Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-14
Conspiracy Exposed.


We presume 1t is no longer doubtful that the
members Of the Abolition and Disunion party
united themselves with the American Order,
that it might DO made accessory to their de-
structiye schemes The proof of this is to be
found in tho separation Of the Cleveland
Conventionists, who struck out the test of ma
tivism; of tho Springfield meeting, which de-
clsres the limitation Of slavery to DO the para
mount purpose Of the Order; and the fruitless
attempt to commit the State Council of MAST
achusetts to the formation of fusion party,
whose object would be the perpetual agitation
Of the sectional question, and the organization
Of great sectional party.
We are aware that that portion Of the Amer
Jean party which has seeded upon the pro-
position to restore the Missouri Compromise is
divided between those who conscientiously be-
lieve such measure to be essential, and those
who, indifferent to principle, only seize upon
this issue for its supposed popularity. To the
latter class VIC have no argument to offer, ey-
oept that if we succeed in convincing the for
mer class that their course is dangerous and
Intellectual Of its purpose, the latter may
abandon their position, because it is no longer
popular.
Amongst the various Democratic journals
with which we exchange, the National Era
whose motto is Democracy without partial
ity-without hypocrisy "--avows most deadly
hostility to the American Order. 1t is now
condemniag such Of its Abolition friends as
entered that Order with the hope of perverting
ia organization to the advancement Of their
purposes, for the entire failure Of their scheme
This dangerous journal says that the American
Order I" is divorced from justice, welded to
prescription and bigotry." 1t says that "the
honest friends of freedom must put down
Know othingism, or acknowledgement will
put them down. The free States must reject
Know Nothingism, or Nothingism viii
irretrievably divide them, and place them under
the heel Of the slave power" And, convinced
that the American party cannot be made sub
servient to its purposes, it calls upon all true
Abolitiousts to abandon it. Here are some Of
the reasons given by the Era:
aWe k,or that the free Stnes can never be
united on the Issues OF Native ericanism; they
ought not to be. We k,op thai but for the inter
psntiou of Raop-N othingism, they could have been
emitted on the Anti-Nebrdskd Issues. We kaop
saat IL the State Councils Of the secret Order dis
band, and agree 10 unite Nth the people Of all
parties on these issues, the free States in 1856 wA
present solid phelanr against the slave po,oer,
and carry the Presidential election, and natal an
f,,tr 1.-THE
italics are.Nprs.
We again appeal to our friends who have
been dissatisfied with the conservative position
taken by the Philadelphia Convention, to lock
at these facts They win see that the more
ultra Abo.itionists have only forborne their az
saults upon the Order, so long Ms their friends
were endeavoring to carry it by subterfuge.
viii our friends then cooperate with this dan
gerous sect by continuing an agitation which
must result in mischief Listen at one Of the
objections OF the Era TO the American plat
form. at assumes the maintenance Of the
Union Of these United States as the paramount
political good not liberty and union, but
the Union, no matter to what base purpose il
may boput"
That is: the declaration Of the American
Order that It viii maintain the Union" is COM
planned Of because il implies that il win main
tain the government even though Abolition be
defeated in its purposes You have been &C
customed to regard the Union as "a paramount
political good" You have said SO in your rat
i6cstion Of the platform. Listen how con-
tempmously the New York Tribune speaks Of
our invaluable form Of government, and the
prospects Of its dissolution.
"or suppose Georgia should leave US, as she
threatens in case Kansas Is not admitted with
slavery. and should take Florida and South Caro-
lima with her. would that be any worse than the
Instrumentation Of Texasf Here we add free
State and get rid Of three slave States at blow.
The slave power thus throws at our feet ms much
"a the result Of half dozen Of its greatest vcto-
ries. Is this very terriblef If the supposed Sc
ceding States had never been embraced in the
Union, failure TO annex them an Offset TO free
Kanass would not have been very deplorabe,
would it9
"You are in awe lest the slave States having
gained and long rejoiced in almost unlimited power
over the free States, should relinquish the whole
Of that power, II not permitted slightly TO increase
Il. In that case the Union win be sundered pre-
cisely between freedom and slavery, and poor
freedom viii be left 10 make her way down through
the unexplored tracts Of future history, with an
utter destitution OF despots"
Yet both the parties whose organs speak
thus Of the American Union are cooperating
with such Of you as have dissented from the
platform. They accept your services, so far as
you win aid them in their nefarious purposes
aud then assail you with insult because you
hesitate to throw of your organization and
adopt theirs
Members Of tho American Order, you have
Subscribed the test Of opposition to the Papsl
Hierarchy; are you willing to postpone that
sacred obligation 70 war against an institu-
ton, tho legality ofwhicb has been admitted
by your own State constitutional You have
plsdged yourselves to guard against the agrees
sdons Of foreign powers and principles viii
you postpone that TO an insane war against
your own fellow-citizensf In a word, is the
pspstasl conflict upon sectional question of