Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-26

energetic action might finally defeat the scheme
Of abolitionizing Kansas
The President and his chum sent for Gene
raj whitfield, (as we have reason to believe,)
and earnestly entreated him TO accept very
valuable Indian agency in the mountains
General Whitfield was begged to accept the
appointment, but he would not then yield his
assent--neyerthele his name was sent to the
Senate, aud his appointment as Indian agent
was confirmed, without his consentl Whether
General whitfield has been since or can beyet
coaxed to accept the valuable Office, and per-
NIT Forney and Pierce to disorganize the plans
Of the Southern party in Kansas, remains to be
seen. He is said to be gentleman who is above
suspicion, and we are credibly informed that
he resisted the acceptance Of the office down to
very recent date Nov, we wish the Mis-
sourians to keep us posted up on all these mat
ters hereafter
Let us know what the Forneyites are doing
now in Kansas, in order that we keep our
friends in the South advised of the progress Of
administration chcanery. 1t may be, and pro-
badly is the case, that at the very moment
when the Union Is assailing the Know-No-
things" as dangerous to the South, the jusglcr
behind the curtain Of that press-the power
behind the throne greater than the throne it
self" is managing through his official tools, to
secure the success OF the anti-slavery party in
Kansas! It may be that at this Uery moment,
whilst protesting fealty to the South, and af-
fecting to apprehend danger to her institutions,
he is planning the defeat Of the South in the
Kansas struggled We call upon the editorial
friends Of Judge Atchison, on the one hand,
and upon the Wing presses Of Missouri on the
other, to speak out on this subject
We shall simply here advert to the fact, that
at the close of the late session Of Congress, it
was understood here, that if General Whit
field could be sent into exile, an effort would
be made in behalf Of the Surveyor General Of
Kansas, who it was thought could rally enough
,oestern votes, and especially from Illinois, in
addition to the Abolitionists, to elect him over
southern candidate for Congress Are the
people Of Kansas posted on this pointf
Now, we do not, as member Of the Amer
lean party" complain Of those men, who en-
gage in such intrigues with Abolitionists in
Kansas, against southern shareholders nor do
we complain when they appoint free-soil
Blair to office, as hint to the Missourians,
that Judge Atchison has lost his influence at
headquarters; but we do protest against such
political tricksters representing the views Of
the American party" on any subject what
ever.
We have presented the foregoing matters
as food for reflection to southern minds, in
order that they may understand the schemes
of their pretended friends. For ourselves we
have no part or lot in the contest now being
waged in Kansas, but we are for fair play-an
open fght-and no gouging!
Our purposes are own,-fxed, and I'M
changeable, and we call upon the American
people to calmly look at the great national ends
we have in view as an American party"
Neither Forney, nor Weed, nor Greeley, nor
Richie, are authorized to announce the princi-
Piles Of the aims Of our party. That such men
should combine to misrepresent our party, In
different colors, in different regions, is natural
for such politicians, but we protest against any
fair-minded mans repeating their contradic-
tons and absurdities.
In 1855, we opine, that there will be but two
candidates for the Presidency-the one the
American" and the other the foreign" can
didate Votes cast for any other denomination,
will be set down as scattering" In that con-
test it is our firm belief, that Ferney and
Greeley, Seward and Pierce, Weed and Richie,
viii be found acting together, as thoroughly and
harmoniously as the Forncy and Pierce party
are now acting with Seward and Greeley, in the
Territory Of Kansas
lW- The Autauga (Ala) Mercury is quite
mercurial i'll its allusion to the assumed fact,
that we call "the Democratic party, the Pierce
and Forney party" Not quite SO fast Mr..
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