Daily American organ., 1856-08-20

The dangers which now environ US, threat
ening the peace and prosperity OF the country,
and which tend to weaken and ultimately de-
stroy the bonds of Federal Union, grow out OF
the "reopening of sectional agitation" The
North is in hostile array against the South,
and the South hurls back defiance to the North.
A Northern sectional party has arisen, lit has
presented its sectional platform. The sham De-
mocracy has assumed to take issue with this
Northern sectional party, and has presented
a sectional candidate upon professed South
ern sectional platform.
These sham Republicans, and sham Demo
Gratis have "sworn and agreed" that they
alone have right to fight for the supremacy,
that the government of right belongs to one
or the other of them, and they only differ as
to sohich one of them shall possess it. A peace
maker intervenes, and these contending par
ties cordially unite in an effort to drive him
from the field of contest The Richmond En-
quirer swears Justify that unless its party shall
succeed the form of government must be chang
ed--that the present system will not protect
the rights and honor of the South the New
York Tribune swears just as Justify, that free
dom is forever vanquished unless its party
shall triumph, and there must be revolution,
if the sham Democrats are not now con-
quered The American party, the con-
servative Wings, and conservative Democrats
differ widely in opinion from these contending
factions.
They think, and truly think, that the inter-
ests, the peace, the prosperity and happiness of
the country, demand that both these sectional
factions should be suppressed that both
should be driven from the field-that the sue
cess of either of them would result disastrous
ly to the country-that if the sham Republi-
cans shall succeed, there will be four years of
contest, elimination, strife, turmoil, and sec
tional commotion, which would weaken and
endanger the Union-that if the sham Demo
Gratis shall triumph, there will be inaugurated
an era of filibustering, of foreign aggression,
of foreign wars, of "squatter sovereignty "
doctrines, and, in time, that whichever of these
two sectional parties triumph, the country will
be afflicted with domestic and foreign dissen-
sions-;w evils, calamities, and disasters,
which it would be perhaps impossible ever
wholly to repair, and from which the country
would not in whole century recover.
The American party" therefore, aided and
assisted by other conservative elements, from
the old-line Whig and old-line Democratic
parties, propose to prevent the disastrous con-
sequences which would result from the eleva-
ton of either of these sectional factions to
place and power, and thus save the country
from that change in our form of government,
which the Richmond Enquirer has indicated.
May we not hope to arouse the slumbering pa
triotism of the Richmond Enquirer, and in
duce it to unite with US and prevent the ne
cessity of changing our "system of govern
mentg"
1t is true, we do not exactly understand what
other (and perhaps 6etter) System of govern
ment" that estimable young gentleman may
have concocted in his absence at foreign
Court; but not being prepared yet to believe
that he is soiser than the Madisons, Franklins,
Livingstons, Shermans, Hamiltons, Rutledges,
Morrises, Pinckneys, and Washingtons 1887,
we think, at present, 1T would be quite as pru-
dent to remain content with that System of
government" under which our country has
prospered for nearly seventy years, and per-
haps more so, than to seek change which
might produce no reform.
In ourjudgment, the world has not elsewhere,
seen "system of government so well calcu-
lated as this to secure the blessings of consti-
tutional liberty, sohen rightly and aoisely ad-
ministered, yet God forbid that the world
should, here or elsewhere, ever again witness
such another NAL administration of free gov
ernment as has cursed the United States since
1853 1t is not the "system of government"
but the administration of the government, that
requires radical change, and to this end let
all parties devote their best energies.