Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-18

to surround, as with wall offre, which no pollu.
ton can invade that Holy of Holies--the ballot
box; aud closely succeeding win rise the duty OF
regulating immigration; of closing the avenues
which have communicated with the prisons
and axar-housesofE Europe Of defeating the ungene-
rous policy by which foreign princes force to re-
ceive the moral denominations which their overcloy-
ed country vomits forth, constraining usto support
their paupers, and to expose the property andl
OF our people to the ruian skill and desperation Of
their transported felons. As tax and peril the
heaviest and worst, as wanton wrong and outrage,
IL should be redressed in the first hours Of realized
| national American victory.
But the more pervadlng and vital triumphs OF
| the second American revolution, will be those
which viii establish, the settled policy, foreign
and domestic OF the nation the saving principle of
American Independence, as applied, notonly to the
right Of suffrage, but TO the privileges, sacred and
inestimabe, Of our honest hard handed home labor
The policy by which our country has been, in its
trade, its currency its varied industrial pursuits
agricultural, mechanical, and otherwise and in lis
social habits of expenditure and luxury thrust into
| and made part of Europe, is a treason against
American honor and American interests. II is a
reputation Of all the peculiar advantages bestowed
by Providence, in requita of the virtues of our fla
theirs, upon our young and then unburthened couL-
try. We have togratfy the schemes Of politicans,
and to glut the greedincss Of money-changers, IL
vted and drawn upon our country common and
almost equal share Of the evils which attend, as
| their parasite and clnging curses, the wasting
vices and crimes OF Europe Our true ndepeL-
dence, real happiness and secure policy are to be
realized, only by fostering our own American
homes-their industry mutual relations and mutt
| al selfreliancc.
In regard to every political virtue and hope, to
all of pride and confidence associated with that
American liberty which,--as the earthquake
shakes and the tempest overshadows all else of the
civilized world--grows brighter and dearer to us,
it is apparent that the time has arrived when our
country must separate her policy from the intrgues
and Vaccinations of Europe-from the strategy
and corruption by which European councils and
interests boastfully betrayed the independence Of
American industry and made our land tributary,
as it nov unhappily is, to England and France
forced npon u.s. with their luxuries, their vices;
| and added to the usurpation the heavy imposition
Of monstrous and perpetual dcbt--a debt shared
by every American; debt which drains our couL-
try of its specie and which subjects it, throughout
every fibre Of its giant frame to the agony of such
a financial convulsion as that which now afflicts
Vain will be the patriotic throbbing of the great
American heart, and vain the yigor of the American
| arm to re-achieve American Independence, until
our land shall have been made Independent in that
from oil which power has its source-her industry.
Then, and only then, will she cease to be Eu-
our fathers--truly independent-iich in her own
resources-secure In her own strength, and happy
In her own freedom. The crimes and expressions,
the wrongs and wars of Europe may terrify and
torture their own world, but not ripple OF the
storm will break upon our shores. Till that con-
summation shall have been effected, our duty will
be unfulfled, and our triumph---however glorious,
incomplete the oracles Of our American patriarchs
and prophets will remain empty and the real mis-.
sion, holy, calm, and bene6cent, of our American
destiny unacheyed
In the federal Union, the general and State gov
crnments revolvingin appropriate orbs, neither
unite nor clash, their mutual influence, induces
mutual interest," and the individual States watch
with anxiety the disk darkened or lustrous as her
councils determine--of the central orb The hisr
tory Of Delaware, in her relations with the general
government has always been interesting and con-
spicuous; and in every crisis IL has been her for
tune to prove--as the most lustrious republics of
the past not exceling Delaware in extent of terri
tory have also shown-that real greatness consists
in the exaltation Of virtue and spirit, and not in
vastncss Of proportion.
In the presentaspect of our general government,
there is more for hope-that hope which always
abidcs with confidence In the people, than for
present fecitation. Abroad and at home, the gov
ernmcnt has been administered to leave TO tho
people ample scope for the exercise, through their
representatives, Of their wisdom and love of coun-
try. In the trials which the Gecbeness and faults
Of an unhappy administration have imposed upon
the country, Delaware will again. we may conf
IDENTIFY trust, be found, as in all the past, at her
posttrue to the exalted obligations Of the consti-
tuition. But II may be remarked, as an Illustration
of the extraordinary power and success Of our sys
tenn, and of the entire reliance due TO American
prudence and patriotism-that never has our coun-
try been SO secure as when her danger seemed
greatest. The pers which were imagined in re-
gard TO the Union, only demonstrated manifestly
that II was immovable as the hills; every indica-
ton Of weakness or folly in the government has
given to the people an opportunity never expect
ed ofproving the all suficiency Of their wisdom
and devotion.