The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-01-31

his libelaor, still million of men, on The
great dag. IN the face Of both ,tdctions, heroi-
cnly rcfusca Il boz the Knee 10 either Bad
They knew the necessities of the times. and
they set the example Of sacrifice. that others
might profit by it, They now stand the hope
Of the nation, around whose finn ranks the
shattered Clements Of the great majority may
rally and vindicate the right of the majority
to rule and of the native e the land to make
the law of the land.
The recent election has developed, in IN
aggravated form, every evil against which the
American party protested. again in the war
Of domestic parties, Republican and Demo-
crat have rivaled each other in bidding for the
foreign vote to turn the balance ola domestic
cccliur. Foreign allies have decided the
Government of tic country-then naturalized
in thousands on the eve Of the clcction-ea-
gcrly struggled for by competing parties, mad
with sectional fury, and erasping any lnstru-
ment which would PROSTATE their opponents.
Again, in the fierce struggle for supremacy,
men have forgotten the ban which the Re
public puts on the int hSion Of religious in
tlucncc oil the political arena. These infiu-
cnces have brought vast mullitudes of foreign
born citizens to the polls, ignorant of Amerl-
can interests. without American feelings, in
iiuenced by foreign sympathies, to vote on
American affairs: and those votes have. IN
point Of fact, accomplished the present result.
The high mission of the American is to
restore the influence of the Interests Of the
people in the conduct of allairs-td exclude
appeals to foreign birth or religious feeling as
clements ofpowcr in politics: to silence the
the voice of sectional strite-not By joining
either section, but by recalling the people from
proftless and inaddenirs controversy which
aids no interest, and shakes the foundation
not only of the common industry Of the peo-
pie, but Of the Republic itself; TO lay a storm
amid whose fury no voice can be heard in
behalf Of the industrial interests of the conn-
try, no eye can watch and guard the foreign
policy of the Government, till Our cars may
be opened by the crash of foreign war wagcd
for purposes Of political and party ambition.
in the name, but not by the authority nor for
the interests. Of the American people.
Return; then americans Of the North.
from the paths of error to which in All evil
hour fierce passions and Indignation have Sc
duccd YOU, to the sound position Of the Amer
lean party -slcicc on the alavery agitation.
Leave the Territories as they arc--to the opc-
ration Of natural causes. Prcrcnt aggrcs-
sion by excluding from power the aggressors
and there will be no more wrong to redress.
Awake the national spirit to the danger and
degradation. of having the balance of power
held by foreigners. Recall the warnings Of
Washington against foreign iniiucnce-here
in our midst-welding part of Our SOW
cicisnty; and with these sound words of WIS.
dom let us recall the people from paths Of
strife and error to guard their peace and
power; and when once the mind of the people
Is turned from the slavery agitation, that
party which walked the agitation will cease
to have power to disturb the peace of the
land.
This is the great mission of the American
party. The first condition Of sjIcccss is to
prevent the Administration from having a
ms. oEity in the next Congress; for, mih that,
the agitation will he resumed for very differ
ent objects. The Ostond manifesto is full Of
warning: ard they who struggle over Kansas
may wake and find themselves III the midst
OF an agitation compared to which that Of
Kansas was a summers SEA: whose instru-
mcnts will be, not words, but the sword.