The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-15


Railroad.
There was very res9essab fall of SNOW yeste r
day throughout the western part Of this STATE
Captain Warnock, Of the steamship Nor,h Star
~as arrested yesterday and placed unier one thon
ssnd dol as bonds to answer cha,ge OF resis ing
The revenue officers, IN refusing 20 permit them =
board his ship while coming M ths harb1r.
TIE voters ofNew O;leaus, ol the 9th instant, by
msi r,ty OF five thorssnd, dec ded n fayo. OF
granting licenses 20 sei ard, u spi,s.
Our Geographic advios Eom Washjngt1p Chic .
go aud Cincinnati, represent 4 errble STATE OF
Thugs respecting the ioapcia affairs at those points
Resd tire dispatches.
9 Election Ia EfassacilUsests--The Know
- Noth,mgs.
lhe az in which the Know Moth ngs haze
swept the State Of Massachusetts will even as
tonish those who have watche the series or
Know Nothing triumphs that have marked the
past year. The liquor question: still pending
in Boston-t.e Nebraska issue which cas beeu
so sedulously hrust down the thro is OF the
New Englanders-and all the other ,arty, DO
litcai, or l0ca questions which i was expected
would influence the cleo ion hava been cast
aside, and cs utterly 70 gotten as i they con
cerned The past century or the antipodes. One
idea-one principle---one design absorbed all
Others in the mind of the people; and that was
the vindication of Know Nothing principles
and the assertion Of native American doc,riue
1t has been so to great extent in all the other
States had there been any thing like prepare.
ton at the New York election, and had the
party been marshalled for thorough contest.
there cannot be the smallest doubt but large
share Of The Know Nothing ticket would have
been elected. In short, an integral section of
the American people scattered over the CONT
nent, stard self con essed champion Of the doc
trine thai America S for the American, and
that foreigners exercise undue power and enjoy
VI due priv eyes I erein.
Nor are reasons wanting in da.ence OF their
position. The conss tuition o. the United
Stateg-to witch, whenever new questions
arise, it is fitting that we should recur
for gpidance-is essentially native Anie-
r'can iostrumcnt. Were t work of
yesterday. i would be called q Know
Nothing performance and Mr.. Sc yard with hi
foreign supporters would scout upon and reyile
1t. For tat constitution. aftcr placing the
government Of the cou1try in The hands of the
"citizens," does not even contemplate or pro-
vide for the hesowal of that title upon persons
born abroad il merely says that &C m rress
shall have power 10 establish q uniform rule of
naturaliz ,tion," eferring obviously to the con-
ting ncy wherein sucA q rule should become
necessary or expedient. Congress is not re-
quiied to make such a rule nor is there Ia
the whole Of the constitution even so much az
hint that such legislation woud be proper or
advisable but simply rroviliag for the posi-
nility of an influx OF foreigners being at any
time desirable, Congress is permitted to ''natu-
ralize" then. This wa our fathe - view; il
is quite obyiou that Ia they regarded ths
admission 0. foreigners 70 the rights of citi-
zens a. likely to be advantageous to the coun-
try they wonid have embodied naturalization
clanHe in the constitution nnd would not have
let The work to the option'of their successors.
We lave however still more direct evidence of
their sentiments. The constitution dsstinctly
enacts that Z no person except a natural born
citizen or citizen at the Jime of the adoption
this constitution, shall be eligible to the Office
ot President = and in another place declares
has "no person shall be a representative gho
shall not have . been seven years citizen o
the United States Here is broad line y
distinction drawn between native born and
nst0raized citizen to the mauiie-t prejudice
Of the letter, Tn sc articles STOW that the fra
mers OF the const ltion eid MT consider that
aturalized Irishmen stood on par with native
Americans; which s, as we nnae stand it, pre-
cisely the position foe which the Know Nothngs
are now contending. If tscre lie na row pre-
udice in the Know Nothing creed OF 1854, then
assuredIy there was the sam. narrow prejudice
In he constitution OF 1857.
The history Of the naturalization laws tells
the same story. Under the old regime, the
period of probation required f foreigners va
twenty one years, in accordance with the Eng.
IiSh practice. The war compelled III to ensoi-
rage emigration and no. TO be over nice ia
choosing fold ers 20 fight for our liberties. G-n
Wellington gave numerous pledges to foreign.
q that he world, 20 far as in him lay, eudsa
gor TO have the old law relaxed. Accordingly ua-
der his terms Of Office, Only five years residence
wss required o. foreigners The moment John
Adams succeeded him toe naturalization iar
sns repealed. IL had fallen into complete dis