Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-14


In your issue Of this evening, under your ex-
tracts from newspaper column, paragraph appears
as follows:
General Shields, late United States senatorfrom
Illinois, has It is said, announced his purpose Of
removing TO Minnesota or Iowa, with a view Of
studying or practising the legal profession"
Your motto being Fiat jnstitia rl4at eoi.sn,"
I am confident you viii not deem IL irreconcilable
with your obligations TO your patrons to say, that
General Shields was not only lawyer before he
became Senator, but that his law studies were
commenced and completed under one Of the ablest
jurists In Great Britain. He therefore could not
remove to Iowa or Minnesota " with view OF
studying law
General Shields recent visit to Minnesota Is the
real eaaus beli in these newspaper Trades This
visit was made for the purpose Of arranging some
private and personal matters In that Territory.
General Shields is still citizen Of Illinois, and as
such Sam win ever find him foe without price.
II. G. Mel.
General Shields was many years ago a judge
Of the circuit court in Illinois, and we presume
has no occasion to become a law student, as
intimated in the paragraph copied into tho
Organ That he is " foe" to "Sam," is no
reason why we should hesitate to do him jus
tice If it were not dangerous as precedent
to make exceptions TO general rules, we would
not object cUsn to place him, by reason Of meri.
torious services, on the footing Of native-born
citizen. But we consider II safer to avoid max
ing such exceptions. This, however, has moth
ing to do with tho correction, which we ad-
NIT into our columns with pleasure.-ED.
HEAR THE PIcAruSK.-we commend to the at
tention Of those rabid politicians who can find no
epithets sufficiently vile 10 express their disgust at
the American party, the following paragraph from
the New Orleans Picayune, referring TO the DecL-
ration Of the New York Council, No. XII:
1--WE confess that we see nothing in this dech-
ration OF principles and objects 70 which every good
and patriotic citizen may not conscientiously sub
scribe nay more, to the Of which Il is not
his sacred duty 10 devote all the best energies Of
his heart and bis hand.n
The Picayune Is a neutral journal Of worldwide
celebrity, and has never been suspected Of hnats-
cism or liberality on any subject. Its testimony
in behalf Of the principles Of the American party IL
therefore entitled to great weight
FALSE RSroRrs--HARrToRD o. K.-The Hart
ford Coursnt has the following statement, which
contrsdicts the teegrsphio report from that city,
recently published:
Some one in their wisdom, on Monday night,
sent to the New York papers that the American
ticket was totally defeated with the exception Of
the old clerk, Henry Francis who succeeds by per-
sonal considerations alone by about one hundred
votes' The fact Is Mr. Francs's plurality over his
Union competitors was Sl2. The despatch goes
on TO say The Know-Nothngs have been routed
in this city on full vote We wonder whether
the individual who sent the above despatch, knew
how many fslsehoods he told init. The American
party succeeded in elsctng on full vote the
City Clerk, the Oity Treasurer, ose City Sheriff
and the Water Commissioner; the Union men
elected the Collector, one City Sheriff, and the
Audltor-four TO threel Not much Of shower
after all'n