Daily American organ., 1856-08-15
WHOLE NO. 551.

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innicted, or avert the merited punishment for
.hose wrongs, or rescue for enc instant from
Tue oeep grave oil dishonor and infamy, dug by
tneir own hands, and to which with SO much
unanimity an insulted and indignant peonle
has consigned them, party SO neryerse as
that which now aff1icts the country. we wopld
ask, In the spirit of patriotism and deep deyo.
ton to this great government, to pause one
moment and look beyond the turbulent scenes
Of the present hour. Isl fhere to be future
Of this Republicf Andfs that future to find
us q united and happy people, with one coun-
Try, one constitution, one flag, "with no star
obhterated or stripe erased, /" one destiny: or
shall that great orb of day look down "on the
broken and dishonored fragments Of a once
glorious Union, on land rent with civil feud
or drenched it may be in fraternal bloodp"
| These may be inquiries worthy of the Dass-
ing notice even of those who scof at the "Uni-
on savers" Of these days. And while upon that
| subject desire, Mr. Chairman, simply to saw
| that am not one Of those who believe that
this Union can be dissolved by any sudden PC
litcal conyulsion. No great tornado will ever
sweep over this country, potent enough to sever
| at once the strong cords which bind us togeth-
| or. Nor is it against any such occurrence as
/ that l would desire to caution the country
But 1t Is against that insiduous, mendacious
power and influence which steals upon us in
the night season, when honest and true men
are sleeping, and sewers cord here. and
another one there, and thus weakens the bond
of union. 1t is against that fell spirit which
creates distrust, and destroys that mutual con-
| fdenco which Is so essential among the peorle.
and against that demon who, with fair exte.
rior, and honeyed words, says first to the North.
"see what the South has donel" and then
to the South, "see what the North is about to
dol" that l would caution the country and
above all, while thus the bond Of union is
weakened, and oil confidence is lost--while
the North is aroused, and excited, and indig-
nant atwhat it is said the South has done, and
the South is all on tire at what it is said the
| North is about to do-while the clouds are
lowering and the storm coming, it is not only
| against all new and untried experiments-all
tdnapersng-but in the very deepest recesses
OF my soul, | solemnly protest against entrust-
ing the rule of this government into the hards
of either the men or their minions, who for so
long have desired in their "heart of hearts"
to witness just such condition of thiEgs in
the country; and who for so many years have
labored so sedulously and INCREASINGLY for its
consummation.
Heretofore, Mr. Chairman, there has never
been time when the counsels of such men
would have been needed for one instant by the
great masses Of pure-minded and true men
who love their country. 1t is true that, occa-
sionally, one of them has stolen into some
high. place OF trust in the North, but they stood
out as t1otng monuments of their own shame
and disgrace, and a beacon light to point out
the rock upon which every true man in the
country, who travels in that direction is des-
tined inevitably to split
And, sir, never until this administration
in utter disregard of all its pledges. and in
open violation of that confidence which the
people reposed in it. sank itself so deep, did
these men rise above the surface beneath which
they had so long remained, with enough of
power only to dascotor the waters and at times,
possibly create ripple. And now, brought
into notice, and with respectabiity and an
Importance given to them only by the contrast
which they bear to the present administration,
in its loso and sunken estate, these men have
inaugurated neao party made uI it is true,
mostly out of those who, like rats, have had
the necessary instinct to escape from the sink
ing ship an time, and the excrements of every
party that has ever existed in this country,
and under fancy name" chosen because no
one could understand, or even suspect from it,
what were the true designs and purposes of
those who stood sponsors to it at the baptis-
NAL font, prolific Of promises but naeagre with
both the ability and disposition to keep them
processing to be guided by the wisdom of
Washington, and Jefferson, and Madison, but
trampting, in reality upon the graves Of those
men-reoating their memories and traducing
and oitttying their characters, by denouncing
every day, as the deepest of all damning sins,
the gerry thing of which these men were all
guilty, and upon whose skirts, if sin it was, it
rested, when their spirits took their flight
and sailing, too, as they say, under the flag of
their country, and yet that "shorn of its fair
proportions" and not less than fifteen of its
bright stars obliterated, they appeal to the
country for recruits.
And who, pray, is to rally around their
standardr Not few, perhaps, with more
zeal than wisdom, catching from afar off, the
faint notes of some one who, for the first time
in his life, perhaps, has discovered that some
well-fed, light-hearted, happy descendant of
the African race lis held in bondage" and he
is crying out Justify, liberty" liberty, +" and
remembering that soas the aoatchWord of the
Revolution, and that there was prestige of sue
cess to 1t, therefore instantly rush into the
thickest of the fight In behalf of all such
we may be permitted to hope, that they will
get their reward but if they should not, no
great damage will be done, for with men. of
such easy virtue, how readily can they trans
fer their affections to some other cause that
promises to pay better.
There is one other class who, far more wor-
thy than these, are laboring under the strange
infatudti0n that no one, unless he has been
all his life Democrat, is entitled to their sup
port and because Colonel Fremont has been
all has life Democrat, and James Buchanan
has only been one for the last forty years, and
before that was FEDERALrsT, Of course they
prefer the former, and very naturally go over