The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-05-23
The American Party.

The foes OF the American party would
willingly lay the fattering JUNCTION to their
souls, that the mighty grasp of its strength on
the hearts of the people, is being relaxed, and
the power it so suddenly acquired over the
public mind has become just as speedily en-
feebled. This is what they charge, but it is
more than they believe. The principles of the
American party are too deeply seated in the
hearts of patriots, and its purposes too i'm
portant in the eyes of intelligent citizens who
can and dare look beyond the present of our
country's history into the future-to be up
rooted even by defeats and disasters, which as
yet the American party has not experienced
to any dangerous extent, nor more than
marks the first start of every great party.
If the American party were to die to-day,
those who participated in its brief history
would have nothing of which to be ashamed.
No party was ever founded upon more patriot
ic principles. Ne party in its purposes ever
aimed at higher objects, nor with stronger and
wider clasp gathered in its embrace the whole
Union. Its works have already been good
Dying to-day, these works would be glow
ing monument to the memory of the Ameri-
can party. Demagogueism, cringing at the
feet of foreign infuence-foreign influence it
self, fostering and cherishing the most danger
GUS influences, and daily, hourly strengthen
ing its grasp upon us-never before met with
such rebuff as they have received from the
American party. This party has at least set
Americans to thinking. More than this-it
has brought wildly before their eyes, in all its
startling dangers, the power of the foreign in
fuence which was fast insinuating itself into
every department Of Government, and snatch
ing the reins from the hands of Americans
1t has convinced our people, that this power
ful influence must be stopped in its rapid pro-
gress. Whether the American party will be
chosen as the means to apply the remedy or to
eradicate the evil, remains to be seen. If it
be not, some other party will hat the task to
perform. The work has to be done, sooner or
later. The American party is before the peo-
pie, ready and willing to undertake the task
Why cannot it be trusted 1t is National in
its principles, and truly patriotic in its objects
1t interferes with the rights and interests of
no man already citizen of the Republic. On
the contrary, it proposes stronger protection
to the rights Of American citizens, whether ma
tive or foreign born. In this connection, we
make the following extract from an editorial
in the Louisville Journal:
The American party arose. the party aptly
described by the Herald ga national organ
zation of intelligent, conservative voters of the
country" Its mission is peace. Its object is
the preservation Of the Union and constitution
alike from ''the insiduous wiles of foreign in
fuence' and the dangerous Vaccinations of
domestic traitors. Its face is set against sec
tionalism against foreignism, against the cor
ruption of old political parties against all that
can imperil the public peace or prosperity or
threaten with danger our liberties or our re-
publican institutions. In its very youth this
American party wrestled sturdiy with aboli-
tionism in the North and with the disunion
party in the South, and now, strengthened,
purified, and more experienced, it has entered
the contest against sectionalism and foreign
ism. Its proud banner has been flung gallant
ly to the breeze. Inscribed upon it are the
names of men who need no other guaranty
for purity, soundness, and conservatism than
the record of their lives affords. Around Mil
lard Fillmore and Andrew Jackson Donelson
are everywhere gathering in solid phalanx ''the
intelligent conservative voters of the country"
Upon these candidates and upon the American
party the country must now rely to put stop
to sectional agitation and to give peace, pros
perity, and stability to the Union.