New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-01
LETTER FROM ALBERT PIKE.

LITTLE III Aug 2I 1866.
Gtnttemenlt would afford me great pleasure attend
ratification meeting in your place Jacksopport Ar
kansas Saturday next but unfortunately the Chan
Gerry Court, which compelled to attend, renders
impossible.
should cheerfully make any ordinary sacritce in fur
theranoe Of noble cause that OF the great Ma i've
American Union regard 1t the last and only hope OF
the South, and Of the Union. If the American people
cannot find that, in the present great American
ent which will induce them to forego their chickering's
upon the subject of slavery may hope again
national party. Experience has shown that
the old parties were poweress to control their aes In the
North and unless the American feeling there
all Others carry with it the doctrine of non.inters-
Congress in any possible shape with the
subject of slavery PLATFORM to the south true
to Constitution will ever be successfully matter by
what party adopted.
The administration party Of this South are stl enabled
to hold together to considerable extent the
their friends by protesting that they will in their Ma
tona Convention make better platform the slavery
States by protesting to be in favor Of change in tbs
naturalization laws. They can make no such National
platform if they did they would get single State
North of Mason and Dixon's line; not softshe Deao
in New York and If they do not they
their unwise aud sectional assaults upon platform
and the promises to their druded honest adhsrents
carry State in the South The man whom they look to
chiefly In New York most likely to be selected by them
candidate the Presidency, Daniel g. Dcken-
expressly approves the 18th article of platform
and and distinct Language says that
it Ia on the ground which he always stood
Our opponents and dare as little to amend the
naturalization lave They cannot afford to risk the loss
OF the foreign vote. I
zTney may hold their ground In the South until the
National Convention meets but then, ii mis-
taken, they will be compelled to take such
will entirely yindicate and sweep them out of the
path of the American party forever.
The American party not formed for the purpose
making any party it desired to superssde thsm
both by uniting ali native born patriots In one great
National party with National creed, II established
organs it made Its doors wide open to
one another. The war has been made upon 1t
chiefly by those who fear to be compelled to
mode of making living than that of holding office.
The American party will be found strong enough
the mission it has fulfil it will vndicate the right
Of the soil to rule the SOIL and it will admin
terrible rebnke to those whose shouts of
tion even in sping blood of score of unarmsd Amsri-
citizens American soil by foreigners safe within
the walls Of their housesyet ringing the air nervng
every American heart to the task that lies before
b. Let those love Foreigners who will We will be just to
them, and generous will oppose their influence
politically but In other way We seek to deprive them
OF rights, Withdraw from them any privileges
which law gives them. But resolved that We
like every other people earth ought to govern
country and for as feel that love my mother on
whose breast lay In infancy, better than any sdopted
child could do and with feeling totsly different in kind
Instructive holy implanted in the heart by divinity
feel and know that love my country better than any
foreigner do and with different love- II antag-
could satisfy every American heart that does
ought to love the country Of its birth better
than foreigner and that the love of foreigner for
may well be the Of the love OF native
longer any nationality, longer any of that pride of
birth, place and country which the foundations Of
nations greatness and glory. z-.sz
With high respect and brotherly kindness,
am most truly yours, ~