Daily American organ., 1856-02-23
Platform Of the American Party, adopte,
at the session OF the National Council
February 2Ist, 1856.

LIST. An humble acknowledgement to the Su-
preme Being, for His protecting care vouchsafed
to our fathers in their successful Revolutionary
struggle, and hitherto manifested TO u.s. their de-
scendants in the preservation of the liberties, the
independence, and the union Of these States.
I'd. The perpetuation of the Federal Union, as
the palladium of our civil and religious liberties,
and the only sure bulwark of American Indepen-
dence.
Sd. americans must rnle america and to this
end native born citizens should be selected for all
State, Federal, and municipal Offices orgovernment
employment, In preference to all others: never
theless,
4th Persons born Of American parents residing
temporarily abroad, should be entitled to all the
rights of native-born citizens but
5th No person should be selected for political
station, whether of native or foreign birth, who
recognises any allegiance or obligation of any de-
scrpton to any foreign prince, potentate power,
or who refuses to recognise the Federal and State
constitutions leach within its sphere) as paramount
to all other laws, as rules of political action.
9th. The unqualified recognition and mainte-
nance of the reserved rights of the several States
and the cultivation of harmony and fraternal good
WILL between the citizens of the several States and
to this end, non-interference by Congress with
questions appertaining solely to the individual
States, and non-intervention by each State with
the affairs of any other State.
7th. The recognition of the right of the native
born and naturalized citizens of the United States
permanently residing in any Territory thereof, to
frame their constitution and laws, and to regulate
their domestic and social affairs in their own mode,
subject only to the provisions of the Federal Con-
stitution, with the privilege of admission into the
Union whenever they have the. requisite popua-
ton for one Representative in Congress. Provided
aliodys, that none but those who are citizens Of
ha Mi tad ha fut,a md lava
thereof, and who have fixed residence in any
such Territory, ought to participate in the forma-
tlon OF the constitution, or in the enactment of
laws for said Territory or State.
Sth. An enforcement of the principle that no
State Territory ough to admit others than citi-
of the United States to the right ofsuffyage,
or of holding political Office
9th. A change in the laws of naturalization,
making continued residence of twenty-one years,
ofa not hereinbefore provided for, an indispensable
requisite for citizenship hereafter and excluding all
paupers, and persons convicted of crime, from land
ing upon our shores but no interference with the
vested rights of foreigners.
10th. Opposition to any union between Church
and State no interference with religious faith or
worship, and no test oaths for Office.
1lth. Free and thorough investigation into any
and all alleged abuses of public functionaries, and
a strict economy in public expenditures.
laws constituionally enacted, until said laws shall
be repealed, or shall be declared null and void by
competent judicial authority.
18th. Opposition to the reckless and unwise
policy Of the present administration inIthe general
management of our national affairs, and more es-
pecially as shown in removing Americans (by
designation) and conservatives in principle, from
Office, and placing foreigners and utraists in their
places; as shown in trucking subservency to
the stronger, and an insolent and cowardly brava-
do towards the weaker powers; as shown in re-
opening sectional agitation by the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise as shown in granting to un-
naturaized foreigners the right OF suffrage in Kan
sas and Nebraska as shown in its vacillating
ON the Kansas and Nebraska question as shown
in the corruptions which pervade some Of the de-
partments Of the government; as shown in dis
grscing meritorious naval officers through preju.
dice or caprice and as shown in the laundering
Of our foreign relations