Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-01
WHOLE NO. 1886,


soIs---An American convention was held at Spring
field, IIinoI, January 18th, 1856, for the Sixth
Congressional District, for the purpose of choosing
delegate and two alternates to the Presidential
Nominating Convention, to be held in Philadelphia
on the 22d Of February, All portions of ths dis
trict was represented.
j. M. Allen, of Springfield appointed Chairman,
and A. J. Brooks, Of Manard county, Secretary.
The object OF the meeting was stated, and the
convention proceeded to ballot.
j. M. Allen, Of Sarymon, was elected delegate
J. A. A. Rankin, of Manard county, and Walter
Davis, of Sarymon, were elected alternates.
The convention then appointed Congressional
Committee Of five, viz:
J. M. Allen, Of Springfield, Sarymon county s..
5. Allard, of Virginia, Cass county; j. G. Kilpat-
rick, Winchester, Scott county; Joshua Gailford,
of Shelbyville, Shelby county and A. J. Brooks,
of Petersburg, Manard county.
After which they passed the following resoIu-
tons
RESOLVED, That Millard Fillmore is the first choice
Of the American party Of the sixth Congressional
district for the Presidency. That in him we recog-
Mise the patriot statesman the executive officer of
tried integrity devotedly attached to the Constitu-
ton and Union.
Resolved, That we hold Clayton, Crittenden, @.
Davis Bell, Houston, and many other eminent
members of the American party worthy of the
ever may be the candidates of our party for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, deserves and shall
receive the warm and cordial support of the Amer
lean party of this Congressional district
Resolved, That we have abiding confidence in
the Judgment Of delegate to the, National Con-
yention, and that while expressing our preference
we leave him uninstructed to act as he believes
most conducive to the harmony Of the party and
welfare of the country
RESOLVED, That our Secretary forward the pro-
ceedings of our Convention to the Native Citizen
(Chcago) and the Illinois Journal, for publication,
with the request that all papers friendly to the
American cause copy and that they be signed by
the Chairman and Secretary. r
The Convention then adjourned.
j. NJ. ALLEN, President.
A. j. Brooks, Secretary.
The following resolutions, unanimously adopted
by the combined councils of the city of Richmond,
on the oath inst are republshed this morning,
because of the accidental omission in Saturdays
issue of the latter portion of the last resolution,
which is now supplied:
Att called meeting of the combined councils,
held at their room on Thursday evening, Gath In
stant ~ 81 . Y.
Resolved, That the District Convention for the
election Of representative to the National Con-
vention to be held in Philadelphia on the 22d or
February, be requested to convene in this city on
the 18th of February. a
On motion, the following resolutions were passed
unanimously, and all the resolutions directed to be
published in the National American:
Whereas The late United State Council Of vir-
ginia content to adopt the Philadelphia Plat
form as State platform only, and expressly de-
cined to insist upon the retention of the 18th sec
tion of the National Platform as an ndispenss ble
condition of our active cooperation with the Ma
tional American party of the Union which sus-
tanned the action of this Council in the resolution
adopted by them on the first Of January last, for
which this Council has been so basely vill6ed and
misrepresented : Therefore g9
Resolped, That we tender our congratulations to-
the American party Of this State and the Union,
upon the fact that harmony has been restored to
distracted party in this State and that SO far
as we are concerned we will permit no outside in
fuences, either of intruding !" Independents or
Democratic mischiefmakers to disturb IL.
Resolved That we are cheered and animated in
the task before us that we will work faithfully
and diligently for the triumph of our principles and
for the success of such nominee as the American
| party may select; and that, whilst we might do
better wih, we will still endeavor to do without,
the aid of those independentD presses that pre-
fer to indulge in personal rancor and abuse rather
than defend the principles of the party they pre-
| tend to advocate.
/ 1nc C0uncn was hulOurncu 10 meet mere on NUS
| day, 3lst January, at 1-2 o'clock, p. H.
WIN. B. DABNEY, Secretary.
o.t sr NEW YoRK, Jan. 80, 1855
MEssRs. EDrroRs In speech delivered in this
city on the evening of the 9Th of january, A. b.
Ely, Esq, of Boston, Massachusetts,, the presiding
officer Of the Order of United Americans in the
United States, gave the following as his platform:
I The Bible and the Constitaltion Upon which"
said he, 81 would raise five points Of fellowship
| /. America and American institutions must be
controlled by American men.
| 2. American industry and American labor must
be protected against foreign competition.
8. American resources must be developed, and
| American rivers and harbors must be improved
| 4. American compromises, made in good faith,
must be observed, in spirit at least as guarantee
of American integrity and loyalty.
| 5. American citizenship must be respected the
world over, and American citizens, wherever they
60, must be protected in their rights of conscience
Of religious worship, and of honorable burial
send them to you because, in my judgment,
| they embrace in few words the whole American
| creed. They enuncate general principles in gen
eral terms. The only true mode Of enuncistion,
where general principles are to be laid down. The
| fourth point covers the whole ground of the dis
puted territory of the Philadelphia Convention of
last June, while il merely enuncates general
principle to which no one can hesitate to subscribe
Il covers both the Southern and the Northern
ground and presents no sharp points or angles nc
which either North or South can object As an
enuncation Of general principle it OF course and
necessarily avoids particulsrites. The moment
one begins to particusrize that moment the thing
becomes particular principle, or particular Illus
traton Of general principle, and is no longer the
general principle itself
Here, II seems TO me, lays the great fault of TIE
Philadelphia Council, that il undertook by its
twelfth article-and may also say by its eighth
article-to particusrize where il should have bee.