Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-21

%r Lisut. Goy.-JAMEs M. n. BEALE.
Mr. Attornsv GsxsyaL-J0HN M. PATTON
Election 4th Thursday in May.
Tactics OF the Foreign Patty, and tho sap-
porters Of - the True and Excellent, OF
tho Norfolk District, General John SIN
gleton MilIson.
Since the charter election In tho town of
Portsmouth, when tho American ticket was
triuInphantly elected, hand-bills have been put
in circulation there, containing the names Of
the voters for Fiske and White, the rival can
didatcs for the Mayoralty. The object Of the
defeated party is not known, and their aim can
only be surmised 1t Is believed by Some to
be intended to intimidate the employees Of
the Gosport Navy Yard Many Of them are
solely and wholly dependant upon the daily
wages they receive from government They
are poor, and have large families to support,
and, owing to the present high rates Of the
necessaries Of life, their daily wages are barely
sufficient to support them. If this Is the in
tention Of those who are circulating these hand
bills, il is most miserable and despicable
piece Of business, and unworthy the sanction
" honorable men. The object Of such base
maneuyre will be defeated, and the effect of
such an attempt viii recoil upon the heads Of
the perpetrators
It is already working among the men of that
place, who are determined to frown upon and
.reat with scorn any such means to influence
the minds or operate upon the necessities of
freemen. Instead Of accomplishing the enc
surmised as intended, tho effect has been of
an entirely opposite character. Since the cleo
ion Of Mayor and the triumphant majority Of
Fiskc, the American candidate, large number
Of voters have come into the order Names,
which are published in the hand-bill, Of men
who voted for White, or, as he is Familiarity
called there, "Old Master" the candidate of
the foreign, abolition-favoring party, have been
enrolled upon the books Of Sam" and they
win cast their votes in May next for the Amer
lean ticket, aud Samuel Watts, the friend Of
Americans, the practical business man and
statesman, in opposition to John Singleton
Millson, the hair-splitter, the impracticable,
lo-nothing, stand-still, moon-scraping, and
,ky-raking political dreamer.
Our true and excellent" comes up fully to
the description which Henry Clay gave of
those politicians who, losing sight Of the great
and useful and practical bearings Of questions,
wholly engage themselves in detecting the
mere notes which float upon the surface,
which are UNDECIDED and unregarded by others,
and which do not at all practically affect meas
lres Of great public utility. The General,
newever, is not responsible for that peculiar
| conformation which is the cause Of all those
nair-splitting and notwithstanding proclivities
for which he is noted, and which even pre-
cluded his comprehending what was meant"
BY the /" Compromise measured" It is not his
FAULT He can't help 1t But the people can
aelp returning such an "aouts logician" to
Congress, and are determined to place there, In
his stead, man Of more enlarged, more prac-
tical, and less "sensitips" views Of public
policy.
That man Is Samuel Watts. A man en-
phatically the peoples mama man who is
one of the most skilfll and enlightened parlia-
mentarians In the country--a man practical,
useful, and labonous--ever the champion Of
American interests, in preference to all other
interests The navy-yard men win find him
ready to protect their interests They are not
to DO intimidated by any such means as, It is
presumed by some AFRO resorted to by the late
hand.bills, publishing their names to the world
md to the Departments at Washington, a. the
sustaincrs and supporters Of the great Amcri-
can party. Let them stand firmly by their
arms-fearless and undannted. Their efforts
viii DO crowned with success--their aims at
ained--their interests advanced--snd the
influx Of foreign panpsrs and foreign fslons
will be checked and driven back, out Of and
away from competition with American labor.
Vocal upon the people, the free and en-
ightened voters Of the second district Of Viz
pnia, to rally around Samuel Watts, the dis.
ttnguished, high-toned, and able champion Of
the American party. He Is every way quail
ied TO bear aloft their banner In triumph
their banner having inscribed upon its ample
folds as they float to the breeze, that "senti-
ment dear to every American heart "--THR
PrnrKruArros or AMERICAN FRRKDox rs OUR
OBJECT, AMERICAN RIoHrs ous MOTTO, AND THE
AMERICAN PARTY ouR NAME AND ouR BATTLE.
CRIT. Such, fsllow.citizcns, Is the man and the
party presented before you for your suffrsges
Remember, that the return Of Samuel Watts
to the next Congress from this hitherto party
enslaved district, and the triumph Of American
principles, will do much, very much, in forward
ing that glorious cause which aims to place
the government Of the country under the in
auence and control OF native Americans
The Removal Of the District Attorney Of
| Minnesota.
The removal Of John 3. Warren, Esq, from
the District Attorneyship Of Minnesota, BY the
present administration, has boon severely CEN
Sured by several Democratic journals In that
Territory Mr. Warrav 10 q n.,x,oc~.t -