Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-03

is settlement and peace, not deception and
strife. The peculiar interests represented by
the immediate authors Of that clause were
safely intrenched within abundant area, with
great and increasing profit without fear of
invasion, without wish or intent to encroach
upon others
But you are unwilling to endorse an act of the
present Federal administration. You do not exl
press your approval, but your acquiescence.
You have at least eminent examples who obey
a law hateful to them, under protest against its
propriety. The present Secretary Of War; Mr..
Davis, opposed the Compromise measures upon
every ground of argument, and with every le-
gal method Of resistance. They were passed.
He has submitted to their operation, and has,
perhaps, officially ordered them to be enforced.
Mr.. Seward, and we believe Mr. Sumner, have
both denounced the same law as illegal, i'm
moral, unconstitutional They have acquiesced,
without motion of repeal, though members
Of the Federal Legislature ever since the pas
sage of the law so complained Of. Are you in
honor bound, then, to continue perpetual agi-
tation against these laws, when others equally
obnoxious to the eminent examples quoted
have been submitted to by thems II Mr.. Davis
and Mr.. Seward can bury their hostility to
the Compromise without dishonor, you can
acquiesce without disgrace in laws which you
did not pass, and which you do not approve.
Indeed, the deeper your detestation of the law,
the higher the honor Of sacrificing that preju-
dice to peace and fraternity.
Bat, whilst you have looked with indignation
upon the platform Of the law, as it lis, wspray you
to look upon that which has been prepared for
your reception at Columbus. Remember, you
have acquiesccd in thirteen out offourteen sec
tons Of the Philadelphia Platform. You dis
gree upon one. The Republican party ap
proaches you with single object-awar against
the system of slavery. You oppose what you
consider its aggression. How can you, in consis-
tency, abandon your plan Of reform, for theirs
of destruction? How can you, as Americans,
surrender thirteen principles for cooperation
in single measured
DO you doubt that the Abolitionists claim
the whole merit and management of the Re-
publican movement? Look at the sole and
single object of its platform. Do you wish evil
dence that you have been entrappcd, sold, and
delivered to the Abolition Disunionistsp Be-
hold it in the declaration Of the National Era,
the organ of but one principle-the universal
abolition Of slavery:
"The Republican party has fairly taken the field
in Ohio. ACKNOWLEDGMENT is ignored-freedom
alone recognised. All issues, but those raised by
the slave power, are thrust aside, and now, in
Ohio, there are but two known parties-the ad-
ministraton party, or the party of slavery; the
peoples party, or the party of freedom No anti
slavery man, no one who desires sincerely union
for liberty, will hesitate to enroll himself in the
ranks of the latter-and no such man will recog-
mise for an instant the conflicting claims of any
other party"
Are you not astonished3 Nay, are you not
delighted to learn that "Know- Nothingism
is ignored !" that no party in conflict with alb
clifton will be recognised for an instant"
You are now free and forewarned Go into
your convention, and mark the line between
yourself and disunion, SO broad and deep that
it cannot be crossed or obliterated. The same
organ goes ON to scorn your alliance:
can party and Know-Nothing organization, any
more than between the Republican and Admins
tration parties An attempt at any policy like this
will inevitably prove failure. For one, we should
60 against II, and all its arrangements, to the
death. Contradictories cannot be harmonized, and
ought not to be. The thing needed is, not CO.
operation betceen parties, but an open, sincere,
determined union of the individual freemen of
the country, in grand Republican movement,
Will IF Ill
ignore all issues bat those rendered 10 us BY the
stape po,oer, and all parties but the slavery par
Ties tchateper their names TO the utter operthrow
Of achich all its energies should be directed
Now, If the anti-slavery men of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois, desire
TO participate In such movement to contribute
their share to giving II full success; if they would
not cut themselves of from the great army of free
dom, stubbornly maintaining doubtful position,
which, like that of Austria, while appearing to IA
vor the cause of the allies, really plays into the
hands Of despotism, let them abandon their uncer-
tain policy, and repu6iicanize themselves Alien
prescription, religious bigotry, secrecy and extra
judicial oaths have had their day. Now, make
way for party, open as day, clear as sunlight
without fear, without reproach pledged 10 restore
and maintain the rights of man, wsthom distine-
ton Of birth, race, or creed"
Are you prepared to ignore all issues except
slavery? Have "alien prescription, religious
bigotry, secrecy, and extrajudicial oaths, had
their dayG" Do you acknowledge this insult
ing perversion of your principlesY Are you
willing to give up your organization for party
whose object is a crusade Ito restore and main
tain the rights Of man throughout this CONT
ncnt and the world3"
But look, we pray you, at the additional evil
dence put on file to show that Mr.. Chase is
your enemy, and win allow you no considera-
ton, even in the hour Of victory. For the
object Of the publication from which we quote
is to exclude you from any participation in
the enfecbled result Of your own efforts A
letter to the same paper, dated from Colum-
bus, 18th July, 1855, says: -..... $780,,
"Mr. Chase has been the choice Of those who
have desired to make opposition to slavery the
naked and paramount question in the canvass, so
aI as national questions we're involved. There was
another large class in the State, who, while they
opposed the extension Of slavery and the admis-
sion Of any more slave States, wished to select
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