Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-27
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be carried, it is not for them that this article Is In
tended. For, while am stakeholder, and the
son Of a stakeholder, a southern man OF southern
feelings with no blood relation north Of Mason and
Dixon's line, il is, nevertheless, true that car
still believe that the great mass OF our northern
brethren are conservative in their feelings and per
fectly willing to allow us to hold our oon, as wei
as to subscribe TO any doctrine on the subject O
slavery, we may think best for our interests and
for our welfare.
1t is true, and no man of common observation
viii call it in question for moment, that the agi
tation of this subject, which has kept the two
grand divisions of this Republic in continual
been entirely the result of the ultraism Of few
fanatics at the North and ofsuch southern journals
as have insisted upon identifying with these few
the whole northern confederacy.
1t is true, that the whole South, to man, ID
united upon the subject of slavery, and while some
few are willing to admit it to be an "evil though
a necessary evil" the vast and overwhelming ma
ter and to the slave, blessing intended especially
for the South. Among this majority am willing
TO stand.
It is true that the North considered collectively,
Is opposed to the institution Of slavery. The fen
oppose it, because it is in their estimation moral
wrong, plague spot upon the escutcheon of our
liberties the many oppose 1t, because they con-
slider 1t inexpedient. But while they thus look up
on it, and oppose it the ground of nexpediency,
their opposition originates in the fact that slave la
Dor is Improbable with them. The system of hired
labor which is now Of necessity their only system,
has been found more economical than slave labor.
For this reason the whole North is anti-slavery,
not as many understand the word, which is often
confounded with abolitioninn, but when say anti
Slavery, mean opposed to that institution among
themselves, but not among us Of the South, though
they may doubt its expediency. will even go
further and say, that the majority OF northern men
perfectly willing for the question of expedien-
cy in reference to the establishment Of slavery in
those portions of our Union where that question is
yet subject of debate, shall be decided by the pop
ular voice of those portions, without their having
any voice in the matter.
Now, submit it, if 1t be not unreasonable to
condemn the whole North because Of the few. And
that the majority is, as have represented it, is
proven by the detection in the Know-Nothing
ranks, and by the instant Reputation of the rad-
cal minority by the conservative majority.
The subject Of slavery is a question upon which
the two sections of our Union must agree to disa-
gree, each to allow the other to entertain what
ever opinions the nature of the case may admit,
10 latt mi s,,y rio to-
versy where individual rights are concerned, and
in every case to let the constitution be upheld,
and the laws be enforced.
1t is for the accomplishment of this desid era
tum that the American party has sprung forth into
a fuT-grown maturity in time 40 short, that it
seems almost miraculous. Before the opponents
of the movement were aware that the swaddling
clothes of the infant had given place to the lead
ing strings of the child, il had grown into man
hood, had assumed the form of giant and was
welding that power which ever results from the
union of freemen, of ffeemen determining to main
tain their freedom at whatever cost, and to put
down whatever is inimical to that freedom, or
hostile to its institutions.
Out Of the ashes Of Whiggery and Democracy,
Phoenix like, our party has sprung into existence.
It is party which has for its platform the Union,
the whole Union, and nothing but the Union, the
Union of States, and the Union of Ameriean-born
freemen.
It's party which win advocate those principles
alone, around which can rally the whole nation
+" one and inseparable !" party which will es-
chew those questions which originate in sectional
and viii forever stand by those which
aim at the advancement Of the nation at large; a
party which knows no North, no South, no East,
no West, but which looks upon the American
people as band Of brothers, whose only weak
ness consists In the rank elements Of disunion
which this much-canvassed subject Of slavery has
scattered through the length and breadth Of the
land, the extirpation of which is its first duty.
Then wherefore canvass the subject at all,
wherefore make 1t a question Of partyf North
ern men win be anti-slavery, and southern men
will be pro-slavery, as long as slavery exists, and it
is worse than folly for any party to attempt any
change in this sentiment.
The American party is conservative upon this
subject, and because it Is So the radicals Of both
sections Of the Union complain that its tendencies
are hostile to the institutions Of each. Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher is down upon IL, because it upholds
slavery Mr.. Henry A. Wise, and the press which
sustans him, denounce It because it is an affila-
ton with abolitonism and fanaticism.
Now, appeal to all conservative men, Northern
or Southern, Wing, Democratic, or Know-Noth-
ings" IL this very fact is not sufficient to convince
any sane man, that Know-Nothingism occupies
conservative groundS OF Southern men and slave
holders, ask II II does not repudiate forever, the
idea Of any afiiliationf
Let slavery alone. II is sufficient for disunion-
lists and traitors to make 1t a question Of party.
When the mass Of the American people, both
North and South, or majority Of either section,
advocates a dissolution, from which may high
heaven forfend then Il viii be ample time for this
subject TO stand forth in all it's magnitude and all
it's Importance. But until that time has come, I
is verify the blindest folly that the blindness O
man ever conceived Of 10 be forever wranglins
and disputing about that which would be loss e
both parties.
With regard 10 the further details OF the Know