidency would
rend is into fragments. 1t can be kept alive only
by the most rigid avoidance Of all exciting aud
agitatiDg topics. 1t is in fact bsck-fre set by
Silver Gresism to stop the advance of the Anti
Nebraska spirit in the Free States. When it
shall have subseryed this end, it will be allowed
to die out and give place to some fresher hunbug.
As 10 our own future, in which our friends
evince so deep an interest, we do not share their
apprehen,ions. 1t is quite likely that we shall
lose some subscribers through Kno Nothing"
prescription, but our subscription prices are so
low, and the present cost of paper, &c, so high,
that a few thousands of subscribers more or less
will make little odds in our annual balance sheet.
Certsny, we would rather gain patrons than
lose; but we cannot sell our convictions for sub
scriptons. fthe time should ever come when the
public does not value our lsbors in thisfeldenough
TO let us live by them, We shall be very willing TO
try another vocation. But the better portion OF
our readers will not easily be slienated from The
TRIBUNE. Having lived so long under the stig-
ma of being a patron and admirer of the negroes,
We shall not be killed at once by the imputation
that We are standing up for the Irish and the
Catholics.
We rejoice that this question has arisen in such
time and shape as to try those who have too long
inveigbed without contradiction against "dems-
"goguelsm and " counting the Irish vote" We
believe no single appeal was anyEhere made to
Adopted Citizens as such to vote the Wing ticket
at the late elections we, certainly, made none;
and il 10 our firm belief that Ullmann obtained
more votes from men born in Europe than Clark
did. Most surely, We never wished Adopted Cit
liens TO vote with us on any other grounds than
those common to all Americans, aud never APP
pesled to them as clsss except to urge them to
burnt the shackles which bound them so generally
to the ear of Slavery and Sham Democracy, and
look at the questions really in dispute with their
own eyes. They never were, to any considerable
extent, our subscribers; We do not expect that
Il ey ever will be. That may seem to argue bad
taste on their part, as the way they vote may i'm
ply defe ctive educaton but neithsr bad taste nor
imperfect training affords any sufficient excuse for
disfranchise meat. We cam OF renounce the car
dinal principles of our political faith, but must
still insist on Rights for All.