Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-03-20

of the triumphof American principles in
the municipal elections, in the State of
New York, Those Republicans, who
formerly acted with the American party,
but went of on sectional issue, now find
that they have been egregioaly humbug-
.ged and being Disguised with the trickery
of Greedy, Seward &Co., and ashamed of
the part they have played against the peace
and safety Of the country, are rapidly
falling back into the ranks Of patriotic
conservatism. All the signs in the North,
clearly indicate that there can existno long
or, there any parties but the American and
democratic; the issue is fairly made be-
tween the advocacy of, and opposition TO-
the rapid growth of foreign influence in
the administration Of this government
And we have the consolation Of believing
that few truly national and enlightened
natives will hesitate to rally to the stand
ard of their country, and do battle for
that great principle, which no honest heart
repudiates--that to Americans, born upon
the soil, exclusively belongs the right to
govern America. " '
When it is settled that on invited guest
has the right to NEEDLE in the domestic
affairs of the family whose hospitality he
enjoys; and when the natives of this
country are prepared to submit 70 such
state of things, then will the cause of the
American party be hopeless But so long
as the proud spirit of independence, which
makes part of the American character,
revolts at the bare idea of strangers in
termeddling with domestic concerns, just
so long will that proud spirit resist the
parallel interference of the foreigner, in
the domestic affairs of this government
This feeling is indigenous to every Ameri-
can heart, and its triumph would have been
complete, ere this, but for the machina-
tons of those vile, unprincipled demago-
CUES, who succeeded, temporarily, in stiff
ing the voice of patriotism amid the din
of sectional strife. ....l, rt .,
But that humbug has had its day; the
southern democrats, who raised the cry OF
dsunion in case Kansas was given over to
the North, content with the spoils, fol
which, alone, they struggled, now yield
that territory to the tender mereies o
squatter sovereignty; and in doing so, un
blushingly proclaim their own dishonor
in the preparation of villainous fraut
upon their country. The honest men, Of
both sections, now see the tissue Of false
hood woven to entrap them, and, blushins
at their own easy credulity, and indignan
at the wrong done to the country, ar
burning with desire to repair that wrong
, and to vindicate their patriotism. The,
will heed no longer the cry about slavery
but will wage war upon democracy, as nov
, identified with--or rather as constitutin;
that party which holds that the native
American has no more rights here, thai
the vagabond from any country in Europe
= and that catholicism must be upheld as tn
safeguard of civil and religious liberty.
y As the issue is being made, in the North
so will it be made in the South and demo
cracy will be forced to take its stand agains
the natural rights. of the native in the ad
administration of his government or con
!, ccde the vital principles of the America
# party, whose candidates, we believe, wi
+ ignore the slavery agitation, and leav
: their opponents to preach up servile in
surrection, unaidcd and alone.
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