New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-23
FOREIGN ASSOCIATE FOR POLIF
JC4L PURPOSES

FOREIGN 4SSOCL4 TION FOR POLif T.
IC4L PURPOSES.
We see it stated in the Baltimore papers that
the naturslized Germans of that city have form
ed political league, the object of which Is 10
control the German vote, not only there out
throughout the republic. They have addressed
circular to all the prominent polifieiahs' assn
ing them if they should be elected to pr'mlne'
positions, whether they would piedge themselves
to represent the German citizens according TO
tho laws of equality and without any preference
of M tive born citizens.
Incredble as the statement may seem, there
is NO room to doubt it, although there can be no
reasonable grounds for believing that the organ
izaton can make much Roadway. The project
is hostile to the whole spirit of our institutions,
and can but lead to the stirring mp of national
animosities and the revival of the old, exploded,
and long buried Native American party. Such
proceeding must of necessity excite jealousy
in the natives of the soil, and cause them to
band together in hostile opposition to the for
eign party so constituted National iealousies
must rise up, hatreds must be engendered, and
the right of suffrage become in its exercise
fruitful source of contention, wherein one ma
tionality will be arrayed against another, lead
ing to civil connections, the rule of the mob and
| the final overthrow of law and order. ~
If the German population can unite in this
way, SO can the Irish, the Scotch, the Creole
| French, the Spaniards, the Italians, Winneba-
| goes, Osages, Semnoles, Choctaws, Chinese,
Hottentots and English. But in reality, we
have no distinct nationalites in this country-no
| - I,,s hut ANN az
liens. In becoming naturalized, the emigrant
from beyond the seas renounces forever all
allegiance to lis mother country, and becomes
| for all political and social purposes an Ameri-
can-bound Ivy our laws, interested in our
prosperity and partner in The national fate
| for veal or woe.
| Our institutions do not require q naturalized
citizen to forget the land of his birth. The
Swiss can never forget his cottage beneath the
Alps; the Irishman, g The green banks of Shan
non = nor the German his vine covered lodge
by the banks of the rushing Rhine for around
| these are clustered hallowed memories that find
| lodgment in every breast. But beyond this his
affection for the land of his birth cannot extend,
| for by his own act he has voluntarily surren-
| dered all alliance with it, and transferred his
| allegiance to the country which nurtures and
protects him. ...
An organization SIMILAR to the one referred to
was attempted here a few weeks ago. A pre-
| lmnary meeting was held at the g whitehall, =
St Louis street; but such was the Constitution
of the Association that it signally failed. Amer
ican-b born citizens We're not admitted into the
conclaye; the rejecting portion Of its members
objected to this feature, and the consequence
was that the whole movement tlared out for n
day, fickered momentarly, and relapsed into
utter darkness and oblivion. Such, it is to be
hoped, will be the fate of all future organiza-
tons of like character So mote it be"