Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-18
WASHINGTON D. G, THURSDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 49, 1885,


The followino nroamhle and reaolufiona
io.owns PloaampA0 ss1u S:e:''s.'s !,
aTP 1uoP.ou =. nass naoosinS " ic S4" Sn0'S i i
washington, on the 1Ifh DAY OF ceptemDei
last present the general sentiments OF the
" American partyn In this city, and will doubt
Iaas ~ .,oad ,,,;th ;ntarast ~ the fr;ends y,
xa-s ,...:..,,.. ss,.,c,,,.,,,S,,t tha .o,,,,t,,,
american PrihcipioS .iivus'iou' 'ii0 oou'uy "
Whereas a public meeting Of citizens Of Washing
ton was held at Carusi's Saloon on the 10th instant
upon . call made in and approved by the Executive
organ, the proceedings OF which, in the resolutions
saH to have been adoptcd at that meeting and In the
speeches Of certain selected orators at subsequent
adjourned meeting are now spread before the public
eve in the columns Of said organ, and its kindred
presses, with appreciation: ana whereas said resou
patriotism asl,ad principles dear 70 the American
heart and necessary TO the safety Of the constitution
and to the peace and prosperity of our country; and
whereas the Executive is invoked therein to remove
from public employment such oiceholders as enter
tain those prinoSpes thereby TO perpetrato ruthless
prescription Of both Wings and Democrats for an
honest difference Of oninion therefpre--
RssolDsd That mere professions Of love to the con.
stitution and to civil and religious freedom, when
and vipilsnt guardians Of American liberty. whose
apprehensions have been excited at behofdinr the
strides that have been made toward complete con
troll Of our government by the subjects Of foreign
potentate well-known as the avowed enemy of our
whole American system. to whose overthrow they
are solemniy devoted.
ResolUea That a yrilant custodians Of that bene-
cent system Of civil and religious freedom beuneath-
Ia meet and renal ali nsidious attacks nnon our liz
critics as well "a All oman assaults ana that we vie
with moderation and alarm the Insertion Of prnci
nlas and nurnoses on the mart Of the recounsed ex
ponents of tbo Roman Catholic Church in he United
States subyersiye of our republican institutions.
which Constitute aOuressions ~ snch 4 charnnterr
that if not now resisted will lead at no distant day,
10 the overthrow Of the American Constitution and
the complete establishment Of despotism.
Resolped That while. in the mast notical d;visions
Of the country. as Wfirs and Democrats. we have
strurrled in honest conflict over contested prnciles
and measures Mi Of which are now settled vet IN
the present crisis Of danger 10 ali that both parties
Mold daar wa ,viI, hurv evarv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT r. mat
ornos;t;nn and unlodce ~ aacb othar orr Ivea omr
forunes and our sacred honoro net To cease orr ex
ertions until our country shall be freed from the
DANCERS that nav menaces n
Rssospsd That wa nroclairn M the cardinal nrnc;.
ples of onr nntical and moral creed sacred rerard
E,r The constittion n all IL nrovsions unon which
are based our glorious American rinciDles-freedom
Of speech freedom Of opinion. freedom Of conscience,
for the d;f,s;on az ntelIsrence sancted Nv nm
Rbe tha r,,la nf faith ana nractica hodnr as an
eatahlsbed nrnc;nle that inteIicence and vrfa arc
essential to the success Of q free e0oyernment
the victims Of tyranny from foreign lands and offer
them nlnce Nv our aide under tbe ahield of our
stitution we claim for Americans the right 10 govern
their own country: and those who do not Ike our
government have our hearty consent to 90 elsewhere
II the pursuit Of happiness
Rsso1oed That the fourth resolution of the meeting
at Carusi Saloon recommending to the President q
the United States prescription Of all officers of the
federal government who may have thought fit TO be-
come members Of the association Of Know Knoth-
ings--a Recommendation which. before its adoption.
had been recognised and acted upon by the Execu-
tive Of the Tinted States an alarming and
=
ment and calls for the prompt and decisive rebuke
Of all the free citizens OF these United States without
distinction Of party sect or creed
Resolced That every Protestant denomination in
the United States maintains the constitutional prin-
cple of separation of Church and State--in which
principle many American Catholics sincerely concur,
while on the other hand, the Papal Church abroad
openly, and always, and everywhere maintains the
authority, both in Europe and America; the sad and
ruineus effects Of which, in the one, are seen in
countless emigrants flying from its tyranny and
misery TO our own happy land and in the other in
the Ignorance and poverty of the masses. In the
wealth and vices Of the clergy and in the coaseess
instructions massacrcs and proverbal instability
of our Southern sister Reuublics
Resolved That upon these principles we appeal
from the opinions whose nroclamatsson has ear,aed
dis meeting. to the ueops Of T he United States
and although we might infer they are an exponent
of executive feelings from the official positions Of
those who controlled the proceedings vet we will still
hope that the President, who alone has the power.
viii arrest the prescription already begun of hitbfu
oflice-boIders both Democrats and who's for daring
to entertain American and Protestanf sentiments
and will reject the mercenary su0oestion urued uror
him by The fourth resolution of the meeting ast week
as covert scheme 10 crafty the annette OF office
seekers at the expense Of MANY who zealously nnd
efBciently aided IN his elevation 10 power and yboss
removal under existing circumstancer will 6r an IN.
delbe stain uron him "a \ man and a the Presideu,
Of the United States
Rosolpad. That having seen the deuuncations tha,
almost daily issue from certain presses auainst thr
sSresd an The s,aS ttSrSus factions which distract