American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-11-08
The American Party IN Ohio.


true American to look back over the bisto-
tory Of our party in Ohio, now only about
eighteen months old. Last fall We swept
evory thing in the State and elected our
State ticket by majority Unprecedented
in the annals Of the State, while every
county but six or eight elected their entire
county ticket. We then became the object
OF such billingsgate and abuse as was new
er heaped upon any party or set of men
banded together for political reform; still
we held our onward way. Another con-
tqst has come and gone; as before we have
elected our entire State ticket by $4,000
$1,000 ajority, excepting the Governor,
and have also elected handsome number
of tho officers in majority of the counties
of the State. These are results Of which
we may we'll be proud.
For the last twenty years the people of
our country have been flying from party
to party, If possible, to rid themselves of
merciless Demagoguos and Treasury Eat
ers. Scarcely had the first echo from an
American Victory IN tile East reached our
Western States, until, as if by magic the
great mass Of the people sought to know
the principles of the new party. Scarcely
had the enquiry beon made until they were
laid at our very threshold. Since that
time the principles have passed through
several Slight notifications until in Ohio
we published our platform to tho world
For somo time past they have stood, and
shall stand at the head of our columns
They show to the Worll a code Of princi-
pies unsurpassed by any party that has ev-
er existed in the Union. Let us consider
them,-we have,
:, |. Tho unlimited Freedom Of Religion discornsct-
vita politics Hostility toecglc Influences
upon tho, affairs Of GovGcnmen--Equalty of rights
u all nauralized Emigrunts who are th0roaghlg I'm
tSicari.ed, and We owe no temporal allegiance, by
REASON of their religion, higher than that of tbs Con
s.,t ition.
This spoaks for itself in as plain and
forcble language as the pen of any autho:
could indite it,-and while it finds re-
sponse in the bosom of every true Ameri.
can and breathes the spirit of our early in.
stitutions, yet there are to be found dena-
gegaes bearing the simlitude of men who
have the hardihood to attack it, but in all
cases the blows have recoiled upon theil
own heads, For this principle did the
Colonies struggle and finally establish GU,
glorious Republic. The cxtpank in oul
platform is,
- No ntorrerosco viii the rights of citizenship al
r1ady acquired BY Foreigners, and tho protection
law to all WHO honestly emigrac from love OF llbcr
W; ibe exclusion of foreign paupcrS and felOns
aud refusal 10 crtcad the rglt Of saTrlgs to al pie
CONS hereafter until they shall have rosded 81 year.
in tbs U. States AMI compiled with Naturaliz 'lior
Laws.
1t is one of the high boasts Of the Amer
icaa thatupon oar soil all lovers of liberty
shall find safe and secure asylum from
the bloolthirsty votaries Of tyranny; butir
extending this protection they ask only
that the foreigner shall place himself on {
level with the american born and serve hi
probation Of twenty-onc years ere lie seek
voice of those institutions which hayt
cost our FATHERS so much toll and Blood
When we cast our eye back over the bat
tie fields of the Revolution, the suffering
ofthe Colonists, and above all, the teaching
of the great Father of his Country, viii
will say that we can guard our libertie
with too strong an arm. We are hapP,
to know that in this last resolution a Grea
body of our intelligent foreigners agre
with us,
B. Opposition to all political organizations compos
cd crctusircly Of Foreigners, end 70 Foreiga Aiti
tary Companies, and to all attempts 10 ercfafe N
Bf5le from the schools supported By TIC G0cer@
meat.
This resolution also speaks as plainly a
tongue could tell it. The Americans hay,
at all times been the guardians Of religion
disconnected with politics as well as th
peoples Colleges" 1.-THE Common School
Of the country. Veneratich for religion i
ono Of the characteristic traits OF an Amer
ican, and all attempts to exclude the Bibl
from our schools and seminaries would b,
indignantly rebuked, Hence it is that tn
attempts in several portions of the UnioI
by certain Religious sect to exclude th
Bible from our COMMON schools have me
the solemn condemnation of the American
party.
4. Slavery is ioeal-not nationai:-Wo oppose it
extension in any of the terrltorlesnd the increase
its political power by the admission into the Union
any Slave State or otherwise and We demand of tn
General Government an immediate redress OF tht
great wrongs which have been inflicted upon thI
cause of Freedom and tho American character b!
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the in
PRODUCTION Of Slavery into Kansas In violation of law
by OF arms, and tho destruction of the elective
franchise.
This resolution is one peculiar to the A
merican party of Ohio, and one that wa
demanded by the gross outrage upon the
free States by the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska swindle and the repeal of thu
Missouri Compromise by the present Ad
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