Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-05
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
vEsPAsIAN ELLIS, Editor.
The Riohmond Examiner.
MONDAY. MARCH 5, 1855.

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The aboye-named press, in its issue of the
ID instant, processes to comply with our re-
quest, by publishing an editorial Of ours on the
subject of the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise, and omits the material portions thereof,
shus leaving the inference to be drawn from
he portions copied, that we are in favor Of the
repeal Of the Kansas Nebraska bill. We had
not expected SO uncandid and unjust course
10 be pursued by the Examiner. 1t is due to
Us, and due to fairness and honesty, that the
should copy that portion Of our ar
ticle which refers to the restoration of the Mis-
souri, line, and especially as the main point of
its accusation against us was as follows:
The Examiner had said:
"The Organ is cautiously and artfully preparing
its readerseven its Southern readers If that thing
be possibleA-for restoration Of the Missouri line
as the basis of new compromise between North
and South in the turbulent Congress of 1856"
We denied the truth Of this statement in I'M
mistakable language, as follows, to wit:
"We have, at this point, a question or two
to PROFOUND to the Examiner, prefacing them,
however, with the single remark, that we
think we understand our own purposes quite
as well as the Examiner understands them,
and that 400 hare no such purpose IN UieD
achGteper. Will the Examiner answer, whether
or not our editorial, from which the cited par
agraph was taken, did not expressly repudiato
the idea of agitating the slavery question, by q
repeal Of the Nebraska bill? We said in our
editorial of the 10th instant, from which the
Examiner has extracted the cited paragraph,
that opposition to the policy Of that bill Qhe
Nebraska) is one thing and the advocacy Of
its repeal very different thing. We oppose
all agitation Of the. question Of slavery, in
Congress and out Of it.
'Can the Examiner reconcile this explicit
avowal Of our purpose to oppose slavery agita-
ton, with the idea that we are seeking to pre-
pare the South for repeal of the Kansas-Ne-
braska billp II there be any political purpose
of our mind more fixed than another, it is, that
zoe aoiH denounce the agitation Of the question
Of slavery now, hencetortA and Joreoer, IN
Congress and out Of %
1T is a manifest perversion of our language,
to represent, that any sentence we have ever
penned, conveys the idea, that we desire the
repeal of that bill, or that we would fail to de-
nounce the effort, thus to revive that very agi
tation, which we seek to prevent There are
presses in the country which aoilfully misrep-
resent our purposes, we would be unwilling
to class the Examiner amongst them.
| "We trust that the Examiner will do us the
justice, to correct. its misinterpretation Of our
| sentiments"
The Examiner declares, that it cheerfully
complies with our request (made at the close Of
the above sxtract) and then onaits epery cord
Of our denial Of its CHARGE
| And, not content with thus keeping our de-
NAL out Of the view Of its readers, though pro-
Tossing to comply with our request, itNcloses by
a remark which directly misrepresents us, in
saying that the Organ is compelled to repudiate
northern -Nothingism!
Ii the Examiner can make any progress in
convincing the public that the american Or
! gan is in favor Of restoring the Missouri Com
promise, in direct opposition to our declarations
and our platform Of principles, its readers must
have as little sense, as that press has manifested
of candor and fairness, in its suppression Of al
the material points of our defence against it,
assaults.
We are done with appeals to the justice O
the Examiner. It's charge against the Organ
that we were "artfully preparing its readers
for restoration of the Missouri line as the
basis of new compromise" was wholly un.
founded, was distinctly denied, and we asked
the Examiner "to correct its misinterprcta.
ton of our sentiments "--it protested to comply
with our request and yet does not publish one
word Of our editorial on the important question
really at issue between u.s. This is the fair
ness, this the candor of the Richmond Exami-
nerl Why did not the Examiner publish that
portion Of our editorial which we have copied
above, and which was direct and fat denial
Of the charge 1t had madef Does that press
purposely intend to misreprcscnt usf If not,
why suppress our refutation of its charge,
which we requested it to publish, and which
1t protested to publishG
But, in the last article Of the Examiner, il
says that we "repudiate northern Know
Nothingism" This allegation has no founda-
ton whatever. We do no such thing. We
protest against the agitation Of SLAVERY, but
we aver, and have heretofore shown, that our
party at the North has no connexion with the
slavery agitation. Senator Wilson's fourth an
swer to our interogatories, distinctly shows,
that the Know-Nothing councils in Massachu-
setts 90 not entertain the question of slavery,
and our party therefore is no more responsible
for Mr. Wilson's agitating that question, than
is the Democratic party responsible for the
course Of Sumner, Chase, Wade and others,
who were elected by Democratic votes
II Senator Wilson, or any other Senator or
Representative from the North or South, shall
agitate slavery, in any form or shape, we say,
in advance, that they have no authority to do
so as the representatives Of the American
party" and that our party is no more respon-
sible for their votes or acts on this point, than
for their votes or acts on the tariff, or any other
question, which does not form plank in the
American platform. We say more-we will
denounce all such agitation, no matter from
what source, and oppose it to the bitter end
and we shall do so on the ground, that the ag-
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