Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-07-21
The National Platform Of the American
Party.


met at Philatielphie on the 9TH ult., and (af-
ter, as we suppose, Invoking the blessing OF
Almighty God' upon their convocation,l pro-
ceeded to lay down, on paper, the principal
tenets of the order or in other words, they
proceeded to heap up huge pile of beautiful
looking meal. and were careful that in the
midst thereof should be secreted a cat Of most
euyiable proportions.
Surely, there never was assembled on Free
dom's soil, body OF intelligent men who had
more superlative faith in the gulibility Of the
mass of the American people, than had that
convention at Philadelphia.
That in 1910 the American people should,
to great extent, be panic-stricken and run
Wild to pay lasting tribute of honor to him
who had SO long before and so long honored
his country BY his Invaluable military servi.
ces, and so again in 1913. is not SO passing
Strange; but that the same people should notc.
| under circumstances which will permit the full
exercise Of a well cultivated and we'll informed
judgment, be carried away, as By whirlwind,
to satisfy the angry and frenzied rawlings of
disappointed political demagogues and polite
al adventures would be passing strange.
But to return more Immediately 10 our sub
jeet. That convention, (since such ar one ,oa,
held, 1.-THE country is sate,'') in the first place
acknowledged an Almighty Being who rules
! ever the universe, &c.. =! How thoughtful
How reverential Here. and b. this envable
means, the deforfned mead OF Atheism was dis
severed at one fell blow, and its hideous body
buried go deep that the hand of resurrection
can never resuscitste it Let all the people
rejoice and be glad, that the darkness and
gloom, so portentous, which was gathering
over them, under the guidance of THAT black
and damning atheism promulg' I'd by the old
Wing and Democratic parties. is about to be
rolled back, as the mighty waters Of the Red
Sea were-and all by the timely congestion,
birth and rapid growth and the manly vigor
of the K n. or American party!
Doubtless it is a matter of wonder TO some,
how that convention (of National Conserva-
tives) happened to think about making so open
an acknowledgment Of the Supreme Being -
2 Inc WIOIc lIldLftT Is SpIfSl III ttlo-lHtJ
sworn so often, 50 long, and so strong by that
/ Supreme being, to break down and destroy the
old political parties, to crush the Roman Cath
olic church, to rid America of foreign paupcrs
and of foreign influence, and to--get all the
Offices, (''letting the Office seek the man, and
not the man the offce,') and all the spofls Of
office, that the words, not the reverence, due
to God" the Almighty Being &C., were
| on their tongues and in their minds continu
/ ally; and SO, lest they should forget some i'm
portant point in some one of their important
oaths, which so effcctually binds them togeth-
err in stronger bonds than Vulcans thrn er
bolts. And, by the way, this creed of letting
the office seek the man, and not the man the
Office, puts Us furcibly in remembrance Of
what certain cunning, renowned quadruped
sa;d when he visited a certain locality where
domesticated fowls were won't 10 enjoy the re
freshment Of nocturnal repose; undisturbed by
the obtrusive interference of any animal ac-
customed to making nightly visitations for ma
lign purposes, who do not strictly observe
the laws Of meum ct tuum-to wit s'Let US
prey {pray)'
Well. as to article first, all risht--wc be-
lievc in a God-Almighty God--and that he
will judge all mankind finally, and the X. Ms
too. The devil also believes in God And
there arc yet in the old Wing and Democratic
parties, upwards of hundred of the most
prominent men, leaders of those parties, who
have not lost all faith in or reverence for the
Supreme Ruler of the universe.
Section second says something about - the
cultivation and Development Of a sentiment of
profoundly intense American feeling r Spir-
its of 30 .--of "a 40 or fight do you hear
that now' Well, this is all right too; for it is
an old saying that when we are in Rome, we
should do as Romans do and upon that prin-
ciple when one is in the United States o.
America, he should do as Americans does
pecially if he be native born or adopted citi-
zen. lie should so conduct himself towards
the Government that he will at all times be
worthy Of public esteem, and worthy Of public
trust; for if he is found unworthy once, be is
forever ousted from any position of honor; the
people having voice in such matters, and also
having self respect enough to that their
rights are observed by their public servants,
or he Infringement of such rights properly
punished.
sccios third coirts out boldly and fearless
" in favor Of maintaining the Union nuda
ciously quoting tie language of him whose
very ashes blush at tie secret ignominy of
that pseudo American party, and saying that
they esteem the maintaiuance tf the Union
1.-THE primary object Of patriotic assire."-
How thankful should Ill true Americans fee,
that there are yet few ''who have no.
bowed the knee to Baal," but who fearlessly
come out, confront and combat tie unholy
hosts of Benedict ArnQlls' to be found in the
cid political organizations. Shout glory to the
great American or K n. party, all We people, /
especially to that portion Of said party who
hail from Massachusetts,, for she, of all the
States. has secured the curse of the civilized
world And If ever, of all tie citizens Of the
other States one should arise who would envy
her her present esteem in the notice of the
truly wise and generous, "let him be cursed
while living, and when dead, buried down /
ward, with his face looking to hell" Blu. the
Union is now safe. Internal ruptures, and
l;-.-o.,