Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-28
NATURALHEb voTEks.


We have several times, in referring to the
improper facilities extended TO foreign immi-
grants, by our Naturalization laws, alluded to
those who are sent hither by foreign govern
ments, and who do not voluntarily abandon
the land of their birth, for the purpose of en-
joving here the advantages of free govern
ment-the,enants of poor-houses and peniten-
liaries, who are transported to the United
States as to penal colony,-and who, ma
ny OF them, fresh from the cells Of a prison,
aud with The marks Of the iron in their flesh,
are prepared to become the willing instru-
ments oil those who are base enough to. use
them, and by perjury, 10 obtain the privilege
OF voters. That we did no, speak at random,
is shown by the following extract of letter
rom r. List, Esq. American Consul at Leipsic,
IN reply TO circular issued by the Secretary
Oh the treasury OH the subject:
VI have made enquiries with respect to the
transportation oi Paupers from this country
20 me onitec States; but state affairs being
III inns country not so openly conducted as
might be desired, have not been successful
until of late, when, by confidential Communal
cations, haze learned things ,chich ,c:Lr
1Gqa"e energetic measures on The part of the
Onaed States 10 be counteracted. Not only
pa"PerS, ont criminals, are transported from,
the interior Of This country, in order 10 be en-.
6arked there for the United States,
ga MIR. De Stein, formerly an officer in the
service of the Duke of Sake Gotha. has l.,el,,
made propositions to the smaller states IF
Saxony, FOR TRANSPORTING THEIR CRIMINALS
10 me port Of Bremen, and EMBARKINo THEM
THERE FOR THE UNITED STATES, AT sEv-
Nr1-FiVE DOLLARS PER HEAD! ,chich offer
mas 0een accepted by several of them. TNe
.trsf transport Of criminals, ,cho for The ereat-
er part haze been condemned to hard Iabor
Jor Je, (among them two NoTon,ous non.
GERS, PFEIFER and ALBREcHT,) will leave
uo'ha on the 10Th of this month; and il is
intended by and by, 10 empty all the work
houses and jails of that country, in this man.
her There is little doubt that several other
STATES Will initiate the ne!arious practice I! In
oroer 10 stop 1t, have sent an article to the
oenerai Gazette OF Augsburg, wherein have
attempted 10 demonstrate that this behaviour
was contrary to all the laws of nations, and
mat II was shameful behaviour towards a
country which offers the best inducement TO
German manufacturers
III mas OF late also become general prac-
ice IN the towns and boroughs of Germany,
10 Set rio OF their paupers and vicious mem
oers, by collecting the means for ef1cctua.ing
their passage to the United States, among the
inhabitants, and by supplying them from the
public funds %
NOW we ask any man, Wing or Locofoco,
wne'her he is prepared to tolerate system
which permits these oucasts of European pri-
sons and lazaar-houses to stand at the polls
upon footing of equality with native-born
citizens, or with honest emigrants who pass
regularly through tie process required by our
laws before they attempt to exercise the pri-
vilege of eectors' Why, even native ci,i-
zens, convicted of an infamous offence, are
forever thereafter, even though they become
large ireeholders, forbidden by our consti,u-
tion to exercise the right of suffrage but if
they be foreign vagabonds and felons. this
barrier is removed, and they are permitted to
elbow IRON the polls the most honorable man
IN the community. Such things ought not
TO oe tolerated-and they will not be. Pub
lie sentiment, without regard to party lines,
Will demand an amendment Of the naturaliza.
ton laws; not only in the extension of the
period OF probation required of foreigners be-
tore they shall be permitted to vote. but in
throwing around those laws additional guards
against perjury and fraud, and which will
place foreign malefactors on the same plat-
form with our own crmnals.-Lynch. Virg.