The Nevada journal., 1855-06-08
THE AMERICAN PARTY-1Ts CcN d.

rIoN AID PRosPECT.-As Independent
! journalists we comment upon the prinoi-
Piles and measures of all parties alike, not
designing to bestow unmelited praise, or
to condemn what should be commended
lii any of them TIE rapid progress o.
the American party has struck the whole
world with surprise. The master spirits
of that organization are as much surprised
as any ocdy; the outside politicians are
absolutely appalled,; ard foreign nations
Go not know what to make of tie matter
Ii has grown, too, against opposition from
without, and errors aud blunders from
within. TIE very ides. Of being a secret
political organization seemed un-Ameri-
can. The Fantings of some of tie early
actors, as "the Angel Gabriel" and IN ed
Runtline,'' and the mobs occasioned at
the outset, were against prcprie;y aud
alarming to persons CT properly. lis
rejection of cid party leaders not cniy
banded those leaders against it. but by
teing deprived CT their experience 1t has
ctren made sorry appearance. Yet it
mas moved steadily forward from the local
tc TIE State elections ard everywhere it
has been successful. Some times Il hes
1aiied to carry al election, as il the State
OF New York, Tut Always it may be said
to have been successful 1t frst com
menced at The North, and c majority Of
the free States are within its control Bnt
it IS Let sectional Oh factional, and it ap-
pears equally strong at the Sout.-claim-
Ing to De national in the highest degree it
is preparing for the presidential contest,
and demands through its million members,
scatter ed through all the States aad Ter
ritcries, end absolutely outnumbering any
other party, thai its principles shall be
applied from The Atlantic to the Pacific,
wherever The national flag warec.
We have Lot intended at any time to
commit ourselves 10 g half deralopeG
scheme and half bidder measures; bu;
with some of its declarations made, we
have deeply sympatnized, believing hem
essential to the welfare of the State and
the permanent freedom of the nation; Lor
have we been slow to see, why against
all opposition, this party has gathered
strength and why it mus continue to
grow till our national policy is changed
Its formation is natural result-a sort
OF national outburSt against the acts Of
existing and previous parties. We were
having half million people thrown upon
, our shores every year. If they had hcen
ever so good, since they did not mingle
with US, but brought systems of religion
and education and social order that were
foreign since they continued to love their
old natlonalities more than ours and
formed themselves into military companies
having the banners of those nations
continued to speak their native languages,
and clubbed and claimed together, it was
not well that we should thus be flooded.
Ii they had been ever so moral in action
since most of them profcssed at least a
moral allegiance to the foreign and abso-
lutte power of Rome, and that power had
begun to dictate on this continent in re-
latlon to church property and education,
they would have been regarded with dis
trust by the great body of the American
people. But when we add to these facts,
that many OF them were poor, crippled,
insane and blind, and filled our Aims
Houses and asylums; that more of them
were ignorant of letters, and yet would
not be benefited by our schools; and that
others were criminals Of the worst dye,
now was 1t possible that we should not re-
slst this influx. And when, worse than
all these persons put themselves under
the lead OF demagogues who contrary to
the intent of the constitution, manufacture
cd them into voters at the shortest notice,
even when they could not speak the Ian
guage or read the vote, it was no longer
endurable; The American people were
bound IN duty to themselves, and in duty
to posterity, tosscheck SO great an evil he
lore ignorant and bigotted foreigners OBJ
tanned too much power in the confedera-
,cy. They were bound to purify the bal
lot box, and to elect honest and worthy
L1en for that purpose. There was, there
iore' originally an Inherent moral power
IN this movement; and if It be not mar
ro"ed down to mere patty schemes, if it
Snail continue 10 be national and patriot
lc, II 1t shall not turl to prosecuting the
stranger within our gates, or prescribing
our own citizens who sympathize with it,
merely because they do not belong to the
order-lt 1T shall be truly liberal and
American, Its national success is certain.
Bsf~ Mr.. Dove has recovered verdict OF
Slo'ooo N Washington, D. g, against man
who circulated q report, at the mupicipal cleo