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

b. CLOUGH, State OF hh0d0 lBlanQ.
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American Organ.
The Convention Of the AMERICAN PARTY
OF VIRGINIA, which met at Winchester, on
Tuesdey, the 18th of March, appointed the under
signed committee, to make publication, over their
names, of the following:
Basis Principles Of the American Party OF
Virginia.
Determined to preserve our political institutions
in their original purity and vigor, and to keep them
unadulterated and unimpaired by foreign influence,
either civil or religious as well as by home faction
and home demagoguism and believing that an
American policy, religious, POLITICAL and CONNER
cia necessary for the attainment of these ends we
shall observe and carry out in practice the follow
ing principles:
i. That the suHrages of the American people
for political Offices, should not be given to any
other than those born on our soil, and reared and
matured under the influence of our institutions.
2. That no foreigner ought to be allowed to en-
ercise the elective franchise till he shall have
sided within the United States sufficient length
of time to enable him to become acquainted with
the principles and imbued with the spirit Of our
institutions, and until be shall have become tho
roughly identified with the great interests Of our
country.
s. That whilst no obstacle should be interposed
TO the immigration Of all foreigners of honest and
industrious habits, and all privileges and immuni
ties enjoyed by any native-boIn citizens of our
country should be extended to all such immigrants
kept that Of participating in any of our political
administrations yet all legal means should be
adopted to obstruct and prevent the immigration
Of the vicious and worthless, the criminal and
pauper.
4 That tho American doctrine of religious tol.
Grafton, and entire absence of all prescription for
opinions sake, should be cherished as one Of the
very fundamental principles Of our civil freedom,
aud that any sect or party which believes and main
tains that any foreign power, religious psliticd,
has the right to control the conscience or direct
the conduct Of freeman, occupies position which
Is totally at with the principles OF freedom Of
opinion and which IL mischievous In its tendency,
and which principle, IL carried into practice, would
prove wholly destructive Of our religious and civil
liberty.
s. That the Bible In the hands Of every free cit.
lien is the only permanent basis Of all true liberty
and genuine equality.
9. That the intelligence of the people is neces
sary TO the right use and the continuance Of our
libertes civil and religious honce the propriety
and Importance of the promotion and fostering oi
all means Of moral and intellectual culture by some
adequate and permanent provision for general cd
ucation.
4. That the doctrine Of availability now so prev.
alent and controlling, in the nomination Of cand
dates for Office in total disregard to all principles
Of right, of truth, and Of justice, is essentially
wrong, and should be by all good men condemned
8. That, as general rule, the same restrictions
should be prescribed 10 the exercise Of the power
Of removal from Office, are made necessary to be
observed in the power Of appointment thereto
and huf fnHn onHp patr hntalf
be scrupulously conferred and jealously guarded.
Q. That the sovereignty Of the States should b.
supreme in the exercise Of all powers not express
" delegated to the federal government and which
may not be necessary and proper to carry out the
powers so delegated and that this principle should
be observed and held sacred in all organizations OF
the American party.
10. That all sectarian intermedding with politics
or political institutions, coming from whatever
source IL may should be promptly resisted by all
such means as seem 10 be necessary and proper for
this end
IL. That whilst the perpetuity Of the present
form OF the federal government Of the United
States Is actually necessary for the proper develop
ment Of all the resources of this country, yet the
principle Of fnon-nterventon, both on the part Of
the federal government and Of the several States
Of the Union in the municipal affairs Of each other
is essential TO peace and prosperity OF our country
and to the welbeing and permanence Of our insti
tutions, and at the same tine the only reliable
bond of brotherhood and union.
IL. The red republicanism and licentious indul
gence in the enjoyment Of civil privileges, are as
much TO be feared and deprecated by all friend,
10 well-regulated government and true liberty a,
any of the forms Of monarchy and despohsm.
Is. That the true Interests and welfare Of th,
country, the honor Of this nation, the individua
and private rights ofits citizens, conspirc to de
mand that all other questions arising from part,
organizations, or from any other source, should b,
held subordinate TO and in practice made to yielt
to the great principles herein promulgated.
!. ANDREW t. KENNEDY, Of Jefferson,
GEORGE ID. GRAY, Of Culpeper,
JOSIAH DABBS Of Halifax.