Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-30
WASHINGTON. .. 9. TUESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 30 1855

allegiance, directly or indirectly, to any foreign
power, whether civil or ecclesastical, and who are
Americans by birth, education and training-thus
fulfilling the maxim: AMERICANS ONLY sHALL
G0vERE AMERIcA." dffia n
The protection of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise of their civil and religious rights
AMI privileges; the maintenance of the right of
every man to the full unrestrained and peaceful cn
jCynerd his own religious opinions and worship,
and jealous resistance of all attempts by any sect
determination or church, to obtain an ascendency
over any other In the State, by means Of any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
combination Of its members, or BY division o.
their civil sllsgiance with any foreign power po-
tentate, or ecclesiastic.
TX. THE reformation of the character Of our
National Legislature, by ecvating to that digni6ed
and responsible position men Of higher qualifica
tions, purer morals, and more unselfsh patriotism
X--The restriction Of executive patronage, es-
pecally in the matter ofappointments to office, 50
far as 1t may be permitted by the Constitution, and
consistent with the public good. Aia A
XL--The education the youth Of our country
| schools provided by the State; which schools
shall be to all, without distinction Of creed
or party, and free from any influence or direction
of dcnominational or partisan character.
|G And inasrnuch as Christianity, by the Constitu-
tons of nearly all the States; by the decisions Of
the most eminent judicial authorities and by the
consent Of the people of America, is considered an
element Of our political System; and, as the Holy
Bible is at once the source Of Christianity, and the
depository and fountain of all civil and religious
4 freedom, we oppose every attempt to exclude it
from the schools thus established IN the States n
XII.--The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite of the opposition of the Wing
| and Demoorgtic parties, cannot be in any manner
| responsible for the obnoxious acts of violated
pledges of either. And the systematic sgitation
Of the slavery question by those parties having ell
evated sectional hostility into positive element
Of political power, and brought our institptpns
into peril, 1t has therefore become the imperative
duty of the American party to interpose for the
purpose of giving peace to the country and per-
petuity to the Union. And as experience has
shown it impossible to reconcile opinions 80 ex-
IRENE as those which separate the dsputants, and
US there can be no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, the National Council has deemed it the best
guarantee of common Justice and of future peace
to abide BY and maintain the existing laws upon
the subject Of slavery, - final and conclusive
settlement Of that subject, In spirit and IN sub
stance. vf ~ Asss3 en- t,1N s,s5sAf
And regarding 1t the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon subject SO important, in distinct
and uncquivocal terms, it is hereby declared as the
sense of this National Council, that Congress pos
sesses no power, under the Constitution to legis-
late upon the subject of Slavery In the States
wnere IL docs or may exist, or 10 exclude any State
from admission into the Union, because its Consti-
tuition does or does not recognise the institution
of Slavery as part Of It's social system; and ex-
pressfy pfetermitting any expression Of opinion
upon the power of Congress to establish or pro-
hibit Slavery In any Territory, it Is the sense OF
the National, Council that Congress ought not to
legslate upon the subject of Slavery within the
Territories Of the United States, and that any In
reference by Congress with Slavery az it exists In
the District Of Columbia, would be violation OF
the spirit and intention of the compact by which
the State Of Maryland ceded the District to the
United States, and breach of the National faith
XiIL-The policy Of the Government of the
United Suites, in its relations with foreign govern
fents, Ia to exact justice from the strongest and
do justice to the weakest restraining, by oil the
power Of the government all its citizens from in
reference with the internal concerns of nations
with whom we are at peace. f stteJ
XIV.-Tbis National Council declares that all
the principles Of the Order shall be henceforward
everywhere openly ayowed; and that each mem
her shall be at libeityto make known the existence
Of the Order and the fact that he himself is mem
ber and it recommends that there be no conceal
nent of the places Of meeting Of subordinate conn
cils ]" Afosg s
Z. B. BARTLETT, ofKentucky,
..f ~ President Of National Council
G. d. DssHLrR, of New Jersey,
Corresponding Secretary. -,f
JAMES NJ. STEPHENS, of Maryland,
19t- Recording Secretary.