The Nevada journal., 1855-06-22
pay MORNING, JUNE 2e. 1868
Agents.
Sectional Issues.

success. We affirm that the great growth
Of this party has been the means Of call
ing public attention from the slavery
question, ard may yet save the Union
The rapid growth Of thc party, and the
intense agitation growing out Of the fool
ish and reckless Kansas bill commenced
about the SAME time. Every one knows
how greatly the north was agitated how
party lines we're dropped, and overwhelm-
ing mai0rities rebuked the administ tra,ion
y great party vas formed in all the north
crn States TO resist what vas deemed an
insulting invasion of sacred compromises,
and that party would have shaken the
Union to is centre. From ! heavy ma
jority in Congress the administration sunk
III few months 20 mean minority. The
wave of popular feeling against the south
was sweeping away al! fraternal feeling,
and leading men TO ask If tho Urion was
Of sufficient value 10 be bought at The
price Of pusillanimous submission to pol;t l.
ical gamestors Thi. was tie general tone
of the North 1t seemed as if no human
power could still the storm and save the
Union Trouble Of the w01st aspect was
Just ahead, and there seemed good reason
20 believe that Picrce would be the last
President that would rulq over the present
Union.
AZ this TIM the American party came
boldly into the field 1t presented a new
issue, and one adequate to draw of much
of the public attention from the slavery
issue BY dividing public attention it
weakened the effect Of the slavery agita-
tion, and in few months the storm calm
cd down, and the north as a whole now
ask only that an. armed mob be restrain
cd in the territories, and that the people
in each fairly decide its institutions Thee
is now no talk of dividing the Union,
While in some e the states the feeling is
stronger than in others 10 reference to
Kansas, in all 1t has cooled, and the very
watchword Of Americans for America has
awakened the long cherished idea that
America is a Union Of States, and that its
chief glory and power is in that Union
Foreseelng this result we find the New
York 1ri6une, an avowed anti-slavcry
sheet, Stewards organ, violently opposing
the American party for its pro-slavery ten
denotes. Greedy was too shrcwd poi:ti-
clan not to see that public attention was
being called off from his favcritc issue, and
the power of his Fartizans being weakened
Seward fercely fought against the Amer
lean party for the same reason. All the
prominent aboli.ionilts Of the north de-
nounce the American order, including
Sumner, Chase, Weed, Garrison, and Cor
win, because it has quelled that mighty
storm that was raised in opposition to sla-
very extension. Who can doubt that had
not the American party been evoked into
existence, Seward would have gone back
to the United States Senate BY a vast ma
jority. As it was he barely obtain d bis
election &
Notwithstanding these great results pro
duced, which are patent to every reflect
ing mind notwithstanding the order has
virtually quelled power that seemed ir-
risist;ble, and saved the Union, the impo-
tent presses of the administration rail at Z:
for its aboli.ionism Lat them less the
Saviour that has been raised up to heal
the lissensions caused by the reckless in
trisues of their masters, which else had
ended the history Of the American Re-
public.
That some Of the States III which the
Order is strong have erir eed great feeling
in the Konsae affair, and DO so now, is na-
tural. Massachusetts, has passed n "per-
son liberty bill" What then 1t was
an act of sovereign legislation, within her
own borders. Is it SO bad, or so danger
Gus to the Union, as though sho had inter-
ferrcd BY an armed mob in the elections
OF the tcrTitories' The slavery issue i'm
ptl5 both Missouri snd Massa chusct.s--
Which most violates prop,iety-th the slave
o, the free State? Massachusetts, reasons
that the compromises being swept away
tic north is not bound by a compact that
the south repndiates. We believe the ac-
tion Of both States 10 be wrong; We only
say let him that is without sin cast the
first stone.
The American party requires nation
al hasisI and IS gaining one. 4 total
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