Daily American organ., 1856-03-03

the Central Park" and it is expected that work
men will commence regulating and laying out the
ground as soon as the weather will admit of it,
fund has been created of 81, ,667 900 by stock,
which is to be expended in preparing this place
for the accommodation of the public, and when
completed it win undoubtedly be the most spen-
did and extensive park within the city limits OF
any city in the world
The steamer Isaac Newton, whioh has been run
ming on the North River for few years past is to
be heightened this spring some forty feet, which
will make her the largest river steamer afoat her
length being over four hundred feet. Another
story of state is to be added to her. and she
will be put on the river as night boat soon after
the opening OF navigation. OaiCkoN.
Speech Of Andrew Jackson DoneIson,
At the Great Ratification Meeting IL New FORK
City on Rondag aiyAt last.
Gent,emen---f return you nv sincere thanks for
this cordial reception. The delegates at the late
Convention of the American party have thought
proper u placa me on the American ticket for the
| second Office In the gift of the people; ard dis
thguished apd tried statesrnat! o. your patriotic
State for the first onice | deem it a high inonor
to b5 thought worthy of an association with Miard
Fillmore in the effort to carry forward the princ-
| Piles of the American party-a party which has
been formed out of the necessity of the times, to
correct the abuses which have grown out Of the err
rors OF the old organizations Of PARTY, and which
have brought the country to the very verge of So
cial disruption and anarchy. 1t was natural, gem
| tlemen that the people Of this great contederacy
OF States should tprn their eyes, upon Mard Fill
more. who in hs personel Qualities and in all the
characteristics OF statesman is justly ranked with
the great men who have contributed to the honor
and glory Of our common country. 1t is different
with myself, gentlemen. | have held but humble
situations in the public service, and can therefore,
attribute my nomination to no other circumstance
but my earnest devotion to the conservative and
sound doctrines which form the basis of the Amer
lean creed. ,.s-.-.
| According to. my understanding, gentlemen, of
! the causes which have constituted us a new party
they have but little reference TO our antecedents
as old Wings or old Democrats Under such de.
| signations we have each pursued In other days
our own views, We have entertained opposite
opinions in regard to the necessity of bank
| and other measures of national interest. But
however we differed on such questions, whenever
those arose of purely sectional and disorganz-
ing character the leading patriots of our country
were always united. Clay and jackson united to
modify the tariff of 1925 in order to give quiet to
the country, and secure the execution of the laws.
They united to disarm the force of sentiments
which were calculated to array one section of the
| Union against another and if they were now
i
pants in the great American movement which is
| intended to check the current of the same senti-
inents. You see men at the North proposing to
nullify the laws of the land You have seen men
at the South doing the same thing. What would
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson say
to men engaged IN such attempts to dismember
our Union?
| Gentlemen, it would be a waste of words to an
swer in detail this question. All who are acouaint-
ed with the public history of those great men know
that they would be with US laborng to check Sec
tional agitation, and rebuking the heresy that a
State or portion of the people can enforce con-
strucon Of the laws contrary to the course pointed
out in the constitution. To restore harmony to
the various sections Of our Union-to brighten the
links which bind US together as sovereign States
to purify the ballot box-to cut off the dangers to
which we are exposed by the immigrants to our
shores from foreign landsand to repudiate all the
| highef-law influences, abroad and at home which
have contributed to obscure the landmarks of our
old Revolutionary fathers-these, gentlemen, are
the objects of the American party. Theee are the
considerations which have brought us together, no
matter what we may have been heretofore. And
these are the considerations which will bind us to-
gether until our government is brought back to its
original purity, and truhfuness is restored to the
relations of public men to public measures. We
| have seen the present administration of the gov
ernment employ its patronage to cement a party,
| without reference TO any legitimate standard Of
| policy or principle.
Men who have preached secession and disunion
have been given the prominent offices, and have
been made strong when it was most important
that they should be weak Old-fasbioned mon
| have been vilfed and slandered merely because
| they adhered to the maxims which governed our
wise men in the best days of our republic. Yes
gentlemen, we have been prescribed throughout
this land for daring to say that we maintained the
doctrines inculcated by our greatest statesmen
President Pierce, protesting to follow in the foot
steps of Jackson has placed himself in direct an
tagonism TO the leading sentiments of that great
man. Jackson said that the patronage of the Fed
eral Government ought not TO be brought to bear
against the freedom of elections, and that It was
time we were more Americanized.- Mr. Pierce
says directly the contrary. He proscribes from
office large masses of his fellow-citizens for daring
to exercise the privilege of utterng their opinions
He has ostracised national men in order to build
up the agitator; and no one can be surprised to
see that under his fostering care the country is
threatened with geographical parties far moro dan
gerous to the integrity of the Union than they
have ever been in any former period of our his
tory.
He has introduced the doctrine of "squatter SOW,
ereignty" in form which, as recent events have
shown, is but another name for civil war and
though disguised by the profession of respect for
the sentiment which recognises the right of the
people to govern themselves, is in substance no
thing but an abandonment of the constitutional
duty of Congress to guard the rights of the Terri
toral inhabitants until they are competent to form
State governments and take their rank under the
provisions of the constitution in the Confederacy of
States as equal and sovereign members. Against
such abuses we have protested, and as members
of the American party we feel that tbs not only
our right 70 protest. but to claim the support of
our countrymen in giving the power to correct
them. One more remark, gentlemen, and / am
done. Our enemies have asserted that our organ