Daily American organ., 1856-02-20
The PeopIe,s PIatform.

AMERICANS SHALL Rule AMERICA.
The American party has been constructed
upon the basis that Americans shall rule
America" This is the great principle which
lies at the foundation Of our government It's
the principle for which our Revolutionary sires
fought snd bled. A foreign government sought
by oppression and tyranny to extirpate the
principle Of Republicanism which first sprang
into actual existence in the colonies. Against
this foreign power, our forofathers arrayed
themselves, and ii was to protect and estab-
lish the principle that Americans should rule
America-that they resolved to conquer or
die" 1t has fallen 10 the lot of the present
generation to re-assert this great principle;
and the conflict in which we are now engaged
is full Of interest to the sons of those sires. II
is the second American Revolution; and against
it as in times Of yore, a foreign foe is arrayed,
urged on to the contest by those who have
proven shamelessly recreant to the teachings of
the immortal Washington, and have ruthlcssly
tredden under foot the great bulwarks Of
American liberty.
Power, which the trainers of our constitution
labored so zealously to diffuse among the mass
es, has been concentrated into the hands of
few unprincipled and corrupt partisan leaders
and by them used and employed to promote
their own selfish aims and sinister purposes !;
and the struggle now Is between the masses
the people-and the politicians; the one seek
ing to regain that which is theirs by right, the
other to hold on to that which they have OBJ
tanned by intrigue, chicanery, cunning devices
and soft blandishments--the peculiarities of
demagogues, by which they have heretofore
swayed the people into their support
To accomplish this great, this noble purpose,
the people have planted themselves upon the
platform upon which their Revolutionary sires
stood, viz "that Americans shall rule America" "
andresolved that henoeforth and forever foreign
influence shall be at an end. 1t was to be ex-
pected that all the power Of the Federal Gov
ernment, which is now in the possession of a
set Of demagogues, whose only characteristic
is total want of principle and political hon.
esty, would assail this great principle with all
the animosity and rancor of spirit common to
the desperate and to traitors. These are
times that try mems souls" and the humblest
advocate and supporter of the principle first
enunciated by Washington and his compatri-
OTIS, need not expect to escape the malignity
and venom with which this administration and
it's followers pursue all who are ariayed
against its usurpations and its power. Then let
us buckle on our armor, and, resolving ito
conquer or die" march boldly to the field of
battle and there confront the enemies Of our
liberty and the foes Of our domestic peace and
tranquility.
Pursue them to the bitter end, pause not
one moment nor falter until victory is achieved.
It is our legacy to reassert the principle that
Americans shall rule America," and it is our
duty to battle for the supremacy of that prin-
ciple until the last ray of hope has passed
away, and the last liberty y-loving American
shall have fallen in its defence. Our enemies
contend not for principle, but for power, and
their rank and file are but mercenaries
How striking is the parallel between them
and the English cohorts whom our forefathers
met at Bunker Hill, Concord, and Lexington !;
and, if we bear up against the tide of misfor
tunes which threatened to sweep away the pa
triots of the Revolution, with the same cool
ness, courage and determination, which anima-
ted them, our triumph will be equally as signal
and complete, and the oldest of us will live to
see the last vestge of foreignism and dema-
goguism swept away forever.
Why then dispairp Ours is mighty army
of patriots, and if we have been, by traitors
within our camp, decoyed away from the true
line Of duty, it has occasioned but delay and a
momentary embarrassment and taught us the
necessity of thorough reconnaissance of the
whole ground; then, again we say, let us
buckle on our armor and resolve" to conquer or
dien
WILKINsvILLE, Ca, Feb. l5, 1855.