Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-19
y WASHINGTON p. c. FRIDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 49, 1856

allegiance, directly or indirectly, to any foreign
power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, and who are
Americans by birth, education and training thus
fulfilling the maxim: AnSRIcASs osEY SHALL
GovERN AMERICA" la
The protection Of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise Of their civil and religious rights
AMI privileges; the maintenance Of the right Of
every man to the full unrestrained, end peaceful en-
icyment Of his own religious opinions and worship
and ajealous resistance of all attempts by any sect
denomination or church, to obtain an aseendency
over any other In the State, by means of any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
combination Of its members, or by division O.
their civil allegiance with any foreign power po-
tentate, or ecclesiastic. s4.,5ggeg
IX.-The reformation of the character Of our
National Legislature, by eevating to that dignifed
and responsible position men Of higher quaiica-
tions, purcr morals, and more unselfsh patriotism
h X.-The restriction Of executive patronage, esr
pecialy in the matter Of appointments to Office 20
far as it may be permitted by the Constitution and
consistent with the public good. M y4s5a N.
XL-Thc education Of the youth Of our country
in schools provided by the State !; which schools
shall be common to all, without distinction Of creed
or party, and free from any influence or direction
of denominational or partisan character.
| And inasmuch as Christianity, by the Constita-
hons Of nearly all the States; by the decisions Of
the most eminent judicial authorities; and by the
consent OF the people OF America, is considered an
element Of our political system; and, as the Holy
Bible Is at once the source Of Christianity and the
depository and fountain Of all civil andFeligious
| freedom, we oppose every attempt to exclude it
| from the schools thus established in the States.
| XII.-The American party having arisen upon
the ruins and in spite of the opposition Of the Whig
| and Democratic parties cannot be in any manner
| responsible for the obnoxious acts of violated
| pledges Of either, And the systematic agitation
ofthe slavery question by those parties having ell
evated sectional hostility into positive element
Of political power, and brought our institutions
| into peril it has therefore become the imperative
duty Of The American party to interpose for the
| purpose of giving peace to the country and per-
| petuity to the Union. And as experience has
shown It impossible to reconcile opinions so ex-
| treme as those which separate the disputants and
as there can be no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, the National Council has deemed it the best
guarantee Of common justice and Of future peace,
| to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
| the subject Of slavery, as a final and conclusive
settlement Of that subject in spirit and in sub
stance.
| And regarding It the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon subject so important, in distinat
and unequ2ocal terms it is hereby declared as the
sense of this National Council, that Congress pos
sesses no power, under the Constitution, to legs-
late upon the subject of Slavery in the States
where it does or may exist to exclude any State
from admission into the Union because Its Consti-
tutiOu does dOes not reooonila he In atitufon