Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-13


The following preamble and resolutions
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lasr present the general sentiments OF the
"American party" in this city, and will doubt
less he read with interest by the friends of
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10 VIII:
Whereas, public meeting Of citizens of Washing
ton was held at Carusi's Saloon ON the 18th instant
upon a call made in and approved BY the Executive
organ, the proceedings of which, in the resolutions
said have been adopted at that meeting and in the
speeches of certain selected orators at subsequent
adjourned meeting are now spread before the public
eye in the columns of said organ, and its kindred
presses, with appreciation; and whereas said resolu
tons, however dressed up in abstract professions Of
heart and 10 the safety of the constitution
and to the peace and prosperity Of our country and
whereas the Executive is invoked therein 10 remove
from public employment such ofiioeholders enter
tain those principles thereby TO perpetrate ruthless
prescription of both Wings and Democrats for an
honest difference of opinion: therefore
Resotoed That mere professions Of love to the
stitation and to civil and religious. freedom, when
contadicted by actions cannot deceive the sensible
and vigilant guardians Of American liberty, whose
apprehensions have been excited at beholding the
strides that have been made toward complete con-
troll Of our government by the subjects Of foreign
potentate wel-xnown as the avowed enemy of our
whole American system 10 whose overthrow they
are solemnly devoted.
ResolUed, That, as vigant custodans Of that bene-
ed to us by the fathers of the republic Il ia our duty
to meet and repe all insidious attacks upon our lib.
critics as well as all open assaults and that we view
with indignation and alarm the assertion Of princi-
Piles and purposes on the part of the recognised ex
ponents Of the Roman Catholic Church in the United
States, subyersive of our republican institutions,
which constitute aggressions of such character
that if not now resisted will lead nj no distant day
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the complete establishment of despotism.
Resoloed That while, in the past political divisions
of the country as Wings and Democrats, we have
struggled in honest conflict over contested principles
and measures all of which are now settled vet in
the present crisis of danger to all that both parties
hold dear we will bury every remembrance Of past
opposition, and "pledge to each other our lives our
fortunes, and sacred honor not TO cease our
ertions until our country shall be freed from the
dangers that new menace it.
Resolued That we proclaim as the cardinal princi
Piles Of political and moral creed sacred regard
for the constitution in all its provisions upon which
are based our glorious American principles
Of speech freedom of opinion freedom of conscience
freedom of the press together with school system
for the diffusion of intelligence sanctifed by an open
Bible as the rule of faith and practice holding as an
established principle that intelligence and virtue
essential TO the success of free government
Resotoed, That while we welcome to country
the victims of tyranny from foreign lands, and offer
them place by our side under the shield of our
stution we claim for Americans the right 10 govern
their own country; and those who do not like our
government have hearty consent TO 20 elsewhere
in the pursuit of happiness.
Resolved That the fourth resolution of the meeting
at Carusis Saloon recommending To the President Of
the United States prescription Of all officers of the
federal government who may have thought it TO be-
come members of the association OF Know Knoth-
ings-a Recommendation which, before its adoption,
had been recognised and acted upon by the Execu-
tive of the United States-proposes an alarming and
dangerous infraoon of the principles of sefgovern
man liza for fha hu uke
Of all the free citizens OF these United States without
distinction of party, sect or creed.
Resosped, That every Protestant denomination IN
the United States maintains the constitutional prn-
cple of separation of Church and State--in which
principle many American Catholics sincerely concur,
while on the other hand, the Papal Church abroad
openly, and always and everywhere maintains the
doctrine Of obedience Of the civil to the ecclesiastical
authority, both in Europe and America the sad and
ruinsus effects Of which, in the one, are seen In
countless emigrants flying from its tyranny and
misery TO our own happy land, and in the other in
the ignorance and poverty Of the masses, in the
wealth and vices of the clergy and in the ceaseless
instructions, massacres, and provcrbial instability
of our Southern sister Republics.
Resoloed, That upon these principles we appeal
from the opinions whose proclamation has caused
this meeting, to the people Of the United States;
and, although we might infer they are an exponent
Of executive feelings, from the official positions Of
those who controlled the proceedings vet we will still
hope that the President, who alone has the power,
viii arrest the prescription already begun of faithful
oficeholders, both Democrats and Whigs for daring
to entertain American and Protestant sentiments,
and will reject the mercenary suggestion urged upon
him by the fourth resolution of the meeting last week.
a covert scheme TO crafty the appetite Of Office
seekers at the expense Of many who zealously and
efficiently aided IN his elevation 70 power, and whose
removal under existing circumstances will fix an in
deliblc stain upon him as d man and the President
Of the United States
hesotpsd That having seen the denunciations that