The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-27
RlCHM 0HD, VA;
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY q. 1ass

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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY II. 1855.
| COM. STocKToN's PARTY IN FAvoR OF OPEN
oRGASizATIoN.-The N. York Herald gives
the full particulars of recent proceedings in
trenton. New Jersey, of a portion of the
American party. A reporter who witnessed
those proceedings, represents that the meet.
ing was gotten up by the "pure old Native
party" that it was Stockton affair, >"
and that ''its immediate design is to dis.
tract the alliance which now controls the
Legislature, and its ulterior design to assist
Com Stockton in his aspirations towards the
White House" According to his idea, very
extensive arrangements had been made to
supplant anti-Stockton journals, and to ac.
complish other advantages of organization.
Whatever be the object aud purport, the
meeting was held as described in the Her
afd.
Hon. JOHN RoBERTs, of Camden, presided
After some difficulty. Mr.. Mills accepted
secretaryship, with the understanding that he
did not approve of the principles of the call,
and that he objected to the meeting, as there
were some Know Nothings in it, The Pres
ident declared that if it be Know Nothing
meeting he would resign. Speakers were
then called upon and tremendous uproar of
yells and confusion of all sorts of noises On.
sued. Mr.. Mills charged that the Know
Nothings were attempting to put them down.
| He said:
The attempt here to put them down by band of
for them to legislation ofthe State in their
secret chambers ct the Temperance Hail. 1t was en-
enough for them to hold their midnight meetings to
strike down their friends and neighbors; but it was
| one step beyond all that these had yet done to
disgrace the capita! ofthe Statealmost the of
| tempting to put down a meeting of American citi-
zens, protesting to advocate American doctrines and
an open organization for their de fence.
| A Mr.. JONES also spoke. In the course of
his remarks, he said the American party
alone did justice to Daniel Webster, by as
signing that great statesman his proper posi-
ton before the American people, and paid
high tribute to Commodore Stockton, as his
friend while living and his eulogst when
dead. He complimented Commodore s. as
an open advocate of American principles.
DR.. RAYNALL COATES, a gentleman of some
fame in the scientific as well as political
world, moved the preamble and resolutions,
which, after some Intellectual opposition,
were adopted. We quote part of them
Whereas The whole country. from Maine to Cali
| fornis is now thoroughly aroused TO the abuses
which have grown out of the unlimited and uncheck
ed immigration of foreigners of every cast honest or
dishonest. ignorant or educated vrtuous criminal,
idle or industrious INDECENT wealthy-and the iu.
discriminate admission of all these classes the
equal right of suffrage which is the proper birthrght
1 American W fhasa ahnsca
| have engendered an amount of political corruption
which has poisoned all the streams of partisan poll
tics until success In the pursuit of political power has
become dependent not on the integrity and capacity
of the candidate but upon ba ance of power foreign
| stake between opposing parties:
Moreover whereas, The imperial power in this
whole people. without distinction Of rank class or
degree; and with the people alone in their primary
assemblsges lies the right of selecting their
Hresentatives and their own official servants, which
right cannot be taken from them by caucus clique,
| secret or open, without reducing our republican sys-
tenn to an garchy, .bsolutism, under Russian
sutocrat, Venetian council often or that
midsbe and dangerous hydra-a council of ten thou.
| sand; ther efore,
Resolved, That the voice of the majority is the
voice of the true democracy and that the voice of
the vast msjority the American people most heart
fully declaring the truth of the principles put forth
by the banner bearers of the neat American move
ment of the age, and the necessity of the most impoI
tant measures advocated by them, those principles
and those measures constitute the genuine doctrine
and policy of the only true democracy of America.
That the theory and practice of the present ma.
tional administration directly at war with all
true democracy, and that any party which continues
to advocate them declares itself foreign and anti
That the attempt to con6ne nomination. to politi.
cal office within the pale of any secret organ
zation, or to degree members thereof is to rob the
people of their most vital political right, and tends
towards the overthrow of all genuine republicanism,
while for the American democracy to carry itself
feet its purposes 10 to give pausbilitY to the vile
SANDER of foreign theocratc too-thst the of
hs of 6 afe towards and the sons of cow
That we deem an open platform and distinct par
tisan organization essential the success of the
| friends OF the great American movement.
| The next resolution advises the immediate
formation Of ward and township associations,
to be composed of all native born friends of
the movement, "who are willing openly to
subscribe to the great principles thereof"
and they advise the appointment of delegates
to a National Convention, to meet on the 4th
| of July next, at some place to be named, to
establish platform for the organization of
the American party. The resolutions con-
| clude thus:
| That New Jersey has reason to be proud that one
of her most distins suished tCom Stockton) has
been the first among the great men of the day open
ly and unresevediy to declare before the world bis
entire faith and firm adh sion e the doctrines OF the
American party, which he has been known to hsve
| maintained most unobtrusively since their original
introduction in ls45. May his worth be for
gotten while America continues to cherish the men.
ory of those days in which bis paternal
rifced much his fsithfulress towards his coun
| try, one and undivided.
These proceedings are the more notable
| because they are understood to indicate the
position of the Old Commodore, who is GER
tainly a candidate for the Presidency. His
anxiety and his time of life do not admit of q
| louppr pOstpOnemQnt.
| DUTCH NAME "A correspondent OF the Bos'
ton Post, 10 spicy letter from Rotterdam, gives
the following as the reeult of some of his observa-
| ttons:
| As you have told me you visa to have me write
down for yoa every thing that see that consider
| interesting, suppose begin with the name OF a
Dutch bark at anchor Just beside of our steamer.-
It's eplend,d craft like Internal old wash tub;
| aud I've no doubt twas made by special contract
| tor old Charon TO as ferryboat on the Styx.
/ and, on inspection by King Pluto, rejected. And
| such nanti Now draw In your breath II is the
"I)amk5anAeid, aan de NederlaHdisehe Handel
| Maatschnppy' Wouidnt that be roarer coming
through speaking trumpet of Cape Hornf