The American patriot., 1855-05-19

knowing a. they do that slavery is indirectly
by the Constitution Of the United
States, that it has been legitimately established
by the State authorities and that an institution
It has so thoroughly interviewer itself into the
very bone and sinew of our social and politi-
cal system in the south, that it would be i'm
possible to remove it without doing greater
injury than that they would redress. Their
policy is to support the institution as it is in
The south, but to keep slavery out Of their
own States. The great hue and cry frequent
" raised in the south against the Abolitionists,
is only great raw-head and bloody bones, to
keep up an excitement, upon which (as the
toad does on the vapors Of the dungeon) many
politicians live.
This trick has frequently been used, and
sometimes used with considerable effect; but
it certainly seems that the people Of the south
ern States have more GOODNESS and discretion
than to believe this so contemplate charge Of
Abolitionism upon the Native American party.
We have not half 90 much to fear from the
Abolitionists as we have from the wiles of
those scheming, wire-working, intriguing dem
agogues, who live in our very midst
As all the parties at the south are pro-slave-
ry, so we believe that all the parties at the
north are tainted with the Abolition sentiment;
and our order cannot be more criminal in this
respect than any other party in that section Of
our country.
We know that the various isms which move
in the northern political arena frequently,
when each is not strong enough to gain VIC
tory, fuse with one and another, making COM
mon cause both of their purposes and their
labors. This is . species Of log-rolling which
cannot be defended, but which is much prac-
tised in these times In this manner the tenn
perance party has united with, now one schism
and now with another, to gain the victory, and
to carry out their policy to stop the use Of in
toxicating drinks. But who ever heard, or
account of this maneuvering of the temperance
party at the north, the advocates Of temper
ance in the south, called Abolitionistss Ii
this manner the system of fusing is much
practised by all the schisms and paties at tn
north, but their friends in another part Of th,
country are not to be charged with this sor
Of action.
If there are any Abolitionists and Freesoil
ers in the ranks Of the American party, the.
are SO only in regard to their own local mat
ters and politics. As . great national part.
there is no such element known in our code o
faith as Abolitionism.
Reader. if you really wished to ascertain
whether there was any affinity between Amer
icanism and Abolitionism, where would you
to find evidence of that facts Evidently t
those great principles which the members
the American party hold out as the basis {
their creed The American platform Of prir
ciples is floating at the mast heads Of hundred
Of political journals throughout our countr.
as well as those which are not friendly to Of
cause in not one of which have we ever see
the principle of Abolitionism Incorporates
The anti-slavery journals Of the north, on IL
contrary, are down on our party, denouncir
it in no measured terms, as pro-slavery o
: eanization, and one which is gotten up expires
:, " to quiet the Abolition spirit in the northel
4 States.
That man would certainly be very rash al
imprudent to attach himself to political pa
J. ty, the principles and purposes of which
IS did not properly understand. And if Il
p American party is anti-slavery, that southe
It man who would join it would certainly be
sane thus to commit an act which, in effe'
was cutting his own throat.
70 If any more evidence is needed on this poir
e the reader is pointed to the history of the g
If vernor's election in the State of New Yol
Four candidates were in the field, the rep1
sentatives of the different parties in that Sta
Clark, the Abolitionist, Bronson, the Hardsh
= Democrat, Seymour, the Administration Dem
D. crat, and Ullmann, the American.
lp So far from there being any union betwe
st the "Natives" and the Abolitionists,"
10 this case, the fercest political warfare v
waged between them; and right Justify
. each struggle for its principles and for victo
10 The latter were too many for the former, q
re Clark was elected by small majority.
q. The election of Seward to the Senate Of
United States, is charged with much virule'
70. on the American party, but the circumstan
of that case have been so much twisted .