The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-16
Appeal 70 Americans.

Appeal TO Americans.
| From long aud able article in the Louis
vile Journal, we extract the following appeal
to the American party in Kentucky, which is
not less applicable TO members of that party
in Tennessee:
The advantages which the American party Of
Virginia SO vainly desired, the American party of
Kentucky possesses Since the Virginia reverse, a
national convention of the American party has as
sembled, and, so far the sui ject of slavery is
concerned, created the best and noblest platform
ever established by any party in the United States.
In comparison with it. all the old platforms, Demo
cratic and Wing, are vague, unmeaning, and worth.
less. 1t is platform, which both the old parties
would, in 1886, in $780, 10 ls4s, and in 1852, have
shrunk from establishing, no matter how well
convinced they might have been of the cor
rectness of its principles and of their importance to
the peace and welfare of the country. If maintain
ed, it renders utterly impossible in the future the
mischievous and portentous agitations and strifes
which have for years been threatening and are now
/ threatening the very existence of the Union. 1t
maintained, it leaves no opening, no pretext, for
conflicts hereafter upon perlous sectional questions
for it utterly anunihilates the questions themselves
| at once and forever. Although both the Wing and
the Democratic parties fattered themselves that
their platforms adopted at Baltimore in the spring OF
1852 took the slave question from the arena OF
national strife, the qeston has since been the &C.
cason of fierce strife and of degree of evaporation
and fury previously unknown upon this continent;
but let the Philadelphia platform be sustained, and
national peace with all it countless blessings will
be secured forever beyond every possible contin.
gency.
In the maintenance of this American platform,
Kentucky is now called on to perform a most mpor-
tant part Indeed it is not too much to say, that
L. 80, 4 II l.
August the fate of the platform may depend
Then as an Indictment to the vigorous discharge Of
our duties, let us look abroad and mark the noble
and patriotic struggles which brethren are max
ing elsewhere. The platform, as it stands, was
voted for in the Philadelphia convention by the
delegation of the powerful slavehodng State Of
New York; and not only has the largest popular
meeting ever seen in New Yory city ratified and
enthusiastically applauded it. but efforts vigorous
and successful beyond all parallel, are made every
where throughout the Empire State to support and
enforce and establish that great and bold and brave
declaration Of national principles. The delegation
of the great central slayeholding State of Penn
syvana aided in effecting the adoption of the plat
form at Philadelphia, and State convention of the
American party of Pennsylvania has since ratified it
and announced to the world their determination to
go into battle upon it and their full confidence in
triumphant issue; and, although they will no doubt
have severe conflict before them, they most as
suredy will not fail. In n jersey and Delaware and
California, the platform is vigorously and successfully
maintained by the masses; and even in Massa-
chusetts the State in which the proessed advocates
OF Amercansm have done most to injure the
American cause by half insane acts OF freesoilism,
fearless and patriotic members Of the Order max
ing a strong and resoute and determined effort to
establish their organization upon the new and glo.
riOus platform. And from various other States, in
which no vigorous movement of the kind has as yet
been made, the intelligence comes that tens of
thousands of the members of the Order, with their
whole souls intent upon the salvation of the Union
are steadily and quietly and effectively marshang
their strength with view to Matchmaking the
Order In their respective States upon the basis OF
the platform.
In the light of such facts as these, the members
of the American party in Kentucky ought to be able
to see and to appreciate the high responsibilities
devoving at this time upon them. When national
convention OF their party has adopted aud promul-
gated set Of resolutions infinitely better for the
whole country and especially for the South than
any ever before announced by party convention;
when we have set Of resolutions that is every
thing which the South even if the whole matter
were left exclusively to herself could possibly
ask for or desire; and when our friends in
the largest and most important of the Nor
them States as well as III various others
making the most earnest and powerful exertiOns to
place their respective States upon the platform,
surely it is not possible that Kentcky, recreant to
herself recreant to the South, recreant TO her no
bic friends in the North recreant to the Union and
its destiny, recreant to the great principles enuncia
ted at Philadelphia for the first time in the history
of national conventions, will fail to sustain the plat
form. Such failure on her part would be ma
tional calamity probably n irreparable one. All
eyes are turned to her and to Tennessee, and we
hope and trust and believe that both of them will
acquit themselves worthiy in the momentous strug-
gle now at hand and not paralyze by their
cy the nighty.p party of which they regarded as
the foremost champions.