Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-12

not Abolitionizedithe Wing and Democratic
parties of the South, by what reasoning can it
be demonstrated that the election Of agitators
at the North nog, Is fair ground Of condenna-
tion or Of censure against the Southern portion
Of the American partys The Southern mem
bers Of our party are not responsible for the
unauthorized action Of the Northern members
Of our party.
Nay, the American party at the North is
not, as party, responsible for the election. Of
agitators, because as yet they are unable to
prevent 1t, and because too, the question of
slavery is not one, for the regulation Of which
the organization was created. On this point
Senator Wilson is good authority, 80 far as
Massachusetts, is concerned, and he has dis
tintiy said in his letter of leth February, pub
lished in the Organ, thus:
" The American organization In Massachusetts,
does not embrace the question Of slavery among
those for the regulation Of which It was formed"
No man then, from Massachusetts, is autho-
rized, by the American party, to agitate the
question Of slavery in the halls Of Congress,
if he does so, he does it uponhis individual re-
sponsibility, and without the authority orsanc-
| ton Of the American party.
The fact being established that the Ameri-
can party in Massachusetts,, does not embrace
the question Of slavery as one for the regulation
Of which it was formed, IT follows, that if any
man elected by that party in Massachusetts,
agitates the question Of slavery in Congress,
he does SO upon the same RESP possibility, which
would attach to him if he were to discuss the
questions Of tariffs, banks, or public lands.
If the members Of Congress from Massachu-
sets, or elsewhere, who were elected by the
American party, choose to agitate slavery, they
not only do not represent the American party
in SO doing but they violate Gin our Judgment
their implied pledges to maintain the Union Of
the States and the rights of the States, because
the agitation Of slavery endangers both. We
admit that on this point, there may be diff
ference Of opinion. This however, is our
opinion. \.
But we have q word to say as to the ten
dency Of the principles Of the American party,
and the tendency Of the principles Of the
Forney and Pierce Democracy.
The tendency Of our principles is to the per-
petuity Of the Union, and the preservation Of
States rights ee
In contrast with this tendency, we call the
attention of the country again, as heretofore, to
the solemn resolpe Of the Democratic 0onpen-
tion Of Ohio, held at Columbus Ohio, on the
9Th day Of January last
We ask on. readers, and especially those of
the South to ponder Wsl upon the following
Democratic resolution, unanimously adopted
by the prcfessed friends Of Southern rights,
in said convention, to wit:
" Resolved, That the people Of Ohio NOW, AS
rHEr HAVE ALwAYs DONE, look upon slavery as an
evil, and uniavorsD1e 70 the development of the
spirit and practical benefit Of free institutions, and
that, entertaining these sentiments, they win AT
ALL TIMES feel II to be their duty, TO USE ALL row.
ER CLEARLY OWEN BIT THE TERMS OF THE NATIONAL
COMPACT, to prevent its increase to mitigate, and
FINALLY TO ERADICATE ITS Ev1Ls.n