American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-07-12
or advancing the great principles of Vir-

the noOle ana honest DTOnSouS thTohn .
down and crushed because he would not (
become the instrument off miserable at
tempt to conciiate Aboli,ionists and Free !
Sellers, by selling out the custom house
offices TO them, as the huckster does his /
beef and corn. Aud the spectacle which ,
you have witnessed has been felt in every |
quarter Of this wide Union. Now, COM
pare the practice of this Administration,
on this subject. with thatof General Jack
son, or every and all of bis predecessors.
The maxim has been to look TO honesty,
fidelity and. capacity;aud above all, not
to bring the patronage Of the Federal Gov
ernment into conflict with the freedom of
elections. Why, gen lemen, so far from
booking to these conditions in the use of
the appointing power, it seems to be the
duty ofthe Attorney General To telegraph,
or cause it to be lelegraphed, on the eve Of
important elections, justwhat is necessary
to defeat candidates who have rot given
ia tteir adhesion TO this new-school
doctrine about State rights. Look at
Washington. and what do you see there
that ehanges the view | have taken of
President Pierce's infdeltyto the great
principles of Democracy? 5
II MS OPINION OF TuEcABINET. ID
r. Dill you ever hear (said Mr.. Douel ION
Of Mr.. Marcy standing by anybody, or
helping anybody, because lie took tleNrue
lposiionin the great battle which Mr.
Pierce declaredwas necessary TO be fought
in order to save the country from tha Abb
olitionists and Nulli6crs?
From the time he betrayed Mr.. Van
Buren. when the scheme Of the sub.trcas-
ury was first started, has he ever been
known to risk a thought, or venture an act,
calculated to rescue the right from the
wrong? Long rand difficult persuasion in
luced him to preside over some meeting
where an effort was made to heal the par
ty division in this State, by recognizing
acquicscenGe in the Compromise as the
duty Of all members ofthe party; but no
one ever heard Of him when tho measure
remained for months and months the cap
tive Of the malignant passion brought into
action by the Nullifcrs Of the North and
the South
Turn next to the War Department, fill.
ed by the chivalrous gentlemen from Mis-
sissippi After doing all he could to in
flame the people Of the South. he takes the
hack track when he finds they could not
be induced to nullify or secedc, and says
he will follow the people. But he is as
much Of Nullifier to-day as Mr., Wilson,
of Massachusetts,, or any other Northern
fanatic. But tits useless, gentleman, tc
multiply instances Of Mr.. Pierce's in6deli
ty to his PLEDGES a, a Jackson Democrat.
After most just but severe reputation
Of General Pierce. his measures and bis
policy, Mr.. D, proceed to demonstrate.
THE PLATFoRM ON WHICH HE STOOD.
But, fellow citizens, said he, turn from
these unpleasant pictures TO the platform
on which | have thought an old Jackson
man could stand with consistency and
honor. You have seen that Mr.. Pierce
and the new school Democrats hayo sur.
8 rendered 10 the nulhGers. You have
seen that the country stands abash at the
enormous pretentions of this school. Nul
lifcation in the South Is the highest pass
port to pnblic G,vor, and stretches out III
hands to notification in the North for sue
cor and aid Can sound jackson mar
or Clay whig, witness the fraelnizatior
without agreeing To bury their former diff.
ierences on minor questions. and make ont
united effor TO rid the country Of such
, systematic attack on the body polite? l
is the object Of the American party to ac
+ complish this.
: You will SEQ from the extracts which
> read that tho Union sentiments of Wash
!, ington and Jackson constitute the pa
', form. President Pierce and Mr. Sewar
= have formed their coalition in such wa
as 10 secure the foreign vote, and to cnli,
y the Catholics as partizans in that caus,
!" To counteract this coalition the Amer
:, can party propose to modify the natural
" cation laws, and to enter into politic
= brotherhood with no ecclesiastic or secta
,f rian who Processes to. owe allegiance
any higher power than the Constitution
ol the United States. There is no wron
!. here done to any human being. The fol
r. eigner who has acquired the rights Of ci
II izenship, as ho values those rights, cann
object to place them beyond the assaults
those paupers and criminals who are Ian,
lug on our shores by the thousand
& Nor ought the Catholic to feel surprit
ID that the American mind looks with distru
70 and apprehension upon hierarchy, whic
l. in all other counties has sought to col
ot nect tho Church and S.ato, and whose hi
/ tory has been one continual struggle {,
Q, dominionin temporal as wen as secul
III matters.
MS VIEW OF THE POSITION OF THE AMERICA
er PARTY.
Of We are charged gentlemen, he continu
" led. with establishing religious test, NJ
y aSsailing the great natural right ofall j,
., ., man bcinss.to worship Almighty God q,
~ cording to the dictates of their conscenc
u The charge is false,
'r The position Of tho American party G
g. this question is as clear as daylight,
'e simply announces to the Catholic bishop
~ that if they possess the power TO orgopii
lo the communicates with political trainc
~ bands to surporta system dangerous
u liberty aud subversve ofthe constitution
y it is lawful to oppose them--by our vote
u al least-unIil they can show that the
le allegiance to the Pope is subordinate
., that of obedience to the constitution oftl
u. land,
a' The Pope claims infallibility--the pow
y. - er OF pardoning sins. He claims Il