Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-29
From the Selma Sentinel.
Letter from Colonel Jere. Clemens.


DEAR SIN: Your letter Of the 25th instant reached
me to-day. Il am in the midst of hurried prepara-
tons for a long journey, and have not the time TO
answer it as / wish. i going TO Missouri and IL
linois, and from thence to New York and Washing
ton from one of the ast-named places will write
YOU at length.
In the meantime sincerely hope youwill not com
NIT yourself against the American party. thought
the nominations at Philadelphia premature and have
not been surprised at the expression of dssatisfac
ton it has called forths still do not see how rem
edy can be applied that will not be worse than the
evil try to look at it pyacieaUy The three prom
inent candidates or the anti americans are Buchanan,
Douglas and Pierce. Buchanan is more deeply at
tached to the protective principle that Fillmore.
Douglas is fully committed TO the river, harb0r, and
road appropriations and Pierce is committed TO every
thing and will prove true 10 nothing Neither Of the
three comes up to any standard Of what q Democrat
ought TO be. Neither can be trusted by the South
an hour after they have secured our votes. All Of
them will be certain to favor measures from which
the North will reap the benefits while we pay the
taxes; and all of them will be certain to stab us
while protesting the most profound regard for our
rights gsF 4..
In the very nature OF things party which re-
lies upon foreign voters for its must ennn-
ciate principle and advocate measures hostile 10
the institution OF slavery The foreign hack driver
drayman, ditcher or hod-caTrier, has no desire to
compete for his wages with the negro. Even the
Irish chambermaid looks with jealousy upon the
ployment of negro girls in our hotels. There is
wide-an almost acknowledgements TO a domes-
materially their own chances of employment; and it
is here at the base Of society where wise politician
ought 70 look for tho seeds Of principles which
or later control the destinies of a nation. Great
events work their way up, not down. All revolu-
uons begin among the masses. Wiberforce him
sell only gave voice to sentiment which existed be-
fore his birth. The Parliament of England would
have abolished slavery if he had never lived The
harapgues OF demagogue are harmless if there is
no Pre'ulace for him to direct-no sentiment in the
hearts OF the laborng classes which responds to his
appeals. With none but an dnericaa people to ap.a
peal to- who does not look upon the slave as a rival
whose labor nterferes with the sustenance Of their
own families, all the political preachers and orators
10 the land could not get up slave agitation to 3
dangerous height. #a# Be sa
1t is as a Southern man born upon the soil of the
South, linked to it by a thousand ties attached to
slavery as domestic relation, and believing in my
soul that y Is best for both races that cherish most
aroehhy the American cause. Whatever best pro
notes that cause will be certain resolve my sup
port cannot hope TO have everything exactly as
wish and as practical man. mean TO take the best
can get AT Philadelphia, as at all other Conven-
tons, tn ngs We're done of which do not approve,
but predict the Cincinnati Convention will do much
worse In regard to platform, and that the nominees
Will be o hundred-fold more Objectionable Oliver
Cromwell wont to say Nits will be lice y and
vile set of trafckers for foreign votes must of nes
cessity give tratckcr like themselves for a can
ddate E
Very truly and respectfully your friend !.
JERE. CLEMENS &
To JOHN HARDY Esq. IE
s.. + q II Z
The EARLY LIFE OF BIsHop BAscox The follow.
ing account of the trials of BascoH the celebrated
preacher, illustrates what the home missionary bad
to undergo some forty years ago N.gv,.
In the western part of Virginia was situated q log
cabin, the chinks Of which we're daubed and Allied
with yellow mud st bad perhaps half 4 second sto-
ny, where you could study astronomy without leaving
bed, and adopt the hydropathic without the aid Of
any doctor; the kitchen serves as n breakfast and
dining, q dressing and preaching room number
OF hens with their chickens are taken in for safe
keeping, Amid the barking of dogs and noise and
after midnight, when all had retired 10 rest stretched
ON bls stomach before the enbers of the FIRE which
served for his midnight oil he not only acquired q
sucient knowledge 70 prosecute his calling but be-
ona ne master q several languages He preached in
one year four hundred times travelled five thousand
miles and at the end Of that fine his salary amount
ea 70 twelve dollars and ten cents That man was
ma baseonn, who was afterwards raised to the
ornament TO the Church F1Igla - NJ
Y7ags tsai - $1,000 aa3 msh9es
sI.shss ~ rm MKruoDisr Gxs.nAL CossrnsScs.
- Uenera oonierence Of the Methodist church
areport M which article declares slavery s;n b,,s
lnnsnuch as persons may be brought into The ieosI
relation OF stockholders nvoluntarily or yoluntsy;iv
py purchasing slaves in order 10 free them tharT-
me merely legal relation shall not be considered ~
sen sufhclent 70 exclude person who may tbns
sustain ~ from the fellowship of the church. 80
answer :, whenever member of our church,
py any means becomes the owner of n slaye II shall
De the DUTY OF the preacher In charge 10 cali together
acommitee, of at least three members who shs Il ~.
yesngafe the case and determine the time in which
sara saeye shall be freed and bis refusal or ,eolet
70 scsde by the dec'son of said committee ho Shall
bedeslf withs in the case OF immortality. - T1'
The East TEssEssFE RAnRoAp.---The Cbatta-
nOoga Gazette Of e2d instant says ~
The ears on the East Tennessee and Virginia
roso are now running to the station, nine miles
soovc New MARKET, and thirty three miles abovs
hno1yi,e. The Virginia and Tennessee road i
expected TO reach Abingdon lby the 4th Of July. >