Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-10
VIRGINIA, March 3, 1855.

To the Editor of the american Organ:
Notwithstanding the efforts o some of the DEM
ocratic presses to make you out an abolitionist,
and your journal vehicle of abolition sentiments
am happy to inform you that the Organ has a
growing popularity, and that the great cause it
advocates is gaining every hour on popular favor
and appreciation. We are reversing Mr.. Benton's
maxim" small by degrees AMI beautifully less. !"
We are taking no step backward" In most Of
tide-water Virginia. speak from undoubted
data--the cause is onward, and the sentiment
spreading every moment, that Americans ought
to rule America" The result in this region will
rot only startle people at distance, but "aston-
ish even the natives" Mark that
We are amused hereabout that you should be
suspected Of abolitonism.
We have known you as STAKEHOLDER among us
as an owner of the soil Virginia, and ter OF
that soil, by means Of slave labor. You have rep
resented in the Senate of Virginia one of the largest
slaveholding districts within her borders, and were
never suspected Of disoyalty to the constitutional
rights of the South. The idea that you are given
to abolition proclivties, is an after thought alto
gethergotten up pu' posely for effect in the com.
ing elections in Virginia.
You have taken, we think, in this section, exact
y the right ground-that Of non-agitation, non-n
tervention. That is the ground the South has al
ways desired to occupy. Let slavery alone. Leave
il to the States that hold slaves Keep the subject
out of Congress. That is the ground Of safety to
the South, and of peace and harmony, and perpe
tuty to the Union.
We are not aware that the Organ has taken any
other position. There was certainly no necessity
for denouncing Senator Wilson in advance. You
we're right to wait until he spoke out. When he
did speak out, and avowed his purpose to agate
the slavery question in the public councils, you
spoke out too and denounced the avowal as un-
patriotic, and as being inconsistent with, and I'M
sanctioned BY, the platform Of the American party.
What more could be desired by any southern man'
And could less have been expected by any mem.
Der Of the great American organization whose aims
are national and one Of the grand objects Of which
is to still the slavery agitation, and, by sitting it.
to give lasting peace to the country
By the way, more fuss has been made about
Senator Wilson's opinions than the case justifes.
He IL but one man, and / have the very best
reasons for knowing and saying that Mr. Wilson
does not represent the masses Of the American
guished members Of the Order in Massachusetts,
know It, too, from other most significant facts
which shall ere long reveal. lam sure the Amer
lean party has been deceived In Mr. Wilson, and
results win show IT,
But, suppose the Order in the Bay State is free
soil or abolition, does that aboltionze the Ameri
can party in VirginiaS Are we not, in Virginia,
an Independent organization, and shall we give up
the national objects we have in view, and cease our
efforts to accomplish great national reforms, be-
cause, forsooth, portion Of the American party
in Massachusetts, is OF abolition tendenciesf
Besides, is Massachusetts, all the Northi And
have we no cheering indications elsewhere in the
North 10 Offset the goomier ones In Massachusetts,
New York Is certainly fair set of, and many
times more than a set off against her New England
sister, There, in that State Of empire, whose in.
auence In the elections and councils Of the nation,
Is next 10 controlling, there. say in that empire
State "all is we'll" There the party is sound
10 the core, conservative, eminently conserve
tive, true 10 the constitution, resolved to do
Justice to the South TO Danish the slavary question
from the arena Of politics, and by that means to
bind all sections Of the Union in fraternal bonds
together.
While there Is so much carping about Massachu-
sets, why do not the carpers turn to New York,
and read in the state Of things there indubitable
evidence Of the national and conservative charac-
ter of our organization Perhaps II does not suit
the purposes Of some but "huth Is mighty, and
win prevail" and better times will come The
people, the long humbugged people, the masses,
the interrupted masses, have decrecd i, and the
decree will soon be executed. More anon.
TIDE WATER.
sT-F Fifty dollar counterfeit notes Of the Bank
of the State Of Georgia are in circulation. Is an