Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-11

at tho Office.
The New York Tribune.
Wecopy in another column, for the purposes
Tribune of December 9th, in which the "higher
law" editor Of that far-famed abolition sheet,
quotes from one of our recent editorials, and
wilfully misrepresents the PLAIN language and
unmistakablc meaning of the same. 1t is not
with the expectation that the Tribune will
correct its misrepresentation of our views and
principles, that we point out its manifest per-
version Of our language, and its unauthorized
differences therefrom; but we refer to the sub
ject to repeat our sentiments, until the country
shall clearly and distinctly understand them.
To have our doctrines and language misrep-
resented does not disappoint our expectations.
We knew how INSCRIPTIONS were the Pierce
and Forney presses throughout the country !;
and we knew, too, that their Seward and Gree
| ley allies were their equals in mendacity. But
we also knew that their calumnies could BIO as
easily refuted as they could be uttered. We
expected the most savage warfare to be waged
upon our party by the combined forces of dem
agoguism and abolitionism. Nor do we regret
either the mode Of warfare resorted to, or the
existence Of the homogeneous combination Of
these elements. That the Pierce and Forney
party should combine. with the Seward and
Greeley party, excites neither surprise nor re-
greet.
",Similis simili gaudet" Birds of feather
flock together" The Pierce and Forney ad-
ministration have long ago annihilated the
Union party" which gave them political ex-
istence, and it is quite natural that they should
now join forces with Seward and Greeley, who
only seek to go one step further, and annihiate
the Union itselG
! The Tribune, in the article referred to, in
speaking of the "Americaa Organ" says:
According to this authority, 0hc Oryaa,) the
American party comes into being in Massachu-
sets, as It does elsewhere, for the one purpose
OF securing general obedience to the dictates
Of the slave power" The whole sentence is a
sheer fabrication, from beginning to end, besides
being also the sheerest nonsense.
The american Organ" has advanced no
such idea, and if it had, II would be simply ri
diculous both in language and in import " The
dictates Of slave powcrf" What does the phi
losophic editor Of the Tribune mean by "slare
po1err We know of no slave power I'M
less It be the "powcr" exerted in making cot
ton, hemp, tobacco, and other articles Of Ameri-
can export the shipment or manufacture Of
which have built up the cities OF the North,
created northern shipping, put into operation
northern manufactures, and made northern
millionaires Destroy ths " slave power" and
would you not strike fatal blow at northern
prosperity Mono but fool or a mailman
viii deny this obvious truth
Is this the slave power" to which the Tri-
bune refersi II il be, we can only say, we
neither ddpocdte is continuance nor its ado
tition. The merits or dement's ofslavcry--tbe
policy or the impolicy--the morality or the
immorality-the good or the evil Of African
slavery, all are matters with which zoe NEEDLE
not The whole subject Of slavery, in all its
relations, and in all its consequence belongs
TO those States exclusively in which it exists"
These are our doctrines, and, so far as we un-
derstand the views and feelings Of our friends,
these are the doctrines of the American party.
Not week has trsnspired since the Tribune
itself announced to thu country that the Grand
Council Of the United States, held at Cincin-
matt, had resolved that our party should
neither BE- pro-slavery nor dnti-slarery."
And even in the very article on which we
arc commenting, the Tribune says: Slavery
is to be altogether let alone by this new organ
ization--its principles and workings are not to
be discussed, its designs are not to be ques-
toned" This is itself fiat contradiction of
the assertion to which we have referred, as
being made against us by the Tribune, that our
party have come into power for the one pur-
pose Of securing general obedience to the die
tstes Of the slave power
IL the slave States, or the "slave power
have dictated any course OF policy, or II the
slave States or the "slave power" have any
designs" upon tho North, we arc strangers to
such dictation and TO such designs We sup
pose that such insagiaiags could only originate
in lunatic asylum. We have often seen
in the Tribune, and In It's kindred prints, the
most stirring and eloquent appeals to .fanati-
eism to arrest the "encroachments Of the slave
powerw But we have never elsewhere heard
or read Of such encfoachments. Such notions
are the coinage Of Bcdlsmitss.
We all know, and the country knows, that
the South simply asks 10 be let alone That
course We mean to adopt to recommend, and
to insist upon, as due to the South---due to the
North-due to the memories OF our revolution