The American patriot., 1855-12-22
An Irish Convention.

AN xI1S0 S0COnvonL10ns
An Irish Convention has been lately held
in New York City, to take under advisemer'
the best ways and means to effect their emanc..
patton from under the dominion of England
The British Government was denounced pret.
ty severely by the members in their speeches
but nothing more will the Irish in the United
States do but talk-England need fear nothing
else of them. If the Irish were freed from
England, they would be in a much worse con-
dition than they are at present They are
not capable of governing themselves, and the
establishment Of IA Republican form of Govern.
mert on the Island, would be the worst ca.
lamity that could befal the people.
H RoBERrF. Stockton, of New Jersey has
published letter in defence of the Native
American faith. He talks like man of good
sense, and true patriot unawcd by party
cliques, or unprejudiced by any consideration
save the truth. The letter is noted for the
holiness of its sentiments and dicton and be-
trays no labored effort at rhetorical display.
The whole doctrine Of Native Americanism is
summed in five lines, which others have labor
ed to express in that many columns. He says:
First: The Constitution, with its Compro-
miSes
Second The preservation of the Union at all
hazards.
Third: The naturalization laws should be
abolished or essentially modified.
Fourth: Am ricans alone should rule Amer
lea. They only should be appointed to the
high and responsible executive Offices under
our government.
Hon. L. NJ. Keitt, of South Carolina, addres
ed his constituents at Barnwell Court House.
the 5th October, on the state of parties, and
the aspects of politics in the country. For a
Democrat, he gave a portraiture of the great
Democracy not so f1attering as some we have
seen sketched by some of its friends in this
State. After speaking of the dislnemberment
of the Wing party he says Bee.
How fares it now with the Democratic par
ty? Its banners still glance in the sun, and its
legions still rally at their chieftain's biddings.
But what inscriptions are on the banners !?
And what cries rcsounds over the field? Are
not the Softs the Democratic party in New
York? And have they not upon their flag
the Wilmot proviso, in the shape of "uncom-
promising hostility to the extension of slave
territory" Did not Bger, in his canvass for
Governor of Pennsylvania carry a banner with
Frceso on one side and conservatism on the
other? Did not the party in all the New Eng
land States sku'k from the Slavery question :?
Is the picture any brighter in the Northwest !?
Where in all that region, save Illinois, have the
constitutional rights of the South been boldly
upheld? How stands the party even upon the
Nebraska bill? In the free States it is main
tanned upon the ground of squatter sovereignty
and alien suffrage, and Northern facilities for
colonization. Can the South uphold it upon
these grounds? Who here will endorse the
monstrous doctrine of squatter sovereignty,
born of political cowardice and selfish ambi-
ton? Where then is the unity of the Demo-
cratic party? 1t differs in the defence even OF
its fundamental measures. Here and there at
the North noble leader and body guard
stands firm, but they fight hopeless battle
The President is true, but his party have be-
trayed even him. The piumage of authority,
the profits OF place, and the greater relative
strength of th9 Southern wing, has kept the
Democratic party together, since the dissolu-
ton of its Wing rival But aboltionism is
fast rendng the gorgeous trapping Of office,
and beating down even the strong castles Of
the spoils. Partisan presses and venal declai-
mors may exhaust sophistry and fraud, but
the fact still glarcs. out upon us, that the Dem
ocratic party is denationa.ized by Aboitionism
The following is written to the Picay-
une by the Washington correspondent of that
paper:
81 am assured this morning by competent
authority, that Senators Benjamin of Louisiana
Jones Of Tennessee, Plstt of Maryland, and
Toombs of Georgia, have each of them formal
ly declared their adhesion to the Democratic
party, and are to be recognized hereafter as be-
longing 20 ''ihc faithful" III all future caucuscs
and other arrangements Of the party" in the
Senate"
a beautiful Wing trick, tn. Native American
Party is? With what face can those thick
headed numskuls who have been hulling this
contemplate accusation against our organiza-