Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-03
soeeoh or WIN. M. DurwslI.

AT a meeting OF the American Oounch, NO. -
Ia the city Of New York, VIM N. Burwell, Esq,
1 of Virginia, made an excellent speech on the Ma
tional Platform, from which we extract the lnater
| al portion follows &
The resolutions which you assemble 10 consider
| embody two leading principles in the settlement Of
! the sectional question.
!. The right of private judgment. Under this
every man may worship God according to the die
| tates OF his conscience or superstition. Within
this sphere there is scarcely degree ofnnovaton
upon the institutions of his own State which he
| NAV not entertain or ayow But he must keep
steadily within the limits which the constitution
| has assigned him. He must not make his opinion
the lawful opinion of those who are members Of
another political community If like the rapacious
jew, he goes one hairs breadth beyond the line
assigned him
he dies,
| And all his goods are confscate.
Under this restriction the Christian creeds are pro-
ected within their legal sphere, but restricted be-
! yond it. Under this the advocate of emancipa-
ton can apply his own doctrines in his own State
but cannot make them the law of any other
State or Territory. But the limits of this right
marked by those of another and correative obi
CATION
2. The duty Of non-intervention. This Is the
| creed Of every Protestant republican. Interven-
ton win neither be permitted by one Christian
church in the creed of another, by one State in
the domestic affairs of another, nor will we permit
any foreign nation to interfere in the policy Of
own government 44
And this new compact has been received with
such enthusiasm because it embodies these cardi-
nal principles and adjusts upon the basis OF obedi-
ence to the law and devotion to the Union, the
sectional questions which have been heretofore the
subject Of interninable discussion. And it may
not be without significance that some descendants
of the Puritan fathers have considered the war
against the Papal Church subordinate to that
against their own Protestant fellow citizens, and in
their mad determination to crush an obnoxious in
sttution they have invoked the aid of aliens to
carry on their war against Americans. Can fanat
icsm do moro than to forget the preudices OF race
and religion in its unrelenting purpose of aggres
sion and of wrong? You will see that difference
SO radical could not be reconced by words. 1t
might have been covered by general phrases, but
it would have been like covering bulet-hole with
court plaster-it would have concealed the wound
but it could not cure it. e8f
But there are especial reasons why this great city
should confirm the resolutions. You are no more
responsible for the excellence of legal opinion in
any other State than you are for the heresies OF
any other religion than that which you profess.
You have been always connected with the States
which maintain this institution, in trade, in gov
eminent, in the common struggles to acquire a
common freedom A class Of politicians have
arisen who have dissolved this order, who would
dissolve the Union, and whose avowed purpose is
to break the bonds OF the slave and elevate him to
an equality with the citizens Of the United States.
Hence this agitation which these resolutions pro-
pose to quiet
You are opposed TO the immigration Of foreign
paupers. You dread their social communications
and their industrial competition. You have cause
IL. - -ss.As 4.
liberate more than three millions who differ in color
and condition, ftcu ourselves, and their immigra-
ton into your own communities IL inevitable.
When this African race shall have the spirit to
change their condition will they NOT come at once
in one black exodus out Of the land of bondage?
VIII they not 20 at once into the Canaan which
holds out such attractions to theDIY VIII they not
quit their enemies and 60 to their friends and will
they not be driven out by the anger or apprehen.
sons of those from whom they have been wrested Y
No sooner will the fanatica purposes of the aboli-
tionists be carried out than the refugees will swarm
amongst you as the obscene reptiles with which the
vengeance of God visited the Egyptians. They
will nfest your cities, villa GEES farms, and factories
You will be terrified with their crimes, and taxed
with their necessities. Do you wish these African
aliens amongst your You do not wish to admit a
German or an Irishman without limitation Of his
political rights will you allow the slave fresh from
at the polls You say that America shall be gov
erned by Americans. Do you mean Anglo Afiicans
as wen as Anglo-Saxons? You say that politicians
bargain with bishops for votes; that mayors reward
with the custody of your laws and property those
national associations which aid in their elevation
May not some negro leader contract upon SINH
lar terms for the black vote Yet such is the ten
dency Of abolition to encourage the immigration
into the Northern States OF the worst part of the
populationof the South. Are you prepared for such
an infusion into the ballot box Are you prepared
for such practical refntation of your objections to
immigration? You have combined to resist the
immigration of the debascd serfs of Europe, whose
scale Of animal wants low as that of the dig
ger Indian You dread the competition of that
labor which wants no garment but blouse, no
food but bone soup, no home but cellar. How
would you like few additional millions of negroes
who would live on market garbage, sleep like laza-
ro,i, under door steps, and whose daily labor might
be purchased with the cheap poison OF your dstil-
leries2 Do you wish that all the pauperism which
accompanies this labor shall be charged upon Your
treasury Do you wish that all its crimes shall
occupy your courts and crowd your prisonss
But there are other consequences which may re-
suit from the agitation this subject may occasion.
The effect Of abolition would be to impair, IL It did
not destroy, the production of Southern stainless
You men of New York live by commerce Won
keep palatial hotels; you display the wealth Of
States in the limit of street; you 20 down In the
pride Of your honesty to toll, and wrestle bare.
armed and smokc-stained for liv elihood. Do
you wish any Interruption TO this great product
Of the SOUTH Do You wish tic drafts of New
Orleans, and Alabama, and Carolina, and Virginia,
prote,teds Do you like to t,ear Of floods which
dcvasiate, of insects which devour, offrosts which
destroy the staple of the. country Then do you
wish to contribute IA n measure which might
check forever the production upon which your
labor so much depe lnds for its rewardt But when
you shall have su fered in the abated demand for
your labor, therl reflect, l pray you, upon that
other conseq Ience to which have adverted
Suppo'e the Act contaminated which the enemies
Of this. Unim In New England and Old England
have coacocted. you will perhaps see in the
colur ans Of some press which loves the African
bett Dr. than the Anglo-Ssxon some such announce
mer Il as this: " We learn that the last division Of
the freemen, cmancipated at the South by act Of
Go hgress, has passed the Potomac they hasten
70 that land TO which the intolerance Of their OPP
p ressor has driven them" How will you DO pre-
Jared to receive these new brethrenf
II Is therefore that we app ,sl TO you TO ratfy a
settlement which involves your interest as wen as