The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-10-20

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IS plging 3 your 81 neipal question.
10 Il 81 declaring frankly that never uas,
BOT now, end never shall Be candidate to1 the
ney 1taye sen enough q i 70 form
opinion Tat lot tns there i no position q
this country less dealrabla shan bo content
with the seat il the Senate q the united States
which tbe kind paitiality 81 friends d n9 native
slato has assigned % ne Indeed would
net exchange 1 IS any under the Govern
insnt
TIE rear 1856 must decide momantons issue
il hia country. Are tie american people pre-
pared Is share h aliens the right of governing
Ehis nation 1t tie BALD box 81 soon IS those y
lens csn make declaration Of inter { They
niay aud OMEN do make such decla tion pitain
week b evena day Of binding il our sol. A
again, are tic American people prepared 70 share
with aliens every blessing and benefit conferred
upon them As American citizens and even to give
them share IF the. public iomaing By the Ne-
bgasAa bill Congress has conferred upon them the
right q voting. and BY the Homestead BIZ, whica
IS still pending and 70 Be decided next winter,
they are ohage an equal share ID thu public lo-
main, OF tie same terms With native md NATURAL
led citizens. Again. tie American people must
decide whether, other circumstances beng equal
tie native citizen IS Or not fairly entie II pre-
ieFence il the distribution d honor eaa Offices u
the country which gave them birth.
The state of ny health vii not permit rne to
discuss these questions in letter. Our naturali-
zatiou IS arc unquestionabiy detective Of our
alnas-liooses would not non Be filed with patpers
OF the Isl 900 paupers il tie United States, 6s,-
600 are foreignerssend 10000 natives Ihe an-
nails Of crime have swelled as the ails Of Europe
have poured their contents into tie country and
4 feIon convict, reeking from murder d Europe
81 Who has ia &c fortune q escape punishment
ios an5 81 ctoa abfoad easily gaih
zati0a ~ spcndInga part Of Eve years within The
limits 81 tie United States. Our country has
become Botany Bay into which Europe annual-
II discharges her criminals Of every deseriotion
/ have 10 preiudices against honest foreigners
Who come here to seek al asylum from tie tyran-
81 ST rulers abroad. All ms sympathy re With
them, and rhen they become naturalizeia VIII de-
fsnd them IS American citizens IN alI their rights
s fully s those born on their soil. would i'm
caleate and practice religious toleration il its
broadest sense but would see to II that 40 man
s. any secret. whose creed teoches them to deny
e ous toierotion g ne and ny colmtr5men,
should ever hold offica here Or power Of any kind
Is persecute Is for our religious opininns. 10
man Who acknowledges alegience to any foreign
Of power Of who holds himself nnder
obligations to obey the eaicts Of any such poten-
tale Il power shall be By ny vote placed u any
post 81 of6ca under tie American government !
would defend tie rights Of men of FL religious.
to the full extent to which thosa rights ard gna-
anteed by the American Constitution But while
/ would advise every American citizen to defend
tie religious rights Of al others even II the haz
ard Of hif life would as the same time advise
him to peril his lie not freely il defence of his
own.
Z d. DOT undertake p enter into the subject
how Far foreigners, who are nat naturalized ii this
country should bepeFnitted'to hold Office. Yon
will End taat you can lay downno general rule
upon this subject 10 which there win not neces
sarig be exceptions. t S sufficient ri any pur-
posa standing IS d, without ths power and
without the wish to have the power e confer OH
cer upon otheEt 10 say that. il ny ludgene .
native American citizen under equal Gre stan
IS ST Qualiacations ana merit Is better entitled
8 the honors and officer of the country than
oreigner whether aralzed q not
And nov seeking % Office from yon q Jour
Iiends 81 any body slss have The honor g sub |
eribe myself
Very sincerely end rao youE friend,
JOHN II. Ola YT0N
d Rppnn2 ks 81 Philadelphia
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