The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-12
From the Harrisburg Investigator.
The Allen Law to be Revived.


Gen Scott's hatred of foreigners has long been
known and on every occasion that opportunity
presented itself, he has shown his Native Ameri-
can sentiments. In 1886 he was fired arith iadig-
nation, because some poor 1rishman happened
TO cry out in the street, down with the Natives,
Just as q rowdy Native American would exclaim,
damn the Pope" So triiing circumstance
rs this reused the mighty wrath of this great
military chieftain, and from that day to the
present he has been boiling over with hatred,
malice and all uncharitableness against all for
eigners, particularly the poor and unfortunate
class of them. Immediately hearing this
terrible cry Of dozen acih the natires, Gen. Scott
FASTENED to his parlor, at the Astor House, to
vent his indignation, and there, as he says him
self, in his letter of 1841, he and two friends
drew up address to the American people, to
disfranchise all foreigners that might, after
that date, come to our shores. That address,
from some cause or other, was never published
but we find the General, in December, 1914,
writing a lengthy communication for the Ma
tional Intelligencer, at Washington, over the
signature of Americus, in which he presented
the draft of q law, of which the following is q
synopsis:
/. To reduce the term of naturalization from
five years to three years.
s. To exclude all aliens foreUer from, the right to
cote IN any public elections schateUer e1cept,
s. Such aliens as shall have served two years
in the army or navy, who shall thereby be enti
tied to the rights of citizens, including the right
of suffrage.
4. Aliens shall be exempted from involuntary
service in the militia, the army or navy, Gust
as free Negroes and Indians are.)
8. The law to 60 into operation six months
after its passage.
These are the provisions of the law which
Gen. Scott proposed to exclude foreigners, and
here follow some of the arguments in his COM
munication, signed Americus, to sustain it
Gen. Scott says:
GAS to other foreigners abroad and in exis-
tence, or who may hereafter be abroad, what
right would they have now or in future, to
complain of such law -? We, already in the
United States, whether NatiUes, naturalized citi-
zens, or aliens, have greatquestion of national
policy to settle for ourselves and our ocn poster
ity, and we may settle it for the benefit of both
without looking to speculative philanthropy or
liberty, beyond such posterity. We think are are
liberal enough ,0hen, an proUiding for America, ,ge
leaUe the door Of admission open 10 the children of
foreigners, mo'o abroad, arho mag HEREAFTER BE
BORN HERE, acithom aHoring their fathers to
come here and GoNERN Us. We, aoho alone hare
any right TO think on the subject claim that ace can
best gooern ourselres, and the better such government
IN meantime, so much the better for the foreigners
Uho may hereafter come among us, and for their
American born children"
Here we have Gen. Scott's views in reference
to foreigners in 1874. The terms of naturaliza-
tion, to enable them to hold property and claim
the protection of the Government, is to be redu-
ced to three years. But the law proposes to
erclude them entirely from goting, ualess they shall
,erre TWO YEARS IN THE ARMY, and in his
communication he heaps upon foreigners all
kinds of indignities.
What a mode of comforting political rights ON
foreigners y! Two years service in the army.
the only requisite to confer on them civil rights
Why, the proposition is monstrous, and in the
very face of all the experience of the civilized
world, and all the warnings of the fathers of
the Republic. In the language of the n. Y.
Herald, the ''restrictions hereproposed foreign
ers are barbaric and despotic and their direct ten
delcy tc0uId be to anarchy, JIoodshed and ciUa
rar."
Such project is perfectly characteristic of
Gen. Scott, and with a view of showing that it
is his all over, we quote what he said on the
subject in 1841. In his letter to G. W. Reed.
he says:
'Ino,o hesitate 6etDeen extending the period of
residence before naturalization Ito twenty-one
years, and a total repeal Of all acts of Conqress
on the subject. Ny MIND INCLINEs TO LATTER"
In 1886 he was fired with indignation against
foreigners, and drew up an address against
them. In 1914 he drew up and advocated a
law to deprive all foreigners of a vote, except
those who might serve two years in the army,
and in 1852, in his letter accepting the Whig
nomination, he carries out the idea of excluding
foreigners from voting, except such as may serve
in the army in time of war.
These are the positions of Gen Scott in re-
ference to foreigners, and they are getting to be
better understood every day.