Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-20
WASHINGTON. D. c. TUESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 2o 1856
or party, and free from any influence or direction

or party, and free from any influence or direction
Of den0minationl or partisan character.
And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the Constitu-
tons 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, al tie Holy
Bible Is at once the source OF Christianity and the
depository and fountain Of all civil and religious
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 the opposition Of the Wing
and Democratic parties, cannot be in any manner
responsible for the obnoxious acts Of violated
pledges Of either. And the systematic agitation
Of the slavery question by those parties having el
svated sectional hostility into positive element
Of political power, and brought our institutions
into peril IL 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 II 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 deemedi the best
guarantee Of common justice and Of future peace,
to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon
the subject Of slavery, as final and conclusive
settlement Of that subject, in spirit and In sub
stance. 2g4 fs4Eae a' 8s.ni
rs And regarding IL the highest duty to avow their
opinions upon q subject 40 impOrtant in distinct
and unequivocal il s hereby declared as the
sense of this National Council, that Congress pos
sesses no power under the Constitution, to legis-
late upon the subject Of Slavery in the States
where IL does or may exist to exclude any State
from admission into the Union, because its Consti-
tuition does or does not recognise 4 Institution
Of Slavery as apart Of its social and ex-
pressly ,pretermitting any express u opinion
upon the power of Congress to establish or pro-
hibit Slavery in any Territory, it is the sense Of
the National Council that Congress ought not to
legslate upon the subject Of Slavery within the
Territories of the United States, and that any in
reference by Congress with Slavery as It exists in
the District of Columbia, would be violation Of
the spirit and intention Of the compact by which
the State of Maryland ceded the District to the
United States, and breach Of the National faith.
|, n XlII.-Thc policy Of the Government of the
United States in its relations with foreign govern
ments, is TO exact justice from the strongest and
do justice to the weakest; restraining, by all the
power of the government all itss citizens from in
reference with the internal concerns of nations
with whom we are at peace. lo 44sFl N 4
XIV.-This National Council declares that all
the principles Of the Order shall be henceforward
everywhere openly avowed and that each mem
Der shall be at liberty to make known the existence
of the OrdeH and the fact that he himself is q men,
Der, and it recommends that there be no conceal.
ment Of the places of meeting of subordinate ooun-
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$3.50 n &. B. BARTLETT, of Kcntucky,
President of National Council.
g. d. DEsHLER, of New Jersey, laGH II Il
~, N 49, Corresponding Secretary. .83Qpk
JAMES M. STEPHENS, Of Maryland, .ssgig
e{--. I n Glrg Recording Secretary "a