Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-12-07
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1alaa Ia hgs nNt aauNrlrnae, AuJwhef
tnft man uf ryefY political rffai rn1Il
I ftlnl az apath aai vote Ne ttey rlpbs
|H These, thank Heaven, afe ihH de
uHfitaWbrIta winch give dignity 10 p1l
Institutions We would uol nbulgr them
~ deprive 8ny mutt 81 their benefits
So welcome stdl, honesty and inteplt,
- our shores, Ntrfhrf il comes IN lb
mfb Of poverty ~ elslhed ~ the speu
90 NJ wnaltb Hat wg pray Heaven 4
tcgp from our midst bi'h The fuHianis8
Il he prison houses 1t Europe, anl lbup
Isealilu sptls, who, having d,sufbHI
ae world abroad by lbelt violence apa
Hrlt uostfans nov come TO America ~
bat land OF promise which s 10 Civ
Hrn bread without wefk aud power
without merit
To accomplish this lmericans uaa pr
-H themselves Foreigners must bt
,chouIcd in our institutions before they be-
como schoofnnstorA At present Amarr
cans have fewer privileges than lorolgu
ars We are compelled 10 use bullets, Il
need BE-, in defence OF oar country before
we can use ho ballot, as partaI,ers OF It's
welfare We are soldiers before we are
reomen, while an alien is made n Tree.
nan before he is soldier. Ills blrih
was oratgn-hls childhood and manhood
we're a Iso foreign. HIS parentage ard al
lIhe ties of social aud domestic lie it,
main foreign In middle life or old age
he has left his home with old preludleeS'
or with radical aud sometimes revolution
ary opinions His friends are IN the land
he has left and draw him to It WIN those
strong cords Of attachment thot are
never broken while there 5 breath ana
heart eltlo give it strength. Are these
the men to rule America? God forbid
Nor is this all. The crimjnalat home,
who as the penalty oil his crimes was sen
fenced to our shores. and who Is at heart
no less criminal here than at home, has
become Il CITIZEN lie IS here the prasi-I
ding divinity OF his party, aud his vote
wonld oyerba lance that Of Washington
were he alive. The father Of his coun-|
try has no more power than us most dc.
DEGENERATE offspring who IS alien to US.
in interest and feeling rs IN otTth and as
ISOLATION. Our county has been the re.
reptacle Of the prison houses anu poor
bopses of Europe. Foreigner are voml.
ed anon our shores and swarm our LAM.
ike the lice and Iocusts OF EgyPt,-And
shall such men rule America, or be cour-
ed and cringed to by Americans Tor Their
forbid. Such men must be
Kept back, curbed, controlled. The time
}! residence before naturalization must
,e longer than ii is and the privileges OF
American citizenship dearer than they
IRE.
The homes. alien coming 10 our SHORES
will not complain Of this, nor Will Inc III
elhgent and upright foreigners already
,mong us.-All others must be resIs' ed
boldly, but in spirit OF strict justice
DIN ricans must rule Am erica, or there Is
no stability to or Government, and no
value in the Independence
by our fathers. There must De
fewer privileges to foreigners, and more
10 Americans, III Il Woiuf N''~'~ '''N0
an American party to rule America lis
must be liberal, as It's sPIrl
must be entirely national. 1t must pro
tect It's own labor, commerce, agrlculture'
and all its interests, moral
and political. 1t must welcome all 10 us
embrace who are Americans at hear',
who by their works carry out their prln-
clples, aud it must resist every influence
from abroad, whether IL cores IN one
form or another, that aims 10 the estao'
lishmeut of controlling foreign inhu-
ence IN the country. We would keep all
forms Of religious faith and castles free
from such an organization, and giyingth he
lreest tolerance TO all would inylle all 10
ioin us, who, in sincerity aud truth, are
Tor our country, our tohol5 country, and
nothing but our country.