Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-10

FIR. vErrcm, ESQ.,, Of Maryland, is general agen
10 got subscribers on any route he may travel.
Ohio Know Nothingism, and
Abolitionism.
Wsrcpublish, for the especial consideration and
benefit Of tho Washington Union, and Sentinel,
and the Richmond Enquirer, and other coadju-
tors oftho Forney and Pierce administration, the
following intelligence from the State Demo
cratic Convention at Columbus, Ohio, which
win DO read with much interest by all, and
with great gusto by the allied opponents Of the
American party at the South, to wit:
"CIxciSxArI, Jan. e.--The State Democratic
Convention for the nomination Of State officers met
ct Columbus to-day, when the motion to defer the
nominations until next summer was lost by large
majority. Governor Medill and the present State
officers were re-nominated by large majorities. A
resolution was adopted denouncing slavery and
Know nottingham, and Senator Adamss bill amend
ing the naturalization laws and endorsing the Bal
umore platform Of 1882 The proceedings were
calm and orderly"
We doubt not, that tho proceedings were as
etated--calm and ordcrly--and adopted with
out dissenting voice. so far, at least as relates
TO tho denunciations Of Slarery and Kno,o-
Nothingssm!
Here, then, we have Democratic State con-
vention, whose proceedings were calm, order
", and harmonious, and who openly, and by
= resolution, denounced sldrery and Ameri-
canism in the same breath And this is the
party Gs itD whom only the South are to
trust, II the Union, Sentinel, and Enquirer
are TO be credited-aye, upon aehom the South
are to depend for the protection and preserra-
tion Of their constitutional rightsi
If the Forney and Pierce party are such
friends OF tho Union, and OF constitutional
rights we may be permitted to say, in view Of
the calm, orderly, and harmonious proceedings
Of that party in Ohio, the rights Of the South,
if placed in their keeping, would share the
fate Of the lamb in the claws Of the rulture.
Time after time, day after day, and with a
pertinacity which has been only equalled by
It's hollow heartedness the Washington Union
has proclaimed that the American party !"
arc Abolitionists, Free-soilers, and Wings, and
that the only conservative party in the country,
Is the "great Democratic" alias the Forncy
and Pierce party! And here, In the face Of
such proclamations, 80 often repeated, we have
aacalm, orderly, and harmonious declaration
Of war, upon both slavery and Americanisn,
by regularly constituted convention Of the
sachems Of that party, in the populous and
powerful State Of Ohio What says the Union
What the Sentinelf What the Richmond En-
quirer, to these "calm, orderly, and harmoni.
GUS proceedings Of tho Ohio branch Of the
Forney and Pierce partyf Num-
Aye mum Is the password. Why not speak
out boldly ye professed advocates Of southern
riehtss why not sound the alarm through
out the SOUTH yigiant sentinels We are truly,
TO be nlsnt upon the watch-towcr Of the con-
stituton, when such public avowals, such open
dsnunoiations Of the institutions Of the South
nro made in solemn State Conventional What
II such denunciations Of SLAVERY" bad pro-
oeeded from tho councils OF the American
psrtyi What IL our party had made an open
declaration Of war upon southern rights and
interestaf Why these presses would have
published In oLARiSe CAPITALS the proceed
ings; would have characterized them as trea-
son to the South; would have called public
meetings throughout the country; would have
inundated the whole country with hand biils,
and aroused tho people to 4 solemn sense OF
impending danger
Such are politicians, and such are political
preesesl Were the Forncy and Pierce presses
even disposed TO chide their Ohio brethren, they
would not dare II nor, because Of its effect upon
the coming elections In Virginia. win the
Richmond Enquirer--or win II not--proclaim
TO the Democracy Of Virginia, the dessrtion O
tho Ohio Democrscyi viii the Richmond
Examiner--or win Il not---publish to its readers
the denuncistions Of slavery by the Forncy and
Pierce Buckeyesf win tho Lynchburg Re
publican, and other independent Democratic
presses In Virginia, conceal from their readers
tho proceedings Of that calm, orderly, and har'
monious convention at Columbusf Or viii
they announce and condemn themS
Let not our views or our position In this
matter DO misunderstood. We simply call at
tcntion to the facts above promulgated, to wit
that the Forney and Pierce Democracy Of Ohio
have denounced slarery and Americanism; that
the Forney and Pierce presses have hitherto
strenuously maintained that rnEY were the ONLY
friends OF Southern rights and interests; that
the proceedings Of the Ohio Democratic Con-
vontion fatty contradict the statements Of said
presses; and that it is the duty Of Southern
Democratic presses to lei their readers knou
and understand the true position Of the admin,
istration on the important question, which the
Ohio Convention has thus presented to thu
country.
SO far as the american Organ is concerned
our readers all hnow, that we neither advocat,
slavery nor denounce it--that we pass no opin
ion upon IT. either as an abstract question Of
morals, or as question Of policy; hat we
neither say that slavory Is blessing nor that