The Nevada journal., 1855-07-20
Parties, Past and Present.

Parties, Past and Present.
| Party, great in its views of National poll
cy and National duty has just died-di ed, but
some ofits noble princi pies still live. Another,
rejoicing in name euphonious to the ears of
the unSuspectine native and unlet,crcd foreign
er, still maintains its organization, OUTLYING
everything but its love of power and pl under
The first, advocating the improvement of q
country almost in state of nature by works
of art, and building up on our own soil what
would destroy our dependence upon other ma
tions, endeavcring by argument and oratory
to rouse the people to establish an American
policy, is amorg the things tn at were. The
second, once in power, and commanding the
spoils of office, calling in to its aid and replen-
ishing IFS ranks with five hundred thousand for
eigners annually thrown upon our shores, has
effectually crushed every attempt to establish =
policy National and American in its AIMS
One could not bear up against the assaults OF
the other led on by banner emblazoncd with
a glorious name, and supported by horde OF
mistaken enthusiasts. A blind zeal for name
representing good cause, is as invincble as
an enlightened zeal for the cause ITSELF The
bravest soldiers andl most impregnable
walls of Asia, in the early days of Islamism,
were Of no avail against the assaults of a fanatic
host, who believed that in upholding the stand.
ard of Called and Amrou, they were fighting
for the true cause of God,
To the masses that composed either of the
old parties is to be accorded the same love Of
country and. the same purity of intention. The
great end OF leading country to glory and pros
perity was that for which they stroye, but hon
estly and good intention are often made to min.
mister to depravity, and the citadel of truth is
often sappcd by sophistry believed to be logic
The purest principles are easily overborne by
honest error and the best reformers of mankind
have died by the hands of men protesting pa
triotism, morality and religion. The Reedemer
himself was crucifed by people looking for
| the coming of the true Messiah.
The whig party is no more, and its great an
tagonist has lost the iairest jewels that once
adorned its crest. A New Party has arisen
formed from the available materials of the old
which like the emanation from the brain Of
Jove, stands forth in full grown strength and
dignity, with armor on for battle.
Whatever was good and noble in the creeds
: OF the old parties and suited to tie necessities
OF the present, has been brought together into
code of principles, by the patriotic spirits
: who have abandoned the old organizations, and
adopting other tenets which the immediate ex
q igences of the times imperatively demand
from these materials the Platform of the Amer.
; lean Party is formed-a Party whose rise and
progress is without parallel inpoliticaI histo.
ry, and whose object none was ever more ex-
alted--the preservation in its pristine purity o
the American Union. Despoiled of their prin
e clples, the Wing and Democratic Parties are
: Gillette and rotten--the soul has transmigrated
j to another body, and left nothing but gloomy
theme on which the lightest heart might NOR
6 alize." That the principles of the American
Party are not mere distractions, bnt eminentl,
practical, and loudly demanded by the near ap
proach ofa crisis, created and creating by thu
bitterness of party and sectional zeal, which
promised no abatement under the old orpaniza
l tions, is proved by the alacrity, with which
, those principles are eSpoused by the best por.
tlon of the American people regardless of old
political animosities. We have au abiding
faith In the judgment and patriotism of our
countrymen. To say that they are following
an ignis tatuus, or ar being carried away BY
an ogre of political monstrosity, is libel upon
the American name and is assuming charac.
ter for superior purity and wisdom by our op-
ponents, which their Ola podrIda ranks will
t not warrant. Ours is charged with being a
Whig institution. If so, all honor to those
Democrats, who forgetting party bonds and
party prejudices for the sake of the Union, have
disinterestedly surrendered their chances for
political promotion, in leaving the ranks of a
dominant party. 1t is the brightest page in
political history--the religion of patriotism and
the poetry of politics. But we present to-day
70 our readers the Platform and Principles of
Inc American Party, Let no one hereafter
characterize it as Wing or Democrat, though
4 |. would honor either. The antagonism of
tne Old parties was daily drawing the Ameri,
3 can people farther and farther assunder--tbe
unity ol patriotlc sentiment in the new, is unit
ing them again in undiss oluble bonds. AboI;.
tionism In the North and Secessionism in the
South, were making fearful inroads upon the
domains of Constitutional duty, but when the
danger became most imminent silent, an
unseen yet powerful monitor, like the conscience
whispered, peace, be STILL" This monitor is
our Party.