American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-22


created free and equal" they do not al! con
tinue SO; but that crime and ignorance deba%
men, until they become unfit for citizens OF "
/ free government, and wholly disqualified a.
/ lawmakers, or rulers of a free people.
/ We also hold this truth, that although "liie,
| liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" be the
''ina!icnable rights of all men" the place and
manner of the exercise OF these rights, involve
| the question of our olCn rights, purchased by
! the blood, and left us as an inheritance by cur
/ Fathers.
| We also hold this truth to be sell-evident
/ that the inheritance transmitted to us by oul
Fathers, is our oWn--no mon shall take it from
us, or question our right to name the terms
on which We will admit foreigners, Aliens and
strangers, to u share Of its blessings.
We set the seal of condemnation to the mon
strous absurdty, that our country is, de jurc,
the asylum for all the paupers, ignoramuse'
and lclons of Europe. We deny the inference
that hlling our Almshouses with foreign pau
pcrs, will increase our wealth-our prisons with
imported tclons, our safety-or, that our NOR
ais can be purified by an assimilation of our
rising generation, with the crime, vice, igno-
rance, and mendicity of Europe.
These dogmas, the root Of the evil, are OF
foreign growth and origin. They are part
and parcel of that pseudo philosophy, that eve
~ thing is common property; that our institu-
tons, cemened with the blood OF our fathers,
and the principles that hold society together,
are curses, and not blessings, If we 90 not
strangle this serpent, it will strangle US and
our chldrem in6delity, anarchy and ruin, will
blast our land, poison the principles of the
rising generation, and consign our memories
to an infamous notoricty, or bury them in con-
tomptblc oblivion.
Freeman have no alternatives. Animated
by the spirit that inspired our Fathers, we throw
our Banner to the winds. Our motto,
The Home Of The Free, or the Tomb Of the Brare'
Shall be our only Watchword- Independence,
our oA!y goal--Amoricans our heirs, to whom
shall descend the inheritance bcqueathed us by
patriot sres.
Wherefore, We proclaim to all mon-the tree
of Liberty was planted by the hands, and wa
tered with the blood of our Fathers; no foreign
prunnng-knife shall mar its fair proportions
We invite the oppressed to leposo beneath its
branchcs-with us enjoy its fruit, and partci-
pate in its healing influences. Life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness" we grant as the
boon OF all men; but the right to be our own
masters, we will reserve TO ourselves. We de-
fine protection in its broadest sense, embracing
all that freedom from oppression can confer
AID liberty that knows no limits, save the IL
centiousness of crime, and the arrogance of
dictation.
We prescribe no man for his opinions, whe-
thcr they relate to civil, political, or religious
matters; but we do deuounce, in the strongest
terms, all persons whomsoever, who, under the
Pretcxt of any ''namo under heaven, given
among men," shall attempt to lay sacrilegious
hands on our birthright.
Our Fathers achieved their Independence,
and transmitted it to us, glorious inheritance;
the most precious boon that ever descended
from srcs to sons. To preserve tbs iEestma-
bic treasure, and transmit it pure, as we have
received it, to our children, is now, and while
life remains shall be, the first object of our
wishes, and the aim ana end Of oul ambition.
We, therefore, soemnly invoking the aid Of
the Supreme Being, pledge ourselves to each
other in the name of God and our Country,
never TO Tclinquish our exertions in this Holy
Cause, until our bones shall be consigned to
the tomb, and our dust commnglc with the
ashes of our Fathers.
Made in the sixty-ninth year of the Inde-
pendonce of the United States and signed by
NAyAL-Fatgt accident. We learn by the
arrival of the U. S. brig Porpoiso, Capt Cra
ven, at N. York from Port Praya and Monro-
via, that DR.. WoHey, late surgeon of the u.
S. ship Decatur, recently fell from cliff of
rocks and SO injured himself as to cause his
death in four hours.
The Porpoise left at Port Praya, Oct. 20, U.
S. ship Macedonia, and Preble, the latter Just
arrived from the U. States via Madeira. The
TruXtou had sailed a few days previous for the
Coast. The Saratoga was hourly looked for at
Port Praya, on her return to the U. States.
The U. S. ship Decatur, was hourly expected
at Monroyi2 from Il long cruze to the Lee
ward Coast.
New Music. We have received from Jas
Boswell, publisher, Baltimore street, copy of
new quick step, composed and arranged for
the piano. by J. Hartman, professor, aud called
"Marriott's Quick Stcp''-aftcr the gentleman
to whom it is dedicated. We commend it to
the favorable consideration of the ladies', as
composition every way worthy of their in
spection and acceptance 1t may be had at
any of the music stores in the city.
A CLERGYMAN DENOUNCED. Rev. John
Clark was one of the delegates from the Texas
Conference to the late General Conference of
the Methodist Church held in New York
Being Northern. man by birth, and not in
tending to return to Texas, he very naturally
voted with the North on the questions which
divided the two parties in that body. Ina
Texas paper just received we find series of
resolutions, passed by the Quarterly meeting