Daily American organ., 1856-08-18
American Resolutions.

We publish to-day the resolutions of a large
and enthusiastic meeting of Americans"
composed of original old-line Wings and old
line Democrats, and held at Greenville Ala
bama, on the 9th instant The spirit mani
tested in these resolutions prevails generally
throughout Alabama, and furnishes proof that
/" old S2uGtter Sovereign" win be abandoned
by the Democracy of Alabama, who are Dem
ocrats from principle, and not from party cis-
cipline and who, when the party to which
they have aways heretofore attached them
selves, abandons principle for the sake of the
spoils, will abandon them.
The time has been, when the rank and file of
the eDemocraticparty simply inquired, ''acho ars
the nominees of our party ?" That time has
passed-the people are no longer in leading
strings"-and they now ask "aohat is the
nominee of the Democratic party2" There is
wide difference in the meaning of these in
quiries. IL the question now were "acho is
the nominee Of the Democratic party for the
Presidency" the answer would be an easy
one-it is james Buchanan, of Wheatland, in
the State of Pennsylvania "Ten cent
Jimmy" alias Old Squatter Sovereign" and
this answer would suffice.
But the question is now, /" What is the Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency" That
is rather difficult question to answer, in any
brief space What is the color of the chame-
leons We look upon him, aud he is not what
he soas nor will he be long what he nop is, to
our vision. A Federdlist of the days of that
pure Democratic leader, James Madison, yet a
Democrat of the days of Jackson tariff man
in Pennsylvania, who could swear that Polk
was better tariff man than Clay" bat a free
trade man in the Senate--a Wiimot- Proviso
man, who claimed sovereign and exclusive
power in Congress over slavery in the Terrific
ries," in 1S4S, yet an advocate of "squatter
sovereignty in 1864 thoroughgoing Mis-
souri, restrictionist only few years since and
now Kansas Nebraskaite, up to the hub--an
"old fogy in all time past, but flibuster-
ing, world-defying, war-threatening, Ostend-
manifesto "Young American now-an advo-
cate of low aoages in 1910, by reducing the
standard of prices to that of continental Eu-
rope, Cor about ten cents a day,) in order to
coper the country Nth benefits" but non
forsooth, the poor mans friend, because he
sodnts has cote ...m. .s.
Such has been, and such is, James Buchan-
an:-what he sOiU be no man can predict, from
his antecedents, but if the people are them
selves, wise, prudent and conservative, we can
fairly predict sohat he aoiL not 6e--to-wit, the
President of the United States! The same
determination to know aohdt q candidate is,
instead of boing content to ask Who he is,
which is manifested in the resolutions to which
we refer, prevails in the minds of the thinking
people of the whole country. A change has
been wrought in the psople-they do not noso
tolloW leaders-but they lead the politicians
and make them submit to their will.
Our government is rapidly becoming in
practice, what it is in theory-thc people are
the sopereigns and the representatives are their
servants. To this change in the actual rela-
tions between the people and the politicians,
therefore, must be attributed the conduct Of
such men as Pratt, Pearce, johnson, Benja-
min, Choate, Evans, Jones, Toombs, and few
other hitherto prominent Wings and ambitious
politicians, who have gone over bag and bag
gage" to the sham Democracy, and now sup.
port for the Presidency the representative of
doctrines and measures against which they
have made war all their lives The idea that
Fillmore has no chance" is a mere pretext to
conceal their attempted revenge upon the
American party.
We desire, by the repetition of this truth,
to impress it deeply upon the minds of the
people, that this American movement came
from the people, and has, from first to last
been opposed by the trading politicians. The
foreign element has been one of "barter and
sale for twenty years past-the highest bid
der always commanding this merchandise.-
Hence, no politician, either Whig or Democrat,
who looked to political advancement dared to
oppose toreignisHl Such politicians .froVned
upon the effort to create an American party
but the people themselves, nevertheless, raised
up this party in defiance Of the politicians |