Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-01

born and naturaized citizens now feel that these
trifing issues must be set aside and that we must
50 do for the good OF our whole country, aud for
our posterity.
"Breathes there with soul SO dead
Who never To himself hath said,
This is my own, my native lands"
We want men TO hold up the country, and Fill.
more and Donelson are those men. Tremendous
and prolonged applause. Let US go on, then; We
are on the side Of our country aud II we do not
| succeed, let it not be our fault
Hon Solomon G. Haven, of New York Was now
introduced. He commenced by saying that old
parties years ago had commenced springing up and
that they had finally gone to seed. fLaughter.1
Inc seed had been blown from the wthered stalks,
and fallen on fertile soil, and 10 the fruits--the
American party In this party were found all the
elements OF nationality which was the preserYatvo
of the old parties. The Democratic party and he
honored 1t though he had never been a member Of
it, had been deserted by its great men the Whig
party no longer presented issues of sufficient i'm
port to bind national spirits to it the great ques-
tons of these parties had run to seed and blown
| away, and the great American party contained all
| the good OF both
BY whom is the American party opposeds It
is by the old parties which furnished its elements
The dry wood and the stalks were all that was left
OF them and the spikes and knots and gnarls pre-
sented surface to which parasites could cling,
and then the foreign element and influence raj
| lied on these points, and seduced by the name
Of the party from which the spirit had fed, many
good men and true still hung round Their ifeless
bodies, into which the demagogues and the foreign
influence was trying TO nfuse some life. But their
attempt Is hopeless and the real mourners will
leave the dead and prepare to do battle with the
| living for the real object Of the old parties--the
| good OF the country.
The speaker reviewed the New York Conver.
ton and the Philadelphia Convention, which, he
said, were organized on the hook-and-eys princi-
pe but in all their efforts to form coalition they
| couldn't make the connection. Laughter He
was opposed to the Philadelphia Convention, as be
was to the Hartford Convention and he was OF
posed 10 all conventions that would place their
principles on the point Of the needle and that
needle pointing one degree North. He was op-
posed to all sectional principles, and went in for
national principles. He went In for a man who
would say to the exponent of sectional principles.
81 am for the whole country, a whole; there
| fore you who hold such views had better not vote
for me-" prolonged cheering.
In speaking of Dir. Fillmore he said he left the
country in good running condition, and how does
he now find it? The admin stration had mounted
the Cuba nag, started at break-neck pace over
the fsssiga relation track and what is the result
Why, when xe expect that something would hap
pen, they luckily tainted and fc1 e9. Laughter
\ and cheers.
The psopls ase tired Of such management; they
intend - change the directors, and when the ma
Il
ductor they WIN start out in fine style, stopping
at all the way stations, and still getting through
by daylight and within time. Laughter and ap-
plause
The speaker then adverted to the drilling and
i whipping in of the other parties and then OF tha
| quiet manner in which staunch and sturdy indcpep
| dent Americans heard all the arguments and aid
their own thinking on the subject and when the
time came for voting deposited their ballots and
| went quietly home, and though there had been M
excitement at the polls, the day haS been effective
as il had been still. That was tie proper way, in.
stead of the way pursued by the other parties for
I the voters whipped in would bolt on The frat
chance. Laughter. He closed by urging on the
consideration of the meeting the words of the man
who was accused OF snoring in mis- sleep and who
replied: when sleep l make a business of il
and give the subject my undivided attention"
Give the subject your undivided attention and the
country is safe.
Hon. John Scott Harrison, OF Ohio, the son Of
the gallant General and ex-President was then in
troduced, and in short and pithy speech gave his
adhesion to the cause as that of the nation and no
section OF It. lie approved of the nomination, es-
pecally as Fillmore in the former stormy sectional
| times proved himself national man.
| In speaking of Ohio, he thought she would roll
up tremendous majority for Fillmore and Done,.
son. Great cheering.
MIR. Sneed, OF Tennessee, now took the stand.
| He pledged Tennessee for an increased majority
for Fillmore. [Appause.l The candidate for the
Vice Presidency was a resident Of thp,c State and
he did not think that would hurt thu chances any.
/ Laughter
He now proceeded to review the princinles set
| forth by the Cincinnati Convention and fonnd
them all Ringing ON the Kansas land Nebraska hin
as the great principle, which he declared set forth
no principle at all 1t was understood as one thing
at the North, and another ut the South. and was
nothing after all.
/ The present working of the naturalization laws
was also passed in review, and dreadful picture
OF the misery entaled on the country by such mall
practice was shown. He also showed the Injustice
done our own young men, by allowing al Irish lad
who had come to the country at the age of sixteen
to vote on reaching the age of twenty-one and vet
refusing an American of twenty permission to vote.
who had passed his life in learning the philosophy
| OF our government.
/ In conclusion, he promised that Tennessee would
do Justice to herself and the cause merit November.
| Three cheers for Tennessee
Mr.. Lake, of Mississippi, was now introduced.
He said that he was frcm the lower regions of De-
mocracy; from the deepest depths of Locofoco-
ism, and so lately was he there that he bore the
| sulphnrous scent upon his clothes TLaughter.1
In him could be seen an illustration of the old
adagc truth crushed to earth VIZ Use again.
The little craft OF Americans was struggling
| among the black waves OF Democracy in Missis-
sippi, and sometimes they threatened to submerge
her, but as yet she had triumphed over them, and
bid fair TO ride out the storm in safety
In relation 10 Mississippi he could promise no
majority, but he could cay that there was prog
pect that she would give good account of herself
in November. lie thought all should be encour-
aged; there was time when Mississippi would
allow no one to represent her in Congress- who was
not the most rigid Democrat but now the sky
was tightening up and the sun of Americanism
might and would vet dawn upon the now benight.