The true Democrat., 1854-08-02

ceptaDle 10 them, an outbreak Of native Amer lcansm all over the country is the most natu- ral thing in the world.
 He assures his catholic friends that the sen- timent which underlies Native Americanism, IS as strong in the bosom of American Catho- i.s as it is in the bosoms of American Protes- tants:
 Our foreign-born citizens must permit us to say, that they have been impudent, and have committed some serious mistakes. It is wrong to claim as natural right what is really only boon. No nation is bound to admit foreigners to all the rights and immunities of natural-born citizens.
 But whatever the doctrines they avow, or the real convictions of their minds, it must be conceded that the great body of foreigners, naturalized or simply resident among us, are not republican in their spirit their interior hab- its, and their interior life, and discipline. They have not the inward and abiding sense of the state ot law, in the abstract, and of liberty with authority, which is so essential to practical as distinguished from theoretical republicanism. Hence their invariable tendency to confound republlcanism with democracy, and democracy with radicalism. They lack practical republi- can training.
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 While we defend the sentiment of Ameri- can nationality, and are so far on the side of N atlve Amerlcanism, we must utterly repudiate the Native American party, so-called, for it's real leaders are foreigners, mostly apostate or renegade catholics of the Padre Gavazzi stamp. These vile European vagabonds have seized upon the honest native American and republican sentiment of the country, and have sought to pervert it to a mere anti-Popery sentiment
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 Still, as catholics, we are not disposed to of- fer any opposition to Native Americanism, if it will only be impartial and not discriminate against us. f at chooses to repeal the ,aaturala- zataon laUs, and enact that, hereqtey TO person not born in has country or cf American parents temporarily resident abroad, shaN havc tue right to Uote an our elections, or De eligible to any office, but oonceding tue tuN rights cf citizens to aA born an has country, aOtout regard to the nation- ahty y daeir parents, we shall ourselves ofer TO opposition The true policy of every republ- can country, we believe, is to confne suffrage and eligibility to natural-born citizens, al- though it should ordinarily render naturaliza- tion, so far as civil as distinguished from politi- cal citizenship IS concerned, as easy as possi- ply. If the framers of our government had oohtoAAPidleu SuCu all lHuuA OI lOTelSneTS as we have witnessed for the last four years, we think they would have confined the political rights of citizenship suffrage and eligibility, to natural-bor citizens There would have been no hardship to foreigners in this; there would be no hardshipin doing so now to those already naturalized; because no foreigner can claim these rights as natural right. The immigrant could not then, indeed hope to be voter or an office holder himself, but he could acquire and transmit real estate, enjoy the protection of the laws and the peace and prosperity of the country: and be consoled by knowing that his children would be citizens, and placed politi- cally on an equal footing with others.