Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-26
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER &c, 1855.
yESPASlAN ELLIS, lu,
sAMUELC. BUsEY Editors
Our Editorial Course.


course we shall henceforward pursue, in furth-
erance Of the purposes which led us TO estab-
lish this paper, ms the central Representative
of the American party. In doing this we find
nothing in our original prospectus, or in our
published "priaciples' which we would change
We adhere to the doctrines laid down by us
originally In relation to the preservation Of the
Federal Union--the rights Of the States, form
ing this Union--and the rights Of American
citizens under our Constitution. We adhere
to the cardinal doctrines Of the American party,
and we shall devote ourselves to the m,linte-
nance and defence Of those doctrines.
The American party was formed to avert the
evils growing out of the ndiscriminate admis-
sion Of foreigners into our country to change
the rule Standardization by an enlargement Of
the term Of probation--to prevent the out
pouring from European prisons and aims
houses, oftheir inmates upon us--ts resist the
encroachments and designs Of all "higher
law" advocates--to place the reins of govern
ment in the hands Of natioe born .Americans,
and to defend this glorious Union of Sovereign
States, from all assaults Of It's enemies Our
party will have done enough to crafty its
highest ambition, when those purposes shall
be accomplished. II may then repose upon its
laurels. The Institutions Of our country will
have been saved.
Whilst we shall, from time to time, discuss
and make appropriate comments upon the
measures Of the present administration, and
upon other questions which may be presented
for public consideration, our cAief aim will
DC TO defend and enforce the above mentioned
cardinal doctrines Of our party, eschewing at
all times those matters of local and sectional
agitation upon which the members Of the Amer
lean party are divided. We hold it to be an
undeniable proposition, that a national party
cannot be formed in this country, If an attempt
be made to coerce it's members to surrender
their views and opinions upon local on sectional
questions, the regulation of which forms no
part Of the legitimate purposes Of any national
party. Difference ofopinion upon such local
md sectional questions must be tolerated.
five understand and have rightly expressed
the purposes Of the American party, it was not
formed either with a pie,o to enslaue or to en-
ofranehise the d.trican race Its mission does
not require nor justify any interference with
the domestic relations or peculiar institutions
OF the individual States Its action is directed
to the control of our national legislation, as the
means of success in its national purposes. It's
aims objects, and principles are national, and
not sectional, No subject OF question purely
local or sectional lies within the scope of its
legitimate purposes. We regard the institution
OF involuntary servitude, now existing in the
Southern States of this Union, as local and
not sectional matter, -" a subject for the toll
Grafton of difference of opinion by the citi-
zens of the Northern and Southern States, and
as one which has no rightful place in the plat
form Of the American party
Other parties, protesting to be national,
have found 1t necessary to adopt the principle
Of liberation on this subject The Washing
ton Union, the organ of the present admins
tration, proclaimed through its columns on the
Sd Of June last the following sentiments on
this question, TO wit:
We think 1t may be safely assumed that an
agreement Of opinion on the subject (of slavery
between Northern and Southern men IL an impos.
sbility, and in looking at the dangers involved In
the question, and in seekngor the means OF avoid,
ing those dangers II Is UNSUITABLE to act upon tho
assumption, that all hopo Of ever efecting such an
agreement Is impossible. II we are right in az.
Stunning that the North and South can never
harmonise on the abstract subject Of slavery, II
follows that there be no such things "a nntion-
al parties, except upon the basis of an entire er.
cl'lson of the subject from their political creeds"
| The above is one Of the fen positions taken
by that press, which cannot be successfully
controverted
We are now, and ever have been of the
opinion, that no sectional question should be
embraced in the creed Of the American party,
but that all its members should stand firmly
upon the basis of National Americanism. But
whilst liberation Of opinion should be al
lowed upon all questions outside Of those upon
which the " American party" is based, there
should be no agitation, by the members Of our
party, Of those sectional issues, which endan.
ger the stability Of the Union, for this obvi.
Gus reason, II for none other, that the preser.
ration Of the Union il one Of the cardinal
principle. Of our party Hence, we have
hitherto opposed, and shall stfl oppose, the
agitation Of the slavery question on the floors
Of Congress. Such are our views
We close this brief article, with the follow
ing extract from the platform Of principles
originally prepared and published by us in this
paper, to wit:
ave shall maintain and defend the constitntion
as II stands the Union az il exists, and the rights
Of the States, without diminution, as guaranteed
thereby: opposing at all times, and to the extent
Of our ability and influence, Oh who may asssil
| them or either Of them,