Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-07


ment Of American principles in every section Of the
country.
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newspaper agents. booksellers stationers, and Others
TO act agents for the Asrican organ, and 70 the
present notice we accordingly invite their attention
The War News.
The temporary success Of the Allies has been
reversed with an immense slaughter, and the
recapture Of the Russian stronghold. This, we
imagine, demonstrates the impregnability of
Sebastopol, and with it the futility of reducing
Russia to terms Of honorable compromise. The
position Of tho invaders has been embarrassing
In the extreme. They entered the war with
such arrogant declarations, that they have
scarcely decent pretext for withdrawal. Eng
land loses 1000 men on the anniversary Of
Waterloo. She has taken as much money
from the till as can be spared from her busi-
ness, and as many men as can be spared from
the fields She has squandered that immense
capital Of humbug which has been accumu-
lating for centuries, and Der reformers are
drawing from these disasters evidence that her
France is under panic, from the joint effect Of
the illness Of Napoleon and the terrible disas-
tsrs Of his arms. Asshe has always submitted
t, everything in her Emperors, except bad
luck, we need not be surprised at a three
days revolution, and change Of dynasty. It
will not have been the first time in which ma
tions, in undertaking to preserve the equilibri-
um Of Europe, have lost their own.
Whilst we hold no sympathy with either Of
the belliSerent despotisms, we regard this war
as Of mite value to America, in the contrast
al, oetween the system of foreign inter
ven ~, which has always constituted the basis
of European diplomacy, and the simpler sys-
tenn laid down by Washington
If the doctrines of Kossuth, spread before
the people some years since, and signally re-
pudiated by them, had been adopted, we should
long since have been enrolled as parties to this
interminable war, from which no honorable
means of sxtrication presents itself
Thus far, we have derived incidental advan-
tage from the war the demand for our produce
and shipping. lift continue, we must anticipate
that increased taxation and civil disturbance
will encourage the remittance Of capital to the
safer investments off peaceful Republic The
late reverses Of the allied army were followed
by decline in English and an advance in
American securities.
In the meantime, the United States has only
to refrain from entangling alliances, pursue the
honest and simple policy established by the
founders Of the Republic, compel immediate
and exact justice to her citizens abroad, and
subject the immigrant millions to more ex-
tended term of apprenticeship before admit
ting them to republican equality, and shc
will. by tho mere force Of practical example,
ovcrturn the absurd diplomacy Of Europe,
and substitute one based upon common sense
aud common justice
The Union is absolutely frantic, In anticipa.
ton Of the coming overthrow of the admins
tration, and rails against the American party
Like old Meg Dods, that queen Of viragos. In
its issue Of Friday, it screcches out the follow
ing inquiries:
aWhat would Daniel Webster think Of Massa.
chusetts tied like captive at the chariot-wheels
Of victorious party, whose warcry Is hostility TO
religious federation, whose victims are some OF the
first men In the nation, and whose victories have
been achieved by means OF the basest coalitions
with the enemies Of that Union which he so elo-
ouently defendeds What would he say Of the
silence of Choate and Of Everett in this the hour
Of the degradation Of party which he 40 gallant
" attempted to rescue from abolition absorption
by his bold and manly PATRIOTISM The present
sense of the bumiatiop which overwhelms the
Wing party, keenly as II is felt by many OF the
former friends Of Clay and Webster, by those who
still follow In their footsteps and glory in their e1-
ample. would feebly illustrate the ineffable scorn
and indignation that would be certain to over
whelm the. Known Nothing plot IL Clay and Web
ster we're alive 10 give utterance 10 their own SEN
sations."
The Union's allusion to Daniel Webster in
this connection Is unfortunate. Has the Union
forgotten Mr.. Webster's speech in Faneuil Hail,
In November, 1874, on the eve Of the Massa,
chusctts election, and when it was ascertained
that Mr.. Clay was defeated, mainly by foreign
votoss In that speech Mr.. Webster clearly
and unequivocally declared himself in favor OF
the principles Of the American party; as now
established This he did eleven years ago, and
when the foreign emigration to this country
did not exceed 100000 persons year.
In 1913, Mr.. Webster received the nomina-
ton Of the Native American party for Presi-
dent and was its candidate in the contest Of
that ycar If he were now living who doubts
that his giant intellect and unrivalled cio-
ouence would bo freely oxerted In behalf Of
American principIesf No man can doubt II
who knows what Mr.. Webster's real sentiments
were on the great question which now agitates
the American people. sl45.sit
II there ever was Protestant in heart and
in grain, It was Daniel Webster. His Puritan
descent, his early education, his later reading,
and an his associations, professional and social,
combined to render him Protestant of Protes-
tsnts. He loved the good old Protestant Bible,
and almost knew il by heart lie sang with
fervor the fine old Protestant songs, and often,
in early life, made the forests Of New Harnp-
shirs resound with those "hymns OF pofty