Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-30
11The Position of Parties.,'

That desperate diseases require desperate
remedies" is maxim, probably as old as any
that has received the sanction of men. That
the anti American party is now afflicted with
most desperate disease" is as true as the
maxim we have quoted. That the remedy for
this disease, which the learned doctor of the
Richmond Enquirer has prescribed, is as des-
perate az the disease ITSELF will be universally
admitted, when we state, that it is a dose from
the laboratory of the quack doctor who pre-
sides over the New York Herald.
Before describing the ingredients of the pre-
scription recommended by the Herald and
adopted by the Enquirer, to cure the "despe-
rate disease" which affiicts the anti-American
! party, we have q word to say Of the physician
who prepared the prescription.
Doctor Bennett is the man who profession
ally, and for good fec, recommended to the
American people the selection of one Georgc
Lac as the political physician, who, if en-
ployed by the people of the United States,
would cure all their ills The essence Of
Hoe oak was universal panacea. Isl
In other words, "Liye Oak George Law"
was National Democrats man admirably
| qualified to hold the reins of government, and
| if elected, he would prove himself a National
President he would reconcile oil the Earring
interests, save the country from sectionalism
and restore harmony throughout the nation.
The opinions of the New York Herald did not
prevail-Geerge Law was not selected as the
candidate of the National Americans, and in
return for this refusal of the National Ameri-
can party to adopt George Law, he instantane-
ously fell into the embraces of Republicanism,
and is now doing all in his power to defeat the
National American nomination.
The New York Herald, press which has
always hitherto professed to be national has
gone over, with its protegc, George Law, to
the support of John Charles Fremont, the NOM
inee Of Seward, Greeley, and Bishop Hughes
So much for the position of the Herald, 1T
recommended George Law as a national man
-itsrecommendation was disregarded, andnow
that press is the paid advocate Of the Repub-
lican candidate!
Now what is the disease" of which the
anti-American pseudo-Democratic party is
suffering and what is the dose the Herald pre-
scribes to snatch that party from the grave,
and which the Enquirer adopts and seeks to
administer to the suffering patientp
The Z" disease" is general debility of the
system-its vigor and tone are gone--it has no
strength, scarcely any animation. BY its con-
tinued recklessness and dissipation for years
past its system has become irrecoverably i'm
paired. a# "@
The learned Doctor of the Herald knows
perfectly well, that in a contest between this
diseased political party and the young and Wig
orous Republican party, the latter must tri-
umph, and therefore he recommends to this
diseased party to swallow this dose, to-wit: to
bslispe that a rigorous tight Nth the "sooolly
horse oould restore at to its pristine health
II is rs obvious as the sun at MONDAY that
If such were the only contest at the North, the
Republican party would demolish the pseudo
Democratic party, for the conservative elc-
ments at the North cannot combine with the
filibustering, world-defying, "squatter sovcr-
eighty" party, which stands upon the Cincin-
natl platform The principles of that party,
as set forth in their programme at Cincinnati,
cannot command the assent, much less the
support of the conservatives. To ignore the
American party, and to redken it. by such
means, would be to throw the whole Northern
electoral vote upon Fremont and elevate Sec
tional President
The New York Herald KNOBS this, and seeks
to insure the success Of this scheme, and hence
its article, which the Richmond Enquirer
grcedily gulps down, and joyfully produces in
its columns, to wit
" The campaign in the South is beginning to
show some pretty hard fighting, and is carried on
between the Know-Nothings and nigger-driving
Democracy, ,oiiile the real friends of Fremont IN
thd. section are at present compelled 70 do battle
sfaer re banner Of Fillmore III the North and
6dst me 'oar "a caged between the Fremont and
S@ondHdr forces, with here and there Know
no0n.ng encampment, made up Of followers in q
Transition state for the Northwest There is no
opposition, the ranks Of the Constitutional Ere. /