Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-09
WASHINGTON. D. q. FRIDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 1856

| allegiance, directly or indirectly, to any foreign
power, whether civil or ecclesiastical and who are
Americans by birth, education and training--thus
| fulfilling the maxim: AMxRIcAss ONLY sHALL
GOVERN AMERIcA.n t,s $500 r
The projection of all citizens ia the LEGAL and
proper exercise of their civil and religious rights
AMI privileges; the maintenance of the right Of
every man TO the full unrestrained and peaceful en-
icymeM 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
combination Of Its members, or by division Of
tentato, or ecclesiastic. H, ol,5f
| IX.--The reformation of the character of our
National Legislature, by elevating to that dignifed
and responsible position men of higher qualifica-
dons, purer morals and more unselHsh patriotism
! 1-Thc restriction Of executive patronage, es
peciay in the matter Of appointments to office, 30
tar asit may be permitted by the Constitution, and
consistent with the public good.
M-The education Of tho 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 denominationa or partisan character.
4 And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the Constitu-
tions Of nearly all the States by the decisions Of
the most eminent judicial authorities; and by the
element Of our political system; and, as the Holy
Eible is at once the 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.
XlI.-The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite fthe opposition Of the Whg
and Democratic parties cannot be in any manner
responsible for the obnoxious acts Of violated
pledges Of either. And the systematic agitation
Of the slavery question by those parties having e
evatcd 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 30 ex-
! treme as those which separate the dsputants, and
as there can be no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, the National Council has deemed it the best
| guarantee of common justice and of future peace
TO abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
the subject Of slavery, as a final and conclusive
settlement Of that subject, in spirit and in sub
/ stance.
And regarding it the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon subject SO Important in distinct
and unequvoca terms, IL is hereby declared as the
sense OF this National Council, that Congress pos
sesses no power, under the Constitution to legis-
late upon the subject of Slavery in the States
where it does or may exist to exclude any State
| from ADMISSION INTO the Union, because Its COnSti
tuition does or does not recognise the institution
of Slavery as part of its social system; and ex-
prcssly pretermitting any expression of opinion
upon the power of Congress to establish or pro
hibt Slavery in any Territory it is the sense Of
the National Council that Congress ought not to
| lcgislate upon the subject of Slavery within tho
Territories OF the United States, and that any in
reference by Congress with Slavery as IL exists in
the District Of Columbia, would be violation Of
the spirit and intention of the compact by which
the State Of Maryland ceded the District to the
United States, and breach of the National faith
XIII.-The policy of the Government of the
United States In its relations with foreign govern
ments, is to exact justice from the strongest, and
do justice 10 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.
i XIV.-This National Council declares that all
the principles Of the Order shall be henceforward
everywhere openly avowed and that each mem
ber shall be at liberty 10 make known the existence
Of the Order, and the fact that he himself is a mem
,ber and Il recommends that there be no conceal
mont Of the places Of meeting Of subordinate coun-
cils 4'a
K. b. BARTLETT, of Kentucky,
| un.8 President Of National Council
O. d. DEsHLER, Of New Jersey, ,.fs.b.ti. ~
Corresponding Secretary.
JANIS M. SrrfHxss, Of Maryland,