Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-03

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Greeley party on the other, by which means
Mr. Seward would probably be reelected to
the Senate of the United States.
We then said, and we now repeat our belief,
that If Mr.. Seward shall be reelected, it win
have been accomplished by and through the
means Of such coalition, and we add now as
before, that in the event Of his reelection, the
Forney and Pierce parties throughout the coun-
try, will cry out that "higher-law man is
sustained by the votes Of the American party
Thus viii falsehood be added to hypocrisy.
We ask our friends to watch the proceedings
Of the New York Assembly, and scan well the
votes given next Tuesday.
We now extract from letter dated at AL
bany on the LIST instant, and published yester-
day in the New York Herald, ms follows:
"The Democratic members of both houses .ciA
hold caucus in day or too. They aciH decide
not to present candidate for United States SEN
ator, but that each Senator and member Of the
House seiH exercise his ocn discretion as to has pre-
ference of a candidate"
So the Forneyites in the Assembly, alias the
administration party, are to make no nomina-
ton for Senatorl They are released from their
allegiance to Democracy, and under the orders
of their masters at Washington, they are to
/" exercise their own discretion" or in other
words, join the Seward forces to crush OUT
the Know Nothingsl
We do not object to this by any means, but
we rejoice rather that the whole country will
now have demonstration strong as proofs
from Holy Writ" that the professions Of this
administration in regard to the peace and quiet
Of the country, are all moonshine.
Well, let the Forney and Pierce party go on
and perfect their coalitions with the "higher-
law" advocates--let them re-elect W. II. Sc
ward to the Senate by this means, and then
attempt to bamboozle the lovers Of this Union
with their hollow-hearted protestations of de-
votion to the compromise measures Of 1850
let them continue to denounce the American
party as traitors to the constitution, after hav
ing thus combined with the bitterest enemies
Of that instrument, in the elevation of man
who, oil his lifetime, has devoted himself to its
destruction the Forney and Pierce party,
we say, proceed and carry out their schemes
to the bitter end. The country is not asleep
there are watchful sentinels at the outposts
and upon the watch-towers, and ere long the
people win sweep away these combined ele-
ments of fraud, iniquity, and corruption, and
/" they shall be known no more foreverW
Perhaps there are some who viii be incred-
ulous on the subject Of this coalition-some
who cannot believe that this administration
would play into the hands of Seward-some
who yet have faith in the honesty of the pro-
fcssions daily published by the Forney and
Pierce presses But the men who would
squander the public money in reviving defunct
German abolition papers on the sole condi-
ton that they should abuse the American
party--the men who would submit to the de
mands Of Roman Bishops and Priests-the
men who denounce "secret societies. and yet
hold conclaves with Jesuits in the basement
story of their buildings-the men who viii
turn American-born citizens out Of office to
make room for the scum offoreign nations, are
men Of easy virtue"
Such men are not too scrupulous to carry
out their purposes by the violation, either of
consistency or Of obligations. Another extract
from the Albany letter above referred to may
throw light upon this subject:
"1hs city Is becoming filled Nth politicians
from eoery portion Of the State; almost every as
senbly district represented BY Wing Kno,o-N Moth
ing has its delegates at the capital. The allah
sorbing question, is, Shall Se,card be Senator, or
shall ths election go oper 10 another legislature,
pheH both houses toiH Be negf Never before tcas
such pressure knotcn to elect single individual,
or nobody. No labor, no time, no money, means
are rithheidn
"No LABOR, NO TIME, NO MONEY, NO MEANS,
ARE WITHHELD"
contracts, jobs, and Offices under the State gov
eminent are applied Official patronage, off,
cial station, and all the appliances within the
whole range Of executive control at Washing
ton arc hrolon into the market to buy votes
for William H. Seward Such is the plain
English Of the last two sentences in the above
extract.
Now, these things are either true, or they
are false. The result Of next Tuesdays pro-
ceedings at Albany will decide this question
The votes given in the New York Assembly are
given vira poce, and the political complexion
Of the members are well known, so far at least
as the late divisions between the administrd-
ton men and the Wings exist. The only
doubt as to the political position in the Assem-
bly,, has reference to a few members, who pro-
fess to be Americans" but who ii is believed
are of the bogus stamp. IT. under the "discre-
ton proposed to be given to the Forney and
Pierce men in the Assembly, they vote for Sew
ard, who then will doubt the existence OF the
coalition' Nobody,
Congress Yesterday.
Nothing OF interest transacted in either house
yesterday after we went to press. In the SEN
ate the bill paying the owners ofthc brig Gen.
eral Armstrong, was discussed by several gen.
tlemen on motion to reconsider the vote or
dering il TO third reading, after which an ad-