Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-11
Total Route Of the Fusionists.

upon and inhamed the existing prejudice upon
that subject for tho purpose of acquiring po-
litical power, We have ceased to take any other
interest in their success, except to hope that
they would be taught their error by the mex
orable monitor Of public opinion.
But they were wiser than ourselves, and
others who bcsought them to exclude the
question Of slavery by maintaining the law,
and abstaining from further agitation They
thought anti-slavery was too good card to
throw away. We hope they are now satisfied
that the American people are not to be COM
mitted by any organization to sectional war
and disunion.
We very well remember the scenes in the
Philadelphia Convention. General Wilson
strobe down the aisle with the arrogant air OF
a conqueror, Boosting of the thousands who fol-
lowed the anti N ebraska banner-procl
the sole issue to be the aggressions Of slave
ry,' and defying resistance to any anti-slavery
legislation whatever Weremember Governor
johnson ALTO, who represented the same object
under an opposite policy. Ho was very adroit
in writing resolutions, and holding conciiatory
conversations. He stroye to detach Southern
mon from their duty to the Union and to their
own constituents by persuading them to com
promise upon some repeal of existing legisla-
ton, which, whilst it would have Frustrated the
American Order in the South, would have in
surcd, in his opinion, its triumph at the North.
He fingered in the convention until the last,
long after the withdrawal Of those who, like
Wilson and Ford, only came into the conven-
ton to pcrvert the Order to their purposes or to
overthrow it. He had been driven ANONYMOUSLY
from the Gubernatorial chair OF Pennsylvania
by his abolitionism, and went strenuously to
work to build up his old party upon his old
theory To make his defeat the more signal
the Wings of Pennsylvania actually came in to
the Republican Fusion. But the American
Order had never consented to abandon its origi-
nal principles 1t refused to recognise this
mercenary and aagitious bargain. The Demo
cratic party had seized upon the Philadelphia
platform. 1t declares the Union the "para-
mount good, and proclaimed the laws Of the
land against notification. Conservative Ameri.
cans, alarmed by the black banner of Fusion,
took shelter in the ranks of those who had raj
lied around the institutions Of he,country.
We consider the result salutary. 1t does
not demonstrate the overthrow of the Amcri-
can order-far from it. The basis principles
Of that order are laid in the heart and con-
science of the American people. Still less does
il demonstrate Democratic ascendancy. The
Democratic party stands on the law, and the
Fusionists are against the law. The law has
conquered. But the people have an. account
to settle with this administration, and when
they shall have rebuked disunion, and re.
stored peace, they will address themselves to
its adjustment The administration has been
They have claimed every victory over disunion,
as a tribute to their popularity and prowcss
Colonel Forney--we presume, from the ini-
tials-writes from tho Philadelphia precinct
which he had been appointed to attend, and
triumphantly claims the whole victory. He
says:
"The Nebraska question, In all its phases, and
the bold and patriotic attitude Of President Pierce
and his administration on that question, were not
only openly at issue between the two parties were
not only urged upon the voters oil the State in the
most industrious and most interruptions manner
by the fusion leaders, and particularly by Cameron
and Wlmot, but were accepted by the Democracy
without reservation"
Now, we protest against roping in the people
OF Pennsylvania to the support of this admin
istration merely because Col Forney chances
to be first on the ground after they have vim
dicated the good name OF the State from the
infamous designs Of the disunionists.
The Democratic Convention, which recently
assembled at Harrisburg, deliberately refused
to assert "the constitutionality and expeden-
cy Of the Nebraska Kansas laws" II rejected
by a vote Of 90 to 40, the following resolution !:
g Resoiped That every new State ought to be
admitted into the Union, with such constitution
az majority Of the citizens thereof shall adopt
provided there Is nothing therein conflicting with
the Constitution OF the United States; and whether
such State shall have adopted or rejected slavery
IL not matter Of inquiry by tho General Govern,
ment. The adoption of any measure which would
defeat this, is direct eDcroaohment upon the pop
ulsr Sovereignty Of such State. That under these
views which we believe TO be correct the oil
enacting Ransas aud Nebraska Territories, tearing
The quettion Of slavery pith I've people, tcas not
only onsfst,tfondi but erpedient and proper and
hat rce do hereby endorsc and approve the same
And when il was proposed to endorse the
course pursued by Governor Rceder, this rcso-
luton, which should have been promptly re-
jccted, was avoided by laying 1t on the table,
and proposition to admit the endorsement Of
the Nebraska. Kansas act, with a dsayowa Of
any responsibility for the "lawlcss acts Of
the border, caused The convention to stampede
sine do.
Aftcr this, il is in vain to say that the late
election Is either a victory Of tho Democratic
party or Of the administration. II is rebuke
10 scctionalism, and to attempted pervcrsion
Of the American Order to the designs Of anti.
slavery.
We hail the dispersion Of these fusionists