New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-31

submit 10 be boug,, o. e,,oled ITO fAbe pos'on o'
faDse ues.ures. We mus. defend the principles We
have indcrsed and defend them % The last
The American Parry wss established f5r esr.iin soar
and wsll-de6ned pupoees. IL bad the pure and bhy
aim 10 bring back re Government o. he State aid OF
the country 20 the purity Of former days 20 recall, II
possible the national spirit that animseJ ne .he'e
and founders OF he Republic n he administration 0.
public ser. In order 10 30 tss il vas Necessary ths.
The foreign influence which, more perhaps than al
other causes. bad contributed to the corruption Of
our politics, shoud be put down and tha. politicians
should be taught ths. The Amer an people mus; be
governed on American principles. Before orr glorious
party stepped forth in lie might snd majesty the inter
este the virtue ard integrity OF the American masses
bad everywhere been played wt abused or set ssre,
by corrupt combinations between ambitious dems-
goeues on ibe one band and political church, backed
BY POSTS OF ignorant foreigners the other The evl
Of tis OF things hsd been seen and amenied Tor
many years; but the old paries, each OF which had
disgraced tsef by these corrup bargains we're 20 yer
ess 10 con set them. But The heart Of the people
sound; and il answered 10 the fret trumpet call o., the
Ams ricsn party from end Of the land 10 The other.
That call wsf-" Let US uLife 10 pu. down couupnOn
" in our politics snd secure America for Americans.
" Ie. us manage our local ald State politics az The
interests Of the locality and the State may require
" but LEI us aim in our National movement, first o. ell,
10 pu, down once aud forever the Pay, aud foreign
power which has heretofore c1rsed and debssed the
POLITICS and administration Of the country. To The
call thus honestly made the people honestly answered:
State after State wheeled into ne and there was every
rt0fOD 10 expect mat W
syyania would be folo< by mos; i not b. all the
States of the An erican Union.
How has this far prospect been blasted, or q, least,
clouded for time The answer i easy In the call
which first reused the people, j: understood ha;
each STATE was TO condnc lie oca po,ics and 70 have
lis own views STATE, without interfering With
those Of other States Pennsylvania, for ins ance;
opposed to the extension of Slavery was oppose
10 the Nebraska BIZ was opposed TO the repea OF the
Missouri Compromise. The American party recog-
nlzed this feeling, which springs from nc temporary or
fanaics impulse but is ss old as Pennsylvania her,
self where ne spirit OF Penn of Franklin and OF Rush,
has ever animated the whole population. And Oh The
isue The American party went into the eec'ion-and
tiUmpbed.
AnJ on this issue il will triumph again here, IS it
would have tiuulphed in every Northern State. In
New-YoIk an attempt wss made to ignore the popular
ii this great question, AMI The result that the
American banner there trails in oshonore1 dust. B1t
the Naiionsl Council. ct is June meeting, sl1t lis
eyes TO the DAYLIGHT. A. toe Council, by The votes of
States in which 10 American triumph had ever been
gained and by vote, too, representing only email
minority OF the voters of the United Sta'es, the old
.rumpei.cal was silenced, and new element was IN
corporafed into our creed Had that Council left the
do e, had il thrown ont the banner with the simple
ard welldefined issues originally proposed, there is
every sson TO believe that our party would have
trun phee in the fell elections from Maine TO California.
But the 9th Article of the Platform adopted at Pha-
delpha put al end TO all such hopes. T. committed the
Amer lean party OF the Free States to Of policy
which would not have left il corporals guard IN
eDy OF them. Ii is in fact, virtual ind0rsemert OF
the Nebraska bill; a pledge that our party viii
acquesce in that BILL and in the violation OF the Mis-
souri, Compromise II stul,ifes and degrades be-
fore the people; and more fhau this it pledges US to
do Whit we know be wrong, AMI 20 omit doing what
we know 10 be right. Were We 70 obey the com
mand we should fail before the people; we should gaia
no more eleciions--nor should we deserve 10 gain
them.
The Pierce Administration has been constantly add
ing fuel TO The fame this subject. II has seen Kan
sas outraged and ovonur by armed ruiians, wlo took
posfess'o on of the polls and returned Il sham Leys-
laiure; but the Government, had no word of condem-
nation TO utter. II has seen mob-law triump h ant
the rifle and bowie-knife substituted for the popular
vote; but still il made 10 sign. But vten the Gov
ernor of Kansas-an honorable ciizen of Pelnsylva-
Mis- appointed BY Pierce hmself-atiemDts 10 win Ii
cate tie right Of the people to choose their Legs
lauTe ard 10 curb only in the least degree the mad
passions of the Missouri cooDists, who were over
running the Territory and trampling upon the rights
Of the actual settlers, the Pierce Government wakes
up suddenly TO activity and-toyernor Reeder i re-
moved BY this act Of eowardy submission to the
Slave Power President Pierce has broken the las, link
that boup3 The so-called Democracy Of Pennsylvania
&c him. The great deep of PennsyvaDias sluggish
ness il at last broken ~. Voices of Indignation reach
us from every county in the State, and from every
class of men except the posmasters and Government
officers, who keep their principles in their pockets
and everywhere the cry is: " Rel cal the Kansas bill;
restore the Missouri Compromise; admit no more
" Slave States -
Would not the American party OF Pennsylvania be
mad 10 itself against this torrent Would il not be
worse than mad TO set i'self against its conyic
tons of right and truth and duty ; Thank God no
such dis, race s before Our State Council a. Read.
ing true 10 the iDstins OF freedom AMI of justice,
trampled this twelfth section into the dus, where il be-
longs. Our part, is, it last year. opposed to the
temporal dominion of the Pope, opposed 70 the corTup
tor and debasemeni othe old political parties, and OPP
posed TO the Nebraska bill and the extension of
Slavery. This is the issue-the greatest aud most
pressing ssuo-bow before the people. Let Us lead
Them in every county, in every township, in every
precinct under this gorions flag Of truth aud justice
and humanity, and we shall the flag in October,
as We saw it last year. when the battle is over floating
over triumphant and victorious host and our prin-
ciples and our party will be established The party
and The principles OF the people of Pennsy lvania.
IL NUEL Tom, Carlisle. ID. r. SMALL, York.
X. NJ RIDDLE ri tsburgh. WN. w. WISE, Rockville.
WIN +. JOHNSTON, Pittsbsh. T.. BLANCHARD, Bellions.
j. L. GossLER. Pbia. EDWARD sCULL, Somerset
T. r. WILLIAMS Pbfa. EG.FAHSEsTocE, Gettysbg.