Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-10
WAsHIMaToN D. q. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. July 10. 1855

over any other in the State, by means Of any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
combination of It's members, or by q division Of
their civil allegiance with any foreign power, po-
tentate, or eccesastic. AsNl a8sl n .5gfr..
IX.-The reformation of the character Of our
National Legislature by elevating 70 that dignifed
and responsible position men of higher qualifca-
tions, purer morals and more unse lfsh patriotism
X.--The restriction Of. executive patronage, es-
pecialy In the matter of appointments to Office, 80
far US it may be permitted by the Constitution, and
consistent with the public good. sest,sf gis
XI--The education of the youth Of our country
in schools provided by the State; which schools
or party, and free from any influence or drectio n
Of dcnominational or partisan character.
And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the Consti0i-
tons of nearly all the States by the decisions Of
the most eminent Judicial authorities; and by the
consent of the people Of America, is considered
element of our political system; and, as the Ho y
Bible is at once the source of Christianity and Il
depository and fountain of all civil and religion Us
freedom, we oppose every attempt to exclude .it
from the schools thus established IN the States.
XII.-The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite the opposition Of the Whig
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 el-
evated 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
petuty to the Union. And as experience has
shown II impossible to reconcile opinions so ex-
treme as those which separate the disputants, 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 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 80 important, in distinct
and unequivocal terms it is hereby declared as the
sense of this National Council, that Congr oss pos
sesses no power, under the Constitution, to legis-
late upon the subject of Slavery in the States
where it does may exist or to exclude any Sta
from admission into the Union, because it's Cons IT,
tuition does or does not recognise the institution
Of Slavery as part of its social system ; and K
pressly pretermitting any expression of opinion
upon the power Of Congress ito establish or pr O.
hibit Slavery in any Territory, 1t Is the sense of
the National Council that Congress ought not to
legslate upon the subject Of Slavery within the
Territories Of the United States, and that any in
reference by Congress with Slavery as it 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 faikh.
XIIL-The policy Of the Government Of the
United States in its relations with foreign COVE m
ments is to exact justice from the strongest, ad
do justice to the weakest; restraining by all he
power Of the government, all its citizens from IN
reference with the internal concerns of nations
with whom we are at peace.
XfV.-This National Council declares that all
the principles Of the Order shall be henceforward
everywhere openly avowed and that each mem
Der shall be at liberty TO make known the existence
Of the Order and the fact that he himself is mem
Der, and it recommends that there be no conceal
ment Of the places Of meeting Of subordinate coun-
cils. H9f
Z. B. BARTLETT, Of Kentucky,
President of National Council
@. ID. DEsHLER, Of New Jersey,
Corresponding Secretary