The Georgetown news., 1855-12-13
The Result.

The harping of the opposition press of
this State about the breaking up of the
American party, and its total wreck in the
tempest of the Negro question, should re-
ceive a quietus in the result of the New
York and Massachusetts elections. They
have labored untiringly to impress their
readers with the belief, that the American
party had succumbed to the doctrines of
the abolitionistS, and were swallowed up in
the vortex of the republican" movement.
That the assertion was wholly gratuitous,
the unlooked-for and apparently almost
hopeless success of the American party in
the above mentioned States-a triumph of
conservative, national principles over the
sectional, disunion views of the "Republi-
can" organization-has demonstrated be-
yond a peradventure. Were anything
needed to cheer the American party of this
State to renewed energy in the accomplish
ment Of their mission, to cement the bond
Of universal brotherhood with each other,
it is afforded in the response of the States
of New York and Massachusetts. The
great heart of the American people beats in
unison with the principle laid down in the
address Of the late American State conven-
ton of California, and the sectional disor-
ganizers have received a rebuke in the re-
suit of the elections in these States, which
cannot fail to eventuate in beneficial results.
Some of our opponents still affect to be-
lieve that the result Of the elections in these
States is a triumph of sectional northern
principles, and that the American party
had incorporated these issues in their party
creed. Thatsuch is not the case, the moan
ings of the n. Y. Tribune over the result
fully demonstrate. That paper regards the
triumph of the American party in the State
of New York as adverse to the cause of the
abolitionists, and says: "We feel that the
cause of human freedom has received afear-
full blow in the result of Tuesdays election"
and "will be very glad to see that it is not
fatal one.''
In commenting upon the result, the n.
Y. Herald says:
"The substantial rescue of New York
whatever may be the precise results) from
the Seward coalition, following as this event
does the overthrow of the same seditious
conspirators in Pennsylvania and accompa-
MED as it is by their defeat in Massachu-
setts breaks down the sectional barrier of
slavery WEIGH they have been laboring to
erect between the North and the South,
and "opens up the North to the American
party and the democratic party, upon ma
tional ticket and upon national principles.
1t relieves the American party from the in
cubus and the odium of their late aSSocia-
tions with the Seward abolition disunion-
lists, and places the Know Nothings of the
North in such direct and decided antago-
nism to Seward and his partizans that there
is no danger of their fusing again. This
wholesome enforcement was only partially
effected in Obedience the election of
Chase; but the late results in Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,, and especially in New York,
will be very apt, within the momentous
twelve months before US, to make a clean
division between the Know Nothings and
the black republicans, even of Ohio, which
will reduce the latter party in that State
to a mere squad of guerillas in the Presi-
Dental election"
What better proof need we that the
American party of the Atlantic States has
abjured the narrow sectional policy advo-
Gated by the republican" organization?-
The two most powerful journals in New
York, of totally adverse views-the one ad-
vocating to the utmost the abolition disu-
MON principles of the Seward organization,
and the other decidedly in favor of the
"squatter sovereignty" Of the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill-mutually and fully agree as to
the nature Of the result of the election in
that State.
We fully believe that in the coming Pres
idential election the hosts of the American
party will be marshaled upon the true con-
servative national ground, and will be tri-
umphantly sustained by the great mass of
the American people, North and South,
East and West.
ss% Since the moistening of the ground
bV the late rains the forn,arO bo,yo boon In,