Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-03
WASHINGTON, d. G.
WILLIAM M. BURWELL, Editor.
American Meeting in Virginia.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1855.

American Meeting in Virginia.
We accept with sincere pleasure an invitation
to attend meeting of the American party of
Virginia, to be held in Lynchburg, on the 18th
Of September
This invitation is itself State paper. 1t
proposes to bring together, for the purpose of
patriotic consultation not only the members Of
this Order, but, as far as practicable, such en-
lightened citizens of the Union, as sympathize
with its general views. This council is :" TO
consult calmly upon the present political
condition of the country, to declare authorita-
lively the principles of the American Order, and
to present as basis of future action series
Of political truths in the enforcement of which
moderate aud conservative men of all parties
may unite and which, respecting the interests Of
every section, will yet tend to secure the last
ing union Of the States"
We cannot sufficiently express the encour
agement which this temperate and sensible call
upon the patriotism Of the country gives US.
Surrounded rs we are by the breakers Of revo-
lution--the deadly foes of the Union are creep
ing out of the caves into which public indigna-
ton had driven Misunderstanding the fair
name under which Washington and Hancock,
and jefferson and Madison, achieved our liber-
ties, these tories in grain call themselves "Re.
publicans," and endeavor to overthrow the
government by fostering n sectional prejudice
amongst its members. at the same moment
comes the Frce-soil Democracy, proposing to
support them in this sectional combat, and
in aid of both is vindictive and pusillaDi-
nous administration which assails the Plat
form-Americans, now the only party which
has pledged itself to abide by and main
tain the Nebraska and Missouri line legislation
Of that administration. These Virginia Ameri-
cans will represent conservative and Union
constituency pledgcd-as " the best guarantee
Of common justice and of future peace--to
soide 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"
We know the people from whom this call
emanates, and whom it will convene. There is
no population in America more industrious,
more competent to maintain themselves in So
cial or political independence They are
type of region of country, and of n spirit Of
which the fanatics, who represent the South as
n land Of ignorance and sloth, know nothing.
They represent an agricultural and commercial
development Of which any nation might be
proud They have devoted themselves to the
great problem of giving employment to the
people, and value to the products Of the sur
rounding country, and it is mainly through
their efforts, in conjunction with those OF the
cities of Petersburg and Richmond, that the
mountains OF Tennessee have been brought by
railway communication to within three days
annual drain upon the population and prop
erty Of Virginia, the farmers, mechanics,
miners and merchants of the Northern States
are seeking cheap food and material, a tenn
perate climate, and the great home-marllet Of the
South and Southwest. These people are pros
porous, shrewd, temperate, and fearless. They
are amongst the best friends that this Union
ever had, for their ancestors were in every
council and engagement from the battle Of
Kenawha, which conquered from the Indians
the modern States Of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan, to the siege of York, and the
capture of Mexico They are deeply inter
ested in the peculiar property which the
BLACK Republicans" wish to destroy, in or
der that they can thereby bring to their own
section a permanent and preponderant power.
They will maintain, as they have maintained,
this Union so long as freeman dare maintain
H. And they propose at this assemblage to
throw the weight Of their influence in behalf
Of that compact and, il necessary, to interposc
their bodies to arrest the parricidal spirit which
would strike ut the sacred yitals Of the Consti-
tuition.
Such men as compose the American party
OF Virginia. Wings who denounced the de
signs Of William H. Seward, when he sought
to sell and deliver the great party by which he
had been fostered, to further the prospects Of
an INSCRIPTIONS acknowledgements who
saw in the defeat Of the conservative portion
Of their own party in the Northern States, and
the formation OF Freo-soilers, papists and aliens
by the Administrations that there was
danger to the country and no hope from its
mercenary factions They have united for