Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-30

substance of great speech in favor Of the Amer-
can party, delivered by Mr. Crttenden, in that
place, on the oath instant. We make the follow
ing extracts
In lis origin the American order was small, OBJ
scure and weak but scarcely did summer cloud
arise and oyerspread the sky more rapidly than II
oyerspread the whole country. IL was a most re-
markable phenomeDon--the history of parties
showed nothing like Il. II proved that the public
mind had every where been drawn TO the conten-
| plation OF a common danger, and that vast
volume OF American feeling had accumulated in the
| popular heart, and needed only the electric touch
which the new order gave to burst forth in a tre-
mendous explosion. OF that explosion the Amer-
can party was generated.
| Mr. O. demonstrated the necessity for the Anne
rican party to do what the old partios-effete and
falling to pieces as they were-would not and
could not do. He paid glowing and just tribute
| to the material of the American party--a party
which had sprung from humble private citizens,
not from politicians, and the members OF which
were all native sons OF the soi--men born in the
land, who had here the homes of their childhood
and the graves of their fathers-whose love for
their country was Unborn, pure, and strong, and
in whose hands, IL anywhere, the destiny OF the
country would be safe.
Mr.. @. then took up the slavery question, and
| demanded what more any man--even the most ul-
| ira pro-savery man-could ask, than the position
of the American party on that subectY What
could be more national, more safe, more peacefuly
| There is to be no more action on the subject In
Congress; the people of the slave States are per-
mitted to go into any of the Territories with their
slaves, and when the Territory is ready for adms-
sion as State she is to come into the Union with
| or without slavery, as her own people may deter
mine. The charge of Free-Soilism or Abolitionism
made against the party, in the face of such plat
form, was an established falsehood, and neither
deserved nor required any argument to be used
against it.
Upon the Catholic question, Mr.. G. declared
that he was utterly hostile to imposing any penal
ties, prescription or disability upon any man on
account Of his religion. He had, further, the
fullest confidence in native Catholics. He felt
sure they acknowledged no allegiance to the Pope
that superior to their country, equal to it.
But there were men, accredited teachers in the
church, as Mr.. Brownson, for example, who taught
that Catholics did owe supreme allegiance to the
Pope in things temporal as well as religious, and
while he would trust native Kentuckians to repu-
diate such doctrines he could not say as much for
the European Catholics who were coming here
in such immense numbers. Upon this whole Catho-
lie aspect of the question: the position of the
American party was simply this They would not
vote for any man who acknowledged divided
allegiance between his country and any foreign
power, civil or ecclesiastical or who acknowledge
any allegiance to any such power superior to his
allegiance to his country. Beyond this he would
not 90, nor did the order require any body to go
beyond it. He was not bound to refuse to vote
for native Catholic for office, unless he knew or
had reason to believe that he held to such foreign
allegiance. Who could say there was any pro-
scription in thisY
Mr. G. next passed to the subject Of reform of
the naturalization laws. He showed the immense
increase of immigration that as many had arrived
recently in one year, came in the whole OF the
first thirty years of our national existence and
that the present rate enough to fill up State
as populous as Kentucky every two years. He
showed that we had already passed far beyond the
limits Of our ability to assim!late and Americanizc
them as they came; that they were now accumu-
lating in groups, and clans, and counties, and al
most States-perpetuatng their foreign habits, and
language and prejudices, and that thus the process
OF Americanizng them, which was expected to be
accomplished in five years, not even COM
menced. They bad already come at the rate of
half million in year at the same rate of in
crease they would soon come by millions and he
impressed it upon his audience with an eloquence
and power Of argument which we cannot describe
that unless the present rapid process Of comforting
citizenship upon these immigrants was arrested
the sons Of the soil would soon be the ruled and
not the rulers in their own land, and the glorious
trust of empire and freedom which we had receiv-
ed from our fathers and our God, would pass into
the hands of those who know not how to admins
ter ii. Upon this subject Mr.. G. was especially
eloquent and powerful, but want of room compels
US TO break off even this imperfect sketch of his
remarks.