The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-02

Pennsylvania, reiute tins caumny OIL our venerable op-
Mr.. RATHBUN rose to point of order. The gentle
man from Pennsylvania was discussing matters having
no reevance to the bill before the House.
Mr.. LEVIN. | am surprised to hear such a charge
come from either party this floor The native Amerl
had expected the short session TO be session OF
business and they had accordingly set an example which
both parties might profit by They had not obtruded
themselves while others engaged IN Their ia
vorte game of Presidentmaking He Mr. L felt that he
was speaking in orders and if the rules OF or
der had been the adopted rule Of action this House. there
would have been less speaking and more business done
He (Mr Id proceeding to show that the affinity OF
attraction, well the affinity of cohesion lies between
the two old parties in the question to which they are
strenuously opposed national redemption IRON the
pollution of the ballot box Having settled that, he pro-
posed 10 demonstrate that the foreign material OF the bal
lot-boy, which vaclated Its support OF wings one
year and democrats the next rendered 1t impossible that
either OF the old parties could ever undertake to redeem
the nation from that gull OF corruption INTO Which
class OF alien and puper voters necessarily plunged IT,
Deprive either party OF this foreign aid, and where would
be their ripmphs 'where their ascendency where
their pride and pomp The foreign vote the United States
now amounted TO nearly half million, and fully
competent TO turn the scale from wing TO democrat or
democrat to wing, at every annual election Both the OLD
parties seemed TO feel that their very existence depended
on the continuance of the supply The democrats hav-
ing possession of 1.-THE wings hoping to secure If; and
hence neither seemed willing to choke up the fountain
that nourished the Upas tree of their power! When
such parties ask sband (sad he) organization,
we may well snatch up arms to make more deter
mined resistance. The institutions of American free
adopts it leader and its guide through the wilderness
of political anarchy the immortal statesman who founded
this glorious confedecy on the basis OF the public vr-
tue. To the native Americans has this sacred task been
confded, and they will redeem the pledge though they
should be called on to sacrifice all present bless
lngs for the security OF the rights OF future gene
ratons He had before made allusion to the absorb
ing character of the tariff having shaken the organ
zaton of all parties, and scattered to the winds the pro-
found calculations OF the most aste politicians as to the
result OF the fall campaign OF 1916 Why was the tariff
question an absorbing question: Simply because it
American in opposition to foreign interests. The
people rushed to the polls in mass inspired by the most
ures which struck deadly blow at American rights:
1t was not party triumph. On the general issue OF
American interests, it was triumph OF the American
people In like manner the principles of the native
Americans are absorbing principles They must triumph,
when they have nothing more formidable to encounter
than the ordinary struggles OF the two old parties OF the
day.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylva
MIA has been called to order twice The Chair
decides that he is not in ordertha Is not In order, In
discussing this bill, to discuss the principles OF native
Amercanism, of any other party The Chair does not
know to what the genteman's remarks are tending
but notifies him that he must conine himself to the bill
Mr. LEVIN. What, sir Can speak OF country without
touching upon native American principles! Can advert
to any question of national importance without breathing
the spirit OF native Americansm' The first principle OF
our party is love OF native land have but little of
it manifested this floor, and indeed only alluded to
when party feeling fit to borrow its hues 1or an or
nament wear its garb for disguise Not permitted IN
ration Rome owed her grandeur-Babylon her magnih-
cence-Athens her learning-Tyre her trade-Troy her
martial spiritCarthage her Alexandria her
opulence: II has crowned Egypt with pyramids--fled
Persia with gardensmade Greece invncble in arms,
rivalled in art machess in eoquence will yet Sc
to this nation and to this House the glorious and in
esmable privilege of freedom of speech
He then proceeded. Both of the old parties re-
" upon measures in their political campaigns; and
had It not been for the mere aeoden, OF the the
campaign of that year without solitary issue by
which to rouse popular sympathy to action. He men
toned this fact merely to show the precarious evanes-
cent, AMI uncertain objects of the two old parties. who
will have nothing left TO battle against but the vast
organization of the native Americans-an organization
daughters Of the land and that already spreads extern
sive ramications into fifteen States yelling forth from
every inch of American soil. When it comes TO that
issue, as come it mu5t-thc American party against ms
the foreign party-who doubt but that the
american interest will prove the a-absorbing one,
and that every honest, whole souled American will
the standard of Washington AS he before said, you
only arrest this evil by vigorous, prompt and
cessfu effort to bring up the statute books OF the land to
the crisis. Your statute books, he said libel
American institutions, and do most arocous violence to
the spirit and genius OF the American constitution Your
naturalization laws obsolete in prncple--obsolee IN
object-obsolete in tendency-and most destructive IN
practice Their obvious and laudabe design, when first
passed. to adopt class OF aliens American citl-
zens who were qualified by morals, manners and edu-
cation to aid the expansion of then wild country
and the consolidation OF our new and untred govern
ment Wise in their generation, they have become
the political opprobrun OF the nation. An enlightened
policy-conforning to existing acknowledgements
to to wipe those anquated laws from our statute
books Europe longer drives her valuable and glfted
sons--her useful and vruous subjects from her domains
by the prosecutions of state policy or the fortunes OF
bgotted superstition. era has broken upon
Europe Famine and berality to go hand in hand
One plague settles upon Europe, and that reaches
only the lowest class of her population The potato rot
has spread famine among that class of her population,
who, born to labor, angush in want and die
would have saved them from agonZing death The
policy OF their now is to burden us with this
refuse of wrechedness and rid themselves of those
who populate their poor houses To feed these unhappy
beings when they come among us, is work of humanity
God forbid, while have bread, should refuse TO
An American never disputes APPOINT of charity or benevo
enceyou may increase your poorraes according to the
extent OF your humane sympathies and will blame
you for your effort to hush the cries OF suffering HUMANE
ty. But there stop Feed them-clothe them-shelter
them but for the sake of humanyfor the sake of your
country--for the sake OF your Children do not endow
them with the attribute of sovereignydo not rally to
the polls this living of moral putrescence and ptable
ignorance This is the point at which to suspend the fur
Their operation of naturalization laws and protect your
country against the political influence of the sarved-o
refugees of European oor-houses and alms-houses-
hundreds of whom, as the memorial from New York
sert perish on our wharves they land and thousands
they eat among u.s. Shall such men compete with free
Americans in theexecise of the right of suffrage Shall
faint institutions by political fellowship with such
as these who in the hands OF artful and designing
demagogues banded together, TO give the cast
ing vote for the rulers of the land whether those
patriots or traitors? No logic can refute the
truth of this position general principle that