Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-23
The American PIatform.

a
meeting, held on Thursday evening last, which
exceeded in numbers and display all assem-
blages hitherto witnessed in this metropolis, dis
tnctly and emphatically endorsed the platform
adopted by the National Council at Philadel-
phia, and thus put TO shameful flight, the vile
insinuations of enc Of our city presses, and Of
the New York " Satanic that there exists a
sympathy here between our party and Seward,
Greeley, Wilson and Company Of the North.
There was not dissenting voice on the ques-
ton Of approving, ratifying, and adopting the
platform.
The resolutions adopted by the Americans
Of Washington, were in the following words,
to wit:
"Whereas the National Convention Of the Amer.
lean party leceny assembled at Philadelphia after
full and mature consideration of the various
hicting elements Of former political organizations,
did adopt and promulgatc platform Of principles
and purposes, clear distinct, American and nation
al; therefore
"Be IL rescued, That We the American party Of
the District Of Columbia, in public meeting, do
cordially approve Of ratify, and adopt the same.
"Rssoived, That the thanks Of the American
party in this District be, and nre hereby, rendered
to our delegates to the National Council for their
able and faithful discharge Of the duties assigned
to them"
The last resolution, Qor the adoption Of
which we return our grateful acknowledg-
ments,) may not please those slanderous and
Inendacious presses, which have sought to i'm
press upon the South the false idea, that the
Editor of this paper was unfaithful to his
trusts as delegate to the National Council,
for it contains rebuke of those yillanous
presses, which men Of sensibility would be
| unwilling to receive, at the hands Of the intel
! ligent and high-minded citizens Of Washing
ton.
But with those presses to which we refer,
politics involve no principle--their conductors
pursue their vocation as a trade, and resort to
any and all means to compass their main pur-
pose of making money, in disregard of the OBJ
legations of honor and Of courtesy, as well as
in defiance of truth. Such presses no more
hesitate to SANDER and vilify their contempt
raries--to utter unblushing calumnies--to con-
coct and publish the basest lies, than the most
reckless tradesman does to misrepresent the
quality and value of his merchandise. The
Satanic" Of New York, and those presses
elsewhere, which seek to initiate, and may yet
rival that press in infamy, are of the class to
which we refer.
But an intelligent people can hthom their
purposes, and viii not fail to form true judg-
ment both of their motives and of their CON
duct. Such presses may obtain circulation
/ In kxrt hn,,u lie nd &c
sands-and win be so read, as works of fiction
are sought for and read by those of morbid
tastes and excited curiosity--5ut that such
presses command respect, or exercise any in
auence upon the judgment Of their readers, is
quite as erroneous as would be the notion that
"Gulliver's travels" has been received by the
world as true history Of the events it records
We disregard, therefore, the puny though
malicious attempts Of the Satanic" and its rs
sociates to inalign our purposes and opinions.
/ We stand upon the platform of the American
party--we are opposed TO the wild schemes Of
1--WE use plain terms that we may not be misun-
derstood) which asserts or intimates that any
thing we have said or done, hero or at Phila-
delphia, tends to promote the views, purposes
or aims Of Seward, Greeley, Wilson, OF of any
body else, who has Abolition procivities. The
Americans Of Washington city are not Adolf
tionists-nor are they agitators-they are
| friends Of the Union, of the Constitution, and
Of State rights, and they perfectly understand
and have justly appreciated our opinions and
our course in the above resolution, which they
unanimously adopted.
II is far from being our wish to discuss, at
this time the merits or deInerits Of candidates
for the Presidency, as such discussion can only
tend Ro1 to divide and distract our party, by en-.
gendering animosities between rival candidates,
and their friends in different sections Of the
country, nor would we have alluded to the i'm
pudent course Of the Satanic" in seeking
to purchase the Presidency for a New York
Money King" If the most corrupt and reck-
less measures had not been adopted to manufac-
ture public opinion in his behalf We ought per
haps To rejoice, that such measures were adopt
ed, for we know, that Southern gentlemen
were approached at Philadelphia on this sub
ject, in such manner, that they were disgusted,
and have since taken positions on the subject,
which at the proper time win thwart the
scheme Of selling the Presidency, and perhaps
overwhelm the schemers in disgrace
The limitations of the Satanic ON yester-
day, touching the reasons which influence MS
TO decline the support Of Mr.. Law, are utterly
false. The Washington Sentinel, the Albany
Atlas, and the New York Post are charged
with asking loans from Mr.. Law, by the I" Sa-
tanic," and their opposition to him is traced
by that print to his refusal to lend them his
money. The Satanic" then falsely adds that
! we belong 10 this list" There IL not word
OF truth in the statement nor in the illusions
to the 0rinoco scheme, which the satanic !"
says "fell through" but which some Of its
New York citizens can assure him was put in
operation, and is now "in the full tide Of sue
cessful experiment"