Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-02
WASHINGTON D. g. FRIDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 2 1856

allegiance, directly or indirectly to any foreign
power whether civil or ecclesiastical and who are
Americans by BIRTH education and training-th
fulfilling the maxim: +" AMERICANS ONLY SHALL
G0vKRN AMERICA"
Tho protection Of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise Of their civil and religious rights
an privileges; the maintenance Of the right Of
every man to the full unrestrancd and peaceful
icyneId of his own religious opinions and worship,
and Jealous resistance Of all attempts by any sect
denomination or church, to obtain an ascendency
over any other in the State, by means OF any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
their civil allegiance with any foreign power, po-
tentate, or ecclesiastic.
IX.-The reformation Of the character Of our
National Legislature, by elevatng 70 that dignihed
and responsible position men of higher quali6car
tions, purer morals and more unselish patriotism.
X.-The restriction Of executive patronage, es-
peciay In the matter Of appointments to Office, so
Ear as It may be permitted by the Constitution, and
consistent with the public good
M-Thc education Of the youth Of our country
in schools provided by the State which schools
shall be common to all without distinction Of creed
or party, and free from any influence or direction
of q dcnominational or partisan character.
And, inasniuch as Christianity, by the Constitu-
tions Of nearly oil the States BY the decisions Of
the most eminent judicial authorities; and by the
consent Of the people OF Amerca, is considered an
element Of our political system; and, as the Holy
Bible is at once the source of Christianity, and the
depository and fountain Of all civil and religious
freedom, we oppose every attempt to exclude it
from the schools thus established IN the States
XIL-The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite of the opposition of the Wing
and Democratic parties, cannot be in any manner
responsible for the obnoxious acts of violated
pledges Of either. And the systematic agitation
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eyated sectional hostility into positive element
Of political power, and brought our institutions
into peril, it has therefore become the imperative
duty Of the American party to interpose for the
purpose of giving peace to the country and per-
petuity to the Union. And as experience has
shown it impossible to reconcile opinions 80 ex-
.reme as those which separate the dispntants, and
as there can be no dishonor in submitting TO the
laws, the National Council has deemed IL the best
guarantee Of common justice and of future peace,
to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
the subject of slavery, as . final and conclusive
settlement Of that subject, in spirit and in sub
stance. M sfB@ 8 ae
And regarding it the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon subject 30 Important in distinct
and unequivocal terms it Is hereby declared as the
sense of this N itional Council, that Congress pos
sesses no power under the Constitution, to egis-
late upon the subject of Slavery In the States
where it does may exist, to exclude any State
from admission into the Union, because its Consti-
tuition does or does not recognise the institution
of Slavery part of its social system; and ex-
pressly pretermitting any expression of opinion
upon the power Of Congress to establish or pro-
hibit Slavery in any Territory, it ia the sense Of
the National Council that Congress ought not to
legslats upon the subject Of Slavery within the
Territories Of the United States, and that any In
terf;rsnce by Congress with Bavery as It exists in
the District - Columbia, would be violation of
the spirit and intention; Of the compact by which
the State of Maryland cedeu .ne Dls,nc' 70 tne
United States, and breach of the Na,.s isl,n
XllL-The policy OF the Government of tne
United States, r its relations with foreign govern
ments, is to exact justice from the strongest, and
doj justice to the weakest restraining by all the
power of the government all its citizens from in.
reference with the internal concerns of nations
with whom we are at peace.
XIV.--This National Council declares that all
the principles Of the Order shall be henceforward
everywhere openly avowed; and that each men,
Der shall be at liberty to make known the existence
of the Order and the fact that he himself is mem
ber, and il recommends that there be no conceal
ment of the places Of meeting of subordinate coun-
ella. .
Il. B. BARTLETT, of Kentucky,
President Of National Council.
O. ID. DKsHLER, of New Jersey,
Corresponding Secretary.
JANIS N. STEPHENS, of Maryland,
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