Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-15
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1855.



The North and South.
We publish to-day from the National Demo
crat, of New York, the organ Of the hard De-
mocracy In that State, an article which we re-
spectfully commend to the perusal of our friends
and fellow-citizens, of tho South especially.
1t is an undeniable truth, as therein stated,
taat the agitators Of the South are responsible
for the reelection Of Seward, and for the wide
spread excitement now existing on the question
OF slavery. These agitators are part and par
csl Of the Forney and Pierce administration,
wi = policy, or rather inpolicy, has produced
All IA nsistihg hatred, III win, and chickering's
between the two great sections Of the country
Every member Of the American party" at the
South, and elsewhere, is living witness that
our party has no sympathy for, or alliance with
those who are producing this sectional agita.
ton.
Every member, Of our councils and all others
Of ordinary mental capacity, know that what
ever may be the individual notions of the
various members, upon questions which are
not within the scope of our principles, there
is no po,oer, even If there were any purpose,
anywhere, to pledge our party to adopt mea-
sures adverse to the interests or feelings Of any
section Of the United States
The action of the councils Of Virginia, for
example, are under no control of any superior
council outside her limits. The Grand Coun-
Gil of the United States has no posoer, either
in theory or in fact, to control the movements
of the State councils in reference to State
candidater, State measures, or State policy.
Nor has such Grand Council the slightest au-
thority over nominations for officers under the
national government
Candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres
idency will be selected by convention Of del
oeates from each and all the States, on the plan
of other national conventions.
In what manner then, the interests Of any
section of the country can be damaged by any
action Of our party, even did such purpose
exist we are at loss to comprehend. Sup
pose for example, that aboliionism from one
section Of the country should predominant in a
national convention, and "higher-law" advo
Gates should control the movements of such
convention, regardless of the objects and pur-
poses for which our party was formedf Would
not such q state Of things result at once in a
division Of the party, and in releasing Southern
and Western men from all obligations to sus-
tain such actions
In what respect then, can the Southern or
Western interests be jeopardized by the exist
ence and prevalence Of the American" move
ment In those sections Of the country? In
none phnterer On the contrary, were danger
apprehended from the " American party" to
Southern, Western, or any other local inter
ests, IL could DO tho part Of policy and Of
prudence in those thus endangered, to become
part and parcel Of tho Organization, for the
Gerry purpose Of preventing tho threatened
mischixfi We 6eliere in no such dangers to
any section, or interests, from the prevalence
of destructive elements in our organisation |;
but the surest mode Of guarding against such
dangers effectually, is for those whose appre-
tensions ne excited, to enter into the "Amcri-
con" movement and give IL proper direction.
The sympathies Of the whole South and
West are as warmly enlisted in the cause of
the American Reformation" as those Of the
North; and there is no reason, growing out of
the pitiful and miserable charges Of "anti-
slaveryism," which should prevent the whole
country North, South and West, from uniting
in common cause, and Riding the country Of
the evils which flow from Foreignism, Roman
ism and Demagoguism.
Let the North adhere to the objects and pur-
poses for which tho American party" was
formed, and let the South forbear the utterance
Of those sentiments Of hostility, and that Ian
guage ofirritation, which daily ali the columns
Of their presses, andwhose repetition Is gradu-
ally undermining the basis Of fraternity and
union, and peace, harmony and concord will
be restored.
The ill-advised conduct Of the administrs-
ton presses here, and throughout the South,
in assailing the American party" on tho false
ground that we are identified with anti-slavcry,
whilst the Seward presses at the North are
charging us with pro-slavery tendencies, has
aroused feeling CT bitterness in each section
Of the country, which, in our Judgment, II is
desirable to allay, rather than promote.
Both classes Of our sssailants have 1sumed
what Is not true, and have urged charges which
are utterly inconsistent either with the truth or
with each other.
Our friends must bear and forbcar The
quiet Of the country, and the stability Of the
Union, demand, that all sections Of the coun-
try should be governed by a more fraternal
regard for the constituent parts Of the Union
Above all Is it necessary, that agitators Of
questions, which threaten to interrupt the hsr-
mony Of our people, should be denounced.
The only danger which now threatens to in
terrupt our domestic tranquility, is that which
proceeds from exciting the South against the
North, and the North against the South. To
guard against this danger, the immortal hero
and sage Of Mount Vernon sdmonished us, to
from Indignantly apon the first dawning Of
an ottsmpt 70 ALLEVIATE ono section of the
country from another