Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-11-01

! guarantee to every newly organized TERRITORY
/ a triiy Republican constitution, thus preelu-
ding the subsection of one man TO another as a
chattel, and allowing the settlers to prosecute
| their arduous laborS in peace and harmony =
| ". I. Tribune.
The American aad Foreign Population.
The JerSy City Sentinel says, ssit appears from
| the census that there are seventeen millions
| seven hundred and thirty y-sevcn thousand, five
4 hundred and five native born inhabitants in the
! United States, while there are but two mill
] ions, two hundred and ten thousand eight
/ hundred and twciity-eigit who were born in
| foreign lands ;''-and yet, strange as it may
seem, a Very large portion of the Offices not
| only in the gift Of the people, but in the gift
| of the present national administration, with not
4 few state administrations, are held by for
cigners. Even should we admit their right to
proportion of these places of treSt, in accord
| ance with their numerical strength, the COMP
| utation would fall infinitely far short of the
| number of Offices they now hold in this coun
| try. Now, we ask, if so small quota of aliens
! have already welded such an immense influ-
| encc III the United States, as to secure much
| larger portion Of the offices of trust than
Americans have meted out to themselves, ,(and
| in many instances have held the balance Of
power between the two parties, which they
| have seduiously turned TO their own purposes.
and TO the advantage of Papal suprcmacy,)
| what would be the state of things in this coun-
| try five years hence, if no checks were inter
vened by the sons of the soil, against the un-
! natural and monstrous inroads which have al
ready been made upon our most sacred civil
and religious rights, through our own misplac-
ed and much abused confidence in the thous-
andS Of foreign born who have been welcomed
to our shores Why the consequences could
| be better imagined than described by the most
! prolific brain, or the pen of the most ready
writer in the CniOn.9at--
The editor OF the Trenton True american
STRANGE conclusion hpclnSp
there are but elere9 foreigners to every one
hundred Americans born, there is no danger to
be apprehended from that quarter, or from the
causees which have already produced such dis
astrous results, not only in the body polite of
our land and nation, but in the body physical
Of no small portion of our countrymen,
who were actually guilty OF exercising the
rights and privileges of American citizens,
guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the
tStatea-imnunities which happen TO be at va
rience with the DEGREES of the Pope Of Rome,
and with the secret plottingS of his Jesuticat
tools, whom he sent here for the purpose OF
robbing Americans of their inheritance, sub
iugating the nation and turning this glorious
I land of promise into a wilderness of VOC, and
charnai house of the Devil. 1t viii not do,
Mr.. Trenton american, to palm off such idle
specUiations upon the sSndfires, or, If You
like the term better, upon ssAwakened .9lHeri-
ca - for though she is yet infant in growth,
when contrasted with other nations of the
4 Il IL
with such chaff." 1t is worse than useless thus
to attempt to daub her with 'suntcmpered NOR
tar - as she is now probing the wound which
has been inflicted upon her 10 the very core,
and viii not rest content till the cause of cor
ruption is thorougly eradicated from the parts
effected.
esFacts arc stubborn things s!''-aye they are
stubborn. indeed, nowadays. Need we point
the editor OF the True 4B1cricaR, ana every 9th
cr I4ocofocO editor III the land, who sides with
him in his anti-Amcrican doctrines and dog
mas-we repeat, need we point these intatua-
ted representatives. OF the Press, who appear to
be frightened at their own shadow, and begin
to be Mortified at the phantom sSKnow Moth
ingisrn.'; to the unnum bcrcd outrageS upon
Americans and American rights by misguided
and deluded foreigners, which come teeming
upon us from every part of the land, through
the public printS-NhIch arc so frequent. that
il is utterly impossible TO keep tracl-of them,
and SO henioUs and unproyokcd IN their char
acter. as to cause Apoliyon himself to blush at
the thought that his doninionS are to be peo-
pied by such demons in human shape? We
viii Just point to one instance of those gross
and insufferabfc interferenceS with our civil
and religious rights. We allude TO the late
attempt of the German Roman Catholics at
Cincinnati to prevent the PreSbyterians from
opening Sabbath School of their persuasion
in a location suited to their own convenience
and purposes. Tell it not in America!-pub-
HSll 1T not in Rome, that in this land of civil
ana fcDSlOuS lTESuOil--IIl tilS illIttttHiH ttL-
| tury-AMERICANs have actually been forbid by
Foreigners to exercise privileges which would
scarce be denied them in heathen lands, and
| which both England and France eheefuily eN-
| tend thenl-rights which are theirs not only by
inheritence but by the laws of God and the true
lcadinrs of his Providence. But we forbear-
there is not sufficient descriptive powers in the
English language to portray the enormity and
reckless impudence Of these degraded worship
| ers at the unhallowed shrine of Popery.-S1h.
SHOCKING MURDER AND SUIcIDE NEAR NEW
RURGH, \. Y.-On the - inst, some of the
neighbors of a man and his wife named Smith,
who lived about fourmiles from Newburg, en-
tered the dwelling of Smith and found the
wife dead in her bed and the lifeless- form of
her husband lying in pool of blood on the
floor, with his throat cut from ear to car
But the strangest feature of this sad affair IS
that the body of the woman bore not the slight
est mark of violence and appeared as though
she had fallen asleep in death; and what adds