Daily American organ., 1856-04-16

but the other day that the Democratic member
from Virginia Mr.. LErcHERl read US a strict
construction lecture upon the Pacific railroad,
and yet my colleage Is in favor of that mea-
sure.
In regard to internal improvements let me
ask my colleague whether he did not vote for
the great river and harbor bill of last Congress,
which was passed by large majority IN
! House having Democratic majority OF eighty
| six-which also passed Democratic Senate,
but was vetoed by the President upon the
| ground that il was usaconstitutl0ndty
Mr.. SMITH did vote for it, and should
vote for il again; and do not look to the
President to form opinions for me upon consti-
| tutional questions.
Mr. ZOLLICOFFER. Ny argument is thus
illustrated, that there has been no unity of
opinion or action among Democrats, either
upon the slavery question or any other, unless
it is that unity which holds together body of
men of diverse and extreme opinions for the
sake of party success.
1t is proper to say, that while belong to
the American party, and am an ardent Ameri-
can, for reasons which have assigned to my
constituents, and am ready to assign on all
proper occasions, there are those who are said
to belong to the American or Know-Nothing
party from whom differ SO widely upon sla-
very questions, and upon other questions, that
/ can have no political affiliation with them
There were some such for time in the Ma
| tional Council at Philadelphia, and | very
| plainly SO declared to them. 1t is right and
proper that we should be candid upon such
matters; and think my colleague has fallen
into very great error in propagating the idea
the other day. and in his speech year ago
and as he is in the habit Of doing-that the
Democracy is a unit in elementary principles,
of sound national materials, and ought to be
securely trusted by the patriotic masses, who
would guard and preserve the Constitution and
the Union. It is great fallacy, sir.
| The Americans have nominated sound ma
tional men for President and Vice President,
| who will faithfully regard the constitutional
rights of every section of the Union. My COL
league says that unless the South can unite,
and defend those men in the North who stand
by the guarantees ofthe Constitution, the Union
is gone. Why, then, should not Union loving
men in the South at once unite upon Miard
| Fillmorep My colleague says the only effect
of his nomination is to divide the South"
| Why should it do SO? Why should the Dem
ocratic party nominate separate ticket, and
| thus divide the South2" In the struggle for
Speaker, the Americans, sinking party, voted
for Democrats, to prevent a northern sectional
organization; but Democrats would not under
any circumstances vote for 'an American
With such spirit of prescription, what do they
mean by saying the South should unite? NV
| colleague says the Americans have no hope Of
carrying any State in the North Let him
wait and see! What States have the Demo
| Gratis carriedp Where is the evidence that
any man they can nominate can beat Miard
Fillmore2 1t is true the Americans have to
contend against both the Democrats and Re-
publican parties-the Republicans in the North
wishing to merge everything into sectional
organization against slavery, ne Demo
Gratis desiring to sink every q ION but the
Nebraska bill, and ats interpret Ia lions; but the
| conservative men of the North, South East,
I which must follow the formation Of two great
geographical parties, and knowing Mr. Fillmore
as the true and tried patriot who guided the
ship of State in the storm of 1850, will gather
around his standard, and build up great ma
tional party, to stand as breakwater between
those extrcme parties which, for political sue
cess, would seem to be ready to put even the
stability of the Government to the hazard.
| Thousands of conservative men in the North,
! temporarily drawn into combination with Re
publicans against the Nebraska bill, have al
ready abandoned them, and thousands more
| will continue to do 50, as the Republicans more
and more disclose the sectional and abolition
purposes they have in view. Soon, trust
the excitement which gave them temporary
strength will have subsidized, and their dimen-
sions will have shrunk into the comparatively
inconsiderable Abolition forces which have
usually been found to exist in the Northern
States. But it is regarded by the Republicans
as their best policy to keep up the slauery ag-
itatieal and / believe that the Democrats
think it the best Democratic policy, too. Sc
that, between them, we are likely to have great
efforts made to keep up the agitation, similar
to that of 1848 and 40, which came very near
dissolving the Union. The Americans stand
between this cross -firing--they have to grapple
with both Republicans and Democrats but
they feel that they are strong in their national
conservative sentiments-strong in their can
didates-strong in their duty to the constitu.
ton and the Union, and that they will win
popular strength from all who would not see
the government destroyed in sectional strife
| MRS. PARTINGroE AND THE WIzzARD.-The Bos.
| ton Post records az follows dear old Mrs Part.