Washington telegraph., 1856-06-04
THE FEBRUARY PLATFORM.

1HE NINTH NECTlON-- 49,
gallantly take up the glove as the cham
pions of the foreign population OF the
United States, denying emphatically the
nronosition which we laid down last week
as the basis Of our remarks in this number,
TO the effect that
s'Under the operation of the present sys-
tenn of naturalization, the foreigner is made
the equal of the native, and seeks to be-
come his superior"
The afecticnate regard which you so
generously entertain, gentlemen of the
Democrat, for the ''liberal soul of unireT-
sal love-" has precious little to do, as We
take it, with the questions at issue You
seem anxious for information, and lmbued
with a proper spirit for its reception
There is one Institution against which,
because of its politico-religious nature, Its
past history and its known character; and
there is one class of men against whom,
because of their openly avowed determi-
nation to subvert, if possible, our existing
institutions, the American party are open
ly arrayed. And they are so arrayed, not
because, as the opposition press would
wrongly have the popular mind believe,
they wish to wrest from the individual
members of this institution any vested
right by virtue of the workings of any
retroactive law, or because they aim at the
taking away of any just privilege pertain
ing to the individuals composing the class
above referred to; but because the Ameri-
can party see danger to the institutions
of America, in the numerical or moral
supremacy of that Institution, operating,
as its nature does when it is supreme,
through the channel of single will upon
''the lives, the fortunes and the sacred
honors" of all who acknowledge its sway;
and because this party see nothing but the
inevitable subversion of our present form
of government in the unchecked reckless
ness of that class, this party aim at the
interposition of the exercise of the will of
the American people to stay threatening
danger, which all who are not wilfully
blind must see And we are confident,
that if the opponents of the policy which
we declare as the policy OF our party, would
meet us fdirly-meet US acknowledging
that which we proclaim, that we seek no
interference with either ''yested rights,
faith or worship" as the prerogatives of
foreigners and examine carefully, and
discuss candidly, the insolent usurpations
of authority at which these men aim, and
against whom and against whose opinions,
we war, they would acknowledge the justice
of our cause, the tenability of our premises,
and the Legitimacy OF our deductions But
they do nothing of this sort. We take
positions fortified by facts, and from these
positions proclaim our doctrines, which
are sustained by all relative matter. They
deny the existence of facts, assert we hold
no tenable ground, and refer in no man
ner TO our arguments save by an emphatic
denial of that which is true, and which
they are afraid to admit because Of It's
truth, and which at the risk of being &C
cused of tautolOgy, We reiteTate they do
not attempt to disprove, but Only DENY
" hen the devil appeared to DR.. Faustus,
as the legend goes, his majesty, in reply
to a very polite interrOgatOry as to whom
the doctor might have the honor of ad-
dressing in the person of his somewhat
unexpected visitor, gave the simple reply,
II am the spirit that always doubts" or
as other translators have 1t, Il am the
Devil, who always denies" And he always
did deny, and as the translators Of the
great German tell US through the mouth
of the doctor, always opposed his cold
devils fist clutched in impOtent malice"
at whatever was above his comprehension
CT superior to his internal wiles.
1t is not so with you, neighbors, we
age satisfied; but when you deny the
existence of danger to our republican in
stitutions, as connected with the influence
which the Institution to which we have
referred would exert, did it possess the
power at which it undisguisedly aims
mark our words-undisguisedly aims,--a
further deny the existence of danger to
our institutions, in view of the objects
which the class of which we have spoken,
publicly declare their intention to attain
if possible; do you, gentlemen, make this
denial with full knowledge of the facts
in the case do you do SO after having
IIi1uc yourselves luOIOU8HIr dCt tUdIlltStl
with the character of the Institution against
the dangerous theories of whose emissaries
We war do you do so after having with
proper exercise of your reasoning faculties,
scanned the results which would certainly
accrue from the substitution of the plat
form of the Free Germans for the COnsti-
tuition OF the United States? Do you do
so after having referred to and carefully
studied the nature of some very interesting
and undeniable facts, which can be found
embodied In two instructive articles, one
from the Louisville Journal, the other
from the American Organ, both to be
found on the outside of this weeks issue
of the Telegraph? If so, gentlemen, you
must have some very plausible reasons for
the faith which is within you. What are
these reasons?
The institution against which, as polit-
ical institution, aiming at universal suprema-
cy. cloakeG in godly Misunderstanding here
by moral power-there by the power of
the dungeon. the stake and the flames; here