Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-25

ny 10 U0fnr " "a e8~0 vct<fans vSxf " y0oso -
age. Who, for SIXTY ysars has voted the Dsmesrsss
ticket
Mr. Henry Riel h the grandfather " nr RsS.
srs T. knight, Of ws4hingsoa Gag. rssding on
Maryland avenue
Read ID, felIow-citisens, ID b the testimony II
one Of your Revolutionary sr~& Rssd d, Ds1o-
erats, IL 10 the evidence of one vho. sher an en-
penence ofsixty years a. vos~r, gives d - his
deliberate opinion shss the American party Il the
only national party In the country. and Who " the
reasons stated. psociai~s himself IN Ansdcss
Democrat standing upon the broad and ssroas
platform on which the American, rillnors, 81
the American Democrat, Andrew Jacksou Dead
son, stand, and upon which every true nan ought
to stand In this political criss
Mr. Riell, In the course Of his icng ooaDsxioa
with the Democratic party, furnished . asgs
amount Of money, and Was considsrsd the mast
influential member Of the party in the city Of Nsv
York. In evidence Of this h b only necessary "
say, that Martin Van Buren,, sfser his nomination
by the Democratic party In 1880, called upon Mr..
Riel, and asked his advice to the best means TO
SECURE his election.
He gave his advice. vsn Buren, fonJwsd a.
and was elected.
HENRY RrrLL TO THE AHKRIcAn DEnocRAcr.-
Believing 1t to be the duty Of every good citixs0
to throw whatever influence he may posssss on
the side OF his country, when he ID convinced that
dangers threaten its existsnceor lie peace have
concluded to address q few words Of explanation
to those particularly, who were once my fellow
Democrats Of Tammany Hall, a. well ~ 70 the
American Democracy generally. believe In De-
mocracy. am still Dcmocrat-an Americas
Democrat-and thus stand In opposition TO that
Red Repubicansm which has crossed the Allan
tic, only to mingle its deleterious elements with
the half foreign and half American Democracy Of
my native land Having witnessed the hasty,
careless, and indiscriminate manufacture of voters
out OF Europeans, and knowing by their clannish
and retained foreign habits, customs and prnci-
Piles, that they still Europeans In Ill respects
Notwithstanding the unnatural process OF natural.
cation; and knowing that their votes would coun-
teract the influence Of the legitimate sufrages Of
my own countrymen, / could no longer continue
with party whose practice 1t is to foster system
30 nationally suicidal.
My instincts being all American how could I
observe with any degree Of sympathy, such
ricap IN the Democratic party and still adhere 10
it' Seeing the offices of trust and honor conferred
upon foreigners in preference to Americans, and
witnessing the struggles of my fellow oountrymen
In their efforts to throw of the yoke OF that for
eign influence, which not only bowed their necks
at the ballotbox, but weighed them down In the
workshops, and in every occupation where the
competition Of imported cheap labor could Cypress
them, / resolved, with many of my fellow Demo-
Gratis to join the only National American party in
the country, and am now an American Democrat,
standing upon that broad and strong platform
which the American Fillmore and the American
Democrat Donels0n stand.
How could /, who knew in the troublous times
of the Revolution, how hravely the patriotic men
of the South fought side by side with their oompa-
triots of the North and the East for our common
liberties, and braved with us the perils of those
days and nights Of suffering and agony-how could
/ raise my hand against them at the ballotbox,
when the cartridge-box had already united US in
one common brotherhood? No, am with my
American brothers all over the Union, with all my
peart and all my soul. am with them all, against
all who war upon Us as one people / am with
Millard Fillmore, because he is for the peo-
pie of the Union, and with his own countrymen,
whether they be American Democrats or American
Wings, so they be Americans In heart and pur-
pose. | am with my whole country, as a great
and fourishing agricultural, mechanical, manufac-
turing and commercial firm held together by the
sacred memories of by-gone days, as well as by the
binding and vital interests Of weltried and sue
eessful partnership eoncssn.
Seriously apprehensiye that sectional agitation
may lead to the most disastrous results | conjure
my former Democratic associates to come out and
take their stand with the American patty which is
not only the strongest but the moat purely national
party 10 the field. There is no hope for the Union
and its peaceful perpetuity but in the success of
the American party
Az for the State of New York, it must 90 for
Fillmore and Donelsnn, but, to make II certainty,
the Hards should take the advice given in New
York paper, which has said -" If the hards pre-
fer to expose their own weakness, and to consoli-
aloof from all other parties in November, upon
basis of forty or fifty thousand votes; but if they
prefer the extinction Of the Cabinet sposmen and
deadly blow to the Seward combination, they
will unite with the American party and carry the
Statep in doing this however, they should be
actuated alone by desire to s'more Americapiyep
the State and nation, and not from wish merely
to do that which would afford them only tempo.
rary qualification. They should do it as patriots,
as men who love their country well enough to at
leaat waive any mere party designation, which de-
signing men use TO keep Americans asunder.
The crisis calls for q concert of action on the
part of all good citizens who are nationalist.
am now past eighty years of age. Ny father
and mother and myself fed the American prisoners
who were confined in the Brick Meeting house, in
the old Sugar House, and in the Quaker Church in
Pearl street, when the British held possession Of
New York / served in the last war under Gen.
Van Rensselaer, was tWo years In the house OF
George Washington, in Philadelphia, and Mrs
Washington wished to adopt me as her son.
volunteered to serve in the war against the French
and Turks in '98, and was volunteer TO go and
fight against the " Whiskey Boys" Of Philadelphia
was present when General Washington was in
sHtguraated, at Federal Hall, corner of Nassau end
Wall streets.
G. -
joined the American party for the reasons have
giyen. and because | belieVe Americans should