Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-15

tnOSe VINO buObcr1Deu tne letter 10 Judge LeaS-
lit are the enemies Of Judge Mclean. We
taoD however that the Republican party, as
such, have been playing deep game Eve ought
perhaps TO call II shallo1 one) with view to a
union between the "Americans" and themselves,
upon terms, which they are to dictate, We
know {or in other words we have good grounds
for the opinon) that the Republican party aseer
dssigned to- unite upon Col Fremont as they
have protested the purpose to do. They have
sought by all the means they could use-and
even by uniting with the Forney and Pierce par
ty at Philadelphia, Wilmington and other places
to prone to Mr. Fillmore's friends that H. has
no chance Of success; and they have done this,
in the hope that the American party would
abandon Mr. Fillmore, and be ready to take up
Judge Mclean or some other candidate, whom
majority of the Republicans would consent to
support This has been their game, and hence
the cry by the Republican presses at the North,
in which the Forney and Pierce presses at the
South have concurred, that Mr.. Fillmore has
no strength
Now we have to say, that If we rightly I'M
derstand Judge McLean's political opinions,
we should have cheerfully supported hi n if
| the " American party" had selected him as
their standard-bearer in the coming contest |;
80 also, would we have supported Mr. Bell, Mr..
Crittenden, Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Brown, Commodore
Stockton, or any other man who is sound on
| the American question, and would stand upon
the American platform; but that we would
now consent to any change to crafty any por-
ton Of the American people, or that the Anne
rican party would consent to any change in
the American ticket with the-yiew Of meeting
the wishes Of any body or class Of politicians,
is an idea that is not only absurd an / prepos-
ferrous, but the act would be one Of treachery
to sacred obligations and phghted faith. The
American Convention, with an approach to
unanimity unparalleled in the recent history
Of political conventions, have made their nom
nations, and it is alike their duty and their
purpose to maintain and support them TO the
end
i It il, we think, high time that politicians
| who profess Americanism should cease their
efforts to dsorganize the American party. 1t
is time that true Americans should acqui-
esce in the deliberate action of a National
American Convention, and not cater to other
isms which have no legitimate connection with
Americansm. II is time that those Ameri-
cans who mean to separate themselves from
the Republican party should stand forth and
avow their purposes, and not lend their coun-
tenance to men who would sacrifice every prin-
ciple held sacred by the American party, in a
| ridiculous crusade in favor Of niggerism. Noao
| is the time to check the evils of foreignism -
Four years hence it may be too late The in
creasing power Of immigrants will soon place
the remedies for this evil beyond our reach.
| Noao we can, if we will, arrest the evils which
! indiscriminate immigration brings upon the
country Suppose that African slavery were
an evil, and that there is constitutional mode
Of arresting it! The evil is daily diminishing
and time will work out a cure-but notso soith
the epils Of immigration Action-speedy
! action-is indispensable to success.
The relative power Of slavery has greatly
diminished since the Revolution. Then it
existed in every State, SAGE one, and noao
there is a majority Of free States, a majority
of Senators from FREQ States, and an i'm
mense preponderance of members in the House
Of Representatives from free States Ten
| years from this, the relative power of slavery
will be less, whilst the relative power of for
signism will be increased, if not checked, far
beyond its present limit If then, it should
be admitted, for the sake of the argument,
that there are taco eoils to be remedied, it is
apparent that the evils of slavery are noao
rapidly diminishing whilst those Of foreignism
are 80 rapidly increasing that in twenty years
the power to check it win be gone from us
forever. The evils Of foreignism demand i'm
mediate and united action, whilst those OF
slavery Gf admitted to be evils are steadily
yielding to the course of time.
4 As matter of mere policy then, that evil
which is increasing, should be subjected to an
immediate remedy, whilst no necessity can
exist for the same speedy action in regard to
an alleged evil which is rapidly diminish
ing. How, then, can any American" in
this view of the subject, hesitate to lay aside
all considerations connected with an alleged
evil, whose importance is diminishing, and to
unite in applying remedy for an evil which
threatens the overthrow of our American in
stitutions2 How can any American" hest
tate to abjure associations which embarTass his
action upon those momentous questions pre-
scented in the American creed? There is no
necessity for any union, and there can be no
zaion between the anti-Slayery party, as such,
and the American party The contest now
must be carried on between Americanism and