Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-21

Jtlat q IalSenOOu was tlus SouBneeO
be palmed upon the SOUTH II is rule in
the application of evidence, in courts OF law,
that If witness swears .fatsety, in any inn
portant particular, his whole statements pass
for nought-his testimony is to be disrcgarded
altogether Apply this sound principle of ad;
justice to the Forney and Pierce
presses at the South, and where do they stand?
Falsus in aao, .taIsus in omnibus, is a legal
maxim-ajust one, and applicable to the whole
tribe Of Forneyite presses.
We doubt not that a number Of the profess
cd Know-N othings in Maine, are like those Of
the same kidney who voted for Seward in
New York but it is not true that the Amer
lean party" at the North are, as body, or to
any considerable extent, pledged to war upon
southern institutions. AS party they do not
recognise the question of slavery as legiti-
mate subject of discussion in their councils.
Senator Wilson, who openly processes to DO
antislayery in his feelings, expressly stated in
his published letter, that the question Of
slavery was not one of those for the regulation
of which the American organization in Massa-
chusetts was formed"
We all know, everybody knows, and no one
denies, that public sentiment throughout the
North, is anti-slavery. This has been mani
tested often enough in their elections hereto
fore. Years and years before the Know-No-
things had an organized existence, a coalition
between the Free-Soilers and Democrats elect
ed John p. Hale, Charles Summer, Benjamin
r. Wade, and Salmon p. Chase, to the Senate,
MS also Wilmot and score of others of the
same type to the House of Representatives.
All this is known to every man Of common in
formation in the United States. If men of the
same feelings, and from the same section of
the country are now elected to the same sta
tions, why, forsooth, the american party "
are all abolitionists Unfortunately for our
enemies, if this argument be true, the Demo
cratic party, who elected Hale, Chase, Wade,
Sumner Wilmot, and others Of their stripe,
have been a5oSitionists for a dozen yearsi
But VIC now come to the most soul stirring
and irresistible appeal to Virginians we have
ever read Listen ye ".Know- Nothings Of
Virginia" yo Patriots and Freemen" Hear
the "Southern Argus "-eyed coadjutor of For
ney, Greeley, and Bishop Hughes
He speaks
"Look, and read for yourselves, nor heed the
syren cry of peace-peace, that comes from design
ing pens; ,.
tive platform laid down by Vespasian Ellis, the
ever ready echoes Of underling compeer editors
among US, whose judgments are warped by the
mystic rod Of his superior intellect!
"IHat ma,-now striving to direct the desti-
MES of Virgnia--is not of u.s. He was reared in
a northern land-educated Nth northern preju-
dices, and never learned to love the home of his
adoption.
'"Shall we hearken to such counsels, opposed
as they are by the solemn warnings of Hunter, Ma
son, Wise, and many ofthe present Wing patriots
of our own State 7"
Now, we confess we are "done for fused
up" annihilated, almost! When and where
have we cried, "peace-peace?" "Honeycd
whisperings" Ell? Deceptive platform ?"
Our cry is toar-par to the bitter end, upon
foreign nhuence-Romish tyranny, and do
mestic demagoguisml
The false cry Of ''peace" is heard not from
us, but from the presses who ignore the exist
cnce Of those alarming evils, which have over
spread the land, as with murky pail, and
which are fast blighting and whitening the
growth of the tree oflberty, Of free institutions
and OF American nationality The false cry
Of "peace" comes from those whose eyes are
blinded by the glitter Of gold, to the usurpa-
tons, the tyranny and the corruptiens of the
Romish priesthood
The "honeyed whisperings" come not from us,
but from those who would lull the pepole into
false security, whilst the Romish hierarchy
Gn the language Of jefferson, in his act cstab-
fishing religious frcedom) share assumed do.
minion oUer the faith Of Others, setting up
their own opinions and modes Of thinking AS
THE ONLY TRUE AND ISFALLIBLE, and as such
endedOoring to impose them upon Others, hare
established and maintained false religions
orsr the greatest part Of tho world, and
through all timer
We commend to the perusal Of the Southern
Argus, the act above referred to, which we
publish in full, on the first page Of our daily
sheet
Deceptive PLATFORM" Wherein do the
acts Of our party differ from tho ayowed prin-
ciples we have presented to the country We
have no Baltimore platform" wherewith to
"catch gulls," and which means one thing at
the North, and another at the South, but we
stand erect upon "the Constitution, the Union
and State rights" nor do we claim, like the
Forney and Pierce Democracy, that the ma
tional compact" confcrs tho power to " eradi-
cate slavery" as in the Ohio Democratic reso-
luton above copied So much for the cry Of
peace" tho "honeyed whisperings' and the
deceptive platform"
But the "mystic rodi" We know Of but
one mystic rod" which VIC have ever WELD
ed, to warp the judgments" Of. others, and
even that rod we used but sparingly. It was
our fortune, at an carly period life, to teach
the young idea how to shoot" and in the ca
pacity Of q teacher, We were sometimes obliged