Daily American organ., 1856-08-27
To the " Junior Sons of America. -
BLOOMFIELD, Perry county, Pa,
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BLo0MFIELD, Perry county, Pa,
Atgaa Il, 1855.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the State Convention of the Junior
Sons of America Of Pennsylvania, held at Altoona,
on the 18th and 14th August, 1856; and the
undersigned was ordered by said Convention to
have them printed in the American papers in this
State. WIN. j. CAMPBELL.
Whereas, A Presidential election is at hand, and
the present affairs of the nation call loudly upon
every true patriot who is willing to be guided by
tried wisdom, prudence and craftsmanship, and
who Is opposed to radicalism, whether advocated
and upheld by Democracy or Republicanism:
And whereas, Those here assembled, and those
whom tLey represent, considering the threatening
appearance of the coming contest deem it highly
important TO take immediate action in trying to
restore our country TO the policy which was laid
down by our forefathers and to arrest the tide Of
disunion which is being swept over our land under
the guise Of Repubicansm, and under the direc-
tions of those avowed fanatics who would dare to
thrust the black flag Of disunion upon us,-who
would put blot upon the fair fame of the Amer
ican people who are known abroad as lovers of
peace and harmony and believed to be the mainstay
OF Freedom:
And whereas, a candidate has been presented to
the people Of the whole Union In the person of
Hon Millard Fillmore of New York, in whom are
combined all the requisite qualifications Of states
man. soundness of mind, clear and comprehensive
Judgment knowledge of the Constitution and de-
votion to the Union-a man who has been tried,
and who has guided the ship of State so manfully
through the troubled waters which threatened the
perpetuity Of the Union; therefore be it
ReSotved, That this convention, representing as
| it does the youth of America "bom upon the soil
and reared beneath the stars and stripes, loving
our country as none other can love- and having an
interest in her future welfare" do desire to pro.
mote only principles which win fasten the bonds
of Union still tighter around our Confederacy and
cast into oblivion those traitorous principles which
found champion in the person of Arnold in days
gone by, and which are now attempted to be thrust
upon us by the Republicans and their leader on
the one hand, and by the other by a band of hack
neyed politicians and their leader whose course
has been SO changeable that we scarce know what
to call him. since he has declared himself no longer
James Buchanan, but the champion of the objec-
tionahle Cincinnati platform
Resolved, That this Convention regards Hon.
Millard Fillmore as the only trn Tnion-lovng
candidate, who Is now before the ican people
for their suffrages, possessing, does in a
more eminent degree thnn any other statesman
now living combination of qualities which is alone
essential to proper discharge of the duties of the
Chief Magistracy of the Union, and to secure the
respect OF other nations, to give permanence to
our free institutions, and to cement the contendng
factions which now threaten a dissolution of the
brightest star that eyer adorned the political hori
zon.
ReSoloed, That in Andrew Jackson Donelson,
OF Tennessee, the American party has presented
candidate for Vice President who has ever been a
conservative statesman and who has never con-
sented to depart from the Constitution his con-
servatve principles and tried craftsmanship render
him fit assistant of Mr.. Fillmore.
RESOLVED, That we, the "Juniors" OF Pennsyl.
vania, believing and maintaining these principles,
do pledge ourselves to use our utmost endeavors
to aid in the election of Fillmore and Donelson:
lst That the maintenance of the Union as our
fathers made it, is in the language of Washington,
" the primary object Of patriotic desire"
I'd. Civil and religious Liberty should be guar
anteed to every citizen of our country
sd. A reformation of our naturalization laws aud
exclusion of all foreign conyicts and paupers.
4th. The protection Of the American laborer
against the rp nous competition of the pauper labor
of Europe.
9th. The freedom of our common schools from
the control Of any sectaran or partisan character,
and the Bible as our text book.
9Th. Americans, and none others, should be al
lowed to hold offices Of trust and honor in our
country.