The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-07-11
The Tribune and the American
PARTY

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for nipe months past or more assailed
the American Party with all the vru-
lence and bitterness of which it is capa-
DISCRIMINATING by asserting that Dan
iel Ullman was native Of Calcutta, an
acknowledging Immediately after the N Z.
Y. election that it knew that he was not
having filed scores of columns with
invective and similar Misrepresentation
at length has assumed position which
shows that its former course has been
anything but fair and just toward those
whom it has so persistently assailed.
The heroic aud manly attitude Of the
Northern delegates at Philadelphia hav.
ing proven the fallacy of its oft-rcpeated
assertion that the American Organiza.
ton at the North was thoroughly Pre-
Slavery, it now assumes more truthful
and commcndable position. It noa0 ad-
mits, and declares. that never before in
any political convention has the South
thus boldly and manfully been met; that
neve; have the delegates Of any party
save the American party proven true to
the rights of the North and of universal
Freedom.
1t speaks with much praise Of the
Platform adopted and signed by the
Northern delegates in their appeal to
the People; having commended that por.
ton of it which relates TO the principle
of "Amercanizing America" it thus
speaks Of its position 10 relation 10 Slave
ry:
We tliuk this part of tho Address will
response from the entire North 1t
offers platform on which mon Of all the
old partiis can act together for the one
paramount object of righting the gigan.
tic wrongs Of that legislation, aud rccov-
ering for Freedom the territory of which
that bill was designed to rob her 1t
pledges to all those who arc enlisted in
the work of beating back the cncroach.
mcnis of the negro Oligarchy and rcscu.
ing the Government from its present
state of prostitutionthe aid of a nunier.
oaS badly Of men, one ac,th them in SEN
t'mcnt on this trying question: rho hare
jest gircn The most decisirc proofs of
their sincerity anil fdeiity Therefore
do We hail with satisfaction the declara-
tons of this Address. 1t shows that
the North is now at least in carucst.and
makes weiehty addition to the long nc.
cumulathg foundations Of that Northern
party which may yet give peace 10 the
nation and redeem it from the cankers
and shames that have been growing up.
on it for many years.
1t also puts to shame the course of
those Vermont prints which have assert.
cd that the Vermont delegation we're, at
some time, urfaitlful to their trust AT.
ter lauding all those who signed the APP
peal, and Senator WILSON in particular,
it thus pruceeds -
Indeed we are happy to know that
thSiN N1S NV CuuCteSlbll, nO DIOdtu UI u
compromising spirit, no yielding of a
hairs breadth even, in all the prolonged
ard excited debate on the Part If that
phalanx of Northern men Of whom he
was one. Throughout the whole, their
attitude was cel I'M, decided and inmova
bic. They were there as men who asked
no favors, but demanded justice and
right with proud voices and uplifred
heads. Therefore, we count this as be-
ing, all things considered, the most
wholesome National Convention held in
our day. There is some reason to be-
licve now that there is a North
We agree wiz the Tribune fully
when i, states, in another place, that this
Appeal or Address of the Northern del
egates " implies all that eau DO desired
by any Northern man as the basis Of
political action"
The American Party of the North now
stands in proud position before tho
world. Acknowledged, even by those
who have always been its bittercst en-.
cmies, to have been the only party which
has met tho Sonth in political discussion
and proven true to the Rights Of Man,
it will be approved and supported by
thousands not heretofore within the pale
of its organization. While insisting up.
on the principle that Americans should
rule America" it yet places all other
questions subservient to that of unquali-
fed and unccasng opposition to the ex-
tension of the slave, power. The action
of the Northern delegates has cmphati-
cally shown this, and the people will no
longer be duped by the senseless cry
that the American Party is unfaithful
to Freedom
Adopting. as it now has, openly to the
world, Platform upon WHICH all who
are dcsirous ofthe defeat of tho aggrcs.
sive schemes Of the South. can cordially
unite, combining its powerful strength
with those elements of the oldparties at
the North yetrcmainipg, It will insure
the overwhelming triumph of the prinoi-
pie for which the North is now earnestly
coutending.
The objection Of its being a secret or.