The Georgetown news., 1856-05-22
Address to the American People.

present hlgh and proud position of the Ma
tional American party.
| Purged OF all sectional isms, recognizing
the natural mutual rights of every portion
of our glorious Confederacy, each a material
component part of perfect whole, the
American party has in its recent National
Convention at Philadelphia selected as the
exponents of its belief, and as it's standard
bearers in the coming campaign, that firm
and tried patriot, Millard Fillmore, and
that true and ardent lover of his country,
Andrew Jackson DOnelson.
These gentlemen have been presented for
the suffrages of the American people, in the
confident expectation that their virtues and
principles, known and tested, will secure
for them the support of an intelligent con-
stituency.
Some factious opposition, fomented by
discontented spirits threatened at one time
to mar the harmony and unity of our party
in the Atlantic States; but each successive
steamer brings to our shores the glad IL
dings of peace and concord. The guidance
and control of some of the State Councils
was attempted to be seized by traitors to
our cause; but by the firm and decisive ac-
tion of the President of our Order, those
bad men have been thwarted in their unho-
ly purposes; and now from one extremity of
the Union to the other-from rock bound
North to sunny South-from hardy East
to sturdy West-the watch-fres are blazing
brightly in the camps of true National
Americans.
With everything to hope for the future,
and nothing to regret for the past, we have
right to confidently predict that our i'm
pregnable position, founded on principles of
truth and love of Union, must speedily be-
come the only rallying point of all true
hearted patriots. At the present juncture
it becomes us to hold ourselves intact and
undetiled from the filth and scum of party
cabal. The Republican party presents is
sues pnrely and entirely sectional-repul-
sive in actuality and frightful in contempla-
tion. The Democratic party, loaded down
with the sins of omission and commission,
pertaining to the present Federal Admins
tration. torn by internal discord, and racked
by personal dissensions, offers no induce
ments calculated to obtain the trust of
power, from an Intelligent people 1t has
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting.
The National American party alone
stands upon a purely republican basis.-
They assume the broad position that native
born Americans are the only fit, proper, and
competent persons to control and guide the
deStinies of this great and powerful Repub-
lie. While they cheerfully admit to the
blessing and protection of our government
all worthy persons who may desire to claim
the same, they insist in the right and Justice
of the proposition that Americans shall rule
America. This principle Of nationality
finds hearty response in every patriotic
bosom. The love and knowledge of the re-
publican institutions are the growth of
lifetime. They may not be gathered from
books and study only, however assiduousIy
pursued. They grow with the heart and
mind, aided and fostered by every surround
ing circumstance of physical and mental
life. They live: we feel them-we know
their possession, but we cannot fix the hour
or day of their acquisition, or the mental
process by which they were eapprehended.-
Our institutions breathe the spirit of repub-
licanism. The lives and writings of our
ancestors illustrate its principles. We in
herit as the sons of the soil the experience
of nearly four score years of successful ex-
pertinent in the practicability of republi-
canlsm; and we cannot resign our heirship
to any control tinctured by any possibility
of foreign influence.
While we believe in this the great prin-
ciple which should now arouse and inspire
the American people as the safeguard of its
republicanism and nationality, we are not
neglectful of other important questions.-
The American party offers the only hope of
asuccessful accomplishment ofa wise system
of internal improvements. The position of
the Democratic party is now so well known
upon this point, that it is almost superiu-
GUS to refer to it. Heretofore the people
of California particularly, were most eyre
giously deceived and misled upon this sub
ject. During the last Presidential cam
paign, they were induced to believe that
the Democratic party would foster a judi
clous general system of internal improve
ments, and particularly devote itself to the
great question of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad, as conducive to the general vel
fare OF the Union, and vitality important to
California.
But in Congress, the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad bill, was postponed, is postponed,
and will be postponed; and, although, from
time to time, some spasmodic movement is
made in the matter, it is merely to deceive
trusting people, and the trick has grown
too stale to effect even that unrighteous
purpose. If, by any possibility, the bill
should pass, the President has, by his well
known sentiments on the subject, expressed
by his past actions, and indicated in his va
rious messages in which the subject is
touched, given undeniable proof that the
measure, as proposed, would fail to meet the
Executive sanction. The Democratic mar
ty are toying with the question as a popu-
lar bait for votes. Let the people, and the
people of California more especially think