The Empire County argus., 1855-12-29
Cincinnati American Convention.


On several occasions we have been compelled to
compliment the leader writer of the State Journal
on the ingenuity with which he can disort facts to
suit his purpose. When the news of the N. York
and Massachusetts, elections came, although it
placed the Knownothngs far ahead of all their
competitors, and exhibited the Pierce Democracy
far in the rear of the Black Republican party, he
took heart of grace and tortured the whole affair
into Democratic triumph In the same ingenious
spirit he has metamorphosed the late Cincinnati
American Convention into strong Abolition move
ment. This ingenuity compes our admiration,
though truth forces us to admit that we are not
prepared to write panegyric on his candor
There was once physician who had happy
faculty of looking on the bright side of his pa
tents symptoms. He would inquire How is his
coughs The nurse would reply: "Terriblv bad
has churehyard emphasis in every intonation
of it, So much the better " the doctor would
exclaim, rubbing his hands How is his pulse?,
q" Very, very low," the would respond 'none
perceptible at the wrist" So much the better y
the doctor would calculate, in perfect delirium
of gratfed professional pride. How long can
he live?' "Not over three hours and thereupon
our Esculapius would cap the climax of his appa-
rent happiness by screaming at the top Of his voice.
So much the better!" Our friend of the State
Journal is very much of the same kidney and be-
comes all the more exultant the more nearly his
party approaches its dissolution.
In New York and Massachusetts, the Knownoth-
ings carried all before them, like whirwind- de-
feating the Black Republicans, their most formda-
bic opponents, and leaving the Pierce Democracy
irrerievably in the jaws of destruction-and yet
the State J0urhal in the face and eyes and teeth of
this emphatic state of affairs, seemed to grow ten
fold more jubilant than ever, and vocferated from
the bottom OF its lungs " So much the better ~
We are tempted to envy the philosophy that can
reap happiness from such scanty stubbe.
The Cincinnati Convention adjourned on the
22d of November, giving the clearest assurance
that the Negro question, which had distracted the
deliberations of the Philadelphia Convention, was
no longer bone of contention between the North
ern and Southern wings of the party and vet the
Sde Journal affects to in all things the cloven
hoof of Abolitionism. That this Cincinnati Con-
vention, in its inception, was intended as rallying
point for the Anti-Slavery element of the Northern
wing of the American party, is proposition which
we are neither prepared to discuss nor deny.
Whatever may have been the intention of its orgi-
nators its results have been strictly national, and
in accordance with the legitimate principles and
purposes of the party. This is not so apparent in
the published resolutions as in the manifest spirit
which ruled the proceedings. All tends to show
that the demon of disunion, which, but few
months ago, threatened to subvert the American
party in the North, has been effectually exercised
from its councils. What the Cincinnati Conven-
tion has failed to accomplish will be entirely per-
teced at the forthcoming convocation of the Order
on the 22d of February. By that period the North
ern and Southern wings of the American party
will meet and mingle on the same national plat
form. Being, emphatically the party of the I'm
ion, its ranks will be sweed by all those true
American patriots-no matter under what partisan
flags they are now aeting-who, in the turmoils
and broils of the Negro question: will see in it the
only sure ark of safety for the Confederacy.
The signs of the times are propitious to the
great American party. Sectional preiudices are
rapidly giving place to wholesome and pervading
patriotism. AS to the Pierce Democracy is no
longer fact but fiction, and has now no other
life than that accorded it in the page of history
The strife is now between the enemies and the
friends Of the Union. Seek ye which ye shall
choose'-Back Republicanism and Secessionism
one side, and patriotic devotion to the American
Union on the other. No man, of the Caucasian
race, whose lungs first inhaled the vital air on the
soil consecrated by the virtues and the deeds of
Washington, can long halt between the two great
opinions of the day. For us and for our house."
we go for the Union, and forever, against all
its foes come they armed with incendiary opinions
Or with bristling bayonets In the language of the
defiant and patriotic Jackson - The Union--it
must be preserved - and preserved it will be by
the American party State Tribune.