Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-11


present the alliance With the nuIfers, and TO de-
clare with Archbishop Hughes that Pierce is 9
good Democrat, aud ought not 70 be complained OF.
II you ask these new school Democratic saints
10 point you ont the party which is acting against
the old Washington aud jackson doctrines about
State rights they retreat forthwith to their higher
Law oracles selEconyicied, but they come baohI
full Of curses against the American party because
its leading principle Is the suppression OF slavery
agitation. and opposition to whatever tends to
weaken the bonds OF our beloved Union. This Il
another humbuggery which the people Of Tennes-
see will put down unless the memory Of the great
deeds Of her early statesmen and warriors IN al.
ready botted out.
But would trespass too long, gentlemen, upon
your time, to expose at length the higher-law de-
Woes by which the leaders Of the new school Of
Democrats in Tennessee have elected governor
and maintained the alliance with the miserable
pretenders who parcelling out the loaves and
fishes at Washington. We array ourselves as nat
urally against these devices as forefathers did
against the pretensions OF the British crown; and
encouraged by the noble stand taken by your
State, we expect to wheel into line with you before
another twelve months passes away.
Kentucky has seen that modern Democracy
brings into power such men as Wise of Virginia,
Coward of New York, Wilson OF Massachusetts,, and
Davis of Mississippi. She also sees these higher
law men counting the influence of the Pope Of
Rome and Of the hordes Of foreign paupers and
criminals which have been poured upon our soil
from the ,monarchies of tho Old World. This was
enough for our gallant State. Living on tho land
still light with the patriotism, genius, and ele-
quence Of Clay, you could only do a. you have
done--that il, 70 for your country, your whole
country, and nothing but your country, when its
true interests were menaced by domestic faction
and foreign influence.
congratulate you, gentlemen, that you are cit
zens of the State of Kentucky. 1t will be to your
honor in all time to come that you have taken the
front rank in the great reformation which Is now
III progress to free from the caamities threaten
cd by the aboltionist and the nullifier and their
foreign allies. This reformation will be more
memorable than that Of 1900, when you followed
the lead Of Virginia in maintaining cons. itutional
rights by constitutional means. Virginia must
now follow your lead. The daughter is now
stronger than the mother, and more able to watch
over the family household. And it is well that 1t
is so, for the work to be done is greater than II
waa then.
In 1900 there was no Archbishop Hughes com
missioned to negotiate for votes. There were no
seventy millions in the national vaults TO be Law
ished on those who pander to Executive power.
There was no immigration from the corrupt mon
arches of Europe amounting to half million an
nuay, and invited to occupy our lands and inter-
fere in our elections. We had then no aspirant to
the Presidency preaching that modern democracy
IA the Jacobs ladder of the Sacred Scriptures. We
had then no President so lost to shame az to glory
in prescribing his fellow citizens for exercising
their American birthright of voting freely at the
balot-box Nor had we then any men capable of
descending SO low as to use the question Of slavery
for the purpose of forming geographical parties
and under the guise OF State-rghts arrayipg one
section of the Union against the other. Time had
not then weakened the revolutionary impulse, and
Virginia had then her Jefferson and Madison, in
whose hands II was not difficult to correct the err
rors which had crept into our system. II ia far
different now. Virginia has given up the reins OF
government to small men, and leaves to her more
vigorous oiispring in the West the noble task OF
bringing the government to its original simplicity.
conclude, gentlemen, by again congratulating
you that you are citizens oil the gallant State OF
Kentucky; and that you have shown yourselves
worthy Of the great mission assigned you by the
course of events. May you 60 on as you have be.
gun, defending the cause Of our civil and religious
freedom, yielding nothing to the factionist and
fanatic, domestic or foreign, and upholding the
Constitution and the Union rs one and inseparable.
now and forever.
! Tennessee will soon be with you, lighted by the
spirit of her jackson, and fighting by your side, as
she did at New Orleans against the common foe
am, very respectfully,
Your obedent servant,
A. j. DosKLsoS.