The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-04-13

question at ISSUE and this question has been raised by
the foreigners Themselves, who now maintain their
right to govern the natives and combine and plot to &C
complsh that purpose through fraud perjury and forged
documents Of naturalization. At blow this twenty
years law would extingush forever this morta-I
which. struggle il may take what form or shape it
may must eventually to the point Of settlement
the natives must triumph, the foreigners succeed II
balance Of power deciding the victory at the polls
But, sir, we dispute the legality Of the votes. We
charge with fraud We prove i corrupt. And we
coveraby to the prosuons Of faction-to ct the
evto arrest the march Of these foreign
rescue Of their childrsn' rights.
d. we arrive, from all the array Of facts before
That by undue facility of naturalization, have
made the population Of our country Heterogeneous hos
tile, jealous, and at with another-that by the
have endangered the Union Of the States and shaken the
Republic to its cenrethat only make this great
naon-one in soul -cne in srrit-one in action-homo-
and possessing perfect moral and political SYM
mesry BY new naturalization Of twentyone years;
which refuse to sons, born on the soil, who
are condemned to probationary period Of twenty one
year: Why should We grant to foreign pauper; or
to own sons7 There 10 no necessary connection be-
tween the civil age. Or majority Of twenty ono years
the political right Of outrage which the consequence
of political Intelligence There 10 sustain
the law which make. the political right Of the alien SUI
perior to the political right Of the native born. II
twenty one years probation is assigned to the native
born, it 10 but just reasonable, and proper that the
We ask no privilege for the native born Let no pri
vilege," then, he granted to the alien Which more
Of an infant" in political sense any other sense
the native American youth at eighteen Of age,
the alien alter residence of six months 1--WE
years. leave to the intelligence Of every man to deter
mine Tor himself But on the principle Of equal rights
i boldly denOuuCa the nriviInVo nf he
right of suffrage granted to the alien at i've
years, and denied to the natveborn till twenty
Now, sir, no argument can be urged with any force
against the period Of years that does ap
ply with equal force against the period of i've years,
or
Of in the period of twenty years. also embraced
in the period OF five years the be made to
gestions Of wise expediency both peculiar to
representative repubic II the people 80 viii it, both are
il sdsp the law ~ hs altered resons Of
country, and the necessary demands for protection
against the growing entertainments Of foreign monarch
Of spurious ballot Sir there il but one course for our
opponents to take with any consistency and that 20
for universal suffrage for the period Of five years mp
Gates them as deeply twenty in all the
quences Of probationary exclusion from citizenship.
The principle j. tho same Exclude the alien for ave
do, but you do him wrong on any principle for he
has no right to citizenship but by consent Of the people,
fer It, a. most conducive to the preservation Of free in
situations The American people hold the right their
own hands to declare what terms aliens shall be ent
tied to sSaes and enjoy one Of the highest privilege.
Sir what American but has, his heart despsed and by
rotten boroughs Of England and yet how infinitely
degraded shall We the people the United States
become, We allow cur country TO be transformed into
OF fuger pour into ballot boxes tens Of thou
sands Of voters, majority Of whom have right
to vote than the horse the OK or the locomotive We
all know. for nothing
ton may be destroyed without being violated and
that too by meansof corrupt practices that undermine
constitution but native born American can be
eligible to the Presidency but by counting the foreign
ne nace SGtM IN hear, an alien to b.
alien had been elected to ill the Presidential chair
But, sir have been told that twenty years.
scription II it BIO, (Which deny, and shall dsprove
90 10 i've years prescription" II there be any pro.
scrtion in Naturalization then has our government
from its first start into existence practiced proecrip
ton. The charge refutes itself The power and right to
protect American institutions from the corrupt touch
ment strictly generic ts features are peculiar to il
SELF 1t is an institution Of popular sovereignty unlike
all other governments, whose subjects come among us
to serve an apprenticeship TO freedom and them
selves from the habits and passions peculiar to royal ser
doms. Is "proscrption' to exclude Minors own
sons, from suffrage No, it is deemed prudence We
hold the right protect and defend and that
which is for the common benefit Of all. But sir TO
reigneIs are prescribed so are our own children pro-
~SSs SSy
be the consequence If the ballot boxes were thrown
wide open to all, and popular suffrage upon in
What would be the effect How long would the laws
be wisely made or firmly executed 1t Is the same
thing in relation to this food Of paupers who are sys
temacally sent to our shores from the old wordGrest
ference to Nes Resise,) appropriated $4,000 900 Of
psspers upon the very ground that their competition
was fatal to English labor and they sent here
that they may come in composition with the American
an stss In hat he
the effect Of such system upon American labor or the
American labcrer. merely ask what win be its effect
OF aliens speedily overu all the barriers that have
been created by the fathers Of the Revolution to pro-
tect the rights OF man
The alien comes among us from q foreign monarc hy
whore he has rights without any idea Of the dignity
Of inc responsibility o,a voter Few have
ton; and until they become naturazed or attempt to
vote in violation Of Law, they escape taxation alto
suffrage Let view this subject in the light Of com.
mon sense and now endow the alien with ell the feel
ngs and Of the native born, and then deduce
the concluson, which 10 sequifur, that tho alien
will die of broken heart, be driven to rebellion
and massacre" he put to probation of twenty.one
stead Of thinking Of voting, he is thinking Of eating He
u either seeking employment reposing in the aims
house. He looking after the means OF acquiring pro-
perty not thinking Of governing the country unless
when some political demagogue or COMMITTEES OF ma.
turazation hunt him up to cast him into the scale as
ORDER
buy his conscience In proposing an extension Of the
naturalization law to twenyone years not only vio-
late no principle Of the constitution of humanity the
rights OF man. but we protect and defend them ALL
the same time that We manifest the most KIM and bene-
VIOLENT feelings towards the foreigner. ask you, sir
to contrast his condition under the tive systems
victim 10 all the horrors Of the tipping house. in the
hands OF the willy demagoguo who is buying his vote,
and in tho hands Of his children and family and
friends whore system places HIM in the full exer-
else Of all his civil and religious prvileges-under the
canopy Of bis own little domestic csste-free from
the din of paresthe vices OF politics, and the tn
mults Of the tavern-an useful and indust ous citi
ran, whose sons are growing up around him to en-.
JOY the rghts which belong without dispute, to the
native born Who the best friend Of the foreigner
Unquesonably the advocate Of that Law which
him from the fires of political intrigue and enshrines
him in TIE sanctuary OF his domestic affections
deprecate worse than barbarous that system of poll
teal chicanery which prompts the demagogue to irrats
the foreigner into the fury OF party Madness by goading
him with false opinions OF political sysem and then
appealing to his ignorance his passions to redres
wrongs that have exstancepourng into his the
eternal fasehood that he ID taxed without being repre-