New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-27

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NaturaHzed Citizens.
Ne are glad to see that eur fslloM-citizen,
LSaml G.. Risk, has battled manfnlly and suc-
cessfully for the just and equitable rights Of
lnaturalized citizens. In our late Constitution,
an inyidious distinction was made between them
and citizens native born. When a man, by the
laws of the United States, is declared voter, we
consider, waving the mere claims Of residence,
that he is entitled to a vote. ~ a.,
II is, in our opinion, semi un- constitutional
to argue otherwise Naturalized, man is a
citizen Of the United States. A citizen of the
United States, he is fully entitled to privileges
as such Why should he be a citizen Of the
EUnion, and not a citizen of Louisiana, portion
Of THE Union as well. If false to the Union, he
could not but be false to Louisiana If false to
Loaisiana, he could not but be false to the Union,
/ of which Louisiana is part
We have no humbug sentiment TO impose upon
Four naturalized citizens. We kno,e that they
are most frequently imposed on by native and
imported demagogues, and we wish now to speak
to them, as TO others, words of sober common
Isense Naturalization is equivalent to the
broadcast rights of citizenship. Why not march
lbollly up to the point, and emphatically de-
nand an elongation Of the term anterior to the
right Of voting Such course would be truer,
manlier, more honorableand fearless.
r But the truth Of the matter is, and particu-
larly as regards the naturalized Irish, that
demagogaes consider them . specially reserved
,game for their individual sport. They will pay
them the most ford compliments speak to them
in the most honied aceents-bespatter them with
treacherous eulogy plaster them with &c soft
soap land laugh merrily at them afterwards,
as most previously gullible fools.
We are telling truths which may not. be al
together palatable. But we care not We are
speaking out what ne know and believe. We
prefer to speak one unpopular truth to forging
one hundred palatable untruths and if we Of
fsnd, We can only say. we have done justice by
all parties thought reason, experience will
vindicate us. @ \ 4y
We should be false to our own self-respect,
false to the principles Of truth, false to every
memory and thousand associations, if we did
not dare tell the naturalized citizen, and
particularly the Irish, that the electioneering
reo,,1ari, ~, A.. ~ oe ,,ss.:s. -
suits Mn, Mi, hr,aor;t;.aI a. - W. -
nev,ar nover toLep nart = an1, .,,a,,
and W would nrosan th.. ~. 60,
should be withered in its strength and our
manliness be unnerved into womanhood, than
.be o,,iltv ~ ftha n,1+,.v art ~ s,,,oo.I, IL
tono,,ed dece;t ~ M nst;rs ana ,.+,,,,a,;.a,
81. emiarant demnsopue We can alive al
what we believe and we do be,ave II M ,,,a,,
who Il, this co,,ntrv 40, of 4 +ha Trsh roto
who seek tn mari, o,,f natu,.l;,ed Ir;sh os
distinct class IF itizens ;so,atsd FROM, otbars
and entertaining peculiar nreind;ces ~, svo,a !
thies, offer gross insult to. perpetrate j great
wrong upon, excite unnecessary animosities
against, the very men they treacherously and
demagoguically pretend to befriend, =.
If aman becomes a naturalized citizen of This
country, what is he' We answer, an American
We know him only as such. Heisneither Irish.
nor German, nor Dutch, nor French to, us. He
is an American, nothing more, nothing Lessor
o traitor at heart, and unworthy of citizenship
in the great Republic within tile broad limits Of
which he has sought an inyiolable sanctuary.
If dishonest. contemned and driven bouona +ha
noIa ~ o,,, ,,,,, ,,.4,;
go - =, $50.
~ my AAioi, oiio uelihan, we Efencn
votes, we KNOW nothing OF any OF them. No