Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-06

allegiance, directly or indirectly, to any foreign
power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, and who are
Americans by birth, education and training thus
fulfilling the maxim: I" AnERIcAEs ONLY SHALL
G0vERH AMERICA" f 9 s
The protection Of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise Of their civil and religious rights
AMI privileges; the maintenance Of the right Of
every man to the full unrestraned and peaceful en-
jcyment OF his own religious opinions and worship,
and Jealous resistance Of all attempts by any sect,
denomination Or church, to obtain an ascendency
over any other in the State, by means Of any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
combination Of its meInbers or by a division Of
their civil allegiance with any foreign power, pc
tentate, or ecclesiastic
IX--The reformation Of the character Of our
National Legislature by eleyating to that dignifed
and responsible position men of higher qualifica-
tions, purer morals, and more unsel6sh patriotism
X--The restriction Of executive patronage, es-
pecialy in the matter ofappointments to Office, 80
far as it may be permitted by the Constitution, and
consistent with the public good.
Il XI.-The education of the youth of our country
in schools provided by the State; which schools
shall be common to ALL without distinction Of creed
or party, and free from any influence or direction
Of denominational or partisan character.
And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the Constitu-
tons Of nearly all the States; BY the decisions Of
the most eminent judicial authorities; and by the
consent Of the people Of America, is considered an
element of our political system; and, as the Holy
Bible Is at once the source Of Christianity and the
depository and fountain of all civil and religious
freedom, We oppose every attempt to exclude it
from the schools thus established IN the States.
XII.-The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite Of the opposition of the Wing
and Democratic parties, cannot be in any manner
responsible for the obnoxious acts Of violated
pledges Of either And the systematic agitation
Of the slavery question by those parties having ell
evated sectional hostility into positive element
of political power, and brought our institutions
into peril it has therefore become the imperative
duty Of the American party to interpose for the
purpose of giving peace to the country and per-
petuity to the Union. And as experience has
shown it impossible to reconcile opinions 80 ex-
srcme as those which separate the disputants, and
az there can be no dshonor in submitting to the
laws, the National Council has deemed it the best
| guarantee of common Justice and of future peace,
to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
the subject Of slavery, as final and conclusive
settlement of that subject, in spirit and in SUBJ
stance.
| And regarding 1t the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon a subject 30 important in distinct
and unequvocal terms, II is hereby declared as the
sense of this National Council that Congress pos
sesses power, under the Constitution, to legis-
late upon the subject of Slavery in the States
Wnere IL uoes UT may exist OF 10 eXcluue any blhte
from admission into the Union, because its Consti-
tuition does or does@n recognise the Institution
of Slavery part Of its social system and ex-
pressly pretermitting any expression of opinion
upon the power of Congress to establish or pro-
hibt Slavery in any Territory, it is the sense Of
the National Council that Congress ought not to
legisate upon the subject of Slavery within the
Territories Of the United States and that any in
reference by Congress with Slavery as it exists Ia
the District of Columbia, would be violation OF
| the spirit and intention of the compact by which
the State of Maryland ceded the District to the
United States, and breach Of the National faith.
XIII-The policy Of the Government of the
United States in its relations with foreign govern
ments, is TO exact justice from the strongest and
do justice to the weakest restraining, by all the
of the government, all its citizens from in.
ss;,b 49,, IL ~ the internal concerns Of nations
| with whom we are .aaca gE3 T Z
XIv.-This National Uo,.. eUS n a.,,.. a.. N
the princpessof the Order shall y,
everywhere openly avowed and that csa ,'ass
bcr shall be at liberty to make known the exists..
Of the Order, and tho fact that he himself is mem
ber, and 1t recommends that there be no conceal
ment of the places Of meeting Of subordinate coun
ellis.
Z. d. BARTLETT, of Kentucky,
10y President of National Council
@. ID. DEsHLER, Of New Jersey
Corresponding Secretary.
JAMES N. STEPHENS, of Maryland,
Recording Secretary.