Daily American organ., 1856-04-07
Americanism In the House. whipping
Republicans into the Traces

ISSUE, devotes four columns ana nail, 10 "
surrey Of tss present House Of Representa-
tires arraigning before their constituents,
and demanding the trial of all those members
of the House who are anti. NeSraska men, and
who have dared to manifest the slightest dis
position to favor the doctrines and policy of
the american party. The National Era as
sumes, as the basis of its authority to arraign
those anti-Nebraska members of the House
who nevertheless profess to be americana
that, having been elected as opponents of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, they have no right to
be Americans even upon questions, which, in
no form or manner, relate to the Kansas-Ne-
braska issue, but that they are under an i'm
piled obligation to follow In the lead Of the
Kelseys and Giddingses Of the House, upon
whatever other questions may arise. As Bit
terly as the Era denounces African slavery, it
imposes (or seeks to impose) upon members of
Congress who agree with that press on the
Kansas question, the most abject slavery to its
arrogant dictation. VIII they submit
The time has been, when the leading presses
of parties, could so frighten men with threats
OF denunciation and accommodation, that
they would implicitly obey the orders of their
party masters,--but we have misjudged the
progress of the independent spirit of this age if
such threats have not lost their former influence
nay more, we mistake the genius of Ameri-
canisn, If it does not "laugh to scorn," the
miserable attempts of an Abolition press, to
control its sympathies or its action
Though we differ widely in opinion from
those who think it their duty, at the present
time, to present the Kansas question as the all
absorbing issue in the pending contest we can
nevertheless admit, that men honestly enter
taining this opinion, can be truly american on
the question of foreign immigration and influ-
ence. Indeed, we have had conclusive proofs,
in the recent votes of members Of the House Of
Representatives, on the District suffi age bill,
that gentlemen from the different sections of
the country, whose sentiments on the Kansas
question are exactly the opposite of each
other, agreed upon the american principle
sought to be ingrafted into that BILL
II is because many of the anti-Nebraska
were found acting in harmony with the Ameri-
can members from the South and West, on
the "District suffrage BILL" that the National
Era has taken upon itself to arraign these
members before their constituents The Re-
publican members Of the House were divided
on the District suffrage bill, some twenty or
thirty of them voting with the administration
party, and perhaps an equal number Of them
voting with the Southern and Western Ameri-
cans The National Era assumes that those
Republicans who sustained the District suf-
fragc bill," side by side with the administra-
ton members, were true to their anti-N Nebraska
constituents, and that those who aided the
Americans to recommit this bill to the commit
tee. were false to their anti Nebraska constitu-
ents. If this be so, then the anti Nebraska
principle was involved in this bill. Does the
Era assert tbisp If it does assert this, it opens
an account with the administration party, by
such an assertion!
If those Republicans who voted with the ad-
ministration on the District suffrage bill ::
did SO as anti Nebraska men, it is clear that
they take different view of this bill from that
entertained by their administration allies, or
else that those Republicans have come over to
the Pierce construction Of that measure, as
given to Senator Clemens, and to the Douglas
construction of it, as given in those Illinois
presses who defend the measure as one in be-
half of freedomi Do those Republicans intend
to support Pierce or Douglas, if nominatedg
We had supposed the truth to be, that the
Kansas N ebraska question had nothing to do
with the vote on the District suffrage bill"
and that no question or principle akin to that
of the Kansas and Nebraska issue was involved
in that bill. Hence Republicans, if favorable
to the American principle, which was present
cd in the discussion of it, could properly vote
with the American party, and if unfavorable to
the American principle, thus presented, they
could properly vote with the anti American
party.
The great anxiety, however, manifested by
the Era in behalf of the passage of the "Dis-
trict suffrage bill" taken in connexion with
the open and avowed Abolition sentiments of
that press render it proper that all those who
are opposed to any interference by Congress
with the question of slavery in the District of
Columbia, should carefully examine the ten
tency of this bill More especially does it
concern the members of the administration
party, whose chief has, of late, made such
demonstrations Of devotion to the South, to
look to 70, that they do not favor a scheme
which may more effectually advance the views
Of the Abolitionists, than any other measure
proposed in Congress during the existence of
this government. We are not of those who
have anY confidence in the professions OF Frank