Daily American organ., 1856-04-11
WHOLE NO. 444.
The Americans In Ohio.
A Brief Address 10 the American Order an,
is Friends

n DFg dddFess 10 Me american Order and
rs Friends.
BY resolution Of the State Council of Ohio a,
reorganized at Columbus on the goth March, after
the selfnullfcation of the previous State Council
the committee undersigning were instructed to ay
before you the following plain statement:
The foundation of our order in this State date
no further back than to March, 1854 vet, within
less than twelve month afterwards, il counted.
within Ohio, largely above a thousand subordinate
councils, and about l20, 600 members. like rap.
ldity OF growth has never been seen In the Who'll,
history OF parties Its name appeared to have beon
scarcely heard among us, before ID was already o
an almost unbounded popularity; 1t was hardly
known to have taken the field, before il began e,
be dreaded by one half Of our people, and admirod
py the other, as power equally strange and ire
sstible Nor was this suddenness of rise such e.
foroodes like swiftness of decline on the con
trary, many concurring causes without the order
as well as within it, betokened for Il a solid and
permanent public approval If the secrecy of it4
operations, the celerity of its success had laid ho
on the peoples imagination, so had the soundness
and necessity OF its political doctrines won upon
their Judgment, and its patriotic principles upo.
their affections. OF pre-existing parties the race
seemed run; OF one, nothing was left but cor.
rupt and a slavish organizations unanimated by any
better principles than that of the spoils second
had sunk into voluntary extinction the third.
never anything but bane of the public peace, wa4
lately grown trply pernicious through the fresh
fanaticism infused into it by the Kansas question.
Naturally, then, in this public discomfort at the
wretched state into which politics and parties had
lallen, the body OF our people hailed the sudden
rising up Of the American Order as the very i'm
bodiment of what most the country needed. II
stood, indeed, the very child of the occasion as
TO the peoples own thought had been born th;t
thing ITSELF that precise political being, which tho
conJuncture SO absolutely required or as if all that
which our common safety asks the most urgently
and which our politicians viii live the least, had al
once gathered into life and the public veal itself
had, at the very pinch Of need sprung up into a
party, to do the peoples work and undo the poli.
ticans
Thus everything about it prefgured for il, to
everybodys view, aprodigious success and at once
las about young heir just coming to huge es-
tate flock sharpers and parasites 30 rushed into
Know Nothingism that endless multitude of IN
trguers, OF office-seekers and of loose political d.
venturers joining much ambition with little or no
conscience, who watch the windfas and wait the
shifts OF parties as they rise and fall in this country
At once, within the bosom of the Order, began
TO be fomented every passion that was its bane
every practice that was perjury to its principles
The newcomers were largely politicians; and
scarcely man of them but brought with him his
plot, his intrigue. always against the principles OF
the Order ITSELF and often for the benefit of som
unscrupulous contriver outside. Affecting the
highest zeal, but busy for only their own ends
these men fell to sappng in secret the very defon-
ces which they seemed to be guarding. Like him
In the GOOD Book, they went up and down, sowing
the tares Of every forbidden and mischievous doc.
trine The simple they piled with whatever fans
ticism was just then catching and while playing
with these fetches upon the honest to mislead
them from the sober tenets of their Order. mon
the corrupt they wrought with the stronger logic
OF their bribes; Senatorship in expectancy did
the business with several the pledged patronage
OF future President told on many the seduction
OF Speakership drew aside this one from virtue;
the glitter OF an Embassy that a bait was found
for all that would bite 70 the wary every bird In
hand was proffered; to the credulous whole focks
in the bush; and the entire Promised Land of Office
was shingled many times over with grants. to be
made good as soon as some friend of honesty and
freedom--some man who never buys nor sells nor
trucks nor changes-some Fabricius and Aristides
rolled into Liberty man. should arrive at the
Presidency.
These new converts were, for the greater part,
people eager to make their way For that purpose
alone they had joined the Order But they almost
instantly found that all its proper principles stood
as hons In their path, and were indeed systemati-
caly devised for the expulsion of just such as they
from public life. IL was a machinery adapted only
to efecting, by allowable means, great public end
that had grown to be of the highest necessity anu
IL could not De converted into the easy and general
instrument OF all political knaves. .a6A
For It was meant, first of all to restore Anne -
to the rule of Americans, who alone are ft ~
have right to govern it, secondly, to perpetu SS
the blessings Of that, the only true self governn
by guarding, with the most jealous care, the u
as the surest prop Of its safety; thirdly, to cus
out from our public affairs their shame and scourge
oifice.seeking and demagoguism. From these main
principles severally flowed others--as, a national
policy of favoring all that is American in whatever
OF art, or industry, or intellect can advance peo-
pies greatness; a just and resoute oninterven-
ton in the troubles of other nations an avoidance
at home of all such unhappy questions as have ever
brought about nothing but sectional pickering and
strife. In word, every principle and the entire
thought of the Order were eminently conserva-
tive, home-bred concorlseeking, order-loving its
whole spirit that Of loyalty to the interests of
every part of the country alike, and to all o5liga.
tions OF the constitution while il was inimcal to
nesae nessleg eat ~ saytitsQQf5snasR.t tSsQQfE5saRtion fnr4i'-
Wise from the rectitude and from the patriotism
Of their intentions, they who founded and thus fa
had led the Order, had easily seen, from the be-
ginning, that upon no ideas less sober, honest,
brotherly, or national than these could it ever
rive at any even momentary attainment of its OBJ
jects that it must shun everything sectional and
devote itself TO those things only, which arc
common necessity for the entire land; that, at
whatever sacrhce OF such local popularity as other
parties have stopped to obtain by deception, and
at whatever imputation in the North Of being too
much, and in the South Of being too little the
friend of slavery it must hold on its own firm way
of duty, must side with neither Of fansticisms
equally wrong, and must look on the solemn and
manifold compact of each citizen with every other
under our constitution, and the mutual charities
which should bind every region Of the Confedera-
cy to all others, of far higher obligation than
any which can be imposed, at each individuals
pleasure by course Of conduct towards the blacks
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