Daily American organ., 1856-04-01
The washington Union.


to letter written by Horace Greeley to the
Tribune, on the 2Sth ultimo in which Mr..
Greeley alludes to the labors of the Republican
committee in preparing for Convention to be
held at Philadelphia, and to embrace call who
condemn the Nebraska iniquity and stand by
free Kansas" says:
,sTbe call is broad and liberal. OF course, then,
the anti. Nebraska Know,Nothings are invited to
sttend.n "National men can now
.se exactly the character of the conflict before
them and win prepare for the struggle--constita-
fional poptlldr sovereignty against unconstitutional
Congressional restriction upon popular rights.
Let that be the ISSUE"
Thus speaks the Washington Union, and
f,om this speech, those who know no better
would be led to infer that this is the issue in
the coming contest and that the anti-Amcrican
pseudo Democratic party are the national
men who can now see the character Of the con-
f,;ct and prenara ser che struggle" The Union
would have the country also infA- .i--. .io
American party are those who are especially
invited by Mr.. Greeley and his associates to
this feast.
Looking back for only a few short months, it
for the opinion that those Republicans, under
whose auspices the abroad and liberal call"
has been made for all the opponents of slavery
extension to meet in convention, especially had
In view fusion with certain classes of the
pseudo Democracy, some Of whom met in
convention at Buffalo, and planned the defeat
of General Cass-some of whom now hold
Office under this administration, such as the
Cochranes, ct id omne genus, who aided in the
reelection Of Senator Seward, and some Of
whom represented this Democracy on the 9th
day of January, 1866, at the Democratic State
Convention of Ohio, held at Columbus, when
the following resolution was adopted, to wit
Resolved, That the people of Ohio, NOW, AS
THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE, look upon slavery as an
evil and unfavorable to the development of the
,pirit and practical benefit of free institutions and
that, entertaining these sentiments, they will AT
ALL TInKs feel it to be their duty, TO row.
KR cLIARLY GIVEN BY THE TERMS OF THE NATIONAL
COMPACT, to prevent its increase to mitigate, and
TrNiLLY TO ERADICATE ITS EVILS"
When the Washington Union holds out the
idea that the pseudo Democracy, alias the ad-
ministrstien party, are altogether sound on
the question of popular sovereignty" in the
Territories, it ought first to establish the posi-
ton that the Van Burens, Blairs, Bentons,
Cochranes, Kings, Summers, and an hundred
other prominent leaders of the so-called DEM
ocratic party, during the last ten years, were
not members Of that party.
1t should go further and show that those men
In Ohio who, on the 9Th of January, 1866,
met togetherin convention at Columbus in the
name of the Democratic party Of that State,
and resolved that they "would finally erad-
cate the evils of slavery" and that too, by
means Of the "potoer clearly gipen in the ma
tional compact" were not members of the
Democratic paryl The Union should further
show, that when the President appointed Ex-
Governor Reeder, he appointed man as Gov
ernor of Kansas who was not an enemy to sla-
very extension, and it should further show
that the New Hampshire resolutions Of 1s47,
declaring that there should be no more sldre
States, and which resolutions, it is said, upon
Democratic authority, are in the handwriting
Of Franklin Pierce, (though not presented un-
I'll he was on his way to the field of carnage
and tainting in Mexico y it should show, that
these resolutions were only intended for tho
latitude Of NeD England, and not for South
srn consumption
But suppose, for the sake Of argument, (and
it can only be admit ed for this purpose) that
the Pierce Democracy are not those embraced
In the invitation given by Blair, Benton, Gree
ley, and Company, to unite with the Republi-
cans at Philadelphia, and suppose, that by
some whitewashing process those who prom
sed q Columbus to eradicate slsvery--and
hose who at Buffalo planned and secured the
lefeat Of Gen. Cass-and those of the Van Bu-
en- and Cochrane school Of politicians who