Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-08-10
From the ". 0. True Della.
Love for AdOpted Citizens.

ltoH VI huoW No1hlhgism, WHICH
likewise Includes hostility to satfo-
licisin, has also revived all the Old
nonsense We were accustomed to hear
in l84l, about this party being the
particular friends, and that purity the
special and avowed enemies ofadopt-
ed citizens. Unless among very igno-
rant or very unrehecting men, bald
erdash this description Can impose
on nobody, least Of all, upon sensi-
bic and patriotic adopted citizens, who
do not require to be told that in a
country SO utilitarian as the United
States, the best friend the stranger
from other lands Can have is found in
his own personal integrity, industry,
intelligence, and fidelity AID devotion
to the laws. Ifhis conduct will stand
scrutiny in these particulars, he may
laugh at the flattery>Qf demagogpes,
aud the honied adulatioh Of vagabond
politicians, and remain well satisfied
Of obtaining the respect aud regard of
every good American, and the opin-
ions Of others, who are not good A
merieans. he can afford to despise
!. has always been a characteristic
Of the democratic party 10 maintain
the wisdom and policy Of encouraging
European immigration, aud aiso the
extension to such immigrants Of eVe-
ry right and privilege compatible with
the Constitution of the United States.
On the other hand, the old federal and
the late wing party contended against
those principles and sought in a va
riety Of Ways to traverse the nation
al sentiment and feeling IN relation
thereto and to obstruct immigration
and restrict the privileges of imnli-
grants anxious to become citizens Of
the United States. Bothparties con-
timed men who dissented from the
opinions of their respective friends,
and voted in opposition to them ou
the questions thus involved, the nat
ur;Iization of foreigners, and the
rights it was deemed expedient and
proper to extend 10 them after that
event.
1t would be, however, very absurd to
suppose that either the one party or
/, or the other as such, cared a straw
fof Foreigners abstractly, or that
THE one was more capable of taking a
deeper interest in their individual
welfare, when they came 10 be mer-
geH in the federal population than
thf other. Every ones experience
will satisfy him Of this, and consc-
qnently when adopted citizens are
called upon to cast their sullrages for
candidates for Office. the opinions, on
the merits or dement's Of adopted cit
ize is as individual members Vi soei-
ETY., such candidates my entertain,
ought to have nothing to 30 either
with their support or rejection. The
naturalization laws, like laws for the
establishment Of a national bank. or
a high tariff. or the distribution of Il
surplus revenue among the indiyidu-
al States. are far matters for con-
sideration and difference of opinion.
and the advances OF the largest Ii D. !
erty in their formation arc entitled to /
the credit such liberality and soubd /
views naturally confer, but it do bs .
not by any means follow that the e !
care q fig for the imnii I
grants, or take the smallest intereS st +
in their temporal or intellectual well
fare. Wien an individual or Il par
ty advocates the admission. OF for
eign born persons to Il participatidnl
of equal political rights with the ma
tive born. he, or it, does so from an
enlightened conviction that he is z
best promoting the real in
terests of his country, but the de-
gree Of estimation and respect in (
which heor others viii hold the stran-
gers thus adopted into full fraternal
communication, will exclusively de- !
pend upon their OVID good conduct,
obedience to and respect for the laws, j
md fidelity to the constitution. II
$ fact of which adopted citizeEs
nay we'll be proud, that numerous as
hey are in these free States, the his {
DRY of the past furnishes no record {
# an instance Of individual Eiithless- j
less to their adopted country; eau
he enemies of, the constitution or S
he Union boast Of having received Fl
id or countenance from the strangers
7ithin our gates? Wherever the ma d
i've born have associated themselves G
ogether for "hisher lazy" objects, 6
last, West, North or South, adopted fiji
ltizens have been found standing a. "
'of from them, ready TO aid tire con-
tituted authorities, and, if need we're
D devote their lives for the good oil n