The American patriot., 1855-06-02
PROSPECTUS,
PROSPECTUS OF THE
EICAN ORG GAN,'
4 Daily and Weekly Paper, published ii
WasAingt0a Citq, D. G., By

Il Ddtty ana Heehty fapeF, P@ottWeo q"
| Washington Citg, D. c., By
AN ASSOCIATION OF NATIVE AMERICANS.
w E have reached an important crisis in our po-
W litical history. Tho two leading parties in
our country, hitherto separated by bread lines,
either of principle Or of policy differ now scarce
ly in any thing but in names.
4 A National Bank, formerly an essential
point of difference between rival parties, has
Row 40 advocates. A Protective 1ariV for
the sahs of protection. which once divided
parties and distracted our National Councils,
has become obsolete, as a question Of party
policy, simply because a "rereHue tariT' af-
fords incidental protection to American manu-
flcturcs. a modification Of the details of our
presen! tariff system is all that is demanded by
the most strenuous advocates Of protection to
American Industry.
/ The distribution of the proceeds of the pub
lie lands among the several States, as former
~ claimed by one party, and the application
of those proceeds solely in aid of the National
/ Treasury, as claimed by the other party have
both yielded to a compromise Of these con-
t!icting opinions, so far, at least, as to sink
these questions as issues between Wings and
Democrats. A plan formed of q compound Of
''squatter sovereignty of graduation" and
of surrender to the States in which they
from the arena of future party contests.
The Improvement of the harbors and rivers
by congressional aid, on which political parties
have hitherto differed at different times, has
now become less question of principle than
of local and sectional contest; and it will
doubtless be adjusted by the next Congress,
upon that basis of liberality and Justice de-
manded by the spirit of the age and true in
tercsts of the country.
But new issues have arisen, having no ref
erence to the party organizations of Wings
and Democrats-issues which are vastly i'm
portant in their bearing upon the future well
fare of the country-and which issues must,
in their discussion, progress, and termination,
annihilate these two parties, which, for years
past have battled, with alternate success, for
political supremacy.
We now come forward to present to our
fellow citizens the mode and means of concen-
trating the opinions and Of harmoniZing the
action of those who are disposed to unite in
the formation Of an "Americon party" whose
purposes shall be to find remedy for the
manifold evils which have come upon u.s. and
which are yearly increasing under the disas
trous operation of our laws OF naturalization!
We propose to establish, in conformity with
the wishes cf thousands of the citizens Of this
District, and of large number Of our friends
per, to be called
THE AMERICAN ORGAN.
The publication will commence on the 18th
day of November daily, and on the Goth
weekly.
Our position at the seat of tine federal GO
vernment the centre of our political system,
where all the representatives of the States, and
of the people annually assemble, and where
prominent men of all parties periodically So
iourn for many months, is considered by us
and by our friends as the most favorable one
for the publication of the ORGAN OF THE AMERI-
CAN PARTY and if the most untiring devotion
to the advocacy of the doctrines and policy of
this party shall give us claim to its support;
we know we shall deserve, and We trust we
shall receive it.
We cannot perhaps more distinctly and con-
cisely define the basis on which the American
, Organ is established than by presenting the
following extract, which we copy and adopt
from an address of former President of the
Missouri Native American Association, and
published at St. Louis in February, 1871, to-
wit:
1.-THE PERPETUATIoS OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
Is OUR OBJECT, AMERICAN RIGHTs OUR MoTTO,
, AND THE AMERICAN PARTY OUR CoGSoMEN"
Our position is thus defined We shall ad-
vocate such measures as will in our Judgment,
: if carried out, perpetuate our freedom and
protect our native rights; nor shall We at any
time deviate from the path of duty as the or
gan Of the American party, and the advocate
of American rights.
We shall neither sustain nor oppose any po-
, ltical measure on the ground that they ema-
nate from Democratic or from Whig ad
rinisration; but we shall discuss all political
questions with the most perfect freedom from
favor Or prejudice, toward the present or any
future administration. Keeping always in
! view the principles and purposes Of the Ameri-
can party, we shall battle for those principles
and purposes, while, as an independent jour
i nal we shall approve what we think is right
: and condemn what we think is wrong in the
}, principles of all public men and of all political
= parties The editor Of the American Organ
will be Democrat of the school of Jefferson
and Madison, progressive in his notions of pub
lie policy, yet consistent in his advocacy of
the rights of the States.
No essay or editorial shall ever appear in
the American Organ, the tendency Of which
would be to prejudice the rights or wound the
: feelings of the citizens of any of the States.
4 So far as the Influence of this paper shall eX-
a tend, the constitutional rights Of each, and OF
: all the States, shall be maintained. We hold
that tie institution Of slarery belongs erclu-
sirely 70 those States in achich 1t crisis Each
9t the States fer itse!!t, has the sole and er-
ciuSife right to determine uhether or not sla-
rerg shat ecists acithin its borders We shall
: therefore oppose all ogitation Of the question,
Of slarery, either in Congress or ont Qfu
The American Organ will advocate the free
and untrammelled exercise of the rights OF
conscience, on all questions connected with
i religious faith; but it will, by all fair and re.
, spec fu arguments, oppose foreign domination
o over American citizens from whatever quarter