Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-10

fuA The AAkhkCAN OAoAk.
GEErSyILLE, Ala, May 2, 1855.
Mn, EDroR--Dear sir Permit me to say 80 far
as the American party, OF which your paper is the
acknowledged organ, has tendency TO overawe
aud keep IN check the two rival factons--the abo-
tionist of the North and the secessonist Of the
South--it meets with my decided appreciation, and
ought 10 be approved by every natve-born Ameri-
can. The Abolitionsts are set Of unconstitu-
tional meddlers with other peoples business, aud
have no right TO send Abolition speeches and doc
uments TO the South and, In truth, there Is law
to that effect prohibiting them from being sent by
or in the United States mail 1t was passed when
Mr. Martin Van Buren, was Vice President, which
deserves to be remembered by the South as noble
act of his, as il was a tie IN the Senate, when he
gave the casting vote, thereby freeing the South
from such incendiary trash And long may he live
10 see the good effects of that one patriotic act.
And besides, / hope it viii do their cause no good
to be sending their trashy Abolition speeches to
the lawyers In the Southern States. The Southern
people may be divided on the subject OF State
rights and State remedles-one party holding the
doctrine that State has constitutional right to
secede, when she feels herself aggrieved; and the
other, the Union party, contends that secession ID
revolutionary remedy, and ought not to be re-
sorted to- only as a last resort as we arc living
under constitutional compact But notwithstand-
ing this difference Of opinion, the South is united,
and is as one man. On the question of Southern
rights, there are none among us opposed to negro
slavery, which has, in my opinion, no doubt, tho
sanction of the Creator of the Universe or Il would
not have prospered as it has done heretofore.
wish w. ii. Seward would keep his abolition
documents i'm bis own section, and not send them
here, for IL he sends any more TO me, ! shall have
TO act the part Of little David and will let him be
the Goliath of the North, while ] will constitute
myself, as little and contemplate as may seem to
him, the champion Of the South; and to save
greater efusion Of blood and treasure, can meet
somewhere about the Mason Il Dixon's line, and
fight il out. l will take along with me in my sling
instead of smooth stones, the Constitution Of the
United States, and viii read to him article fourth
which says: "No person held to service or labor"
&c.; and the preamble, which says: "We, the
people Of the United States, in order to form a
more perfect union, establish justice, ensure do
p,estic tranquility promote the general welfare,
and provide for the common defence, and secure
the blessings OF liberty to ourselves and our pos
terty do ordain and establish this Constitution for
the United States OF America. After / have read
the above to him and asked him who composed
the Convention that formed the present Constitu-
ton Of the United States; also. if they were not
all Of the free white race and If there were any of
the degraded race Of Africa in said convention, and
if there were none, then the blessings Of liberty
were not expected to extend to them, or their
posterity, as the preamble plainly says, it was to
secure the blessings Of liberty to ourselves (mean-
ing the Anglo-Sssnn raco) aud our posterity, and
to none other, us far as know---I shall desire
him and his clique TO read and ponder, and then
let us and our institutions alone.
Andjtii t iese Arguments do not knock down
the arch niriguer fiat as founder, shall con-
slider him a hard case to deal with. He has no
doubt taken an oath to support the constitution as
well as myself, and think he ought to do it. l
desire no correspondence with any man North, who
is opposed to establishing justice, and acting justly
with the South and the people of the South, or
with any man who is opposed to the /" Fugitive
Slave law" and can rejoice that public opinion at
the North is SO much against the institution of
slavery, as to render that law a dead letter, and
wholly imperative We have come to fine pass,
when a law of Congress can be put at defiance by
a city, county, or State. Ii that is the case our
government is, sure enough, becoming rope of
sand ~ weak and feeble Notification is not con-
stitutonal remedy, but would if prosecuted amount
to nothing more nor less than revolutionary rem
edy Yet if IL is good for the goose it is good for
the gander; If ii is right in South Carolina, it is
equally so in Massachusetts. John @. Calhoun once
held to the most ultra States-rghts doctrine, that
State in her sovereign capacity, could do all that
any Prince, Power, or Potentate, King, or Empe-
ror could in any manner do, Levy war and con-
clude peace, &c, And suppose the secession par
ty and abolitionists hold pretty near the same
views. Clay, Webster, Adams, and jackson diff
fered with him, and contended that the States were
not so completely sovereign only over their inter-
nal laws and jurisdiction, and that they had given
up portion of their rights and sovereignty for the
good OF the whole Let the American doctrine
prevail---and Americans rule America--and all will
be well. Yours, &C.,
h. A