Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-10


OF every ten Of the Assembly districts, next fall.
And yet, in The face Of I'll this, Influenced by some
mysterious agency, they negatved the popular sen
timent. and disobeyed the popular will
Men like Speaker Littlejohn, with faulty that
amounted almost 70 the sublime, stood up Ia their
places and while, by their own showing, they vio-
lated obligations the most solemn, gloried In their
shame whining about impositions upon their sim
pcity, about being the victims ofcrafty trcksters;
they made still more huniliating exhibition OF
themselves by becoming the instruments of still
greater tricksters, men of thousand times more
INSCRIPTIONS craft than those by whom they pre-
tended to have been betrayed. Fawning and fat
terry overcame alike their principles and their firm
ness, and breaking all the ties Of determination
they went over to those who, when they have used
them for their purposes, will throw them like worth
less weeds away. We have no controversy with
that portion Of the Wing party that was, who have
been the constant, OPEN and ayowed friends of Mr.
Seward from the beginning They stood upon
principle as they understood it, and however we
may differ from them in regard to the propriety Of
his election, we can respect them, for they have
violated no pledges, betrayed no trust, abandoned
no friends fasfed no profession, proved traitor to
no principles. We give them credit for integrity
Of purpose, and can respect, however we may diff
fer from them in opinion.
But Mr.. Seward is elected And what them
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was organized simply in opposition to Mr. Seward
make great mistake. To that party, he, as well
as any other individual man, is as nothing Incl
dentaly it may come in collision with him, or
rather with the principles he processes If no
stands in the way of its progress, it win stride
right on over him, or sweep him away. His sue
cess or defeat in this election viii have no bearing
on the future The American sentiment will sweep
right on as before increasing in volume and grow
ing in power As the election in the twenty -ninth
district resulted in its triumph, viii that ofcvery
other district next fall, and the next, for twenty
years to come.
We have now come to the parting of the ways,
a point which has not been before reached. The
path of American men, who make up the Ameri-
party, leads to the right that of the fragmen-
tary remains of the old organizations fused into an
agglomerate Of opposition, leads to the left. 1.-THE
SAVIOR Of the ancient feshpots has been too strong
for professed American men in the Legislature It
has not been SO with the people. If those men
have in the blindness Of their infatuaton, mistaken
the death throes Of the eviathan for returning and
invigorated vitality, the people aboring under
no such delusion. They are awake, and in earnest
and will carry this great American movement for
ward to successful contamination, and the election
or defeat of Mr.. Seward will no more alter the flu
ture than would a straw thrown to the winds. A
temporary triumph secured by such instrumen-
talities, will not for moment check the over
whelming march of revolution that is sweeping over
the State.
Mr.. Seward is elected, and again we ask, What
then? This American party, only year in exist
ence, entered the arena against the strongest OPP
ponent that could possibly be found, the most un-
scrupulous combination that could possibly be
formed-itself undisciplned, unskilled in strategy
against the veterans of thirty years experience in
party tactics and political intrigue, and yet on the
first trial, came within six votes of overthrowing
these hitherto invincible opponents At the battle
Of Bunker HILL the Americans were driven from
the field. They failed to achieve victory, but
their courage in resisting the tried veterans of a
hundred battles, fresh from the fields of their fame
gave prestige of success that achieved at last the
triumph Of the Revolution. From that defeat even,
arose future victories. 1t proved that resistance to
wrong was an element of the American character
that could not be overcome; that it could neither
be seduced into submission, nor conquered by
power That same element exists still, and will
conquer now, as it did then The course Of the
American party viii be onward and upward, in tho
future as in the past and the election Of Mr. Seward
will not advance or retard its final triumph single
hour.