The American patriot., 1855-02-21

engineers will start out to make final location Of
tho road from Trenton to Paris; and so soon as
that is DONE the work on that division will be let
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"Resolrea, That the people of Ohio now, as they
have always done, look upon slavery as IN evil,
and unfavorable to the development of the spirit
and practical benefits of free Institutions and that
entertaining these sentiments, they will at all
times feel it their duty to use all power clearly
given by the terms of the national compact to
to prevent its increase, to mitigate, and finally to
eradicate the evil"
The above is resolution adopted by the Dem
ocratic State Convention Of Ohio as part Of its
political programme. 1t exhibits the exceeding
love for the South and her institutions cherished
by the Democracy of the Buckeye State. We
commend its perusa to the partisan editors in this
quarter who never can discover the slightest tine
turc of abolition in their own party, but see it
spreading over and tanting all other parties to the
core.
The truth of the matter is, that wherever slavery
is prohibited, fanaticsm, or at least violent preu-
dice exists 1t would be supremacy absurd to
DENY that there are abolitionists among democrats
as we'll as wings, yet it would be very unfair to
conclude from any partial demonstrations like that
given above, that there none but abolitionists
in either party. This is however, what your
rabbi and ultra partizan is never disposed to adj
init Either he is constitutionally uncandid, or is
utterly blinded by false impressions The people,
however, arc not easily mislcd. They perceive
that the cry of abolition is usually raised for par
tizan purposes. They examine for themselves and
find strong anti-slavcry sentiment pcrvading the
entire North, irrespective of party. Neither
Wings nor Democrats arc guiltlcss in this res
poet.
The only party VIC wot Of that must Of ncccssi.
ty discard scctionalism, is the American party.
No doubt, its members have their individual opin-
ions touching slavery, but these views have nc
connection with principles that are Of universal
application, and just potent and practicable at
the South as at the North.--Bee
OPPONENTS OF THE Know NoT1INGs numbc,
of secret political organizations have recently
sprung up in Cincinnati in opposition to the Know
Nothings, which arc known respectively by tho
names "Know Something's" Sag NIGHT" "Owls,
and "Fatirons."
FOREIGNERS IN OFFICE UNDER THE FEDERAL Gov
ERSMEN1.-The Washington Union 0he present
Administrations mouthpiece,) is attempting. to
show that there very few foreigners in office
Its partial table, however, shows that twenty
of our foreign consuls or diplomatic agents arr
unnaturalised foreigners, and that the United
States dispatch agent at London is foreigner
It states that in the State Treasury and interior
Departments, there are 3,34G Americans, 43(
foreigners, and $50 whose place of birth is ''un
known" There arc great many who would
like tho Union to furnish us with similar table
of the employees in Jimmy Campbclrs Depart
mcnt; VIC are inclined to think the number of ''un
known" there would be largc-very large by
the way, taking the Unions account as it stands
exclusive of the "unknown"-the proportion
of Americans TO foreigners is made eight to one
which about corresponds with the census of 1850
when there were in the country 1,737, 900 native
whites, and, 2,2l0,060 MISREPRESENTATION
Banner.
Observation-Disclosures IN New YoRK.-Wam H
Goodwin, Know-Nothing, has been elected to tn
New York State Senate, from the Twenty mint
District, over Loomis, the Seward coalition candi
date. The Rev. Mr.. Goodwin takes the seat va
Gated by Governor Clark. This, says the New
York Heard, may be considered great triumph
over Scwardism. The Heard further says:
The results of the November election in tn
Twcnty-ninth District threw out the hope tina
by a junction of the forces of Seward, Seymour
and Pierce, they might carry their man by a
least thousand majority The temptation wa