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


tors to their country, because they preferred
Americans for Office in preference to foreign
ers send out your hosts of orators TO instruct
the people that Romanism Is progressive de-
mocracy, and that Americanism is humbug;
repeat the thousand ISLANDERS upon the Amer
lean party" which have dlsgraced even the
columns of the Washington Union, by the
terms Of Billingsgate and pot-house slang in
which they were ceuched go on as you began
and have continued to the present hour, out 700
parn goa, that I" Sam" shall pitch your whole
tribe in Virginia, meek and heels, into the
sea of oblivion on the 4th Thursday OF May
Win the linton answer the South this ques-
tionf What blow has it struck in aid, or even
in defence of the chivalrous Atchison, who is
fighting the battles of the South in Kansas ?
What word of encouragement, or of consola-
ton, has the Richmond Enquirer, or the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor Of Virginia, ut
tered in behalf of General Atchisons Not a
word that we have seen Do they not pretend
to fear the inroads Of abolitionism And where
Is tho battle 6eing moo fought, but IN Kansasy
What aid, assistance, or encouragement has
been afforded to the friends of the South in
this struggle, by Forney, Pierce, Richie, or
Wiser None but on the contrary this adj
ministration 1--WE repeat) has planned, and is
now endeavoring to bring about the success Of
freesoilism in Kansasl
The simple truth is, that these men have
really no fears in regard to the perpetuity OF
slavery; their fear is simulated, for the purpose
Of injuring the American party" in the
South. This is our judgment; and hence we
call the attention Of the South to the conduct
Of the administration, who raise the "wolf
howl !" to effect political ends, and not to pro-
tect Southern institutions And it is idle for
Mr.. Wise and his co-laborers to affect ignorance
Of the conduct or purposes Of Gov. Reeder, or
Of the efforts Of Gen. Atchison to defeat Gov.
Reeder's plans. They are too well known not
to be understood by men Of Mr. Wise'sintel-
ligence. If he and those who act with him at
the South, desire to extend and perpetuate
slavery, why have they not controlled this
wayward administration, or at least, essayed
to do so, and thus have given substantial aid
to General Atchison?
This gentleman has only asked for " fair
play"--for neutrality in this contest, from
Governor Reeder. Why have not the south
ern friends Of the administration Tor has il
nonep) sought to insure impartiality from Gov.
Reedera Why have they not demanded it
from this administration Instead of fighting
Americanism, why have they not fought free
soilism at Warrington Why have they
sustained Forney, Blair. and Reeder, instead
Of strengthening the hands Of AtchisonP Why
was General Whitfield commissioned to go
amongst the Indians, when his services were
so valuable in behalf Of southern interests in
thesettlements Of Kansas 1t were well for
the politicians of the South, to cease railing at
the American party" and examine into the
principles and policy of this administration, il
they, in truth, desire theperpetuity Of their pc
culiar institutions.
Our readers will not fail to understand our
purposes in this exposure of the policy and
acts of Forney, Pierce and Company, in Kan
sas and elsewhere, on the question Of southern
interests. 1t is not that we have anything to
do, as a party, with the question Of extending
or contracting slavery /; but it is, that we are
falsely assailed at the South, as coadjutors Of
the anti-slayery party at the North, when
those presses which assail us, are sustaining
the very men, now in power, who are the most
dangerous foes Of the South, because they
profess to sustain the rights and interests Of
the South, at the very moment they are in
triguing to destroy theml We close this arti-
Gle with republication of the despatch from
Lexington, Missouri, which we copied yester-
day from the Baltimore Sun, to wit
"The excitement in Kansas and all along the
counties bordering that Territory, is intense. 1t
Is charged that Governor Reeder communicated to
the New Englanders a month or more ago, the
precise time when the election Of members of the
Legislature was to take place, but kept the same
intelligence concealed from the people Of Kansas
aud Of Western Missouri, and they are indignant
at the trickery,n