New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-10
DAILY CRESCENT.
Platform Of the american Party OF North
Carolina
NUMBER 17e.

We append herewith, Says the Wilmington
~. ~ Herald, the resolutions adopted by the
recent Convention Of the American party held
in Raleigh On the 10Th inst, and take occasion
to say that they seem TO us unobiectiouable
Upon that platform We are willing to stand and
to do labor for the canse. The great bugbear
of secresy, it will be perceived, has been re-
moyed--the "dark lanterns" have been dis.
pensed with-the midnight plottsrs" are re.
vealed, and the American party stands now il
point Of resemblance to the old parties, will
this exception, that it occupies better ground
and presents better principles for the approva
of the country.
At a Convention Of the American party, helt
at Raleigh, on the 10th of October, 1855, ths
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolped, That as the causes which rendered
the secresy of the American organization ne
cessary in its infancy, no longer exist--aH thu
secret cerempnials of the order, whether oi
initiation, obligations signs, constitutions, ritz
als or pass s-words be abolished that We do
constitute ourselves into a publicly organized
party that we do challenge our opponents to
the public discussion of our principles we
do hereby invite and invoke the aid and co-ope-
fAtiuu vi hfl tAe clllZtns OF bne Stales without
regard to their former political affiliations, in
maintaining and carrying out the great aims,
principles and Objects Of the American party.
RESOLVED, That we do hereby ratify and en-
dorse the principles enunciated in the platform
of the American party, by the National Coun-
Gil of the same, begun and held at Philadel-
phia, on the 9th day Of June, 1856, in relation
to the political policy of the Government
whilst, at the same time, we consider the three
great primary principles of the organization,
which constitute the basis of our party, as D ar
amount in Importance to any issnes of mere
governmental policy.
Resolped, That these three great primary
principles are, first, the confinement of the
honors, Offices and responsibilities Of political
station, under our government, to native born
Americans = with due regard, at. the same
time, to the protection of the foreign born in all
the civil rights and privileges gusranteed to
freemen by the Constitution, whether Federal
or State
Secondly, Resistance to religious intolerance,
and rigid maintenance Of the great prin-
ciple Of religious freedom--by excluding from
office and power those who would persecute for
opinions sake who would control the politics
of the country through church influences or
priestly interference, and who acknowledge al
allegiance to any power on earth, whether civil
Or ecclesiastical, as paramount to that which
they owe to the Constitution. II
And, Thirdly, Unswerving devotion to the
Uni0n Of these States, and resistance to all
factions and sectional attempts to weaken its
bonds % y5a e.
RESOLVED, That in all nominations for politi-
cal station hereafter to be made by the Ameri-
can party, it is recommended that the same be
done in open public meeting-aDd that all those
who agree with us in principle, and who concur
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cognzed es members of the American party
Resoloed, That it be recommended to the
American party in this State to hold Conven-
tion Of delegates, to be appointed in public pri-
mary meetings in the respective counties, in
Greensboro on Thursday the 10th day of April
next, for the purpose Of nominating q candidate
to be run by the American party for Governor
at the next election-that each county appoint
as many delegates as it chooses, and that the
mode of voting in said convention be regulated
by the convention itself. 4f
Resolved, That we consider the 22d day of
February next, the time heretofore selected by
the National Council of the American order, for
the nomination of candidates for President and
Vice President, as too early o day for that pur-
pose, and we do hereby recommend to our
brethren of the American party throughout the
Union, the propriety of postponing the holding
of said convention, to some time in the months
of June or July. % as8 @ @ g3 3SsssAs &ss@
Resolped, However, lest such postponement
may not take place, it is deemed advisable to
appoint two delegates to represent the State at
large in such nominating Convention; and it is
to the American party in each
Congressional District to hold primary meetings
in the respective counties, and appoint delegates
to District Conventions. for the selection Of q
delegate from each respective District to said
nominating Convention
Resolged, That en- Executive Central Com
mittee of five, be appointed by this body, whose
duty it shall be to attend to the general con-
Germs Of the American party in this State, to
carry on the necessary correspondence, and
take such inceptive steps as may be deemed
necessary for the more thorough organization Of
the said party; and that said Executive Com.
mittee be authorized and requested to appoint q
County Executive Committee for each County in
the State; and that said County Executive
Committee do further appoint q subcommittee
for each election precinct in the county with O
view to more thorough and complete organi-
zation of the American party in North Caro-
lima. ~ EE4as71 -ests ==l @
The NORTHERN MAIL.-There is report in
toBn--we know not how we'll founded that the
two mail coaches from Montgomery for Mobile
left full Of gers, the contractors refusing
to take the mail bags, which were lett piled in
front Of the Montgomery Post Office, on the
ground that the Post Office Department had
iailed in its part of the contract. There is some
ground to support this rumorin the well known
disputes which have for some time past existed
between the Department and the contractors
Judge Campbell,i lit appears. has been very rigid
in the enforcement of lines, and the cont, actors
allege that his stringency has been carried to
the point Of injustice. We have heard but one
side Meantime, the public is principally in
terested in the suspension of mail facilities which
this hiatus in the transportation by the presen
contractors will cause. We take for grantee
that the Postmaster at Montgomery has imme,
diately notified the Department by telegraph Of
the difficulty, and that the immediate remedy
will be to ship the mails down the river by the
light draft boats, until new contract can be
made for the land service.
We have here another proof of the want Of q
railway to Montgomery. Tt is the only gap in
the continuous line of railroad from Mobile to
Boston, and one which the vast travelling pub
lie, from New Orleans to Maine, is interested IN
filing. These great interests, combined witt
those of every railroad company on the Great
Northern and Southern route, one would sup
pose could be made available to add this linl
to the great chain Of theroughfare. Who viii
take hold Of it, Where is the man!
p. S.-Since writing the above, we learn tha
it is true that the contractors have thrown u
the mails, and refused to take the bags, both q
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