Daily American organ., 1856-09-01
AMERICAN ORGAN.
To the People Of the United states.


To the People of the United states.
FELLow-cIr1zENs There are circumstances which
call for the appeal We make to your most earnest
attention. The times appear 60 us startling and
critical. There aspects in the pending contest
for the Presidency, which are very unusual and
important. We cannot therefore, forbear freely
TO communicate some Of our apprehensions, before
we separate here, and 20 call upon you at once to
look full in the face any dangers which may
seem to impend over the greatest popular govern
ment on earth.
Two of the political parties In the country have
pitched Presidential battle upon sectional issues,
and of SO fearful character to stir the deepest
passions of the American people Though in
seeming conflict it cannot be disguised, that those
parties have In such sort co-operated as TO press
upon the country one exciting issue after another
UNTIL by dnt Of continued evaporation, they have
nearly succeeded in arraying, in hostile columns,
one-half of the States of the Union against the
other They appear mutually to have employ
ed all the energies of party power to engender
sectional distrust prejudice and elimination, and
now, for the first time in the history Of the gov
ernment, we find a truly formidable party, fully
organized, and using every effort in their power
to combine the non nslaveholdng against the slave
holding States Of the Union, in a struggle for the
Executive power Of the Confederacy In that or
ganzation are included men who are supposed to
be conservative and national, but who are believed
to be led by excitement or misconception, into
movements which, in their cooler moments, they
cannot but recoil from, as they would from pesti-
| lence and famine. 1 II f. t,f,e aafytg arofgl
T. Its management has been essentially controlled
! by leaders who, under all circumstances, have
steadily kept up an active, unceasing and impla
| cable warfare upon the institutions Of the slave
holding States. Should such party unfortunate
ly succeed, in the present distracted state of the
public mind, in electing sectional President
supported alone by the voters Of the non-slave-a
holding States, we have too much reason to APP
prehend that there might instantly spring into
istence movement Of resistance, the consequent
ces of which no human wisdom can foresee, and
no lover Of his country friend of popular gov
| ernment anywhere could fail, in all coming time,
sadly to deplore.
/ We do not believe they can succeed, but we
may be really treading upon the brink Of vol
cano that is liable, at any moment, to burst forth
| and overwhelm the nation"
i But the Republican party is not alone RESPONSE
BILE for those appalling issues, nor is its success
the only danger to the stability of the Government
/ in it's present form. The Democratic party has
eagerly and rashly seized upon these momentous
issues, and welded them as the tf.under-bolts OF
| party warfare. They have striven to madden the,
| South, and to concentrate Southern votes upon
their candidates. as the Abolitionists have strven
70 maddenthe North and to concentrate Northern
votes upon their candidates hHn hs'T'IEg -lnw
| When their extreme measures are resisted they
| taunt national men, in the South, as submission
lists" or worse than submissionists, as the Aboli-
tionists taunt national men in the North as
I"dough-faces" or worse than dough-faces. Dash
They have apparently struggled to bring about
the formation Of geographical parties, such as the
| Father of his Country 30 emphaticdlly varied us
against, based upon questions Immediately tending
| to split the Union asunder; and they have seem
ngly done this for the petty purpose OF securing
/ temporary party triumph The Union, in form at
least, we think, would survive the success of such
party for the present; but its triumph would
probably keep the furnaces of sectional passion red
hot, and ultimately, and it may be at no distant
| day. it's rash errors would engender storm of
| sectional conflict beneath which the government
/ would sink into ruins. We think they too, will fail,
i But we believe the time has come when the
common safety requires that the raging sectional
heats of those parties should be cooled. The time
has como when national, conservative men, re-
specting the Constitution, true to their whole coun-
try, and Indignantly frowning upon the first
dawning of disunion," should stand shoulder to
shoulder, and unite in placing at the head Of the
II government Chief Magistrate in whose capacity,
honesty and patriotism all could confde. The
National American party have now presented such
a man--one who has been tried and found faithful
to every trust--who, being suddenly called upon
4 to take the helm of government, at time when
ls49-5O, so successfully rode out that storm, so
faithfully and gallanty secured the safety of the
noble ship of State, as to win from an admiring
/ people the most heartfelt plaudits, Well done
thou good and faithful servant" s3 .g1al "
4 We point you to another fearful cancer on the
body politic--the humiliating struggle now going
on between the Democratic and Republican par
ties for the foreign vote and to the tremulous ap
| prehensions expressed for the fate of the one OF
the other Of those parties, the uncertain move
ments of the Germans or Irish oscillate between
them We warn you that the fate of this great
government may soon be equally dependent upon
I the unstable movements Of those mighty masses
. fresh from the monarchies Of Europe. Large por-
tons of our Union are already overaowing with
shown itself utterly incapable of sustaining popular
governments in the Old World. So immense is
now the influx that we can scarcely be regarded as
1 the same or the descendants Of the same people
we were twenty years ago. Where, and Id what,
is this to end9 MILLARD FILLMORE alone, Of the
candidates for the Presidency has refused to court
Il this gigantic and growing element of power
While he has no hostility to foreigners, he frankly
warns his countrymen that It is safer for American
born citizens TO rule the destinies Of America.
II Having witnessed their deplorable condition in
their own htherlands, he would share with them
j all the privileges and blessings Of ours, save the
single privilege Of seizing the reins Of government
/ and overturning the car OF State, IN which we are
all passengers. We beseech yos to see the dan
gers we have briefly glanced at and to shun them,
i before it is too late forever! il,
II We urge you TO unite with us in support of the
patriot statesman who has always fearlessly out
spoken his sentiments--who has ever made the
constitution his guiding star-wbo has risen from
an apprentice boy TO tho Presidency-who, when
President, frowned upon disorganSers and radi
calls, North and South, and with the aid OF con.
servstive Wings and Democrats, bravely restored
| peace to distracted country--who has just said
/ % If thorn h.n thnna nithar Nnrth or 9nnfh who