Washington telegraph., 1856-04-30
From the Gazette 4 Democrat.
The American Convention.


On Monday, the 2sth inst, the Ameri-
,.n narty, of the State of Arkansas, meet
n Convention in this city, for the purpose
af nominating candidate for Governor,
and four candidates for Presidential Elect
ors and transacting such other business as,
IN their judgment, is necessary to advance
T. mood cause of Americanism in Arkan
sas-
On the second Monday in May, the Am
eriican party of the Northern District of this
State. will hold Convention, at Jackson
nort. for the purpose of nominating candi-
d,te for Congress in that district
On the third Monday in May. the Amer
icsn party. in the Southern District, will
hold a Convention. at Hot Springs. for the
nuruOse of nominating a candidate for Con-
Iress in that district
The American party enter into the COM
ing contest with singular advantages-and
if they DO not carry the State, the fault will
he with themselves. Their advantages are:
fra-a majority of the voters of the State;
and sec0nd-a party which is unit, and
las no sectional or factional divisions.
The effort of the enemies Of American
ism viii be to weaken our party by resort
inc to every means to induce desertions :;
and by attempting to throw the fire e-brands
Of dissensiOns among US. If Americans
are true to themselves these efforts of our
enemies viii not only be disgraceful failures.
but will recoil. with telling and fearful
effect, on their own party.
The American Marty docs NOT ,pDoor h.
fore the people, like their opponents, in all
the ''POmp and circumstance" Of war: but,
ike the youthful David. in doing battle
against the giant of Gath, they put their
trust in Gcd- They make an humble ac-
knOwledgment to the Supreme Being for
His protecting care vouchsafed to our faith
ers in their successful revolutionary strug-
gIe, and hitherto manifested to us, their de-
scendants, in the preservation of liberties,
the Independence, and the union of these
States
They declare in favor of the perpetua-
ton of the Federal Union and Constitution,
as the palladium Of our civil and religious
liberties, and the only sure bulwark of Am
erican independence
They hold that, as Americans are capable
Of self-gOyeInment, they should govern
themselves. and not be subjected to the rule
Of foreigners
They oppose the emigration of the refuse
population of the old world to our shores,
and the cOnferring of the rights of citizen
ship upon them, because In those corrupt
masses they see eDgermed disease-moral
and pOiItlcal-which, if allowed to infect,
viii canker the very heart of our body pol
tie.
They see, in the emigration of these
hordes Of the scum of the population of the
Old world, not only moral and political dis
ease, but the damning plague Of Abolition
ism, which threatens the institutions Of the
South, and the union of these States
These foreigners come to our shores with
PreconceIyed notions of hostility to our in
sut:on~. as shown by the fact that almost
the entire foreign emigration is landed in
the free States, where they become citizens,
aud add to the swelling tide of Abolition
i'm which already threatens to engulph our
Union-whieh. indeed. breaches disunion
as the best means of achieving its treasona-
bic ends As giving the views of the
Northern Democracy On this subject, the
Chicago Democrat, leading Democratic
paper says: The same Democratic pria-
cpLes that make us DETEsT SLAVERY,
make rs anxious for a healthy foreign
enzig5atiOn, as tie best nacans of GETTING
RID OF IT.
On this subject. no national party ever oc-
eupIed position SO favorable to the South
as the American party. As has been the
case with all national conventions, some alb
clsiOnists crept into both of the American
conventions, which assembled at Philadel-
PIMA But unlike all other national con-
ventICns, the action of both of these Amer
lean conventions was so tue to the South
and the country. that the abolitionsts were
drlven out by it. When did a convention
Ct toe old Democratic or Wing parties ever
drive out the abolitionists BY its action in
iayor Of the South? 1t is part of the po-
Itlcal history of the country, that the nomi-
natIOn of Gen. Scott was achieved by the
abolltiOnists, at the head of whom was Mr.
Seward, Of New York. 1t is part of the
same political history. that Gen. Pierce was
supported by the Soft Shell, Abolition De-
mOcrats of New York; and, in gratitude for
this support, his administration has proscrib-
ed and broken down Mr. Dickenson, and
the Hard Shell Democracy of New York
the only portion of the New York Democ-
faey which has always been the true and
SteadtaSt friends of the South
1t is true that. pending the organization
OF Congress, the Americans made several
PROPOSITIONS to organize on the basis of op-
POSITION to the Black Republican party. 1t.
Is also true that these propositions were al
ways repudiated by the Administration par
or voted down conformity by them and
The abOlitionists.
1t is true that the plurality rule. under
Which Mr- Banks was elected Speaker, and
Which had been demanded from the first.
" Horace Greely, and his abolition Co
Workers, was moved by a member of the
ADMINISTRATION party (Mr. Smith of Ten
hessee, } and carried by the aid Of abolition
Votes. It is true, that if part of the
irends of the administration. in Congress
Vncluding Mr.. Richardson, Of Illinois, had
not deserted Mr. Akin, and failed to vote