New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-03

snce-snd in an evil hour Il was accepted They did
not enter the couneils they preferred, as genera
thing 70 light upon the outside. Aeonmunisy Of hates
gave them, for the time, N appearance Of sincerity
When the tory of November was won the esrnesness
Of Their REJOICING over the vsaqushed foe, secured the
confidence OF an American pasty-and from that mo-
mert they contemplated its betrayal they bad
already paved tie wsy by REORGANIZATION Of their
great leader, with whose nee woudb be resurected the
long esy Of svo-ites and the charmed circles Of the
cques. His poetmastsrs scattered all over the Union,
his cUstom-house officers, his msrshns and his mail
agents were set 10 work To the ou'siders. be was
straigbt-out Wing and Silyer-Gray. and to those
the iiIice he was an American and member Of the
Order. Thus, while the American party reposed upon
lis aures, these active politicians gathered up the
reius and prepared TO the guidance Gifts move
Meuts.
But there was no hope Of their candidates success
ba-ed upon the free sentiment Of the North. His an
tecedents went crashing against the AntiSlavery in.
stincts Of the Northern people: and however they
might secure bis nomination. they felt that there must
be more than even Americanism backed by the
" SilverGray strength, to overcome the prejudice
in the Northern mind against his Southern aaiia-
tons. They therefore leagued with Slavery. They
urged him upon the South through the memory of the
Fugitive Slave Law, and they pledged has future 0e-
ton 10 square nth the past Tier spoke Of ne
sy rhteh sr'ted tie part o. the South Of havaga
man for PTesdeHt rho could sior clean record n
f1ror Of Stdrery-hhOse dHtecederts nouH ~ heM-
selres be platform on which the South could stand.
They talked about the Kansas Nebraska blu the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise and appealed to the
South If their candidate not worthy their trust.
They united with the South in driving from the Con.
veniion the New England States Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and practically the great West Having done this the
conspiracy was complete The South, after the seces
sion, held ts entire control Of the Convention. Its
vote was cast in solid mass for Willard Fillmore the
candidate Of the conspirators-and he stepped forth
nomnay the standard bearer Of the American party,
but in truth the champion of Siarery.
BY this result candidate was forced upon the State
of New-fork against the expressed wi of two thirds
Of the American members of the Legislature against
the expressed wish Of majoiy OF the State officers.
against the expressed wish Of than two thirds of
tie Delegates from the State in the Convention. Nom
mated as he was by the Saveh0lding States, because
of his Pro Sarery dntecedents and their confdeace IN
kis PrO-Sl0rery future he only be regarded not
as the representative of the American party but
The rpresentdtirc and candidate Of SldreTy As such,
we say 10. day. Is said yesterday will not sup
port bin. We have no stomach for the battles Of
Slavery, and.we will not fight them. We will not
struggle against the popular sentiment Of the entire
East, the North, ard the West. We were content to
ignore the Slavery issue tried our best to do
But our back ia to the wall and will go no further.
Let those who desire TO the American party crushed
between a false Democracy and Republicanism con-
tnue to press into the service of Savery-and they
will it ground to powder between the upper and
the neither milestone.
But let those who wish its preservation, who have
no desire to don the funeral garments and follow il to
the grave 60 with in saving it from destruction.
Let u do in New-York as they have done in Massa-
cbusets in Cincinnati, in all the Eastern States in
Pennsylvania Ohio. and the whole West-place 1t
upon platform which does not clash with the popular
sentiments of the people. Let swing loose from
slavery. Let us break away from the service of an
institution which the Northern mind abhOrs aud COM
PEELED as we are to unite the Protestant and American
sentiment with Slavery Freedom, choose the latter.
Let MS stand-as Mass .chusetts, all New-England
and the West stsnds-on one common American plat
FORM and at the same time yindicatng the rights of
Freedom.
In locking over the State of New York, who doubts
but that Americanism and Anti-Slavery the two
great leading sentiments pervadng the popular mind
Our people are Protestant they are imbued with
Protestant instincts and sympathies They are against
counting or permitting foreign influences to control the
politics or policy of the country. They are in favor of
The great fundamental principle which underays our
organization construed in all its broad significance,
that Americans should govern America. They are
against the absouism, the superstition, the bgotry
and intolerance of the ROmish creed Does anybody
doubt this? They are against Slavery; they are OPP
posed TO the extension Of human servitude They are
against the Kansas and Nebraska policy. Does any
body doubt thsl Thy, then, send these two natural
barnonies crashing fierce collision against each
other? Why make them antagonsms Let us unite
them in common PLATFORM as they have done in
Massachusetts, and Come cticut, in Pennsylvania and
Oho-and thus united, who can stand against them
BIT ruth the present candidate Il cannot be done
HIS antecedents and has affiliations the side Of
.Si0rery. He presents ~ his past history, and NE
faith pledged by his friends 10 the South, the Slavery
issuo-struggle or protest against as re rW,