New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-03

Amt ncans We desire 20 2resent this matter '.iso.y
70 our ielow-errsns We perceive the issidioas ad-
,an", graousiy made in the Republican policy Of
crushing out" Amsriransm ,hroughou, lie North
prior 10 the Prudential campaign of 1850 and deso.
10 rrsirt il here be too late W. iu,end "a main
tain cur hearty opposition % the extension Of slavery
whenever W., under the Constitution Of the Irn,.I
States can oppos., IL, ba, We intend garf pat.H a.
maintain our AuericsDsu, In other words, oar d..
pu,e with the Republican party here = bo, about
what done npon the subject OF Slavery ba' sboOt
what was Intentionally len undone upon Amercanss,
Egy,fb The resolutions of the New Haven meeting
r.nfru our opposition 90 the Extension OF slavery
and "emphstically condemn the kansas ou.rsge.
while at the tn.' they adyocate some LEGISLATIVE
scton for protecting the purity Of our own ballot
boxes against frauds and Ouirages due 20 he undue
influence If uninislhgent foreigners. They 40 jon
with you. and with Senator Dixon OF our OSn >tsis,
in the eminenty timely demand ior : P.otc con 70
American Industry" Tie callers and officers OF zoe
meeting were alike fremOnters and National men,
Of the speal ers ore had heretofore been roenegred
or his devotion the cause Of liberty, To which be
had never yet proved traitor sno,her wa, . Van
Buren man in 1913 n delegate 10 the National Amer
ican Council of 1856, where he conSemei 10 sarr"
nee his party, il Necessary but his and their
tree-labor principles; still another, an e1Governor,
whose views on the general Slavery question, The
same now a. then met your spproya In lsbj and the
rest Of the same stamp. Believe me, gentlemen, with
a full understanding Of our views aud pos,sa, you
will vet realize that even "the devil Il not q black
he is painted by preludieed or interested parties
FUh From the preceding you will gather that the
Americans cor cerned in the present movement have
too sound and sharply defined IDEAS upon the Slavery
issue to permit themselves TO become the sppendAge
- or feeder of the Slave Democracy" The Americsn
stronghold has been, and still is, l behevs in the
Anti.Slavery lid District, represented by the Hon.
Sidney Dear, an Ant.Sayery man. when u wse I'M
popular so to be. lfthese Americans put up ticket
Of their own they will support il, and thur, a. you
suggest, do the Republicans signal favor They
would have done it last year, but tha they would not
seem even TO hazard the success OF the CongrsSsnen
n,med to he supported by the Union party and
thereby the Labor issue where it tbecametsngoe
The people, however, dissatisfied with the intrigues
giving birth TO that party, cut down the Fremont ma
iority of nearly 1000 in 1856 to few hundred.
throughout the State. and in his district elected
the chief American intriguer who candidate tor
their suifrsges TO stay away from Washington; Ihis
year there Is such hazard to Free Labor 10 be ran
Tie verdict of the people upon Union Party was
last year under the stimulus Of the election of Con-
gressmen, given in a victory which was barely not
defeat the verdict of the Convention Of this year was
against its existence, and for lis resolution into is
original elements. Who shall blame us II we accept
these verdicts and act upon them! ".
Netr. Iidten Coma. Jar. So 1883