Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-18

Creed fall Third degree members Of our par
TIL Will that satisfy the Enquirers II not,
we will add, that We could not deny the au-
thenticity Of tho published obligations Of the
Third degree, without committing an offence,
which we are obliged so often TO censure, In
some Of our contemporaries Wiz that do :
But, says the Enquirer
"There Is another circumstance touching this
matter which is worthy of especial remark. This
obligation of the Third Degree, according to the
statements Of the Know-Eothing press, was not
adopted at Syracuse for the first time. The report
is that it was rea6frmed and as Ii has heretofore
been altogether Intellectual in suppressing anti
slavery agitation In the order, we can expect no
better result from II in the future"
The Enquirer has already been repeatedly
informed, that this Third or Union degree, was
adopted last November at Cincinnati, for tho
purpose Of nationalizing our party,-that it
has been adopted in New York, New Jersey,
&c, &c, and the " American party" thoroughly
purged of Sewardism in those States, that
Massachusetts, had refused to adopt this degree,
and that the National Council to be held at
Philadelphia in June, would be called on to
take action upon this general platform, az the
basis Of great national organization. That
slavery agitation should exist where this degree
has not been adopted, need excite no surprise,
nor should it be subject Of complaint, by
those presses who sustain the present aboli-
tionized Forney and Reeder administration
The Enquirer is seriously alarmed lest the
Union degree should find favor OF the South,
and therefore it openly proclaims that seces-
sion is the weapon of Southern Defence"
Upon this point we may have something to
say hereafter-not noW But the Enquirer
enormously says: "The perpetuity. Of the
Union is an essential part Of the policy Of the
abolition party" This is an cgregious error
tho anti-slavery men of the North denounce
the Union, and seek its destruction. They
oar upon tho Constitution as pro-slavery
league, and would joyfuly see it overthrown.
The American party" are conservators ofthe
peace, and intend at the same time to thwart
the schemes Of both Northern and Southern
disunionists.
We are for the Union, as 10 is, and for the
rights IF the States as guaranteed by the Con-
stitution. We recognise no power in the gen.
eral government, to Cypress any portion of the
Union, North or South, East or West. We
require 81 the stipulatlons Of the Constitution
to be executed in good faith we demand
non-intsrfsrence with the peculiar rights and
interests Of each section of the counry-we
repudiate the doctrines promulgated by the
Forney and Pierce Democracy Of Ohio. in JAN
uary, 1855, declaring that they have the right
"under the national compact" to "eradicate'
slavery! VIII the Enquirer go any further
than this {? 1t has not yet denounced the prin-
ciples proclaimed By its Ohio triendsi
The Enquirer has not yet denounced the
sentiments of Charles James Faulkner, who
declared himself in favor of "erterminating"
slavery The Enquirer has not yet denounced
the administration for seeking to thwart the
South in her efforts to gain Kansas When
the Enquirer shall have done this, and shall
also have taken the independent stand, main
tanned by the Washington Sentinel, and the
Richmond Examiner, touching the Executive
appointment and support of Reeder, it may
with better grace, pour out its phials of
wrath, upon the Northern coadjutors Of For
ney, Reeder and Pierce, whom, it enormously,
assumes to DO in collusion with the "Ameri-
can partyl" As the matter now stands, the
Enquirer, as the supporter of this admnistra-
ton must be content to be considered, as hay
ing tacitly endorsed the sentiments Of tho
Ohio eradicators of slavery-the sentiments
of Charles James Faulkner,-the course Of the
administration on the Kansas affair,-and the
coalition between Forney, Rceder, Seward,
Pierce, and Bishop Hughes
We may be allowed, we trust without Civ
ing offence, to quote and to approve, with
slight amendments, the last sentence in the En-
quirers article, TO which we have, as above,
alluded The Enquirer says:
But when the spirit and the letter Of the Consti-
tuition are violated and the North employs the
power Of the Federal Government 10 plumber and
Cypress the South, then do the Democracy recog-
Mise no allegiance to the Union"
If the Enquirer win permit US to substitute
the following for the above quotation, we shall
fully and entirely agree:
"When the spirit and the letter Of the Consti-
tuition are violated, and the North or the South
employs the power OF the Federal Government 10
plumber and Cypress the Other section Of the Union,
then do those rho shall be piundsred and oppressed
recognise no allegiance to the Union"
Surely, the Enquirer will make no objections
TO these verbal alterations. The Union was
formed for purposes Of protection, and upon
tho basis Of justice and equality. We're
cognise the right Of revolution in those who
may be piundered or oppressed, and deep as is
our love for tho Union, and abiding as is our
confidence in tho justice Of majority Of the
American people, we admit that contingencies
might arise, where revolution would be justi-
fable We repeat that we are for the Union
as tits, and not as it uould be, in such con-
tingency. But we have no fears Of such con-
tingency. The american party will succeed
the present dynasty, under circumstances and
with prospects, guaranteeing in the future, not
the preservation Of the Union only, but the
protection Of all the rights and privileges which
appcrtain to the sovereign States Of this con-
federacy.
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