Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-26
Hypocrisy In Politics.

Albany Journal, and the northern tree-soil
and anti-slayery leaders, habitually represent
the Known othings as mere pro-slavery party
They denounce them as the enemies of VIM
H. Seward, and the opponents of the Liberty
party;" and therefore they labor with assidu-
ity and ingenuity, to prevent the increase and
ascendency Of this American party There
is not one reading man of common intelligence,
in the United States, who does not know that
Chase, Sumner, Seward, Giddings, Weed,
Greeley, Bryant, Bailey, and their coadjutors,
assiduously labor to destroy the American
party, on the single and express ground, of its
alleged unfriendliness to their sectional views,
upon the question Of slavery. True or false,
they thus charge, that our party is pro-slavery,
and they war upon it as such.
On the other hand, southern presses, like
the Union, Sentinel Enquirer, and Examiner,
and southern politicians like Forney, Richie,
Wise, McMullen, and others, who assume to
be the protectors Of southern rights, take every
occasion, lin season and out Of season" to as
sert that their northern free-soil, anti-slavery
confederates are mistaken, and that instead of
being pro-slavery, the ow-Nothings" are
nothing but abolitionistsl Mark this--that
the northern free-soil and anti-slavery wing Of
the Foreign party, never accuse the "Ameri-
can party" Of free-soiism or of anti-slavery
proclivities, at the North, where it might help
them; whilst the southern or pro-slayery wing
Of the " Foreign party" never charge at the
South, where it might benefit us, that we are
slavery propagandists We would suppose,
that the anti-slavery men whom we have
named, the Stewards, Greeleys, Weeds, Bryants,
and Giddingses, would know the Know-No-
things" in their respective localities quite as
well as the Forneys, Ritchies, Wises, and Nc
Mullins, who reside hundreds Of miles distant
from them!
And the above named free-soi leaders, with
one accord, oppose our party on the sole
ground that it is a pro.slavery partyl On
the other hand, the Forneys, Wises, Ritchies,
and McMullens, swear, by all the saints in the
calendar, that our party is the anti-slavery
party, and they oppose us because we are not
slavery propagandistsl These heterogeneous
elements Of opposition to our party, agree in
one thing only--and that is TO oppose the
american party, but unfortunately they differ
just as much in their grounds of opposition to
us, as they do in reference to the merits Of
slavery, upon which they are at daggers'
points Our party was formed, as our oppo-
nents we'll know, for other purposes than
those, which our enemies seek to compel US to
discuss, in order that they may array sec
tional opposition to us, and thus prevent our
acquiring a national influence.
The american party" was not formed to
plant Christian missions, Ito establish temper
ance societies, Ito support Liberian colonies, or
to mingle in contests about banks, tariffs, pub
lie lands or slavery It was formed to put a
stop to the Importation of criminals and pau
pers,-to render Socialists and Red Republicans
powerless, by excluding future immigrants
from the polls, or at least by extending the
term Of their probation, and to make the con-
stituion, and the government, founded thereon
recognised and respected by all religionists,
and non-religionists, as the highest authority
known in this country, in all matters touching
the rights Of our citizens, and the enaction or
administration Of our laws; Of such authority
that no priest or potentate can release the obi
CATION of citizens to defend a nd protect that
constitution and government
These were, and are, some Of the most prom
inent objects Of our party, and politicians can
not change our objects, nor can they defeat
their accomplishment Enough Forneys, and
Ritchies, and Wises, and McMullens, and
Thurlow Weeds, and Horace Greeleys, and
Joshua Giddingses hare not been born to pre-
vent il No, nor could the onward progress
of the American Reformation be arrested,
were all the Bishops and Popes now living,
who have cursed the world, since Romanism
had an existence
But did any party ever encounter adverse.
ries more reckless than those the American
party has encounteredf Look for a moment
at the conduct of the New York wing Of the
foreign party. To build up and sustain that
party, proposition is gravely made in the New
York Legislature, to crafty the ruffians Of
New York city, by taking the control Of the
police from that sterling and independent
Mayor, Fernando Wood, who troubles that class
so much, and to confer the control upon their
partisans.
Read the following extract from an article in
the Baltimore Sun Of Saturday last
"Gov. Clark's appointments Of hsrbor masters
for this city excites universal surprise One Of
them, II is alleged, is well known fancy man, the
keeper Of a fash pertcr>house, and fast man Of
the first water-another is Q. c. Burleigh, the
noted abolitionist and Union cursor whose Trades
at the abolition gatherings during the May ami.
versailles are familiar TO the reading public Each
Of them receives yearly salary Of $1,000"
Such are the men who most loudly oppose
the American party" Gov. Clark is doing
the bidding Of w. H. Seward, one Of the allies
Of Forney, Pierce, and Company, in denounc-
ing % Know-Nothingism y To reach power
and place, Clark professed American" SEN
timents, and claimed fellowship with the
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