Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-15
Hon. Oscar r. Moore.


We find in the Portsmouth (Ohio) Tribune, the
proceedingso of the American convention, held in
the 10th Congressional district, by which the Hon.
Oscar f. Moore was unanimously re-nominated for
a seat in Congress. The committee on resolu-
tons reported the following, which were unani-
mously adopted, to wit:
"Whereas, We regard Fremont and Buchanan
as the Presidential candidates Of parties advoca-
ting sectional and extreme doctrines, calculated
more to increase our present unhappy agitation
than to allay it; and, ... r..
"Whereas, In Willard Fillmore we have a sure
guarantee, both by his past administration and
present declarations, that he represents the princi
pie of National Conservatism, of equal and
exact justice to all, botl North and South there
fore,
"Rssolved, That we fully endorse his nomina
ton, and pledge our earnest efforts to secure his
election.
"Resoived, That we do not agree with Mr..
Seward of New York, in saying that the day for
compromises is ended nor with Mr. Toombs, of
Georgia, that we are glad oft, but rather with
Mr.. CLAYTON, of Delaware, that we are willing to
Compromise to the end of time, so long as by 80
doing we can hold shred of the original national
compact together
"Resolved, That we bitterly deplore and coll
denim the spirit of sectionalism, and the DISPOSE
ton to create political animosities upon geograph
cal lines, now so prevalent throughout our country
as contrary to the teachings and last advice OF
Washington, and as, in the language of Henry
Clay, tending to collision of opinion that will
soon be followed by the clash of arms
q Resolued That we fully endorse the course OF
Hon. o. F. Moore, our worthy Representative in
Congress; knowing, as we do, that while voting
for freedom in Kansas, so far as attainable under
the constitution, he did not ignore his American
principles.
"Rcsoived, That we adhere to- and reafrm the
doctrines concerning our naturalization and emf
grafton laws as set forth in the platform of the
American Council at its session at Cleveland, June
8, 1855.
"The report was unanimously adopted, where
upon,
I'D. Mcfarland addressed the convention, spurn-
ing the idea of fusng with the Republicans on Con-
gresham, pledgng undivided front on the part
of the American party of old Scioto."
We have strong hopes that when the election
transpires in Ohio there will be found more such
conservatism than is now awarded to that State.
The Hon. John Scott Harrison (son of President
Harrison) has also been renomnated with unanim-
ity by the American party of the second district,
and we trust that both he and Mr.. Moore will be
triumphantly reelected These gentlemen, with
out making any pretensons to ostentation and
show in Congress, have proved themselves to be
we'll qualified for the discharge of their duties,--
possessed in an eminent degree of that business
talent so rare in Legislators of the present day
well posted on all the political questions of the
time, and, above all, devoted to those principles
and maxims of Washington, on the support Of
which the perpstuity of the Union depends Such
men fairly and truly represent the conservative and
Union.loving people of their State. That fanati-
cism is noao predominant in Ohio is a lamentable
truth, but that a favorable change is being rapidly
dnvnlnnnd is equally true