Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-05

yesterday contains the following remarks upon
us, to-wit:
"0ur contemporary Of the american Organ pre-
faces the publication Of the resolutions of the
Americans of Rockingham with comment in
which the editor speaks of the assaults which
have been made upon that paper by the press OF
Virginia. That portion of the press of Virginia
has expressed dissatisfaction with the OF the
Organ is undoubtedly true, but we emphatically
protest against the implied assumption that the
whole of the American press of this State in
the habit of making assaults upon that paper Ger
tainly nothing is further from past course, or
present intention. The controversy between the
Wing and the Organ was matter with which we
conceived that had nothing to do, unless il had
been in power to aid the restoration OF the en-
tente cordial which previously existed. We
sorry that our able contemporaries have been en-
gagged in directing against each other weapons
which, in our humble opinion, could have been
| more usefuly employed against the common enc
my. But we have neither the right nor the incli-
nation to obtrude our advice upon either. We
shall content ourselves with the excrton of all our
| powers to assist them both In the great work of
Kidding our country of the corruption and misrule
| of the pack Of punderers who now control its
affairs"
We promptly and unhesitatingly confess
that in speaking Of the "press of Virginia, we
ought, in Justice to the American, and to some
other papers published in Virginia, to have
used language limiting our illusions to some
half dozen presses, and excluding the Ameri-
can, whose course towards the Organ has been
just and honorable.
We had, on previous occasion, designated
by name, those presses of Virginia which had
assailed the Organ, and, in using the words
"press of Virginia, we had only in view those
which we had thus previously designated.
Whilst it is true, as suggested by the Amer
lean, that our assailants and ourselves have
been engaged in directing against each other
weapons which could have been more usefully
employed against the common enemy" it is
also true that we have never made the first
assault upon any paperwhich advocated Amer
ican doctrines, nor have we failed to make the
last Ifpresses which profess to be American
choose to forget the duty they owe the Ameri-
can party, and assault us because we viii not
| advocate ultra measures, we must claim and
exercise the right of defending ourselves and
our political action and of indicating our po-
sitions, in such manner and in such language
as we think appropriate, and if damage results
to the American party from these contests, the
censure should fall upon the original assailant,
and not upon us.
Unfortunately for tho American party, it
contains many members, with whom Ameri-
canism is secondary in Importance, to some
| other cherished doctrine. We are not of this
class. Unfortunately too, this party contains
many members who deem it necessary that
their sectional notions sanctioned by the Amer
| lean party. We are not of this class. For
example, there are Southern men who think,
that their rights Of property, and the security
of their property in slaves, should be guaran-
teed by the resolves of American councils and
the only guarantees the South require, are con-
tanned in their own local laws and in tho re-
cognition of their rights by the Federal Con-
stitutioD, and that the resolves Of parties add
no security to those rights.
We think moreover, that it is most hazard
GUS to the South to permit the question of
slavery to be acted upon, or even considered,
| in the political conventions Of national politics,
whose resolves may be in favor of slavery to-
day and against it tomorrow. We think, and
we have said, and we shall repeat, that it will
be dark day for the South, when they consent
that political conventions, composed of mem
bers from each section of the country, shall
dispose Of the question Of Slavery. II their
rights are not safe under their own local insti-
tutions, with the guaranty Of the Federal Con-
stitution superadded thereto, we warn them
that national conventions will prove far less
safe and reliable.
For the utterance Of these sentiments, ultra
presses and ultra politicians at the South have
denounced us. Be it so. We shall probably
survive it and the time viii perhaps come
| when the people of the South win open their
| eyes to the consequences Of allowing slavery to
when those who are now persuaded that it is
right and safe for slavery to take shelter under
the wings of such conventions, will utter the
deepest and bitterest dennnciations upon those
blind guides who will have misled them
There are men at the North too, who claim
that anti-slaveryism shall be incorporated into
the platform of the American party. Our an
swer is 1t has no business there They too,
| anathematize us, in like manner as Southern
ultraists, and for the same cause, TO wit: our
opposition to the incorporation of the slavery
question into the American platform
We announced in our prospectus, prior to
the issue Of the first number of the american
Organ, our opinions on the slave question
| thus:
We hold that the institution of SLAVERY belongs