Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-09
Democratic stampede.

!. FIR. vEIrcH Esq, Of Maryland, Is general agent
TO get subscribers on any route he may travel.
Democratic stampede.
We have been repeatedly informed, or rather
told, by tho Washington Union, that tho
An erican party is composed almost exclusive
" Of Wings, and that no honest Democrat
would join our party The last branch Of this
statement il only erroneous in this, that it is
the honest portion Of tho Democracy who so
readily Join our ranks, and help to swell the
conservative American party.
We have also been told BY that journal that
the Democratic party (by which 10 means tho
Forney and Pierce partly are wholly opposed
to the principles Of our order, and that they
repudiatc 1t insofar as regards the elements
Of foreignism and demagoguism, the latter
statement 10 true.
We have often stated, and have again to re-
peat that the Torney and Pierce party is COM
posed Of office holders" generally, dema-
eogues, foreigners and the "adherents Of
Pope Plus the Ninth Amongst the Office
hoIdera there are a-few honorable exceptions
Amongst the /" demagogues' very few. The
Wing party has some such, but they are most
" killed of, only here and there one remain
ing. Amongst the foreigners" there are a
email number outside tho Forney and Pierce
party--tley are Of the Protestant faith. Those
who adhere to the Pope, and admit his tempo
rat power, arc, one and all by contract, en-
braced In the Forney and Pierce party. So
much for the personnel Of the party last above
named
The Democratic party proper is composed of
other elements.
There are honest and honorable men in the
Democratic party, as well as in the Wing par
ty--men who are patriotic, and who love their
country better than they love party. On this
ground, we believe that the American party
will in due time absorb the creator portion Of
these two parties The deinagogues belonging
TO these parties We do not wish within our
ranks. Men who have, through an unhallowed
ambition-a greedy thirst for notoriety and Of
fcial destroyed the unity of their re-
spectivo parties, are unworthy of fellowship
with the American party, and should never be
permitted to gain admission TO our councils
But the conservative portions Of all other or
carnations arc, and should be, gladly welcomed
to our fast.swelling ranks.
We arc led to these reflections and suggcs-
tons by this mornings Mailing and pitcous
Aorl, in the Washington Union, under the
head of Farming to tho Democracy Of the
Southern .States"
Before proceeding to notice the grounds on
which the Washington Union gives its pre-
cious warnings, we copy from its article of this
morning two short sentences, on which to make
word Of comment II says, speaking of the
American party
1.-THE cbicanery, the fslschood, the bargaining,
the hypocrisy, and tho expressions that already
stain the record of this party, are happily too mo-
torious to be challenged In any quarter. No one
can cab in question the fact that these are the
prominent characteristics Of tho Know-Nothing Or
gsnization."
The comment We have to make on the above,
il simply this, that any man who makes such
grossly false and malicious charges against tho
American party" must have on his Uranium
the bump of mcndacity" most enormously
developed, or phrenoogy is a humbug
But on what ground does the Washington
Union no,o parn the SOUTH Why, forsooth,
Henry X. Strong, the Speaker elect of the
House Of Representatives of Pennsylvania,
himself Know hing, received the votes
of several Democrats in that bodyl Wonder
ful phenomenon The Philadelphia Argus,
whose article is copied by the Onion, says:
The vote for Mr.. Strong exhibits the Know
Nothings In stronger force than was supposed. All
the independent men Of both parties proved to be
the tools made use Of by this secret order to fur
Their their ends upon the legislature and acted with
the Know-Nothngs in organizing the House The
whig party Ia entirely disspntcd."
Precisely SO, Mr.. Argus-cxactly so, Mr..
Unioni The Know othings are stronger
than was supposed" and "au tho independ-
~tt men" (rnark that expression Of the Argus
"scted with tho Know Nothings in organizing
the House" And therstoro the South must
be parnsd A very logical conclusion, GER
tainly, from these undoubted premises
The Argus then proceeds to give the names
Of sundry Democrats, who voted for Mr., Strong,
and accommodates them from the Democratic
party, by the following dnathomo, In the form
Of bull" from his holiness, the Pope, to
wit:
81 In the face OF ths treason we say, let the cuL
prts be piorisd, 20 that all honest, true Democrats
can feel that the party is freed from the Of
their acts. These men have broken their party
faith, dlsgraced themselves In tho estimation of
every honest man In the country, forfeited all
claims to public confidence in the future, with
motive
BY this bull Of Recommendation the South
are rarned, that in the coming contest, II any
man hnorn az Democrat, shall vote for any
candidate Of the American party" he TOO
shall be accommodated and his name pub
lished In all the !" Fbrney and Picrce" jour
nails throughout tho land What an a'efhl