Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-19
WHOLE NO. 52s.

u,ar sovereignty and made leading plank in the
platform. The position Of that party ON this SUBJ
Ject reminded him of the story of the old lady
who was very much offended because her ministsr
hau Dougnt ms son fiddle, but when she learn
ed that IL was violin instead OF : afddlen
she felt perfectly satisfied that he had not oyer.
stepped the bounds CT propriety. And SO al to
squatter sovereignty, the committee doctors at
Cincinnati called it q violin instead of a fiddle
and then contended II was all right r.
They played with Democracy like a eutta nor.
cha toy, very like the faces which could be pulled
out and given very solemn look, or showed in
and given most jovial aspect, at convenience
put the American party was party Of principle,
and they could not shut their eyes TO TIE fact that
both the opposing parties were courting the vote
OF that very foreign element against which the
party had c0mbatted on principle And he asked
could an American believe he was acting true,
when he voted for the candidates of either of the
other partiesS The foreign elements we're now,
he claimed, contending with the American party,
whether the latter should have the power to rule
and govern themselves. At the very inception OF
the American organization, the foreign element
was found united against ID, and 1t was found the
party dit, not begin too soon. This foreign element
could not be too well looked after "A page OF his-
tory had never been written, OF a people inJiting
foreign element into their nidst, and then re.
gaining possession Of the government after they
had once lost 1t. So now let the foreign element
get the upper hands of as, and it can never be re-
stored.
Would the Americans resist these endeavors |?
Let them elect Mr. Fillmore, who is fair and
open American The American party never made
crusade against the foreigners---we never said
they should not come---we had only done this
told them to take passage on our craft if they
liked, but they must not expect to be the engi-
neers. Where was the Injustice of this? Were
not all foreign countries alike exclusive? Could
an American citizen 60 in any other country and
obtain citizen privileges without some form2 1t
was useless for him, he said, after midnight to
talk to the American people upon such plain
| proposition. But another idea he would throw
out in this connexion. The ratio OF increase in
population in Great Britain and the United States
showed that the population would be cqual In
| 1860, and in 10 we would have ten millions the
most. And within the next five years, all the
| schem,s the English may have to retard our pro-
gress will be put in operation.
And then would be required the stoutest and
steadiest hand at the helm of State But if a part
of the American people would pander to the for
egn element, and through ii, put the government
in the hands of one inexperienced, and of no ac-
knowledgcd craftsmanship, they could not pro-
nounce more emphatic verdict upon their own
incapacity to hold the power Of self clfgovernment in
their hands. A people who would thus rashly, in
such crisis, throw aside, worth, ability, genius,
craftsmanship, and choose one possessed of neither
for their Chief Executive officer would but show
that they unworthy the sacred liberty bequcat-
ed them by the fathers of the revolution Mr.
Marshall was greeted at the close, as throughout
with the greatest enthusiasm.