Washington telegraph., 1856-07-16

no fancied evil-we do not prate fo,
effects sake-we feel it to be the truth
the whole truth-when we say that it i.
for the veal of the whole land-and the
people of this land-that we have assumed
the task of portraying in its naked de
formity, this blighting, withering curse o
foreign influence-of exposing to the pub
lie gaze these incendiary horles, who
would fire the temple of freedom and make
themselves merry while they watched it.
fair proportions yielding to the flames. Il
is our duty to point out the evil as it ex
ists-it is the province of the people te
apply the remedy. Let Southern mel
look at the atroeious arrogance of the pre-
amble which the class to whom we nov
particularly refer, have affixed to theil
platform. Consider it well in its scope
and plan. We ask its careful perusal, and
reference to the suggestions which follow
which we base upon facts and
which, We are confident, at once present
themselves to every intelligent mind upon
the perusal of their demands, their pre-
suaaptu0us dictation, their treason and
their infamous arrogance Of superiority
to those to whom they are indebted for
homes. and for the liberty which they
would first abuse and then immediate upon
the unholy altar of fanaticism.
UNION OF THE FREE GERMANS.
1nstead of securing liberty to all, more
than three millions of human beings have
been condemned to slavery, and efforts
are daily made to increase their number.
INSTEAD of making liberty, prosperity
and education accessible to every one,
they are rather made privilege for those
classes and races who control the legisla-
tion and administration of the country.
we behold speculation instead of full
fillment of duty, corruption instead of
virtue, and reaction in possession of pow
er.
'We see the people overruled by parties,
the parties governed by cliques, persons
taking the place of principles, and names
substituted for rights.
we see the republic degraded abroad
by unpunished Outrages committed upon
American cItizens-we see the republic
denounced at home by the treacherous CO.
alitions and understandings with the chiefs
and agents of European despotism-
we see In Congress every measure in
favor of the privileged few advanced, and
every measure in favor of the people ffus-
trated.
eve see the means of the nation made
booty by avariciOus defrauders, instead of
being applied for the public benefit.
we see lawlessness and crime on the
increase, because the legislative and exc
cutiye authorities are buster with their
own selfish projects than with the true
interests of the people, and satisfied to
cover with religious varnish the desti-
tute moral education.
sWe express our principal aims and
motives in the following platform, intend
ed to serve as a standard in the perform
ance of our republican rights. In the
elections, be they national, city, county,
or State elections, we shall, without re-
gard to names, authorities, and conven-
tions, support only such men and parties
as will pledge themselves to tine support of
our principles. or gre as the best guar
auty Of carrying them ont.
Here we have the scope and plan of their
design An enumeration of evils percepti-
bic to them, under which they cry cut,
but which the American pecple-having
no intelligent conception Of the nature of
freedom or the requirements of govern
ment of the proper sort, fail, according to
their theory to comprehend, or compre-
-hending them have not independence
enough to shake off the yoke of the burden
ais it not monstrous ?" Is it not strange
that there are to be found men who truckle
aye truckle, to this insolence, for the
sake of the retention of place, or the ac-
quirement of power? Men calling them
selves the conservators-the guardians
the friends, par ezcellence, of American
liberty-American nationality? And yet
it is so. And because it is so, is it not
time for action upon the part of those who
would avert the evils so imminent2 We
know that thousands will shout in answer,
yes! And that hundreds of thousands
will affect to ignore the necessity, but let
these good, easy souls remember that the
race is not always to the swift, nor the bat
tie to the strong. We have looked, thank
God, upon the dawning of day which
is to be the herald of ''new order of
things
The evil of which We have spoken exists
In view of its existence and of others of a
kindred and not less dangerous nature, the
American party demand an extension of
the period of time, which has heretofore
sufficed to make the foreigner the equal
of the native, because, being made the
equal, he seeks to become his superior
His superior, in that the emissary and sat