The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-17

In this city, where he has long resided the deceased
uniformly respected and by the army-by all the
members OF which, from his official position his name
and character well known--he was regarded
as bright example of all the merits which should
adorn the soldiers character
Gen. Scott and Our Adopted Citizens.-Import-
ant Disclosure.
We copy in another column from the New York Her
aid Of Thursday last, what that journal justly terms the
remarkable and important document which has ye,
come TO light during the present campaign" The Herald
truly says, that in connexion with the fact that Gen
Scott is the author, il becomes matter of the deepest in
teresi and OF the graves moment. especially that i'm
mense body OF our population born without the limits OF
the United States which he proposes exclude forever
from the right to vote. The document in question is
from the National lnteigencer of December 1884, and
bears the signature OF Americas We are, however,
authorized say that this Americas is General Scott
that be is the writer of the article and, furthermore
that required prepared prove it, according
the usages in such cases made aud provided and we
challenge any OF his most honest pauisans any Of the
most unscropuous of the 'higher,law denagogues by
whom he is surrounded, TO RELAXATION of this indct
ment"
In this document General Scott proposes 10 FIX on
permanent basis The condition OF the millions OF for.
egn-born population, by law amending our present
laws Of naturalization, 10 The following effect
Il To reduce the OF naiuralizs from year.
TO three years
% To EXCLUDE ALL ALIENS RIGHT TO
worn IN Any PUBLIC ELECTIONS WHATEVER, ExcErr-
% Such aliens as shall have serycd years in the
army navy, who shall thereby be entitled the rights
izsnshp, including the right of suffrage.
- Aliens shall be exempted from involuntary service
in the militia, tho Gust free negroes and
Indians ere.)
IS The law 20 into operation six months after lis
passnse."
Ii is manifest al glance that the principles and policy
in respect 10 foregn-bon citizens thus deliberately
set forth 10 elaborate paper by Gen Scott in Deem
Der, 1874, only esh years ego, find parallel in the
records OF American craftsmanship since the days Of
the alien and sediion laws These principles and policy
embrace as fundamental points
LIST The total political Acknowledgement and degradation
OF Our foreign born population; aud,
ID. The violation II the plain letter OF the constu-
ton. order to favor with the political privileges Of
citizenship the small class Of foreigners who may have
served two years in the army or navy.
II is difficult 10 conceive how any man could write
down any conclusive proof of his "eminent dis
qualification" for the highest civil Office Yet as The
Herald truly remarks, this paper contains the result Of
tons the subject "n his letter Of 1884, (says that
ourna General Scott says that bis first Impressions Of
the necessity Of amendment Of the naturalization laws
were the result Of the stormy elections OF the spring OF
1895 From '35 10 a. period OF nine long years
in'efvened during which appears that with every pres
dentisl election he regularly seized with convul.
sion OF native Americansm. Thus, in 1910, be was
fired with indignation, and hurried Up 10 The As,or
IN ixa ~. A
be a. Polk being elected and the urgency Of the case
admitting Of no delay, he publishe his plan for resor
ING the purity OF our elections, in the mos, odious and
despoiic form Of an alien Law which any public man in
this country ever dared even under The disguise Of &C.
ttious signature. to propose TO the American people"
Its to be- observed oreover, that in the feature ex
GLIDING forever the alien from the right OF suffrage this
plan OF 1914 corresponds with General SCOTS letter OF
isi AMI the additional idea OF making unconstiiu
,ona exception OF tho,e aliens who may have served for
apeci6ed term in the army navy is Embodied 10 his
recent letter Of acceptance.
All this i unqueshonably the mos, fatal record OF pub
he policy tina, has been produced against pres.
GENITAL candidate The desperate but Intellectual efforts Of
Zen Scott to escape from its crushing force and the fu
Of It's character summed up by the Herald
""o so much oearness and cogency that we give the
CLOSING Paragraphs Of its editorial comment in rs
words
II s not til 1873 vybon IN, n,o,ooc, az vbig nou,
ns,op nsoe necessary stroke OF policy, that General
sco upon an invitation do So reirsct these hard old
isoefa ptnclpes But under such chromosomes what
"h can os paced N hts reuacton He has said that HE
principles are convicons'--snd th.,e we .p,rbend
he spesks me language Of the truthful cd soldier As
politician however his reclntsion Is ,re better rsn
oesihbed repentance The wbg party IN the cso paig
,o~ fepudia'ed na,onal b.nk 'ooscete ides !
snd ret upon succeeding power in 1884, Ii required two