Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-27

TREAT stress - laid upon the assumed 0ct,
that Mr. Evans 10 the author Of the Philad61phis
platform, onwklsh Mr., Fladsre ws u>minats$
There Is MOI one woyd OF trsdh ip this Gt1temot4
and this is not the first time we have coq$Ssdictc
it through the columns of ths Organ. IN
I'VE desire TO contradict it more e4bctuaIy
noac and to put m end to tho question IL Involves.
We say, then, that the platform, as originally in
troduced into the Chief Council Of the District Of
Columbia. was framed and Writte,l lsolsly by the
editor Of this paper 7; that il was adopted by the
District Council With change of not more than
half dozen words, and recommended to the Ma
tional Council for its adoption that Mr.. Evans
and ourself were delegates 10 the National O0unci
that Mr.. Evans, at Our request, presented II to
that Council that Mr.. Danenhower, Of Illinois
struck out some half dozen lines from the l4th
section, and added the 10th section to it. and thus
it was adopted by the National Council n
Whether, therefore, the platform may be con-
sidered good bad, or indifferent--w its pa
ternty involves or credit-whether il is Of
none or Of much Importance who framed it, the
facts are stated and Mr.. Evans, who never claim
ed its authorship, we trust will hereafter escape
the reproach which the anti Americans have cast
upon him, and we shall ourself cheerfully receive
from them whatever further abuse may be in store
for u.s." 81 49, @ q
Now, then, we reaffirm that Mr.. Evans was
not the author of the American platform, for
whose supposed authorship he has been so
much abused, nor is he a Black Republican"
He has for many weeks past been doing good
service in the cause of Fillmore and Donelson,
and is q sound National American.
As the rit-Rapper, after charging that
\" the editor of the Americaa Organ was a.
Black Republican" explained by an editorial
that he meant French s. Evans, Esq, of this
city, we find no necessity for further abiding
to that charge than to say, that any man who
shall, in any form or shape impute to US any
concurrence Of opinion or any political sympa-
thy with Republicanism, is base calumniator.
We do not regard it as being of the slightest
consequence soho wrote the American platform.
It speaks for itself, and must bejudged by the
principles which it proclaims, and not by its
paternity. That portion Of theplatform which
has reference to the Territorial questions was
almost literally copied from the provisions Of
the Utah and New Mexico bills of $50, which
met the appreciation of the conservative men
of the whole country, and, rs to its other pro-
visions, we feel entirely satisfied that the more
thoroughly they are discussed and considered,
the more generally they will be approved.
Some politicians have assumed that the plat.
form does not sufficiently guard the peculiar
institutions of the South, because slavery is j
not by name alluded to therein. Such wise
acres, to be consistent, Ga quality for which
the sham Democrats are not very much dis
tinguished,0 mast then admit that the Federal
Constitution does not protect slavery, for that
term is not contained in any part of the Con-
sttution, nor Is this institution referred to ex-
cept in the provision for the reclamation Of
persons bound to service in one State esca-
ping into another" The Constitution provides
for, the return Of slave escaping from his
owner, but has no provision for the mainte-
naHce of slavery in the States.
Yet Southern politicians generally maintain,
that the Federal Constitution protects the
rights Of slave owners who voluntarily take
their slaves into any of the Territories Of the
United States. Be this position true or not,
we maintain, and always expect to maintain,
that political platforms afford but an uncertain
and precarious protection to the rights of the
South. Their rights are protected by higher,
more certain, and more enduring authority
than the platforms of politicians. That day
will be sad day for the South, when her pc
tculiar institutions shall depend for protection,
upon ephemeral platforms, framed by party
conventions. Yet, to the utmost extent of
the power Of such conventions to guarantee
to the South, and to all other portions Of the
country, the protection Of their local or gene
raj rights, the American platform contains
declarations Of principles avowedly for the
purpose Of affording this protection.
The esprit" Rapper has made an exhibit
ton Of borrowed aOat, by repeating the silly
remark Of Republican from Indiana, who
with professions of Americanism on his lips
had found his way into the National Council,
and who, when the platform was presented,
made a speech distinguished for hostilityto
the conservative doctrines Of the National
American party, and among other things said
that the doctrines of the platform were clothed
in SO much "verbiage," that the people would
be a long time in finding out what they WERE
1t is fit that the Esprit Rapper should make
draft upon an Indiana Black Republican,
for his aoit, and it has certainly an admirable
point when copied by press which sustains
the Cincinnati platform, which is thrice the
length of the American platform, and which
was made to suit all nations and all times, ex-
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