Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-08-15
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No State in the Union has perhapsf IN
more. or as much oppressed by iorei~ fgl-
Iencg as Louisiana heretofore, and - ss the
naturalization laws be repealed IL il every
reason to apprehcnd that she WI gssiI.l more
50 hereafter.
! VIVA, would be the feeling EoLogisianian.
who having reared up h.sc' d. and BIZ his hon
cs, Industry afforded hlV ,odgc,tfon ca lcula.
ted to cnab him to fy nh honor and glory
1.-The highest Offices inF State. and imbued him
with the mobiles. pri .iolc, Of patriotism and
love oil 'lDefY--" IMat son having fulfilled.
IaI' The duties good citizen, from birth to.
MANHOOD wing y arriving at proper age,
and beng sell d by his brethren, and native
.counirymen Gi the G1berna,oral chair,
or any oihf high Office in the Staie!-Wh hat
we ask, I'D BE- the feelings Of tina! L0Islan-
ian on 81 Ing tina, son defeated and supp,ancd
by ranger from a foreign Iand.. who
had N but fire gears in our country. and
|T Jy a much shorter period in our
And such q circumstance might readily.
Jccor, SO long as the naturalization laws ex-
list.
/ 1t rarely happens that man IS chosen to
iall any Of our high Offices, under the age Of.
thirty or forty years, and We have but to CON
tnue to extend to foreigners the privileges oil
naturalization un:ii they have Obtained a pre-.
ponderance in our State, and We may have the
modification Of seeing native Louisianian.
who has resided thirty, forty, or fifty years,
or even a whole lifetime in our State, set aside
for an arrogant and prcsunPtuous foreigner, !
who has been but five years in the United s
States.
Let, therefore, the native chivalry of Louis u
lana, SO proycrbaI for their gallanlry patriot /.
ism, and intelligence, exert themselves to avert i
this great and gIaring evil, while it IS yet in
their power 50 do, otherwise they may have ,
the modification ere long Of seeing their beau ~
.lluI State oyerrun by swarms tiorccn locusts, u
who Will eat out their substance, aud mouopo- ~
lze every office Of honor, trust or profit with
n our boundaries. III
We will now conclude this address by decar- OF
ng it, as our solemn and unaterabIc determin. cl
tlon never to abandon this great aud holy
ause,-neycr TO suspend our efforts until the cs
laws are repealed. no
If in striving 10 obtain this holy object we tn
re compelled to suffer from the dsapprobalon Of
our friends, or the hostlics OF our country IS
nemies, be it 50. Gu
Tothose nauraIizcd citizens who disapproye ha
our views, or doubt the correctness of our pr
pInlons, or the business of our approximations me
4 the subject Of foreign naturalization in fu- as
ire, we can only say, III the language Of the PR
"Lct there be no strife between us, the
n we are brethren"
But TO those naluralized citizens, who, look wi
9 with the eye ofthe patriot, the PHILOSOPHER, del
I'd The phlIanthrophis, beyond the fleeing sta
I'd ronsllo.y circumstances Of the present mo his
ent, have contemplated the future happiness ag
countless millions Of freemen yet uniform. raj
whom we are DESTROYS Of transmitting our
nign institutions, in all their original purity Da
the end OF time; and who, believing that our err
ImbIo eXertlons are calculated TO sustain and sd
rpctuate those nstitutlons--and who burst. one
g with noble effort of magnanimity, the dec
msy shacklos Of prejudice or misrepresenta- GU:
M have aided us by their appreciation, we me
nder the mead Of our heartfelt gratitude. ow
1t is when the enthusiastic and devoted lover
his country, "rapt in future times" struggles me
secure her Liberties, and is chilled by the De
eezlng eye of suspicion, or repulsed by the for
tier and sarcastic rcproaches oil hostility or tlo
senslblty, that the kind consultations of CON yoi
email spirits come over his scared and blghled ag
eIlngs, like gentle and balmy showers over
irched and wlthered vegetation bot
For ourselves when we look forward to the its
ng ages oil Poslerity, we glory in the thought c
at we are striving to pcrpetuatc to them, un- the
1palrcd, that happiness which has been trans alb
tilted to us,-the children Of distant genera the
ons may never hear Our Names but still il va
addens our hearts, to think we are now strup-
ing for their liberty, with all its countless an
essngs. Ed
If America has reared temples and affairs to an
Derty, and she require victims, we are pre- As
'red for the sacrifice; but ying in the beney- rel
ence OF the great God, whose muniicent aid TIN
IS been manifested to our country up to the LIE
'esent period, we cannot believe that our la An
'rs will be in vain-already are the minds of or
e American people, beginning to be reused to hi
le necessity of this great reform, from Maine pa
the extreme Sabine, -from the Lakes to the SAL
ea-board, and from the Mountains to the Gulf an
Mexico, their cry 10 our rulers is, "repeal an
lie naturalization laws, and protect us from in.
scriminate immigration" ha
Their united voice must and will be heard. An
nd responded TO by Congress--we must and era
Ill be protected from foreign influence by WI
'ssatlon Of ndiscrmnate emigration, and nat ult
'aization of foreigners an
Then Will our country be restored to her pris- act
ne glory--then will she shine forth conspicu- re,
sly before the world, as the real ASYLUM of to
e oppressed, and the polar star of civil and clio
llglous liberty, to all the nations Of the earth the
Here follows the names of one hundred per- arc
nc nnombers IF the Association tat
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