Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-12-07
v-rv pretty Quarrel as It Stands.

Very Pretty Quarrel as Il Stands.
The American Organ, the Central Mouth.pece of
the Know Nothing ORDER again under the editorial
management Of Judge Vespasian Ellis. The Judge
is hungry and the Organ turns hard it wants oiling.
Congress meets to-day, and the Organ wants to 40
the printing OF the House. That the Organ may get
the printing of the House will be cessary for the
brethren to have such printing to bestow--to have
such printing to bestow they all pull together
and perhaps fuse with the Republicans. The Organ
insists that the 10Th article of the Philadelphia plat
form must be abandoned as it has been repudlated
by the order in all the Northern States, at any rate.
On the other hand the Southern members OF the order
don't seem to like tha they insist that the said
18th article is the only thing that gives the Philadel.
phia platform anything of national character The
Organ maintains that if any attempt is made TO es'
ablish any test with regard to slavery the thing is
up. Speaking of the 18th article test the Organ
says:
elf persisted in by our Southern friends in Con.
gress ii will inevitably divide the American party by
geographical lnes-throw the organization OF the
House into the hands of the administration and con-
nue the present dynasty in power fer at least another
"We believe that all the Councils in the Northern
and Northwestern States have repud'ated the Phia.
delphia platform, and We suppose that the Ameri-
can members of Congress from those States stand
severalfy upon their ovn State platforms.
We see, therefore, no other probable results like
" to flow from the adoption of this plan than
these that the Democratic party will control the
House of Represen tatives, and the american party
4vU be most efectuaHy destroyed"
The Richmond Wing rebukes the Organ for argu-
ing that the American" party was designed fol
nothing else than keeping foreigners out of Office and
properly adds that:
at is useless to talk about the alarming influx Of
foreigners End the necessity of combining the reins
government to the hands of atUes unless the natives
TO whose hands you would confde them of the
right stripe. We could name any number of foreign
born citizens whom we and the whole South would
trust even with the power and patronage of the Pre-
sidency' in preference 10 hundreds of native borr
Americans"
elf however, it is true. as the Organ says, thai
the American party in the Northern and Northwes
tern States have repudated the Philadelphia Plat
form, then the South should repudiate them, and al
who sustain them-even though doing the
Organ should fail to realize its hopes in the way OIL
the public printing. We trust that the Southern
members of the American lartv will Indignantly re
fuse 10 cast their votes for the proprietors of the
Organ or anybody else, who does not stand bodily
fairly and squarely upon the Philadelphia platform
Vote for any sound Democrat the top of the ground
in preference to any Wing or American who is
very and Southern rights"
1t is evident that the crisis has arrived and the ev
dences of dissolution more promptly and decid
eddy than had been anticipated. Either way the thing
is up and the game out. Without the 18th article
there is no shadow of nationality connected with thu
order With it there is no shadow of agreement
among the members Let wait for the new de-
velopments and something will happen.
o. The steamship Atlantic arrived at New Yorl
on the evening of the 3Oth, with Liverpool dates t.
the 18th. The news might be summed up d" as pc
last" Really, there is nothing new. Cotton ant
Spirits are the same Brcadstufs slightly advanced
which may be regarded as rather unavorable thar
otherwise.
RumoIs of peace, the re-opening of negotiation
are about but don't appear to amount 10 anything
Omar Pasha had advanced into Georgia, and defeat
ed Russian force consisting mainly of Georgia mi
litia. The affair does not TO have been very
important. A Russian cadet had deserted and re
ported that Gortschakoff is determined to hazard
attack the allies, and every night his advanced
posts reinforced and supported by field artillery
If Gortschako does attack it will be because of the
necessity of his position, and that he can't help him
self If he don't the allies won't this winter
The French exhibition has closed
OUTSIDE LEGIsLAToRs.-We find it stated in the
naners and have M dOuh truIv 1hree &