Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-17

nations attempting to navigate tho great ssa
Of COlstitutional Li5ertyi
If such an American policy comes nearer to
that which is cherished by the old-line Wings,
than the filibustering, world-defying, bucca-
neering, fifty -four-forty -or-fght" policy, in.
augurated at the 0stend Conference, and sane
TONED at Cincinnati, why, then, the old-line
Wings, we presume, viii sustain the men who
will carry out this American policy, instead OF
sustaining the Cincinnati nominees, who are
placed upoa a platform with the above-men-
toned planks on the foreign pohcy--and
hotchpOtch of principles, Of modern growth, as
its basis of domestic legislation.
We must be permitted here respectfully to
advert to the following telegraphic statement
Of the opinions of Alexander Rives, Esq, as
advanced in the Virgins Wing Convention on
yesterday. 1t is reported by telegraph thus:
"Several speeches were mads--Smong them.
one by Mr.. mcfarland, and another by Alexander
Riyea, brother Of the Hon. w. O. Rives, who spoke
strongly in behalf of Mr. Fillmore, prasing his adj
ministratioD, and declaring that the Democratic
party was not nationa, but had been sectionalized
by the Cincinnati Convention; that It's platform
was ilibustering that the Wing party was the
only true national party and that, after the Presi
Dental election, the American party would find IL
necessary to fall back into the traces of the Ma.
tional Wings"
Mr.. Rives is entitled to has o,on opinions on
the point made in the last four lines of the
above extract. We are entitled to ours. 1t
is now fifteen gears since we first raised our
feeble voice and welded our pen, in ST. Louis,
Missouri az an advocate for the formation of
an Anae, lean party, to be composed Of the
patriotic portions of the Wing and Democratic
parties,- we have expended the earnings Of
nearly twenty years, in this cause, and we
claim right to respond to the above state
ment
American party would, epen at any time,
"faH back into tie traces" OF ANY OTHER
PARTY, we would, feeble as we are unimport-
ant as we are, mere CIPHER as we are, in the
elements which compose it, we would scorn
maintain another hours connexion with it /!
Nearly third Of our lifetime has been devo-
ted to this Gas We think noble and patriotic
party; we claim no especial credit for this
service for it has been the service of duty and
patriotism, but we must repel che intimation
come from where it may, that any necessity
can exist for so inglorious a retreat as that
which Mr.. Rives has thought proper to init
mate. Mr.. Rives has no warrant for such an
opinion.
''Rspolutioas neper 90 backt0ards." This great
American Reformation has arisen from stimuli
taneous impulse in thousands Of American
hearts-it is founded in the firm BELIEF of
American freemen, that our institutions are
endangered by foreign votes and influence
its doctrines underlie the Constitution-its
Justice and its necessity are shown at every
election which transpires-yea, in every street
of our crowded cities, and at all the crossroads
in the country, North, South, and West and
that party which is now gloriously carrying
forward this reformation is not the party of a
day, nor ola year, but party which will con-
tinue whilst American freedom shall itself sur
vive, and perish only when that freedom itself
perishes