Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-23
FOR THE AMERICAN ORGAN.
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m VIRGINIA, Jan. I8, 1855.
] have referred to the organization Of the Ma
tive American party as indexing great moral and
reform movement Verify IT Is so. 1t is move
ment of the untanted masses to correct existing
abuses, by demolishng all the old party structures
and putting the government into fresh and purer
hands. 1t isa movement Of the people, contra
distinguished from the politicians. The latter
class have had nothing to do in getting up the
order They have had no share nor lot in the
matter. The old party wire-workers have bcen
ruled out by common consent, and no better
proof of the purity of the institution need be re-
quired. 91b
The order is certainly phenomenon; its history
one Of the most remarkable things of ancient or
modern times. A year or two since it had not
" local habitation or name." Now it is a great
power In the country. IL sweeps away old party
machinery like chaff before the wind. Ola poifei-
cal majorities are reversed, not by simple thou
sands, but by scores upon scores of thousands.
Its tornado blast sweeps all before it. Wings,
Democrats, Freesoiers, and Abolitionists, are in
volved in a common ruin. Its destroying power is
totally undiscriminating. The once predominant
aIl-victorious Whiggery Of the old Bay State is
known no longer "Hlirma tiif' is It's sad epi-
taph and the once resistless Democracy of the
old keystone is scattered to the winds. In both,
as in many others, the Know-Nothing banner floats
in indisputed triumph.
Now It strkesme that there must be some deep
philosophy in movement exhibiting results so
extraordinary. What is It is the natural inquiry
| think have "ht the nail on the head" in
saying that IL is reform movement. My reasons
First, The masses Of the people, who constitute
the element Of the organization, can have no mo.
tive Of an impure character. The bone and sinew
are not seekers Of Office. They are spoils class
All they ask is proper administration Of public
affairs, good and pure government. Why, then,
have they risen up in their might, and overturned,
db iuo all the old political and party organiza.
tionsg There is but one rational solution: they
arc bent on change, on the principle that they
can't be worstcd If It were not so, they would
not have Withdrawn from and broken up the old
party organizations.
Second. NY own observations assure mo Of the
correctness Of my theory. hear the masses speak.
ing out They say there has been too much party
in the country-too much politics. They declare
they are tired Of both, and dsgusted with the poll
ticans They proclaim that they desire TO sec the
government administered for the good Of a coun.
try, and not of party These sentiments, have
4 heard orally from thousands and thousands Of tho
honest and thinking yeomanry. Verify, "thcrc 4
a better day coming"
Third. The politicians are up in arms against the
order. Bitterly do they denouncc II. This IL ar
excellent sign. No better evidence need be offered
Of the conservative character Of the Know-N Nothing
movement, than the enmity to Il of this class. Tho
continuance of the old order Of things--the per
petuatlon Of old abuses-is their interest An op
posite one is that OF the people, TO reform ancien
abuses and that they are resolved on. The Know
Nothing demonstration Is, indeed, but struggle
between the people, to have reform, and the poll
ticians and oftice-holders, to prevent il. AH th'
signs show this.
The country, then, need apprehend nothinl
from the Know.Notbng organization. II is
great American Reform movement. It's armie
are patriotic and those who represent Il as
dangerous thing, as nimical TO civil liberty, o.
TO any interest Of the people, "reckon withou
their host" BY portion Of the public press anC
by the old politicians and those whom chang
win damage, tits denounced for all sorts OF sins
but the hand Of the people is in the thing--that
vindication enough Of its ends and aims. Ere lonl
you shall hear what We are doing in the Old Do
miniou, and what we intend to do in May next.
WYTHE.
CONFESSION or RoBBERY. Charles L. Bachmar
arrested in New York on the charge Of robbin
| Colonel McMullen, member Of Congress, last sun
mer, Of 81 800, on the Richmond and Frederick
| bnrq Railroad. has been brought to Richmond n