Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-17

the lion. n. ". heade, OF Norn CArOiina, 10
his constituents. s. ~.
The American Party and its Aission---A
speech delivered by Hon. WIN. r, Smith, Of
] Alabarns, in January, 1856. ae.i
Hon, Henry N. Fallars Speech issecting
! the prominent Democrats Of psnnsylvania,
and Hon. james Buchanan in particular.
In press, and will be issued next week :,9 g.-.
!" Madison" in twelve letters, written by dis
tinguIshed gentleman Of Virginia, reviewing
Y the American questions and refntinS the OBJ
jections made to American doctrines. 80 M,
The Boitery, Ceavsntion a New York, !.
Last week small body of men assembled in
the city Of New York, under the cognomen of
an /" American Conventiox," and paraded
their existence as an organization extensively
throughout the country. II one could believe
the language Of the telegraph, concocted for
the occasion, and the numerous letters pre-
pared expressly for this use it would SEEM
that this soi-disant convention really repre-
scented the American party Of the Union and
was to nominate the Presidential candidate of
that party, and establish its course of policy
during the coming campaign. The affair looks
very well in print, but is a lndicrousy sad one
in reality. We are sorry that it becomes ne
cessary for us to expose the imposture by pro-
claiming 1t mere trick of the Republicans,
resorted to for the purpose Of conveying false
impression to the country, and leading the un-
initiated to imagine that the great National
American party had abandoned its distinctive
leading principles and joined their mongrel
ranks.
No sensible American, it seems to US, can
possibly be deceived by an imposition SO bare
faced, and yet the eclat given to the proceed
ings of this awkward squad" now in session
in New York, may mislead such as are not
well versed in such Vaccinations Of our
enemies. t
Plainly then, this Convention Gf it can be
honored with that title) Is an entirely informal
gathering of a set of men acting under no
authority, and responsible to none. 1t is COM
posed mainly of few broken down political
hacks from all parties, a few disappointed or
defeated office-seekers of whom the American
party is well rid, and few out-and-out Re
publicans, sufficient, it appears, to rule the
body as they please, The delegation 1--WE call
1t such for courtesy's sake only from Penn
sylvania, is fair specimen of the compost
ton of the whole set, and to this we now par
tcularly refer.
The leaders of the Pennsylvania delegation
have evidently been the leaders of this Con-
venton, else, why was William +. johnson Sc
lected as temporary presiding officer, and Rob-
ert I. Conrad as permanent President? And
who are these menp Mr.. johnson has been
Governor Of the State of Pennsylvania, and
Mr.. Conrad Mayor Of the city of Philadelphia,
and yet Philadelphia paper, hitherto the off,
cial organ Of both of these gentlemen, in a fit
of honesty only last week, says, that they are
!" the rashest and the most unpopular politi-
clans in Pennsylvania, who have never been
trusted with power but they have distracted
and divided the party that confded in them"
We are willing to take this testimony just as It
stands. tits honest--it is true. y
Mr.. johnson was seceder At the Reading
Convention, and afterwards, when his col
leagues met in an unauthorized State Council,
he alone seeded from them, and now stands
aloof on platform of his own. He pretends
to represent, in the Boilers Convention the
American party of the State Of Pennsylvania,
when he could not gather around his banner, for
any purpose, five hundred men, Mr. Conrad
also claims to represent the twenty Ave thou
sand American voters Of Philadelphia, who
were only beaten at the last municipal election
by the unnatural combination of Locofocos
old-line Wings, and Republicans, when, in
truth, he could not call two hundred men
around him, on any emergency, and could not
have boen elected to the lowest Office in the gift
of the people iaaei1a
Aside from Nil this, both Of these gentlemen
entered this qaasi Convention without the
shadow of authority from the organizations to
which they were attached, and such was doub.-
less the case with the great majority of the
delegates at New York. They have wantonly
usurped authority when they protested to rep
resent the people Of one Of the greatest States
and cities in the Union. ntf
Such is the character Of the men compos-
ing the present Boilers Convention in New
York. They have sold themselves to the Re-
pubhcans who aim 10 convince the country
that the great national and Union-loying Amer