Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-21
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under the above neau, aduIcsseu tne dHtefs
can Organ few parting words, to which we
shall briefly respond. 1t said
"The Organ charges US with having assailcd
Lit 1.-THE 0rgdn) on than one occasion, without
the slightest justification or excuse. Now, before
this controversy commenced, we do not recollect
having assailed the Organ more than once, and
then the thing was done in compliance with the
especial request OF the editor of that paper. On
the day on which he came out in favor of abolish
ing the 18th section of the Philadelphia platform,
aud declared himself u candidate for the public
printing, we CHANGED to be in Washington, on our
way home from Virginia, and called at the Office of
the Organ to inquire for gentleman whom we
wished to see, and whom we supposed we should
| find there. We were in great hurry, the time
for the departure of the cars having arrived with
in few minutes. Tho editor Of the Organ him
SELF VeSpastam Ellis, Esq, wih his oTn hands,
detieeredto as a paper told as he had therein pat
forth his uicWs on the best method of TeconciLing
tie differences likely TO arise ont of The election Of
Speaker, and GskeduS to give them a careful peru
| sal, aud sag aOlat we thought Of them.
"We promised to do So and we did it, in this
| paper, on Wednesday, the 26th November. The
intarvicw took place two days before. Our com
ments upon the position assumed by the Organ
were respectful and altogether Invested of bitter
ness. To say, them that on more than one occa-
sion we have assailed the Organ, without the
slightest justification excuse, is to assert what
the editor of that paper would know not to be cor
rect, were not his memory, well as all his other
faculties, belonged by his public printing difficult
ties He himself asked our opinion of his position,
and VIC gave it as respectfully as we could. con-
| troyersy OF about weeks duration arose out of
this matter. 1t was dropped By us, because we
grew tired of the special pleading of the Organ,
and saw no good likely to come of it. If we had
gratifed the Organ by keeping it up, it would
have been continued to this day"
Ii is quite immaterial whether the unjustifi-
able assaults of the Democrat upon the Organ
were made before or after the present contro-
versy commenced. The charge we made was,
that it had, on more than one occasion, assail-
cd us without justification or excuse. It's
views upon our editorial of the 26th Novcm-
Der, it had right to express in the language
used, for, as far as our memory serves us, 1--WE
have not file of the Democracy its language
of dissent was not Objectionable, though the
objections themselves taken to our positions,
were, in our judgment, void of force.
The assumption of the Democrat, that we
came out in favor Of abolishing the twelfth
section" is 50 far from true as this that we
opposed the test which had been proposed in a
well known "plan for organizing the House of
Representatives of the thirty fourth Congress,
whilst we added Eve should rejoice if our
friends Of the South would stand upon the
twelfth plank of the Philadelphia platform,
and be sustained by their constituents"
We have said dozen times that we were in
dividually content to stand on the Philadelphia
platform--we say so still, but at the same time
we say, that the 18th section was unwise, i'm
polite, and unnecessary, and we will not, noso
or hereafter, assist in prescribing those men,
and denouncing them as unworthy of political
communion with the American party, who
cannot accept this test. 1t would be an unmit-
gated tyranny to impose such a test.
The Democrat has been pleased to intimate
that our faculties are "befogged," owing to our
difficulties about the public printing. We diff
fer in opinion with the editor of the Democrat,
not believing that our faculties are either be-
logged or besotted. As to the public printing,
we have manifested no sensitiveness or alarm
on this subject-no, not even when the editor
of the Democrat was himself candidate for it,
and was backed up by his Virginia CONDUCTORS
in the work of defeating the Organ.
In saying that we feel no alarm" about it
we do not mean to say that we are confident OF
obtaining it. Far from IL, for we have not
only the opposition of the Democratic party
and Of those at the North and West who love
anti-slaveryism more than Americanism, but
we have also (as the Democrat knows) the still
more formidable opposition of those ultra
Southern presses which have endorsed the
claims of the editor of the Democrat Now,
we will not so far underrate the power and in
huence of the Baltimore Democrat, Richmond
Whig Petersburg Intelhgencer, and their al
lies, as to say that we expect to overcome then
tremendous opposition! All we mean to say
(of our own knowledge is that zoe think oul
services to the American party and our posi-
ton here enttle us to it,-that is all, Mr. Dem
ocrat! Does the Democrat see any evidence
in this that we are befogged2"
The Democrat says, that "a controversy 0
about week duration arose out Of this matter,
(the opposition we made to the well knowr
! "plan of organizing the House, and adds
cit was dropped by US (him) because we (he
grew tired of the special pleading Of the organ
and saw no good likely to come of it, Now
that's what we call a ,ohopperi But lin til,
language of the Democra1 "yet we are fal
from charging it (the Democracy with wilfn
statement of an untruth." Of course, we dom
do that, but returning the compliments Of til,
Democrat, we say in its own language, it j,
to assert what the editor Of that paper would
know not to be correct were not his memory
as well as his other faculties 6efogged," by his
efforts to keep the Organ out Of the public