The American patriot. (Clinton, La.) 1854-1???, 1855-10-27
AM HONEST AvOWAL.

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Fusion party, was held in the city of New York
and among the persons who addressed the as
semblage was the notorious Senator Wilson, of
In the course of his remarks,
this sometime member of the American Party,
and furious Abolitionist, alluded to his recent
political gyrations, and denounced the Alneri-
cans in the most vrulent and venomous terms
We transcribe that portion of his speech which
refers to the subject, as it illustrates most for
chilly the position invariably assumed by the
advocates of the American party, that their
doctrines are necessarily and invinchly hostile |
to ant-slavcry. Said Senator Wilson:
Within year and half Il new party has
sprung into existence, and, aided by the anti
Nebraska sentiment ofthe country, it has sue
ceeded in sending to Congress sixty Or seventy
members opposed to the extension OF slavery
But the South demanded that the American
party should be pro slavery organization. II
saw last winter, in Washington, that an effort
was to be made to force the American party
to bow down in absolute submission, ito the
slave power, and then made up my mind, as
member of that organization, that if it un-
dertook to be pro-slavery organization,
would, il had the power, SILVER it into ten
thousand fragments. Great applausc) lett
Washington resolved to do what | could to
save the American party from becoming pro-
slavery organization Early in May last, |
warned the people that such an effort was to
be made, and said then, in all candor, that
the anti-slaverv men of the country ought to
resolve, and to proclaim that resolve at the
rising and the setting of the sun, and in the
broad light of MONDAY, that whenever the
American party laid its hand upon the anti
slavery movement of the country, in that day
it should begin to die. IE June last, we went
TO Philadelphia. The slave party came there
and demanded that the American party should
sanction all the pro-slavery legislation Of the
country, from the organization of the govern
ment up to the consummation of the Nebraska
iniquity, and the delegates from New York
stood by and sustained them. The State of
New York was attempted to be sold to slavery
by its Bankers and its Lyons; and | would say
to every man who loves liberty, that he owes
it to himself, to his country anAto his God, to
repudatc that bailled and defeated and dis
grace,l pro-savcry faction here in the State OF
New York Great applause.) Your first du-
ty is to leave the American organization, and
Join the gathering hosts of freemcn of New
York (Renewed applausc.) The fundamen
tai ideas of that party that are in perfect bar
mony with the Declaration of Independence
I believe every man, of whatever party, ought
to sustain; but say that the American organ
ization here in New York is nothing more nor
less than pro-s!avcry organization,
We take it that Senator WILSON is firstrat;
, authority upon the question. He joined th'
| American organization. by his own acknow
edgment in the belief that he would be enable,
+ to transmute it into an abolition faction. TIL,
g anti-slaHerr sentiment prevailing Throughout
New England inspired him with lively hope
!. of success in that quarter; and, in fact, Massa
!, chusetts, and Maine, and Connecticut ccrtain',
did their best to accommodate the gentlemen
n But when the American party assembled il
the National Convention at Philadel ,hia, Sen
ator WILSON discovered that the middle Stat
a and the South intended that the party SHOULD
Il be kept free from the faint of abolition. Find
c ing that lis efforts to Abolitionize American
ism were futile, this miserable renegade shool
the dust from his feet, Withdrew from the con
venton, and has now turned pcrpatctic orr,
tor, and travels about the country, unpachin
> his heart with curses, and threatening t
Y sh;verng the party into ten thousand frae
l. ments. He is perfectly right in telling tn
y. Black Republicans of New York to have moth
ing to do with the American organization 70
:. none know better than himself that the 12t
article Of the Philadelphan platform looks
J. the whole Uuion, to sound conservative an
I !, emnently national policy that the ncgrophist
a. can find not loop to hang doubt on in it
10 well defined and prespicuous language, an
that he and his associates are meeter compar
n. ions of VAN BuREN, CocHRASE, JAY, and tn
g motley host of anti-savcry fanatics, than {
e, the pure and upright band which, in Ne
!, York as in Louisiana, stand by the Constitl
of ton, respect the laws, and refuse TO wage
" sectional warfare, or to draw geographical line
tn Senator Wilson, in his sphere, bears no sma
as resemblance to some of the wrong-headcd pol
r tcians of the South. He is in favor Of
IS, NorthcrnY they are Of Southern party. Il
would break up all existing organizations
VI order to; do battle with the South; they wou
he fuse all parties in order to form ho'no-cn
y, Gus opposition to the North. They are all
10 impracticab|e, and the only party which is n