New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-13
Anericanlsn-1ts Nationality.

The foreign press are running mad almost about
nationality There is no party no organization, nc
principles but those embodied III the saudtter's plat
form Of the great unwashed. By coming over its
rawlings one is almost led TO believe that democracy
(that lily abused word) had actually swallowed the
extended domain of our territory, and that hence
they entitled to its very spirit Of broad nationality
Does this party calling itself the National Demo.
craey stand upon the broad platform of the Constitu-
tion2 This is question that every honest man,
every voter should ask himself To decide the ques-
tloni it is.ony necessary to turn to the platform
brought forth in trlbhlaton at the late Cincinnati
Slaughtelhouse Convention. Is there spirit of the
Constitution in tdoes it breathe forth pure liberty
loving sentiment-does itdeclare this Union, fraught
Withso many treasures Of the past, SO many hopes
Of the future, must and will be- preserved despite the
harpings of lecherous demag ogues-does it proclaim
the virtuous patriotic principles of Washington or
Jefferson? Search it closely throughout and you Will
only find the corrupt dogmas that have always found
home in its heart Of hearts, only the wall Of squatter
sovereignty.
We will place one but one sentence Of BIillard Fill.
mores by side ffhis shutting contorted platform
that will laugh it to scorn and drive its hydrahead
back into the kennel OF demagogueism. 1t is this
If there be those, North or South, who desire an
administration for the North against the South,
for the South against the North they not the
men who should give their suffrages to me. For my
part know only my country, my whole country,
and nothing but my country
The American conservative party presents diff
ferent phase. It's platform country, the land Of
our BIRTH not our country pent up by lines of lati-
tude ard longitude; not our country of the South,
with its rustling cane and snowy fields of cotton; not
our country of the East with its graves Of Warren,
Sherman, Ellsworth and Webster, with its colleges,
free schools and frontier of ocean not our country
of the West, with its rolling rivers and inland seas,
mighty forests and broad sweeping prairies not our
country of the North, with its fakes of snow and
lofty pines its purlng streams and hills and noun
tains baptized in beauty but our whole country
oh,
ing from the Gulf Of Mexico on the South, to the
rocky ramparts of our boundaries upon the North,
from the pillows of the Pacific on the West, to the
turbid waves of the Atlantic on the East-our coun-
try, endeared to US by Washington Jefferson Hamil
ton and Jay, and made glorious by the batleeds of
Monmouth Brandywine, Bunker Hill, Camden and
Yorktown
Standing upon this broad platform, with the Con
stitution its guiding star it adopts the principle
that all minor questions of eXpediency in legislating
structure of the Government, Gas promulgated as
early as lS45 by the American Convention held in
Harrisburg, Pa) such as fiscal and commercial regu-
lations, the management of the public domain and
the proceeds therefrom belong by right to the repre-
sentatives of the people, and those Of the several
States to be by them discussed and decided, from
time to tme after mature argument, under the Con-
stitutona responsibility of those representatives
each to his own proper and the country
they still adhere in spirit to the position then assumed
by them, and are now manfully battling for the only
truly national candidate in the field for the Presidency
in the person of Millard Fillmore.
The adoption of any previous test or determination
upon such questions, the institution Of slavery, as
is now attended by the fanatics of the North well
as by the ireeaters Of the South, by any national
party, only degrades it into faction which results
in the establishment of party for tile North as
against the South, or for the South as against the
North.
As to the President of our land we say, in the
name of God let him be the President Of our whole
nation, one who knows nothing but his country and
haveany sectional feeling let us trampe it in the
dust and cast our surages for national man, that
our nationality may be maintained. To the lovers OF
our broad, free land, we say, weigh well the merits
ard demerts Of Fillmore and Buchanan, and the plat
forms of the two conventions which placed them be-
fore the public, and we opne the result will be that
Amercansm will be found to be strictly national
while Democracy is strictly sectional.
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