Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-12-07
FOREIGNERS FOR OFFICE,

The exclusion Of foreigners from Office is no
innovation Of established Tule--nay, is Ameri-
can Law. and that Of the highest, The COnsti-
tuition. No person except natural born eiti-
zen eligible to the Chief Magistracy Of the Uni
On.-Ihis is the express provision Of our organ
ic law. II republican institutions could not be
endangered by the elevation Of men Of foreign
birth and foreign education. il our ship OF state
would be as safa in the hands of alien hslmsn,en
as in those other own sons. TO the manor born,
why did the statesmen who composed the fed
eral convention embOdy in the national consIi-
tuition this principle Of exclusiohY The infer
enee is too tangibe--the cOnviction too fOrei-
bic for a moments esistance--FrankliG and
Hamilton, Sherman and Gerry and their COM
peers knew that American liberty could only
be preserved and perpeluated by Americans,
and that, entrusted to aliens, the evil hour
might come in WHICH the disciples of King and
Pnestcrait would usurp the rights and under
mine the government of the People There.
fore, let not babbrg demagogues cioak of the
exclusiyeness Of the Know Nothings or charge
them with anti-repu lican sm when the very
fathers Of The Republic were the progenitors Of
the same. Sill, We would not make tho elec.
tion OF native born citizens 10 Office, an invari-
able rule though this course would be full,
warranted, in view OF the corruption which has
formerly Characterised the campaign procedures
of the Whig and Democratic parties, lately ex-
istent upon the spOis. but now, without them,
defunct. 1t is even amusing to witness the
lavish kindness of partizan aspirants to their
fsvorte Paddles, their Men Herr Hans, and
their obesant Johnny Crapauds, in an election
crisis. 1t is equally amusing to behold :he
wonderful celerity with which lugubrious na7
tives are trundled out of the departments to
make room for these same Irish and Scotch
and Dutch and Dutch French stool pigeons, who
four OF five years since were taking their les
sons in repubhcanism, in the train of some
spawn Of European nobility. Honestly; an in.
nocent would imagine that American extraction
is one of the seven deadly sins, and Ameri-
can prediction the most mortal error in the
esteem of Parlisan politicians, Il is notorious
that vastnumber of lhe appointees Of our pres
ent general government are foreigners who
received their appointments because of the fact
that they were-f foreigners ; and in the place
of former incumbents who we're suspected
strongly of 'Americansm.' In view of these
most fragrant Sffronts, converse course would
be naturally expected from the prescribed
However, we, as an individual put in our pro-
test against the invariable exclusion Of our cti'
zens of foreign birth from office, as there may
possibly occur instances wh.re they will be as
well capacitaed and as fully reliable as the off
springf o our own soil.the men of American edu-
cation and American Hope. We approve Of the
position of Mr.. Clayton in this premise, (soe
another column) though we are compelled to
admit that entire exclusion of foreigners from Of
fee would not conflict with the fundamental
principles Of the Republic. - Cynosure.