The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-25
CITY OF EVANSVILLE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 95
THE AMERICAN PARTY AND SLAVE

with sufficient consideration to partially
Withhold from il the ridiculous abuse with
which that paper has teemed ever since the
new organization made its appearance. 1t
now ventures to suggest and even dictate a
course, which it deems polite for the Amer
lean party to pursue-and not pursuing it, in
evitabe ruin is the certain consequence
The natural inference which we gain from
the Tribune, is that the American party, in
order to succeed, must get right straight onto
the Tribune's platform-Only adopt Mr..
Greeley's platform with all its good things,
including all its heresies, making the one idea
abolition plank paramount to all else, and
success is certain.
The Tribune condescends to say, that as
much as it hates the principles and policy of
the American party, it will not refuse to CO.
operate with it or any other party in the great
cause of freedom. Mr.. Greeley fancies that
the American party, in the eve Mt it should
not become abolitonizcd, will have two pow
erful parties to oppose, viz, the united Dem
ocracy(D and the Abolition party of the
North. And it concludes after its peculiar
style Of logic, "that instead of beating both
the parties which il will oppose, it will stand
q smart chance of being beaten by both;'-
and further adds: Sand with a party so
eminenty depending for its vitality upon the
prestige of success as the American organi-
cation, more tee-totnl collapse of its poten-
cy can hardly be imagined.
Mr.. Greeley says he is for settling and adj
justing the slavery question. in this particu.
lar crisis, in the fright manner" Now he
may differ widely with the American party,
in relation to what it may consider the "right
manner, to adjust this vexed question:, at
This "particular crisis" as well as to the po-
sition which that party may deem proper to
take in relation to slavery, or the policy it
may deem most fit to adopt in relation to
our territorial domain. 1t becomes the Am
erican party as a matter OF the most vital
importance, to exercise the most profound
caution and wisdom in the enunciation of
its principles, to svoid all sectional heresies,
whether they be of Northern or Southern
origin and tendencies, and unfurl to the ma.
ton and to the world platform, al broad as
the constitution itself, and as comprehensive
as the great interests of our republican gov
eminent may require.
We are not prepared to believe that Mr.
Greeley's political creed is expansive enough
to securely hold the fabric of the American
party, nor do we believe that the twelve COL
umns a week of his peculiar views, which
he has been dishing up to his vast number
of readers for years, has convinced them of
the astonishing efficacy of his sentiments for
the promotion of any great national good
The Tribune, after its many years of cratic
toll in the ''cause of freedom" Gas it calls it,,
is now called to witness the humiiating
spectacle Of the enactment of more rigorous
measures for the protection of slavery, and
the encroachment of the institution upon
territory once and forever consecrated to
dom. 1t may not be susceptible of demon
stration, yet it is by no means an overdrawn
inference, that the very policy which Dir.
Greeley now seeks to engraft upon the A m.
erican party, has exerted powerful agency
in producing these results, which the heart
of every freeman at the North revolts at
and every lover of the Union is called to de-
plore. The American government has been
coquetting long enough with the factions OF
slavery at the South, and the professed
friends of freedom at the North, to have
seen and felt the extreme and dangerous fol.
ly of maintaining an harmonious federal con.
sistency, upon the quick-sands of mere sec.
tional issues. 1t is fondly to be hoped that
the organization of the American party will
be established upon national as we'll as q
constitutional basis, or not established at all.
The North and the South have united and
fought together upon all questions of par.
amount nationality, and each respecting the
moral and social opinions of the other. This
can be done again, but not through the me.
dunn of any creed or policy less national oil
less compromising than the constitution il,
self. The American party North will doubt
less agree with Mr.. Greeley, and maintain
against all controversy that the abrogatior
of the Missouri Compromise and the conse
quent encroachment of the slave power, W al
effected by a gigantic swindle, in which
the treachery of the people of the NORTH
performed conspicuous part. The Nebras
ka bill, we have ever held, was alike swim
die upon the constitution and the who'll
country. But should we love our countr,
less because the treachery of demagogue
has inflicted grievous errors upon our govern