Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-22

For Attorney GenefaL--JOHN M. PATTON.
Election, 4th Thursday in May.
The Result i'm New Hampshire.
"The New Hampshire papers account in various
ways for the total overthrow of the Democratic
party in that State. The Manchester Democratic
Gazette takes comfort from the idea that the De-
mocratie organization Is still supported by an army
of 81 900 true men, while the Wing vote dwindles
down to 1000, and the Abolition vote is hardly
SUFFICIENT to make respectable count This latter
piece of information is fatal to the arguments Of
the southern Democratic presses. They insist that
the victory in New Hampshire is altogether an alb
clifton triumph and If this ground be taken from
print, the cause of old-fashioned Democracy may
suffer, especially in Virginia The Concord States
man, (Whig,) on the other hand thinks that If the
battle had been fought upon the issue of the Com
promise OF 1920 alone, deserters from the Demo
cratic ranks would have been countedby thousands
1t says that although some people will assign one
circumstance as the cause of this thorough revo-
luton and some another, yet 1t is an aggregation
Of causes which have done the work The paper
first named consoles itself that ! a considerable
number OF honest Democrats will one day become
satisfied that they are operating with their old enc
miles, 1t thus confesses that the party itself fur
nished the means of own demolition, and finds
comfort in the alleged fact that Know-Nothingism
has accomplished the work OF annihilating the
Abolition party We do not expect, therefore, to
see the argument renewed that the late rout was
an Abolition triumph. '"--National Intelligencer
Our neighbors Of the htelligeneer will be
disappointed in their expectations that they
would not see the argument renewed, that the
late rout was an "Abolition triumph in the
State Of New Hampshire, for already the For
ney and Pierce presses at the South have rung
all the changes upon this "argument." If the
4" KNOWN Nothing" candidate for Governor had
received every vote in New Hampshire, these
presses would have stnitedly soorn that it was
an abolition triumph" "'Tis their voca-
ton" to misrepresent facts or conceal them
from the public gaze Nobody denies that
Abolitionists, Free-soilers and Wings, as well
as Democrats, at the North, have joined the
American party" All know this
When new party arises, it must of neces-
sity get its numbers and strength from other
parties, or it cannot come to maturity. The
American party" is composed of all those,
who are sick and tired Of other organizations,
and who hope to advance the true interests Of
the country, by embracing the principles, and
by standing on the platform of the new organ
ization. In this age Of progress, no parties are
stationary, all are shifting to meet the ext
gencies of the times. Fundamental principles
remain fixed and immovable, but political
measures and policy must change, to meet the
demands of that progress, whose impress
marks everything American. What would
Mr.. Jefferson himself think, were he to revisit
the earth, of his "gun-boat' system, as appl-
cable to the defence of our coast, against the
steam marine of other nations?
Would 1t suit the changed condition Of war
like operations2 Seventy or eighty years ago.
tobacco was the standard by which the value
of everything else in Virginia was-fxed, -
debts were paid in tobacco, salaries were
graduated by this criterion, and the wages Of
the members of the Assembly were paid in to-
bacco. How would this medium suit the pres
ent state of trade and commerce2
Fifty years ago, trips from New York to AL
bany were made on board of "North river
sloops," and four or five days was fair pas
sage! That journey, by different conveyance
is now made in four or five hours Would the
old mode of journeying suit the present age
Progress marks everything American" in
every branch Of art and science 1t Is emphat-
ically so with parties
1t is not strange, then, that anti-slayery
men--Free.soilers Wings, Democrats, and
others, leave their former party affiliations, to
embrace measures, which are demanded by
the present phase Of our political condition.
Fifty years ago, nay, even twenty years
ago, immigration from abroad presented nc
very alarming features, and hence it excited nc
serious approximations. Only within the last
twenty years have foreign governments adopt
ed systematic measures, to throw the contents
Of their prisons and poor.houses upon oul
shores. Only within that time, have tn,
Vaccinations Of the Romish hierarchy, as t
the future abiding place Of that power, beef
fully developed, and arrested the attention Q
the friends Of free institutions, to the danger
which menace them.
Hence the American party is of modern
growth; and hence the component parts o
other organizations are separating therefrom
and uniting with this new party. Men Of al
former parties see before them the threatening
dangers, and they are ready to unite in resist
ing them 1t would be strange, passing strange
and equally ridiculous, IL those who seek I,
build up this new organization, should ASSUME
to reject recruits from other organizations
merely because, upon questions not embrace,
within the scope of the new organization, sucl
recruits should differ from them in opinion
Do all the members Of the Democratic party
or all the members of the Wing party, agree il
all thingsf Are there not Nebraska Wing
and Nebraska Democrats Are there not anti
Nebraska Wings and anti-Nebraska Demo
cratsg
Are there not Wings who sustain, and Whigl
who oppose, and Democrats who sustain. ant