Daily American organ., 1856-08-15

siderable number of worthy people, who, un
der the pGngs OF an outraged confidence, al
indignation consequent upon the unmitigate,
violation of the plighted faith Of degraded
and debased administration, and, Mortified q
the fraud and violence and blood shed brough
upon the country, have, for the moment, suf
fered their feelings and passions to overthrow
their reason and control their sober judgments
and thus formed this unholy alliance, have
appropriated entirely to themselves the settle
ment of this Kanzas question, and restora.
tion of the peace and quiet of the country. Nc
higher aim, we grant, could challenge the ex.
ertions of any party, no nobler purposes could
engage the untiring energies of any politica
organization in this country And if this were
the aim and purpose of the leaders and insti
gators Of this ae0 party, one universal shout
should come up, "God speed its success ~
But let no man be deceived! 1t comes, we
grant, under an euphonious name" Republi-
canl" "The Peoples party 70 And, looking
only at its title, the humble habiliments
thrown around its exterior no wonder that SO
many good and true men in the North are in
clined, in the bitterness of their anguish, to
fall into its embraces. No one can doubt that,
in numbers at least, a vast majority of those
who are this day within the folds of this new
organization, are honest and pure in purpose,
sincere in design, and patriotic in determine
tion, and that If left to them, they would bring
back the country to primitive landmarks, and
restore peace and order; but no less true is it,
that the honest, true, and patriotic masses OF
that party will not as they have not, thus far,
dictate its policy or control its destiny.
The power behind the throne, the wheel
uithin the wheel, the complicated and deli
cate machinery which gives impetus, and di
rection, and control to party organization, is
not perceptible, even in the calmest moments,
to the pure-minded, unsuspecting, true men Of
the country. And while now the farmer at
his plough, the mechanic in his work shop,
and the laborer at his toll in the honesty Of
his pure heart, in the unsuspecting sincerity
of his true nature, with patriotic emotions,
looks out upon the turmoil, the distrust, the
disquietude, the portentous murmurings of the
people, and thinks only of the quick return of
happier and more tranquil moments to the
country, promised him by hisn neao and strange
LEADERS, and which doubtless he believes will
soon come, does not even dream, that at that
very moment there is behind the scene, that
band Of political tricksters, and renegades,
and adoenturers which always heretofore he
has Stunned as he would the adder-whose
lential, and whose rule is dishonor and ruin
are chuckting over his innocent infatuation,
but at the same time, arranging with the ut
most caution and care the party machinery,
so that they may reap the harvest, and gather
the fruit, while he is left to enjoy the mortify-
ing reality of a disappointed hope and de-
frauded expectation. And yet no man who
has mingled at all in public life, or has but
half needed the admonitions of the past, or
looks with but half an eye at the beautiful
workings" of the FAITHFUL now, with all their
neso-bOrn zeal for that repts Sc and quiet which
the country so imperiously demands, but
which ever heretofore they have been so stu
dously and sedulously careful to disturb and
destroy, can for one moment doubt the pur-
pose and base design of such men; their unit
ring exertions to carry out those purposes,
and their ability to consummate them, if by
excitement and confusion, or by feeling, pre-
judice, or passion, justly, perhaps, aroused,
the people of the country can be SO lulled to
sleep or seduced into needless acquiescence,
as to enable them by stealth and fraud to at
tain power and control in this government,
either by themselves or by the minions that
they have raised up for the occasion.
Settle the difficulties in Kansas, Mr.. Chair
mani Restore peace and quiet to distracted
country Bring back the government to an
cient Ian lmarksl Inspire new confdencel
Avenge the breach Of plighted faith Con-
ciliate and reconcile conflicting rights and in
terests in the true spirit of the fathers, and
plant themselves firmly upon such reconcilia-
tions and stand by theml Who, sir in all
this land, in sober seriousness, would ever
even suspect that the master spirits of this
Republican movement, the men who seek to
control its destiny, who haze thus for dictated
its policy, and aoill in the future, if it shall
succeed guide and direct its course either seek
or desire to accomplish any such purposes.
Peace and quiet to the country, good faith
loyalty to the constitution, acquiescence in all
the compromises Of that instrument, and a
steadfast adherence to the policy, the yielding,
conciliatory spirit of those true men who stood
by the cradle of this government in its infancy,
cherished and protected it in it's youth, and
transmitted it to us in the vigor and strength
of its manhood, no useless agitation, no un-
warranted sectionalism, no fraternal strife
And say you that this is the doctrine Of the
lead and front of Republicanism? Blot out
the record that these men have made, forget
the strife which they have occasioned, erase
from your history the recorded scenes of agita-
ton in which they have figured so conspicu-
ously; burn up the statute book in every State
in which by any means, either foul or fair,
they have at any time had the power and con-
troll gather together every disunion and sacri-
legious sentiment which even now every day
is pouring in upon us from all quarters, ema-
mating from men who, while they are kindred
spirits, and think and feel with them, have not
that cool, calculating head nor that dishonest,
insincere and insidious heart that for its own
own wise purposes in this particular juncture
can smother up and conceal its true instincts,
and bury all these things Deep deep in the
bowels of the earth, and you may then induce
the people to believe that their purposes are
identical, and that they seek to accomplish