Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-17
From the Bath (va.) Enterprise.
Political Chameleon.

The Conduct of Mr.. Fduikner in Bath on the
Fourth Monday of Marck last, contrasted NTH
his present position.
When Mr. f. arrived, the American order ex-
pected that he would jump into them as he had
done In Charlestown, but In this they were mis-
taken. On his arrival he was cooped and posted
as to how matters stood here, and that his course
would not do; he must let the order alone. He
accordingly delivered an able dignifed, manly, and
eloquent speech, worthy the man aud the states
man doing himself credit and the order good, In
that he endorsed fully the basis principles Of the
American party. He left carrying with him the
sympathies of all. His peculiarly detected counte-
nance, his Respondent tone Of voice, cramped ute
rance, &c., gave indubitabe evidence that he felt
and saw the doom that awaited him on the Gath
Of May, and led many to doubt whether the amount
Of dupcity and insincerty heretofore attributed TO
him as politician, could be true. Many were led
to pity the man on account Of the miserable hands
into which he had fallen-the unenviable .compa.
ny with which he stands surrounded knowing that
the man for whom they bark must fall. With these
feelings ofsympathy Mr.. +. left our county. How
changed aro the facts now Mr.. f., by a food Of
ranked garden seeds and Harper's Ferry with.
drawals, seeks to bring into disrepute the party
for whom he then entertained such high regard.
This caused many misgvings in regard to his
sincerity and political candor. The agitation upon
of franked pamphlets, from Mr. f., were thrown
broadcast over the county, called Facts for the
People of the South" This foul book Is a collec-
ton Of all the base ISLANDERS that have ever escaped
the lips Of the basest caumniators that curse our
earth charging the American party, indiscrimi-
nately, with being rank abolitionists in disguise,
the sworn ENEMIES Of the Union, the basest PR
JuRED rebels that infest society utterly ncompe-
tent as witnesses In court Of justice not ft TO
serve as jurors witless sapess and in every other
way dollifed with the dregs Of the devils dung
hill as bigoted ignoramuses, who were fedged In
State prisons reared in midnight revels and now
shooting their arrows, dipped in venom from dark
places at the virtuous aud all-decency party of
whom Mr.. f. Ia the head.
Is that your character, reader? Are you an alb
oitionistl Are you an enemy to this Union ?
Were you fiedged in State prison. Are you UNI
worthy because Of your conneIion with the Amer
lean organization TO serve your country, even in
the capacity Of juror Were you reared in mid
night reves, And do you shoot arrows dipped
in venom at this all-decency party, Of whom Mr.
+. ia the embodiment Ia that the character Of
your native born neighbor, with whom you are in
daily and friendly intercourse? We hope not. Il
may suit this redoubtable politician thus to stigma
the his countrymen, because they honestly differ
with him in practice, mot much in principle J
But Il will recoil with fearful and tremendous force
upon his own head, for there are members Of his
own party, not few, who win scorn to think such
a man worthy of their confidence and support.
We close by expressing the conviction that
few more such manly efforts on the part Of our OPP
poncnt to cast odium upon the fair character Of
the numerous friends Of the American party, will
evcntuate In not less than three thousand majority
for Doteler.