Washington telegraph., 1855-08-22
The Trslc Issue.


The people of the South are awakening
to the true issues involved in the present
and coming canvass, and all parties are be-
ing satisfied that the American order is
alone adequate to the necessities of the
times. There is powerful organization at
the No.tb, ignoring all issues except the
abolition of slavery in all the territories,
the repeal of the Fugitive slave law, and
and such like acts of unjust legislation =
Questions of State or Federal legislation
are by common consent ruled out-the only
plank in their platform is the one of anti
slavery. Upon this they are united; as
much so-aye, more so-than any religious
political sect ever were. The Wing party
has no organization in the field, and conse-
quently it may not now be looked to. The
Democratic party propose to maintain their
organization by ignoring the Slarery gstes-
tiOn and allowing all men who will aid them
to elect Democratic President, to stand
upon their platform. To keep possession Of
the Federal Offices, to maintain the ascend
ant at Washington, the Democratic party
PROPOSE to pass over in silence the question
of slavery-nos to allow it place in their
political creed and to secure their triumph
by fusion of all the radicalsm of the
Northern States. In other words, the De-
mocratic party South are willing to associate
with the Northern Abolitionists, in order to
elect their President THE AMERICAN
PARTY WILL NEVER CONSENT TO ANY SUCH
rREAcHERoUs POLICY. They have adopted
stand, and they propose to triumph on that
platform or fall with it. They will have no
compromiSes-no middle ground They
insist upon the rights of the South under
the Constitution and they will hear of no.
thing short Of this. Memphis Wig.
Referring to this peculiar organism of
the American Order, the Danville Register
a Southern, and heretofore Democratic pa
per very appropriately remarks:
But apart from the mementous issues
which SO evidently separate the American
from this pseudo Democratic Foreign party,
for the Southern patriot, there can be but
one alternative The path of duty before
him is open plain and palpable No man
can wink so hard as not to see that the Am
erican organization constitutes the only po-
liiical barrier between Southern rights and
Northern aggression. 1t is the only polti-:
cal organization that has in national con-
elave. openly repudiated freesoilsm 1t is
the only body who has dared to stand upon
the soil of Aholitionism and openly avow
its pro-slavery proclivities in the very teeth
Of Northern fanaticism. Instead of truck
ling to this demon of discord, for DO
litical effect, as both the old parhes at the
North were alternately in the habit of doing,
the American party has openly repudiated
it at the risk of political disaster And in
doing this, they constructed a platform of
principles broad enough to accommodate
every Union-loving patriot in the land but
by far TOO ,1arroac, to accommodate either
the Freesoiler, Jesuit, Socialist, or Disuni
ionist. To the Southern patriot then the
American party has commended itself as
no other party has ever done. 1t has made
sacrifices that 90 other party has ever made.
Consequently it should be fostered, cherish
ed, and sustained by every true-hearted
American within her borders. If the south
coldly turns from the support of this party
and the North spits upon its platform in con-
tempt for its pro-slavery doctrines, the day
is not far distant in the future when there
Will be ether issues more direct and even
more forcibly thrust upon her consideration
Bat they will be issues the result of which
may envelope this country in the smoke Of
that conflict that will shiver the golden
links of the chain of our national Union"