Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-23
The Union American.

of which the sixth number IS now before US,
appeals in the most doleful strains to the people
of Rockingham county to sustain it by their pat
ronaCe. In previous number it had repre-
sented, that the resolutions adopted at Port
Republic, in that county, endorsing the posi-
tons taken by as in relation to the impolicy
of turning over the rights of the South to the
keeping of political conventions, did not ex-
press the views of any considerable number
Of the Americans of that county. But its
tone of complaint and petition in its last issue,
shows that it is alarmed.
1t says:
We have firmly adhered TO our purpose OF
standing on the 9Th section, and in consequence
of our position we have received but little encour-
agement from the Port Republic Americans. Ey
eey person there to whom we have sent our paper,
with one or two exceptions only, returned It last
week, although they had received it for a month
or more. Now we not to be driven into sub
mission by such course this. We are poor,
very poor, but poor as we are, all the gold OF Cali
fornia would not induce us to succumb to Northern
influence. We would sooner make the street our
bed, anda curbstone our pillow, and starve, than
sell our birthright for a mess OF pottsge, or sac
rifce our principles for the sake of gain. Come
what will, we are determined to maintain our po-
sition, and if the entire party leaves us, we will
stand where we are, solitary and alone"
Now, it is passing strange that the Port Re
public resolutions should have had so very
few supporters as the Union American has
hitherto represented, and yet, that, with :" one
or two exceptions" they all returned that pa
per to its proprietor Why, it had been said
that the Port Republic resolutions originated
at Richmond, and did not represent the views
and opinions ofthe people Of Rockingham, but
had been clandestincly presented and adopted
by the editor of the Richmond American!
But what do we now seep From the above
lachrymose effusion of the Union American,
one would be inclined to think it almost entire
ly despaired of success! Yet we admire its
spunk-it wouldn't "succumb to the North
crn influence" for all the gold of California
It's editor says he is determined to maintain
his position, and, If all the party leapes him,
he win stand where he is, solitary and alonel"
Now it is quite certain he is "some pump
kins" in the way Of grill We take it for
granted that all this flows from the heart
that he is in sober earnest, and that he feels
that he is fast approaching that " solitary and
alone" position! Sorry for IL, but it is not
our fault-we have done our best to show him
the road to safety.
But hear him further, and, III yen hare
tears prepare TO shed them nor." He says:
ave now appeal to true and National Ameri-
cans everywhere, to sustain US in our position We
have hard road to travel. We expected opposi-
tion but TIVE were not prepared to receive the neli-
gence that members OF our own party were willing
10 surrender the flag, and give quasi aid and com,
fort to our worst enemies. But we leave them to
the enjoyment of their own opinions, and although
they have weakened the party in the county,
there are many left who viii not bow the knee to
Baal."
Isn't the man in earnesti lis not his success
really endangered? Hasn't he in truth "a
hard road 10 trarelf" He tells the tale him.
self--the detection Of the Port Republic Amer
leans I" have weakened the party in the coun-
yl"
Now we respectfully inquire what the man
means, when he speaks of "Northern inhu-
enccs ?" Why, if we were rank abolitionists
and desired to destroy slavery in the States, ,ce
could seek no surer mode than to Obtain, a sur
to tho control Of a political National Con-
peption
Suppose the proposition had come from the
North, that the rights of the South should be
placed under the protecting care of National
Convention, aoould not the South hare spur7ed
10 as insu1tiags Yet the South demands,
through its own politicians, that party
a political party-shall give its guarantee
for the protection of those reserved rights
which the Constitution of the United States
requires the Federal Government to make
doubly sure to the States! Such is the sois-
dom of modern advocates of States rights
These Southern men who insist that slavery
shall become the football of parties, ought
to have "a hard road to travel, as the editor
Of the Union American confesses that he now
has, and they ,oiU have, when. the prudent
wise, and sober-thinking men of the South
wake up to full consideration of the question
in all its bearings and consequences.
The Union American says that fragment
of the Americans of Port Republic have /" en-
dorsed the semi Abolition views of the Wash
ington Organ and Richmond National Amer.
lean - # r.a
1t would be quite edifying, perhaps, to its
readers, to sec in that press, an attempt to
show that any position we have taken, or any
sentiment we have advanced was "semi-a6o-
Htion." 1t is quite easy to cry out "aboli-
ton" abolition y" but we seriously tell the
editors Of those presses who thus distort the
views of the. Organ, that they are either igno-
rant, stupidity igaorant, Of principles or they
wilfully misrepresent us. They are either in