Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-04-04

B9-The following appeal to the Ameri-
can party of Kentucky is taken from the
Louisville Journal. 1t is equally applica-
BILE to our party in Tennessee, and we ask
our friends in this State to read and con-
slider it, as if it had been addressed direct
ly to them
On Thursday next the American State Coun-
Gil of Kentucky will re-assemble in our city.
1t will be an adjourned session of the January
meeting, and we hope to see present earnest,
active, jealous, and wide awake Americans
from every valley and hillside, from every
county and precinct in the Commonwealth.
There is business of Importance to be transact
ed, which requires the concentrated action and
untiring industry of the party throughout the
State. We are confident that large majority
of legal voters of Kentucky are in favor of
American principles and anxious for the cleo
ton of the candidates and the establishment of
the policy of the American party, but we have
been taught by the disastrous result of the
| Presidential election no longer to rely wholly
upon the justice of our cause and the numbers
| Of orr party.
Our friends then were enthusiastic, our pres
ses and oCr speakers were industrious, Jealous,
and indefatigable in the discharge of their du
ties, but we depended too much upon the &C
knowledged msjorityof our party in the State
and failed 10 perfect an organization by which
the frauds and electioneering devices of our
opponents might have been foiled and rendered
Intellectual They had their vigilance commit
tees at work sedulously in every precinct
Every doubtful voter, every change, every OPP
portunity to augment their strength was regu-
larly reported. While we were spending our
! time in indiscriminate efforts to rally our
| friends, they were silently working only where
work was needed, and, as has since been as
certained, the result was sufficiently known to
their leaders before the day Of the election to
make them confident of success in the face of
an American majority.
Nothing is required ON the part of the Amer
leans Of Kentucky to insure them the victory
10 the approaching State election and to rem
| der their success permanent but perfect or
ganizGti0n of the party. Personal preferences
should every where be laid aside and the best
men in the party placed in the field ss candi-
dates. Our friends must be rallied in solid
phaaDx in every neighborhood, and harmony
and concert of action must prevail throughout
our ranks. The Americans of Kentucky are
actuated by high and noble purposes. They
are devoted to patriotic principles worth fight
! ing for or even dying for, and the time is come
for them to show their faith by their works.
1t will be the duty OF this Council 10 organ
ize the party throughout the State and to in
fuse into it spirit which shall render il ire
sistible and overwhelming in every contest
with its opponents. There never was a time
when the condition of the country 80 greatly
needed, so imperatiVely demanded the estab
lishment of American principles. The clouds
OF error with which our opponents sought to
hide these great truths from the masses of the
people have passed away. The principles
themselves have become better known and
understood. They shine like bright beacons
of hope TO light bewildered nation to the
heaven of rest and safety. The majesty of
their truth has compelled the reluctant admit
ration of the bitter opponents of the party, aud
an earnest and judicous effort on the part of
their advocates will now insure their perma-
| nent success.
The experiences of the recent contest have
taught our friends to love still more fervenrly
the truths for which they are cOntending and
have taught our foes the imminent dangers of
the foul practices to which they were forced
to resort. The American party, purged Of all
dross and useless particles, now stands frmer,
farer, and more promising before the people
than at any other period ofits existence. Now
is the time for action, earnest, ceaseless, indie
fatigable action, until glorious victory is won
and the policy of the American party perma-
nently established in our State government.