Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-11
The Game Of the Anti-Americans.

The Game Of the Anti-Americans.
We received this morning, and now present
to our readers, letter signed A Native, and
dated Arrow Rock, Saline county, Missouri"
which we commend to the perusal Of our friends
and the public.
The writer Of this letter, is retired polih-
clan, having formerly occupied much space in
the public eye-a gentleman, q scholar, and a
Democrat, Of the school Of Thomas jefferson.
Several letters from his pen, have, at intervals,
appeared in our columns. We doubt not the
correctness of the information which his COM
munication to US presents. We doubt not
there is a deep-laid scheme on foot, to break
up this now glorious brotherhood Of States
nor do we doubt, that the villanous scheme
will be defeated.
The /" American party" influenced by the
teachings Of Washington, and pledged to the
maintenance Of that Union to which his labors
and thoughts were devoted, win be found com
petent to preserve the constitution from its
threatened immolation, upon the altar Of blind
fanaticism. That is our destiny, and we shall
fulfil it. Anti-slavery men may rave, and Sc
cessionists may howl, but the Union shall be
preserved"
The plan adopted to break down the Anne
rican party" and to sow the seeds Of final
enlargement between the North and South,
has been put in operation, and pushed with
great constancy and vehemence, for the last
few months. At the North, the anti slavery
presses denounce us as pro-slavery men, and a
war is kept up with violence there on this sin
gle ground.
AT the South, the administration allies of the
anti-slavery men, denounce our party at the
North, as dangerous to Southern institutions !;
and those anti-slavery men in Massachusetts,,
who are in collision with Forney, Seward,
Pierce, and the Richmond Enquirer, give color
to this charge, by proclaiming on the eve of
the Virginia election, that they do intend to
oppose the extension Of slavery! And thus is
the American party !" placed between these
two fres--brandeda at the North as pro-slavery,
and therefore to be put down at the North !;
and branded at the South as anti-slayery, and
therefore to be put down at the South But
wo be unto these coalitionistsl
The time is not distant when the whole
country shall see and know, that these contra
dictory allegations are both false and unfound-
ed. The american party" is neither pro-
slavery nor anti-slavery, and that man or
press, who makes the charge, either, that our
party designs to interfere with the rights and
interests Of the South, or to aid in any move
ment which will affect injuriously the rights
and interests of any section of the country, and
asserts that which has no foundation in truth,
but which is directly the opposite Of truth.
That there are both anti-slavery men, and
pro-slavery men in our ranks, is undeniable-
as there are in the old Wing party, and in the
present administration fusion party.
But 1t is not true, that the |" American par
ty" as party, has any other designs than
those plainly expressed in the published "plat-
FORMS and Basis Principles" Of our party.
The plan Of the anti-American, alias the adj
ministration fusion party is, to convince the
people of the North by falsehoods and misrep-
reservations, that our party designs to propa-
gate slavery and at the South, their purpose
is, to gull all the people into the belief that we
design to aboliionize the South, and il these
contradictory Misrepresentation shall succeed
the country viii be embroiled in civil strife
the American party would be overthrown, and
the Union destroyed
But the people cannot be thus misled, bam-
boozled, hoodwinked, and betrayed, by these
Fee, sota rIa L.. p.
rent asunder, than that po1er should depart
from their hands The administration has
been made "catspaw" by Seward and his
anti-slavery coadjutors and the people cannot
fail to see II, in the miserable Encouragement
of the Kansas matter. Out Of this very Kansas
difficulty results may be produced which will
test the strength Of the American Union. This
is precisely what Scwardism desires, and what
its secession allies Of the South desire Each
Of these factions pray for the dissolution Of the
Union. The American party must preserve
the Union.
We have thrown out these few suggestions,
10 accompany the letter of our sagacious cor
respondent, as matters for the considera-
ton and reflection Of our readers. We have
fallen upon evil times. Demagoguism is the
great curse Of the country, greater il possible
than even Foreignism and Romanism, for the
reason, that II is more difficult to trace, to ex-
pose and TO remedy. When dnti-slavery men
at one end Of the Union, and seccssionists at
the other end Of it combine to work mischief
to our institutions, and especially when these
elements control the Federal government that
party which essays to counteract their united
movements, must be powerful indeed, to com
mand success but we are full Of hope,-we
believe in the speedy triumph of the "Amcri-
can Reformation, TOO beliere that Virginia,
on the fourth Thursday Of tho present month,
wiu proclaim the certain, though prospeetire
dstiperance Of eur country, from the eris q
Foroignism, Romanism and Demagoguism.
A Voice from Alabama.
On Monday last an election for Judge Of Pro
bate was held in the county Of Mobile, Alabama.
The Democrats brought out a strong candidate,
and Col. Phillips addressed tho people In his be.