Washington telegraph., 1856-04-09
The True Position of the Candidates of
the American Party. and the Real Ma
ture of the Platform of the Party.


the American Party. and the Real Ma
ture of the Platform of the Party.
To the reader who desires to have a
correct understanding of the position of
FILLMORE and DoNELsoN, and of the
nature of the platform upon which they
stand, two extracts, one from THURLow
WEEDS Albany EUening Journal. and
the other from the Cincinnati Gazette,
to be found in another column, are of
peculiar significance, indicative as they
are of the opinion in which our candi-
dates are held by the Abolition party;
and rejecting, as they clearly and fairly
do, the tone and spirit of the journals
in the service of that infamous faction
1t is in vain to attempt to evade the
conclusion which forces itself upon the
judgment of every man who candidly
investigates the facts in this natter
The opponents of the American Party
force upon this party an issue. The
former contending that the latter afiili
ate with, and are recognized as, associ-
ates, devoted to the accomplishment of
an identical object, by the Black Repub
lican party. The latter deny the cor
rectness of the positions assumed by
the former being the party i'm
peached, so far from attempting to dodge
the issue, court investigation, and rely
ing upon the facts in the premises, ap-
peal confidently to the good sense of the
people for an acquittal from charges the
most frivolous, and imputations ground
less and unsubstantial
The opposition do not fail to hold IN
terrorena, over the heads of the Ameri-
can Party, garbled and highly-wrought
pictures, or rather caricatures, Of the pro-
ceedings of the recent Philadelphia Con-
ventiOn- That an attempt on the part
of certain emissaries of the Black Re
publican cohorts, to infuse into that
body the spirit of the elements, which
unite to make AbolitiOnism the hideous
monster which it is, was made, We do
not pretend to deny. But while We ad-
NIT this, We Can point with triumph to
the struggle against this effort at fusion,
which ensued, and to the final and COM
plete overthrow of those maIcontents and
conspirators, who placed upon record
their failure to accomplish their ends,
and sealed their condemnation of the
of the American Platform
and its candidates, by public protest
against it and against them, and against
those, whose determination to return to
their constituents, free from the taint
of sectiOnalism, drove them from com
munion for which they were unified by
nature We will pursue the train of
thought to which these reflections give
rise, step further, and notice propo-
sition which the opposition submit, to
the effect, that the failure of these pseudo
representatives of the Northern wing of
the party to cooperate with the Nation
al Council, must be received as testi-
mony, proving positively the failure to
Nationalize the party-by merely remark
ing, that the action Of these boilers. SO
far from sustaining the proposition which
they lay down, proves cohclusiyely, that,
the denial of which, is the slogan of
the opposition in the war which they
now wage: a. e., the American party is in
all its essentials the party which the
South, to secure its welfare and the per-
manency of its Institutions, demands
reasoning, not from the particular
action of few disorganizers to the gen.
eral character of the Convention and
probable result of its labors-but arcu-
ing from the general nature of their
acts, to the particular effects which they
produced, it must become apparent to
the candid mind, which will admit the
deduction which legitimately follows
that the South can safely rely upon the
measures, which were spurned by those
who openly oppose and seek to trample
upon her rights-and that the conserya-
tive men of all sections can unite uDon
platform which finds no favor with the
ultra men of either section. And re-
gardlng the seeeders from the Philadel-
phla Convention as interlopers, and con-
ceIyIng, IN common with the supporters
OF the ticket which floats at our mast
head, that they were In no respect au-
thorlzed to reflect the opinions of the
American Party, We look upon the little
drama which they enacted as an cpl
sode, the memory of which will live on
ly IN the minds of those who PLAYED
each his shameful part therein, and which
viii have no direct bearing upon the
result, which is looked forward to with
SO much solicitation by those who aim
at the political regeneration of the coun-
try This expulsion Of the representa-
tives OF the SEWARD and GREELEY in
terest, taken in connection with the viz
uIent iDcoSsanf and rYnSraorioor dar7,ro: