Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-05
WHOLE NO. 542.

that the North is in danger, that liberty /, n dan
ger. IL proclaims that the only way to uphold lib
erty is TO wage war OF determination upon slavery
The shbboleth Of all its oratory and ali its apneals
to the people is Freedom against slavery Il
repudates the faith and acts of the fathers Of the
Republic, who never doubted that liberty might
exist in country where slavery was tolerated 1t
repudiates the constitution which not only left
slavery where 1t was found, and based some of the
most important arrangements of the government
upon its existence but actually covers it with its
protecting power, by imposing duties in regard to
| it even upon States that do not themselves tole-
rate il.
"a large proportion of the supporters Of the
party are ayowed aboltionists so are very many
Of its leading and ablcst champions, and not
few of these also avowed disunionists It's
war is upon slaveholding, upon all slaveholdng
men, and all saveholding States 1t calls slave
holding men an oligarchy,' and represents this
oligarchy' as ruling the South, ruling the North,
ruling everywhere making Presidents, and Cabi-
nets, and Judges, and Ambassadors, and Sena-
| tors, and Legislators, and filing the whole en-
pire of office, and all the regions Of official space
with its presence and its power; and its war is
| upon this solgarchy' 1t processes to believe,
| and it teaches, that less than $4,000 men compo-
sing this oligarchy'nay, some think insist less
than 100000 Of the principal slaveholders--gov-
erin and control all the millions of free white men
in all this great country, holding them in chains
cans, who have set up for freedom-and that they
| have so fastened their odious power on the neck
of this suffering nation that II is impo ssible TO
shake IL off till the whole slave power is crushed
to the earth. This is what this party professes
and what It teaches. 1t proclaims that the con-
test is between freedom and slavery and that
the or the other must fall Its doctrine is.
| that freedom cannot exist in the presence of
slavery, for slavery will swallow it up that free.
dom cannot exist in the came country and under
| the same government with slavery for slavery
makes an oligarchy' which suffers no man to bo
free. This, say, is its doctrine. appeal to the
speeches of its leading orators; I appeal to the
columns Of its leading journals; appeal to the
common sentiments which it has succeeded in in
stilling into the hearts of vast numbers of the
honest people of the North. a
"And now, who does not see that, if the doctrine
on which this party stands is true, il is impossible
| that the connexion between the slaveholding and
| non-slaveholding States Of this Union should be
continued? Who does not see that the forming
of that connexon at all was an egregious blum,
derr Who does not see that the Constitution Of
the United States was, and is, nothing but an i'll
geniously acntriyed instrument for making the
olgarchy of slavery triumphant throughout
the Union, and driving freedom everywhere to the
wahY Who does not Sc that, after all, Washing
| ton and his compeers were only the betrayers of
liberty, and of their country? The doctrine comes
to exactly this, that free States and slave States
cannot dwell together in the same Union, and un-
| der the same government, and the very making of
such Union was betrayal of the cause of liberty.
Nobody can doubt that this sentiment has come
to prevail very extensively at the North, and no.
| body can doubt, who opens bis eyes to what s
passing under the broad sunlight of heaven that
| this is the sentiment uhich this party teaches,
Dhach u aayokes Dtieh at appeals to- aphich 1t re-
| lies npon and makes the broad popular basis of
Us strength and the hope Of its triumph"
| Mr. Barnard rightly argues that if the candidate
of such party be elected to the Presidency, che
| will stand as President chosen by the North and
for the North against the South--chosen to rule
| for the North and to rule over the South This
/ Mr.. Barnard thinks win necesstate disunion-
Satisfied, as the South will be by such an elec-
ton, that the North as body has become their
enemy, they viii stand on the d. fensive and abide
| all consequences. The Union will break precisely
| at the great hinge on which the free States and
slave States have hung together; and that hinge
once broken, no skill can ever repair it." He can
not, therefore, take the responsibility of support
ing this Republican" party. He thinks it party
of moral treason to the Constitution and the Union,
and holds every man who supports it to be guilty of
| moral treason, whether he knows it or not Mr..
Barnard reviews, at great length, the pretensions
| OF the Republican party, and especially condemns
their avowed determination to carry civil into
| Kansas.
Entertaining such views as have now ex-
pressed" Mr.. Barnard concludes first of the
Democratic party, and next of the party calling
itself Republican, nothing Of course is left for me
| to do in the Presidential election but to support
Mr. Fillmore. should support him if he COM
manded but tithe of the respect really enter
tain for him." He hopes that the Wings, strength
ened by an army of conservative men from other
political organizations will with one mind and one
voice. come in and control results at this election
To accomplish this, he hopes to see the Wings in
the various States organize in conventions. "0f
| one thing adds Mr. Barnard " | feel quite as
sured, that, however individuals may waver now,
the Wings of the United States, South and North,
| will, with only rare exceptions, be found at the
| election giving their votes and their influence to
promote the success of Mr.. Fillmore. But every
one must see that it will add great force and eff
| cheney to their action, If they shall GO into the
canvass as united and independent party, with
organizations as complete as they can make them"
Mr.. Barnard then assigns reasons why all Wings
should give an earnest support to Mr.. Fillmore.
He is tried man. His political principles and
administrative course well known. The ditfi-
Guilty of the Vice Presidency he gets over by
the candid avowal that the Wings cannot set up
candidates of their own, and their choice must
therefore lie between the candidates and par
ties already before the people; and he thus APP
| peas to his brother Wings:
1 1--WE may see faults in the American party we
NAV see difficulties, either in the manner Of its
original organization, or In some of its doctrines,
4 which, aside from our time-haowed attachment
1 to our own party may now, and may forever stand
| in the way of our joining its ranks; but conf
Gently appeal to the conscience ofevery od-schoo
w hg, to say, whether the objections to this par
ty, whatever they may be, ought to have feath-
ers sight in comparison of those daring and very
dangerou us faults and offences which lie at the
door of b 9th the others five believe, as it seems
a, - euox frue WhiC uuat beliave that in the