Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-12
American Movements.

American movements.
Alta meeting held in De Kalb county, Tennes-
see, the following resolutions were adopted
Whereas the time has arrived when the attention
of the American people is directed to the subject
of selecting standard bearers to bear the American
flag through the exciting scene OF another contest
for the Presidency: therefore, be il
Resolved, That, in the sense OF this meeting, we
heartily approve and respond to call of the MEM
bers of the American party in the present General
Assembly, calling convention of the American
party at Nashville OH the 18th inst, &c. Belt
Resolved, That VIM. B. Stokes, Sam'l Williams,
John A. Fuson, Josiah Youngblood, William Q.
Youngblood, A. Robinson, 4. Robinson, John w.
Stark John b. Claiborn, Reuben Evans, James NJ.
williams John w. Lamberson, I. II. w. Richard
son, and Joseph S. Owen, be appointed delegates
to attend said convention. Be it further
Resolved That while we send our delegates forth
untrammeled, we deem it the high privilege OF
American citizens to express their sentiments on
the important questions to be agtated in the pend
ing contest IL is therefore further
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this meeting all
agitation of the slavery question by Congress IS
unwse and inexpcdent
The Sumner county (Tenn.) Americans have
adopted the following resolutions:
Whereas, In view of the approaching contest for
chief Magistrate of this Republic, our Senators
and Representatives in the present State Legsla-
ture--being true reflex OF the sentiments and
wishes of the American party of Tennessee, have
called State Convention to be held at Nashville,
on the 18th instant for the purpose OF appointing
Electors for the State at large, to interchange
opinions and cultivate that true American feeling
which aniDates the whole party, previous to enter
ing upon the scenes of their first conflict for
President Therefore,
Rssolped, That the American party of Sumner
tha Cf said
convention and that the President of this meeting
be requestad to appoint suitable number OF dele
gates to represent the county in said body.
Resolved That the American party of Sumner
county, although struggling in minority, and
against willy and unrelenting foe-=such as to iR-
timidate hearts less stout, yet renew their pghted
faith to the support of those highly national and
conservative doctrines, enunciated by the Phlla-
delphia Convention of the American party, held IN
June last, as the primary object of patriotic de-
sire, and are ready and willing to go to battle up
on them for the election of the next President
Resolued That above the din of sectional strife
that has Just terminated, which ragged SO fercely
in the popular branch of our National Legislature
in the contest for Speaker, the National Americans
proudly took their stand-having as their highest
object and aim the maintenance and perpetuity OF
the Union, by the alignment of the dangerous ag-
tation of the slavery question, for which agitation
the powers that be are responsible; and it is the
sense of this meeting that the course OF our own
immediate representative--the Hon. Chas. Ready,
and other National American representatives who
have co-operated with him in supporting the Hon.
III. NJ Fuller for the Speakership of the House of
Representatives in Congress- deserve the hearty
appreciation Of every Union-lover in this Conted-
eracy.
Rssolped, Tha the editor Of the Louisville Jour-
nal deserves the lasting gratitude OF the American
party, for the able, bold, and patriotic course ne
has taken in the exposition and defence OF prin-
ciples of that party which has, as leading object,
that Americans shall rule America.
Resolved, That the American press of Nashville
and the Louisville Journal be requested to publish
these proceedings.
ALABAMA.-The American Convention, which
assembled on the 9Th instant, after reaffirming the
doctrines and principles set forth in the resolutions
adopted by the State Council of the American par
ty of Alabama, on the 18th of November, 1855,
added the following
/. Resolved, That as the institution of slavery
existed in the States of the Confederacy prior to
the adoption of the Constitution of the United
States and as the right to hold slaves property,
was conceded by the trainers of the constitution,
and fully recognised therein therefore slavery ex-
lists independently OF the constitution and as sla
very is recognised and sanctioned by the constitu-
ton. Congress, which derives all its powers from
that instruments cannot legslate on the subject OF
slavery, except for its protection where it legally
exists; that the Territories are the common prop
erty of all the States, and therefore the people OF
all the States have the right to enter upon and oc-
cupy any territory, with their slaves as well as
other property and are protected by the constitu-
ton and flag Of the country; that Congress has no
right to legslate slavery into, exclude it from,
Territory, and that neither Congress nor Terri
torial Legislature has any right or power to egis-
late on the subject, except so far as may be neces
ssry TO protect the citizens of the Territory in the
possession and enjoyment of their slave property.
g. Resolved That the power to exclude slavery
from, or establish it in Territory, resides exou-
sively in a constitution of the people Of such Ter
ritory, legally assembled under the constitution of
the United States, to form State constitution
preparatory to admission into the Union. In that
constitution the people Of the Territory have the
sole right and the exclusive power, to determine
for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not
exist in such Territory.
3. Resolped, That the opposite of the doctrines
imbodied in the two preceding resolutions, com
monty known as "squatter Sovereignty is hereby
utterly repudiated and condemned, as voiative OF
the spirit Of the constitution and insiduous and
dangerous Infringement upon the rights OF the
saveholding States; that it is as indefensible IN
principle aud dangerous in practice az the Wilmot
Proviso !" the most monstrous doctrine ever ad-
vanced by an American statesman; and the peo-
pie OF the South ought not and will not submit to IL.
A. Resolved That this convention regards a
strict adherence to the principles and views con-
tanned in the foregoing resolutions absolutely es-
sental to the peace and perpetuity of the Union /;
and we do pledge ourselves one to the other, that
we will affiliate with party, nor support any man
for office, under the government of the State or OF
the United States, who does not publicly and une-
quivocally avow the principles of these resolutions
without change or abatement.
8. RESOLVED That in view OF the increased
dangers that threaten the institutions of the South,
this convention deems it necessary to, and does