Washington telegraph., 1856-07-09

VI SOtcrS, Sumclentiy StrOng 10 demand with
out fear of refusal from the General Gov
ernment a Territorial government and
swift upon the heels of the granting Of this
demand, the recognition by the Federal
powers of them and the constitution which
they should adopt provided. as matter OF
course, their constitution did not conflict
with the Constitution of the o. S) as a
Federal State. Admitted, that here would
be no confiction with the Federal laws in
such case, the mere fact of the existence
of sovereign State within the circle of the
Union, alien in people, sentiment, faith.
custom and manners, would be an evil not
sufficiently to be deplored But this ad-
mission is consequent upon the suppoSition
that this body of aliens would, in their pro-
ceedings pending the framing of their laws,
act in conformity to principles, from which
the American people must not, and cannot,
and will not depart, and of which they
those aliens-could, even in charity, be
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witness the declarations of the Romanists,
and the undisguised efforts of the Radical
| legions of the foreign Cohorts-they feel
neither reverence nor attachment. And
what, in the, by no means improbable, event
of their failure to conform to the require
ments of the Federal head, would be the
consequence Does the question need an
answer? Who cannot see an alien State,
self Withdrawn, presumptuous, arrogant, at
once the centre and the fountain head of
every disorganizing element, attracting TO
itself, by reason of its power for evil, all of
the minor faculties of treason, which now.
for want of some concentering influence.
wander aimlessly, but in their orbits leave
@trains of fire and dews of blood"
and In their present spheres. glimmer only
with sickly light, until some dire convul-
sion of the warning elements shall hurl them
in terrible storms upon a people which
should be at peaceo Let the self-confdent
sncer; let the seeker after the bauble of the
smile of to-day, reckless of the utter scorn
which awaits him oD tomorrow, be merry
while the skies are bright. but so sure as
the earth stands these questions must be
met aud grappled with the wrong must be
encountered, and in the mighty shock, when
the hosts of Reason and Right meet the
boastful legiOns of Expediency-the plun,ed
and smiling knights of thee ourtezln, POpu-
lar favor-it must and will be hurled bodily
to the earth, it shall be overcome and tram
Piled under foot,
The policy Of the American party. On the
contrary, aims at the giving of the power to
frame the laws of the new States seeking
admission into the Union, into the hands
of those alone who by birth, education. asso-
citation and their natural instincts are prop
erly fitted to exercise this high prercgative
this privilege so intimately associated
with the future welfare of these States and
their peOple-this right which in its proper
or improper application is hereafter to ex-
ercise SO powerful an influence. for good or
for evil, in the moulding of the destinies Of
the whole American race We ask all men
to whom our words may come, to ponder
these things carefully. The Cincinnati
| Convention have declared that this right
shall iDure to all men indiScrinainateiy;
the American Platform-and Americans
should be proud that it does so-resiricts
tie exercise of the privilege to those whom
God-whom nature-whom the founders of
the mighty fabric of our government-whom
every possible construction of every law of
reason and self elfpreservation-declare should
be constituted its conservators and execu-
tives; and you are nov called upon to decide
how We will choose The American party
boldly fling their banner to the breeze, and
challenge discussion of the merits of the
respective policies But in the language
Of the American Organ:
"We are yet to find, either in the Rich
mond Enquirer. the Washington Union. or
In any other administrations press. discus
sion of the points of difference between the
Kansas-Nebrasks act and this 7th section.
They dare not attempt to discuss those
points. They shrink from that discus
SION. TAeyare both ashamed and afraid
to meet the issue thus presented to tiiena
by the american party.
We assert, and challenge contradiction.
that there is no press. North or South. East
or West-no matter how much it may have
received from the public crib for its defence
of this corrupt and rotten dynasty-that has
yet had the unblushing impudence to write
one sentence against those features of the
7th section of the American platform which
distinguish it from the Kausas-Nebraska
bill. Will the Enquirer venture to do it
j Will the Union do it? Will even that de-