The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-02
rAs Aneriaeu Party,

We make the following extract from a
recent letter.of Col. Schoaler. editor Of the
Cincinns,i Gssette, to that paper, written
from Washing
As regards the Convention OF the Ameri-
can party, v hich 10 to assemble at Philsdel-
phia On the 22d OF next month. predict that
it oil never be able TO un.te. either upon
candidates or upon a platform. and draw
nv conclusions from what is daily iransp-
ring in Congress. What are here known
- the "Nstionai Americana and who vote
for Nc Fuller for Speaker, will never unite
either upon candidates or platform, with
such msn a. Campbell. Galloway. Spooner
or Ford. upon the question of Slavery, and
ito exteasian into Ksnsas and Nebraska
They are as National as the Democrats
headed b. Frank Pierce" It was only
yes,e rday thst they voted in body for Gov.
Smith, Of Virginia, for Speaker, who 10
better known, however, 10 the country ~
the sosri9set Of .Ekus Rilly,"s gentleman
" DO would not, for any cause, vote for or
supper, Northess msn who had spark
OF ant-sisvery feeling in his nature. he
hss al. along voted for Mr.. Richardson for
Speaker. with the full force Of the admins
tra,,on party Do our American friendl in
Oh 10 and other free States believe that q
union can be formed of such anisgsnistical
elemeatst l. they do, | do not. The
Southern Americans will not yield one inch.
They will even demind stronger guarantees
for the pre-eminence of the peculiar institu-
ton than are given in the twelfth section q
the Philadelphia platform, the adoption OF
which caused the delegates from Ohio, In
diana and other free States TO bolt.
The Convention OF the American party
which assembled in Cincinnati last fall,
adopted as an ultimstum for union between
themselves and their Southern brethren,
the restoration of the Missouri Compromise,
and that no slave State should be admitted
into the Union formed out of the territory
which the restriction in that bill covered.
That Convention has been denounced on
the fsor Of Congress BY a representative
froIR Kentucky, as "Black Republican
Convention, and that platform Is "Blaek
Republicao'i platform. There is not man
elected ss delegate to the 23d of February
Convention from the State OF Ohio, who,
if be were in Congress, wsuld not be called
by The Southern Americans "Black Re-
publican il be dared to act in accordance
with the ultimatum adopted last fall in Gin
cinnati. During the two months balioting
which we have witnessed in this Con- ress
ia no ms lance have the Southern American
members voted for man who 10 oppos ed to
the Nebra.ka bill. and who fasors the re-
enactment Of the Missouri restriction.--
Even Colonel Marshall, Of the Louisville
district, who is not only the most able, but
also the most liberal member Of the South
err division of the American party, in de-
bate some weeks ago denied that Mr.. Camp
bell, OF Ohio, was member of the Ameri-
can party, and he was not because he did
not stand upon the twelfth section Of the
platform erected at Philadelphia.
state what | believe to be facts, and
they have been forced upon me by what |
have seen in the several weeks have been
here. Before reaching Washington en-
tertsined hope that union OF the opposi-
ton party would by made, North and South,
upon q conservative and yet liberal basis.
That hope has vanished. The South make
80 concessions, though they demand many.
They think they are liberal when they cast
their votes for such Northern men as Mr..
Fuller and Nr Richardson, and supper. q
President from the North like Mr. Pierce.
but they can never be induced to vote for
such men as Lewis D. Campbell, Mr.. N.
P. Banks, nor will they support Presiden-
tisl candidate who entsrtsins these senti-
mems