Washington telegraph., 1856-06-04
From the Washington ID. C.) Organ.
AMERICANISM N ARKANSAS
FOE IMMIGRATION.

AMERICANISM N ARKANSAS.
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
We publish to-day. with the highest sat
Isfac,ion and pleasure. The patriotic proceed.
ings OF the American party. at Little Rock.
the capital OF Arkansas. They breathe the
true spirit. aud manifest an earnest devotion
20 the principles in issue in the present CON
test They will inspirit and encourage our
friends in every section OF the Union. II
viii be borne in alind, that a prominent
delegate from the State of Arkansas. IN the
Philadelphia Convention, last February.
Withdrew theretrCm, upon the adoption Of
the present platform, refusing to sanction
the proceedings Of said Convention, and
that fears were entertained by many that
the new platform would not be acceptable
TO the Americans of. that State. The reso-
luiIOns Row plesehteG from Arkansas, have
dissIpaied all such fears. The American
party there have in emphatic terms. and
With an entire unanimi:y. endorsed and ap-
proved the platform and the nominations
The integrity of the party in Arkansas re
mains unlmPalred. and the highest degree
OF confidence Is felt, ;ha; we shall carry the
State next November. Political results,
more marvellous than this prediction. have
been witnessed.
CJntemporaueously with the reception of
the proceedings above referred 10. and
which viii be found in another column. we
have received a letter from one of the most
intelligent and reliable gentlemen in Arkan
sas-a gentleman well known TO us. and for
whose tful6tulness we vouch-from which
letter We copy the following brief extracts,
to Wit
"One thing with US is unquestionable
now. that. in all parts of Arkansas, both the
hesc platform and fte aa0a1inations are
Teceired avith atasQuai5fea appreciation
and delfgjtt:- and not only do the Ameri-
cans proper, but the old line Wings, and
the old National Democrats; who have here
t0fore stood al0of from our organization -
uien of independence of ihousht and action,
and not Office seekers or parasites-approve
Of 1t as pure, conservative. national ticket,
and Will support it. If the native Ameri-
cans elsewhere stand firm, aud we do our
whole duty here, as indications now affirm.
Arkansas will support Fillmore and Donel-
son, and reform her State administration
We are aware that Arkansas is one Of
those States set down by almost universal
assent as certain for any nominee presented
by the pseudo Democratic party but we are
far, very far from believing that, because it
has hitherto been Democratic by a large
comparative majority Of votes. it must now
sustain sham Democracy. mixed up with
Popery and deinagoguisn On the contra
ry. we may affirm, as an undeniable fact
that the f'ytnctpIes of the American party
have taken as deep root in Southern as in
Northern soil-in Democratic as in Whig
hrarts-and the day is not distant when
this truth will be exhibited in political re-
suits. and be confessed ever by our btterest
enemies. If it had not been for the false.
grOuudless, and shameless Representations
made by the Administration party at The
South. thA AmeTicaniSns aC,is allied to
Ab0titiOntSha, and if color mad not been
given 10 these representations by the hypoc-
risy OF such men as Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts, and those other traitors In
the North who entered the American party
for the now avowed purpose of destroying it,
the American party at this hour wonld be
in possession of the State Governments
throughout the whole South. from Maryland
to Texas. The people of the South are now
undeceived on this point. and no man can,
at this day, be io;.ad there. with sufficient
impudence and effroniery TO repeat the stale
calumny by which. in 1856, Virginia and
nearly every other Southern State were
driven from the support of American doe
trines Not one solitary professed anti
slavery agitator at the North. Susiains the
present American platform Not one such
man sustains tie American nominations -
Not one of the Chases, Wilson's. Weeds.
Greeleys. Stewards. Bentons. Summers. Cid
'ilngses. WIimois. WadeS, BlairS.-nOt a
single one of those red-mOuthed Slacery
dSttGtOrs. nor any one allied to- or connect
ed WIKI such men. sustains the American
platform Or American nominations This
we'll known. uudisputed, and iadiSputable
feet. that EACH aud every such man, through
out the North. Is warmly and Violently op-
posed to the American movement, 50 RsltLv
and loudly contradicts the idea tina; theI e
is any affinity OF alliance between Ameri-
canisln and Abolitionism, that go man but
! the yeriest trickster could now be induced