Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-29

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The Cause Of the Great CommotxoH.
Those who rail and rant and exhibit 80 much III
nature ON account Of the spEinging into existence
OF the American party, do not seem TO understand
the philosophy OF human nature, nor to know that
no great movement Of the masses of any country,
savage civilized, oppressed with tyranny or en-
joying the largest liberty, ever happens, without
an adequate cause, operating alike upon all who
join and promote the movement There is phi
losophy, great primary and moving cause, lying
at the bottom OF all revolutions and movements of
large bodies of people, as much as there Is at the
bottom of ayolcano when an eruption takes place.
Neither the one nor the other can be brought about
except by the operation of laws and causes appli-
cable to all such important movements Nations
and communities often suffer grisyous evils and
wrongs, bearing and forbearing for long series OF
years before they their courage to the stick
ing point TO resist, and before the last leather
which breaks the cames back, Is laid upon It, the
last grievance which turns patience to anger is i'm
posed upon them, and then suddenly, without an
apparently adequate cause, become maddened 70
resistance and revenge as in the Of the French
Revolution.
He who would understand the why and where
fore of such movements, must have mind capar
BILE of going back and investigating the past. as
well as Of scanning the present A very trifing
circumstance may sometimes be the immediate
cause ofa revolution or great movement but the
penetrating eye of philosophic statesman, or
historian will soon perceive that this tring cause
had very little to do with it that it was but the
spark that explodes the mine, the mine itself hav-
| ing been before placed there.
The present great American movement has been
started, no one knows exactly how, by whom,
when, or where but the spark was dropped
somewhere, by accident or design, upon the prai-
| rie, which, being in proper condition, the fire
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great rapidity, to the CONSERVATION OF all whose
| feelings run counter to it. either from sympathy
with foreigners, with the papists, with those in
power, whom II is likely to displace, their ar
dent attachment to their own comfortable positions
which may be disturbed by its success
The causes which have brought about thismo
ment have been long accommodating; many of US have
for many years seen and deplored the influence
which foreign voters have exercised upon the des-
TIMES of our country-an influence wholly dispro-
/ portioned to their numbers--and the courtship
paid to them by demagogues with an assidaity and
| meanness Of fattery only equaled by their own
want Of principle, want of self-respect, want of
character, and want Of all proper american feel-
| ing. Many attempts have been made heretofore
| to remedy these growing evils, but In all former
instances they proved to have been too deeply
rooted, too firmly established to be eradicated by
any ordinary effort of individuals, or small and
/ limited combination. The evils had not yet be-
1 come insufferable the American people had not
| yet felt them with sufficient keenness to become
reused into action patience had not yet ceased to
be virtue, and therefore these efforts at reform
failed. But the time at length arrived when the
| American people had become Of one opinion, as
they were on the breaking out of the Revolution
| which separated us from Great Britain, and the
l first movement was like touching the Geographic
/ wires almost instantaneously the touch was felt
1 in every section Of the Union, and responded to
1 with promptness and unanimity wholly unantici-
1 pated by any one, and equally astonishing to ALL
The evils and abuses which have given rise to
this great movement must fall before it, for that is
the very reform at which it aims. The undue in
| fuence and meddlesomeness of foreigners in the
political affairs Of the United States will not only
be checked, but wholly "crushed out !" nor will
| the American people, who are Protestant people,
longer sit by in silence and permit the interference
| of the Pope and his Roman Catholic bishops in
our elections--absolutely controlling the Presiden-
tial election, and then debating the appointment
| Of the members of the cabinet.
| There is also another evil which has become too
glaring and serious longer to be suffered to exist
and which it deyolves, as duty, upon the Ameri
can party to REFORM namely: the evil of selecting
and electing small men for high and important po-
sitions.~ To see and feel this evil one need only
/ look to the present office-holders Of the United
| States government, and into the Executive Man
| sion
| Is the present incumbent the most able, expert
enced, and eminent statesman in the whole Uniong
| Was he chosen because he stood before the nation
equally distinguished for his public services, his
acknowledged abilities, and his private virtuess
| We leave others to answer these questions.
| We desire to see, and we hope to see, reform
brought about in this respect We witness the
| beginning of such reform in the nominations
| lately made for State officers by the American
party in Virginia, and we confidently trust that
this may be precedent not to be departed from
by the American party in every State in the Union,
and especially in selecting their candidates for
! President and Vice President The character of
our nation abroad depends upon the character of
those who fll high stations in the government
nay, more its character is affected in our own
| timation, by the character of the men who occupy
the highest official positions
With Washington occupying the presidential
chair, every American would feel a Just degree Of
national pride, and a consciousness that we COM
msnded the respect and admiration of the world :
we should feel confident too, that, under the guild
ance Of such patriot and statesman, our govern
ment would be as unwilling to do injustice TO other
nations-to sanction and encourage a spirit Of ag-
| gressive fllibusterism towards them-as 1t would
| be prompt to resent the manifestations Of any
such spirit or any want Of respect towards us !;
that, as a nation, should be as ready TO do JUS
| tice to others as to exact IT from them.
Again we say, let it be the duty and the aim Of
the American party to elevate the character of the
nation, by elevating the standard of qualifications
for official stations Let theirs be the duty, the
PRIDE and the merit of having brought forward
from their honorable retreats, the4abe, the pure,
the upright, the loffy-minded men OF the country:
men who consult their own clear hearts, and scorn
to tread the devious paths by which in most cases
the highest rounds OF ambitions ladder are now
attained. Let high stations seek the men TO fill
them, and not, as heretofore, the men seek them
/ A RKrUIIc IN EsGLAsD.--A Scotch journal, the
John 0'Groat Journal, has got hold Of a curious
piece of Court gossip, which he says he has not
ceived at second hand but direct from the highest
| quarters. II Is as follows: Her Majesty il much
| offended at the Times. She has reason 10 believe
| it's statements regarding her troops in the Crmea