Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-28

The Boston Pilot of Saturday last contains
the most vile and vilanous misrepresentation
in relation to the recent killing Of Thomas
Heating in this city, which jesuit could con
coct Nor are these misrepresentation the
result Of transformation on the part Of their
authors, for the votes and acts of Mr.. Herbert,
of California, during the present session OF
Congress, as clearly define his political posi-
ton and sympathies, as the editorials of the
Boston Pilot prove its fraternity with Roman
ISM That press heads the article to which we
now refer thus, I" The Murder By a Kao9-
Nothing Congressman" and it proceeds to
give its version of the ARRAY in which Heating
was killed, interpreting it with illusions to
Mr.. Herbert as a member Of Congress elected
by the secret order to represent their princi-
pie of hostility to foreigners and the Catholic
religion" and referring 10 the result thus:
Here we see the natural effect Of the malig-
nant spirit of nativism, and he has killed
an Irishman, and thereby proved his fidelity
to his party" and " it was not to be endured
that KnoW- Nothing member of Congress
from California should meet with a civil demur
from an Irishman!"
From the beginning to the ending of the edi-
torial article Of the Boston Pilot, above refer
red to, the writer falsely assumes and argues
that it was the spirit Of Nativism, or what it
calls Know Nothingism, which caused the
death of Heating; and the writer basely at
tempts to hold the American party responsible
for that death. This is Jesuitssm, illustrated
by damning proofs Of its recklessness. Does
not every man in the country, who has read
the proceedings of Congress bnoao, that from
the first day Mr.. Herbert took his seat in Con-
gress to the present, he has acted and voted
with this administration Of his antecedents
we have no knowledge; but his votes in Con-
gress prove unequivocally and undeniably that
he is member of the anti-American party
But it did not suit the mischievous purposes Of
the Boston Pilot to assail the administration
party for the alleged misconduct of one Of its
supporters, when it was well known to that
press that Mr.. Herbert had sustained the adj
ministration nominees in the organization Of
the House, from first to lasti
.Jesuit-like, he seeks to transfer from the adj
ministration party, to the american party,
that responsibility for the death Of Heating,
which it assumes ought to attach to the party
to which Mr.. Herbert belongs We leave the
question Of party responsibility for private acts
to be decided by each man for himself, but if
it be decided that the party to which Mr.. Her.
bert belongs, and with which he acts, shall be
held responsible for the death which he has
caused, then we affirm, that the administration
party, and not the American party, shall re-
spond for that offence. And in this connexion,
we refer to the extract from the American Celt,
Gan Irish paper also,) which we published in
Mondays daily issue, and in which the Celt
announces that the Democratic party in Con-
gress, opposed the proposition to inquire into
the circumstances of Keating's death, and that
Pierce, and Douglas, and Buchanan, Demo
cratic leaders, will be held responsible for the
conduct of Mr.. Herbert, on the ground, that he
is a member of the Democratic party, and that
he has been shielded by that party. The Celt
is right, in it's facts touching the political rela-
tons Of Mr.. Herbert, but we pass no opinion
as to the responsibility of the Democratic par
ty for the individual acts of its members.
The miserable and shameless attempt of the
Pilot to hold the American party responsible
for the death Of Heating is in harmony with
the usual course Of that anti-American sheet,
which sets no bounds to it's calumnies. The
frank and open declarations of the American
Celt, which we have published, afford, how
ever, an antidote to its poisonous Jesuitism on
this occasion, and we pass it by without fur
ther comment.
How far tits proper that political journals
should make use of such occurrences az the
shooting of Thomas Heating, or the assault
uponMr. Sumner, to manufacture political cap
ital, is point on which-men of all parties may
honestly differ, but in reference to these two
occurrences there can be no difference of opin-
ion on this position, to wit. That the Ameri-
can party are in no way responsible, directly
or indirectly, for either one Of those occur
rences. fsA
In the case of Heating, he was an Irishman
by birth, and belonged to the administration
party. His assailant belongs to the same party,
and it was an affray In which no member Of
the American party participated, and for which
no American" is responsible.
In the case Of Mr.. Sumner, his controversy
in debate, was with Ncssrs. Cass, Douglas and
Butler, all anti-Americans and the assault
was made upon him by Mr.. Brooks, Of South
Carolina, also an opponent of the American
party. Mr.. Sumner himself was formerly a
Free-soiy democrat, one of that class of politi-
clans, embraced in the promise of the Wash
ington Union, made in the campaign Of 1862,