Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-02

oonure you TO believe me, fellow-ctzens the jeal-
ousy OF free people ought TO be constantly awake;
snce history and experience prove that foreign In
duence 10 Of the most banefu foes OF republican
governmentD-- WasAington.
" i hope we may find some MEANS in future Of
shielding ourselves from foreign influence, POLITICAL
commercial or in Whatever form it may be attempted
can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the
wish Of Silas Dean that there were an ocean of fire
between this and the old world .'"-Jsfoson
AT a regular meeting of the National Council, Of
the american Party, begun and held at Philadel-
phia, on the 9Th of June, a. d., 1855, the fol-
looing ,cas adopted as The Platform and Prin-
ciples of the Orqanization.
1.-The acknowledgment of that Almighty Be
ing, who rules over the Universe, who presidss
over the councils of nations,-who conducts the
affairs of men, and who, in every step by which
we have advanced to the character of an indcpen-
dent nation, has distinguished us by some token OF
Providental agency.
1.-THE cultivation and development of SEN
timent of profoundly intense American feeling OF
passionate attachment to our country, its history
and its institutions of admiration for the purer
days Of our nat .onal existence of veneraton, for
the heroism that precipitated our Revolution and
of emulation of the virtue, wisdom, and patriotism
that framed our constitution and first successfully
applied its provisions.
IH.-The maintenance of the union of these
United States the paramount political good; or,
to use the language of Washington, the primary
object of pstriotic desire" And hence
lst. Opposition to all attempts to weaken or
subvert it.
i Cd. Uncompremising antagonism to every prin-
cple of policy that endangers it.
Sd. The advocacy of an equitable adjustment of
all political differences which threaten its integrity
or perpetuity.
4th. The suppression of all tendencies to politi-
cal division, founded on geographical discrimi-
tho hall af hat ia n
ence of interests and views" between the various
sections of the Union.
9th. TIE full recognition of the rights of the
several States as expressed and reserved in the
Constitution; and a careful avoidance, by the
General Government, of all interference with their
rights by legislative or executive action:
TIV.-Obedience to the Constitution of these Uni
ted States, as the supreme law of the land, sacred
ly obligatory upon all its parts and members; and
steadast resistance to the spirit Of innovation upon
its principles, however specious the pretexts
Avowing that in all doubtful or disputed points it
may only be legally ascertained and expounded by
the judicial power Of the United States
And, as q corollary to the above :
l. A habit Of reverental obedience to the law,
whether National, State, or Municipal, until they
are either repealed declared unconstitutional by
the proper authority.
3. A tender and sacred regard for those. acts Of
craftsmanship, which are to be contrad stingushed
from acts Of ordinary legislation, by the fact Of
their being of the nature of compacts and agree
ments and 90, to be considsred fixed and settled
national policy.
VA radical revision and modification Of the
laws regulating immigration, and the settlement Of
immigrants Offering to the honest immigrant who,
from love of liberty hatred of oppression seeks
an asylum in the United States, friendly recep-
ton and protection. But unqualfedly condemn
ing the transmission to our shores of felons and
paupers.
VI-The essential modification of the Natural
ization Laws.
The repeal by the Legislatures of the respective
States, of all State laws allowing foreigners not
naturalized to vote.
The repeal, without retroactive operation, of all
acts Of Congress making grants of land to unnat-
uralized foreigners, and allowing them to vote in
the Territories.
VIL--Hostility to the corrupt means by which
the leaders Of party have hitherto forced upon us
our rulers and our political creeds
Implacabe enmity against the prevalent demoral-
izng system of rewards for political subserviency,
and Of punisbments for political independence.
Disgust for the wild hunt after Office which char
acterzes the age.
These on the one hand. On the other:--
Imitation of the practice of the purer days of
the Republic; and admiration of the maxim that
"office should seek the man, and not man the Of
fce,n and of the rule that the just mode of ascer-
tanning fitness for Office is the capabiity, the faith
fulness, and the honesty of the incumbent or can
didate.
VIII-Resistance to the aggressive policy and
corrupting tendencies of the Roman Catholic
Church in our country by the advancement to all
political Legislative, judicial, or
diplomotic---of those only who do not hold civil
allegiance, directly indirectly, to any foreign
power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, and>who are
Americans by birth, education and training-thus
fulfilling the maxim: "AMERICANs ONLY SHALL
GOVERN AMERICA
The protection of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise of their civil and religious rights
and privileges; the maintenance OF the right OF
every man to the full unrestrained, and peaceful
enjoyment Of his own religious opinions and wor-
ship, and jealous resistance Of all attempts by any
sect, denomination church. to obtain an ascen-
dency any other in the State, by means of any
special privileges or exemption, by any political
combination Of its members, or by division OF
their civil allegiance with any foreign power, po-
tentate, or ecclesiastic. at If
National Legislature, by elevatng TO that dignihed
and responable position men of higher qualifca-
tons, purer morals, and more unsel6sh patriotism.
X.-The restriction Of executive patronage, es-
pecally in the matter Of appointments to Office, so
far 10 may be permitted by the Constitution and
consistent with the public good.
XI.-The education Of the youth of our country
in schools provided by the State which schools
shal be common to alsii' outii stinction Of creed