The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-25

the privileges the descendants OF the Hes
as those Of lafayette Kosciusco who bsttlsd for
our freedoms Or to put more honnely question, BE-
dozen Irish lsborers to cultivate your plantation must
you permit yourself to be everrun BY Of hungry
applicants who dsvour your substancs and jeopardse
your rightsS Sir, ndtions sceJ Sdiuidwols Mare
right % b seldsA Ter e preservation Of their pa!t~o~y,
and it Is one thing to assert and maintain the prn.
and maintain the rights Of property and another to give
Il effect at The expense Of national and individual sacr
You next infer that the Know Nothing orgsalzation
10 not only evelled against foreigners by birth but
against the Pope Of Rome have already declared how
Consistent with the entire freedom Of religion.
the spirit OF republican institutions both he and his
nnons will undoubtedly dud . stubborn and success
full opposition in the American party Nor can agree
with you that the idea OF the Popes influence 81 this
however matter Of Judgment for the American peoS
Ile to decide and they are-thank Godso enlightened
and well advised that they may be fairly trusted with
But you argue that there not only no necessity for
Of and o out our yu
public party may justify secret consultations and the
issue on this point is fairly made up. How far 1t II
against the spirit Of laws shall briefly inquire.
shall pay no regard to your illusions as to our national
try was taken either directly dervativey of the Pa
pal power for, however curious these may be - hsto
standing that they have no bearing on the QUESTION at
issue care not under what fiction Of universal papa
dominion the discoveries of this western continent may
have pretended to claim it, Of what different
nations the colonists may have been made up, they
became by conquest and by purchase the masters
pendent nation All who partook in the act became
ipsc fdcto American citizens and If they chose at an
was virtue Of their sovereign right to be exercised or
not at their pleasure and we their descendants claim
the same right net only BY inheritance, but direct
nzes the acquisition of nationality and domain as 1t
does that Of personal property By certain axed rules
upon a nation more thad upon individual Are you
to be reproached claiming exclusive privileges upon
your STRANGE h tiles "a. and i'm
tor Of earth to the goods thereof when choose
to deny h m that which you have acquired BY in
dgnant and outraged If, after having bestowed upon
him that charity which your heart would doubtless
troll? Shall people, them be blamed. who having in
hered and cultivated cherished Institutions If finding
those whom they have adopted into their family Great
their rights they determine to resist the
on?
To maintain the assertion that the Know Nothing move
ment against the spirit Of laws and the facts of
history quote largely from the Virginia Declaration
of Rights" Your lucuSratons on this subject are inte
resting narrative but extremely weak as an argu
ment. Does any intelligent man presume that when
the convention Of Virginia declared mo man or set Of
entitled to exclusive emouments privilege
from the community, but in consideration of public
vices which not being descendble, neither ought the
ry" it meant to prohibit the organization of po
tical parties in the future repubcs Now according
se q might % ASS state
political party and how, then, the long string Of obec
tons which you raise can apply to it. differently from
10 not wings when in Office claim exclusive privi
ieees from the community against demccratss Is it
not in the nature political parties to prescribe those
differing from them in sentiments and opinionsS Is it
not in the very nature Of political freedom that major
ties may select persons of their faith fill The Of
n YOur
political experience approves this fact and the welfare
Of the country is the argument whether sound or
cious will not undertake to argue, which this
exclusiveness Then sir your arguments deduced from
the Virginia resolutions apply with equal force to all
they tissue of sophstries. The right of expa-
triaton is one to which have already expressed M
organization opposes your view this subject but be-
cause men have right to expatriate themselves, is
ts any nation ra whose h institutions lions
were born to naturalze them and admit them
to citizenship For such paradox you will hardly
rights Of American citizenship upon foreigners because
in the early days of the republic, needed population
question Is one of expediency or YOU NAV saw Of duty
Upon the latter point to understand that two
opinions may prevail we who belong to American organ
nations believe first duty to country and its
children, and may possibly deem it inexpedient to
confer privileges which are liable to abuse. contend
therefore, if majority Of the American people think
proper to alter abolish the naturalization laws is
NAV not be impugned as in:csl to the cause Of civil
liberty and human rights am satisfied to rest upon
this assertion without following you through your long
have been TO ba for the abuses Of the naturalization
laws and for the insulting and degrading spectacle of
oregn influence in American elections, true and It is
time that n, corrective should be applied and tho
American organizations to which you bitterly object
Which YOU seem to aSpreheha from these Organizations
originate in ignorance Of their true objects ind designs
It is impossible, after the scathing ordeal which men
haze trial phop of mr.
day at the HANDS q party, to ca together suddenly
such tremendous masses as Know Nottingham seems
to wieid without combining incongruous elements;
are great popular movements ever free from
error but protesting TO know something of American
organizations satisfied that never in any age
country, was such body Of men called together who
acted in concert with motives pure and objects
hoyso free from bigstry and prejudice SO devoted to
national independence and the true interests of unver
sal liberty. They may be assaulted malgned by polit
cal demagogues the mnons Of ecclesiastical tyranny,
whose inrigues they e, and whose unloly machina
tons for power they defeat long the sentiments
Of the heart true to nature than the sophstres
of the tongueas long as the teachings Of Washington
hold an influence tho American mind-as long
the love Of country is predominatng sentiment with
Americans-sc long will these organizations march on
ward prosperous and triumphant, until their mission Is
accomplished in the perfection of National Union,
the peace and harmony of the States, the overtheG OF
demagogu ism, and the destruction Of political an1re
rous intolerance They viii increase in numbers and be
effected in strength and unity OF action, until they
brace the pure and noble OF our land aud do not dss
Iair, sir when their purposes become more fully lie
oped their objects more clearly to see even
you, the sometime champion Of the wing party, whose
battle cry, the union OF the wings for the sake OF the
Union, is their shibboietheven you, whose
great energies and undoubed talents taxed with
the hercuean task Of ccmentng the dscordan elements
Of the so.caed democratic partaghting With renewed
ardor for purer faith under the banner OF the great
American party. Respectfully your obedent servant,
JOHN w. BRYCE.
The Administration on the Know Nothlnrs
from the Washington Union, OF Nov 221
raE scHExE or THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Tie NEW YOnK HERALD has gone over to the so
called Kno Y uothinss. A paper whose editor lives
nearly all his time In foreign countries, and whose
hatred Of the United States Is shown By his perse
vering abuss Of its government and its Ciizens has
become the volunteer champion Of an exclusive and
proscriptive party based upon an assumption OF So
pericr Amercanism. man who Ia himself o ma
turalxed citizen offers his assistance to those whose
object 1t Is to disfranchise all men born abroad.
There Is 4 couaalerry Ia AL this inconsistency In