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‘markably successful—wonderfully victori-
OR, TRUE AMERICANS’ MANUAL. 17
— THE AMERICAN PARTY.
Sixct the publication of our last year’s
Manual, the National Party has been re-
ous. The new organization is not two years
old yet, and it has shaken the strongholds
of the enemy to their very centers. The
party of Henry A, Wise in Virginia was ter-
rifled beyond measure at the approach of a
stripling in politics, at the late election ; and
80 overjoyed were they, on finding they had
again achieved that which they had achieved
a thousand times before, so delighted were
they, that nothing less than a tremendous
cannonading and a general celebration of a
victory over a two-year-old organization of
Americans, could afford relief to their pent-
up joy! In the educated, intelligent sec-
tions of the * Old Dominion,” the American
party was more successful, but in the regions
of ignorance, where there are 40,000 people
who cannot read or write, Mr. Wise managed
to convince the people that his country-
men, the American party, were hand-in-
hand with the man who, above all others,
they detest—the * friend” of Bishop Hughes.
This misrepresentation, and the senseless
cry of demagogical * Democracy,” aided by
10,000 Irish Catholic laborers along the rail-
road lines, secured a partial yictory to the
party represented by Henry A. Wise, who
was rewarded for his achievement over his
countrymen, by the Peston Pilot—a Papist
organ, calling him “the wondrous Virgi-
nian,” and sending up a thousand or more
cheers for the champion of the Irish Catho-
lic Democracy! Many American Demo-
crats are getting tired of such company as
+ John Wughes and the Boston Pilot, but
Mr. Wise still clings to them.
The Americans have good cause to re-
joice over the result of the elections in
Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, and
Kentucky, when they take into considera-
tion the brief period of time since the first
organization of the present American party.
Scarcely six months had passed since the
starry standard of the Union party was un-
furled in the most accessible parts of these
several States. The objects, principles, and
designs of the new party were still unknown
in the more remote sections—the same as In
Virginia, where the Jackson Democrats of
the far interior still insist upon voting for
that “eternal”? candidate, The Jackson
Democrats forget that the General advised
us to feed our own poor, instead of the
paupers of Europe, lest we should become
paupers ourselyes,” and that his last prayer
was: “God preserve our country from all
foreign influence.’’ Those who insist upon
voting for Jackson, at this late day, should
bear these facts in mind.
Wherever our organization existed at the
time of election, in the before-named States,
and the people were informed as to the na-
ture of the American principles, they uni-
formly triumphed,
We cannot forbear felicitating the Ameri-
can party on the election to the United
States Senate of one of their most able
champions—the Hon, Wat. R. Samiti, of Ala-
bama. Iis powerful advocacy of our prin-
ciples, in Congress, during the last session,
must ever endear him to every true Ameri-
can, and every Protestant in America.
In Kentucky, the Americans have swept
the State, electing their Governor, most all
the Congressmen, and a large majority of
the Legislature. Scarcely a vestige of the
old parties is left, and the American flag
waves untarnished over the soil that bears
the remains of one whose son has ignored
all of true Americanism: that the now dead
father ever uttered, while on earth.
_ in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, and
New York, the American party has exhibited
an amazing strength, for so youthful an or-
ganization,
No one, in his sane mind, can question, for
a single moment, the ultimate success of the
American party. Partial defeats we are
fated to, as arc all parties; but the princi-
ple isin the heart of every American, and
sooner or later, every American will come
out from among the demagogues, and range
himself on the side of those of his country-
men who have already thrown off the shac-