Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-05

VINO desire the american OTyuH, W oruer ~
through the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tivcs stating where they desire it to be left.
II will be more convenient to them, and insure
a prompt delivery. ~ s,
Inconsistency In the Southern Presses.
Those Southern presses which have 80 VIC
ently assailed the american Organ, assume
the position aosc, that no man can be national
In his politics who docs not, himself, swallow,
and aid in forcing down the gullet Of others,
the 18th plank Of the Philadelphia platform,
which, amongst other doctrines, proclaims that
Congress has no power to refuse admission
to State into the Union on the ground that
It's constitution tolerates African slavery.
Those presses assume that no party can be
a national party which does not maintain the
principles, entire, which that 18th plank en-
braces.
We, on the contrary, whilst eschewing and
opposing all agitation Of sectional questions
maintain that no 8 UGH test should be required
as that demanded by these ultraists. In our
recent political discussion with the Baltimore
Democrat we asked that press, whether or
not, the late triumph in New York was a Ma
tional triumph2 It answered that it was q
National triumph. We asked whether the Ull-
MAINS, Brookses, Wheelers, Whitneys Clarks,
Walks, and others of that State were not Ma
tonal men9 It answered that they were Ma
tional men. With the answers Of the Demo
crat to our questions, lying before us, we pub
lished portion Of the Binghamton platform
repudiating the 18th plank of the Philadelphia
platform, and thus sustained the position we
had taken and refuted the assumptions of the
Democrat. -
The admissions Of the Democrat Of known
truths in connexion with the recent triumph
Of the American party in that State scattered
to the winds the assumptions it had advanced,
in regard to the requisites which constitute a
National American. We showed, too, that tho
doctrine laid down in the 18th plank Of the
Philadelphia Platform, asto the power Of Con
gress, was dramatically opposed to the princi-
Piles contained in the legislation of 1920, in the
enaction Of the Missouri Compromise, which
remained undisturbed for more than thirty
years, and from the repeal Of which, all the
present sectional strife has arisen That Com
promise received the sanction Of the ablest and
purest men of the age--it was set aside, abro-
gated, and annulled through mischievous
wantonness, which cannot be too often, or too
sternly rebuked.
Now let it not be forgotten that the Bing-
hamton platform, upon which the American
party in New York achieved its glorious VIC
tory, expressly condemned the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise and declared that sld-
ccry should gain no advantage from its re-
peal and further declared, that the question
Of slarery ought not to DO embraced IN the
american platform Upon this platform, we
repeat, and MOI upon the 18th plank Of the
Philadelphia platform, our New York friends
gained their triumph. Here we beg leave to
ask the Richmond Wing, the Petersburg In
telligenccr, the Lynchburg yirginian, and other
Southern presses who assail our course, few
questions
When our New York friends routed the
enemy in the late contest in that State, did
you not "rejoiee NTH erceeding joy" Did
you not proclaim to your readers that the Ma
tiona1 american party in New York was tri-
umphantf Did you not congratulate the coun-
try that the American party there stood upon
national groundsG We challenge you to deny
that you thus rejoiced, that you thus pro-
claimed the triumph Of nationalism, that you
thus congratulated the country that the New
York Americans stood on national grounds
Yet now, forsooth, you demand that the
American Organ, which has never, whilst un-
der the charge ofits present editors, or either
Of them, held any other opinions than those
which underlay the Binghamton platform, you
demand that this press shall be ostrscised,
condemned, rebuked, for maintaining the very
doctrines upon whose recent triumph In New
York you ran riot Nth joy! Beautiful con-
sistency
You krop that we have always condemned
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and
you know that the Binghamton Convention
condemned it. You know that we have al
ways maintained that the question Of slavery
should have no place in the American plat.
form, and that the Binghamton platform takes
this position.
You know that we advocated in the late
National Council restoration of the Missouri
Compromise, through the action of the Amer
lean party, and that the Binghamton platform
virtually demands II, in declaring, that slavery
should gain no advantage by its repeal. All
these things you know, and further you kno",
that you rejoiced In the triumph Of these prin-
ciples at the recent State election in New
York, and now anathematize us for maintain
inc these same principlesl Your hue and c7y