Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-15

tory. When this dread man bids that confessing
simmer how TO vote, Charles XII, Frederick the
Great or Bonaparte, never received prompter or
80 willing an obedience from their best trained
veteran. VA
Ii Is only as a hierarchy, religious politico in
stitutiou, having vast political projects, and or
ganized for polical action; and because its prnci-
ples purposes and operations are utterly inimical
70 popular and American constitutional liberty,
10 all civil and religious freedom that can stand
up in opposition to It. When Roman American
Catholics call their general councils, and purge
their system Of its interior and only quescent po-
ltical despotism; when they announce to the Pope
and the world that his supremacy is only spiritual,
and out OF his Papa dominions In Italy, he nor
hls priests have right to interfere in politics
Of temporal affairs; that they owe him or his HE
rarchy no duty or obedience, incompatible with
their full and perfect allegiance TO the United
States, or any OF the States or that Is hostile 10
any Of the principles Of their governments; that
they are opposed to and viii ever resist the union
Of Church aud State, and any mixing OF their at
fairs, when they bid and viii compel their priest
hood to cease meddling with the government and
politics of the country, with a view to shape its
laws and policy, and to desist from their efforts to
control the entire Roman Catholic vote of Ameri-
ca, then, and not until then should every native
born American, every true friend Of American
liberty wherever born or whatever be his religion,
whose paramount object Is the security and preser-
walton Of that liberty from his assaults upon
this great religious politico institution.
Mr.. President, the information which possess,
and have endeayored to give partially to the con
yention ON this branch Of the subject have de-
rived from Papal Rome, as II is, by Gustinani, "
Elliott on Romanism," Dowling's History Of
Bomanism," and from general reading
We have, Mr. President country Of vast ex-
tent with great variety Of climate, soil, produc-
tion, industry, and pursuit. Competing interests
and sectional questions are natural and fruitful
source Of jealousies, discords, and factions. We
have about four millions Of slaves, and the slave
holding and free States are nearly equally divided
in number but the population Of the latter greatly
preponderatng, and every portion Of it deeply i'm
bucd with infexible hostility to slavery as an in
siItton. Even now the conflict Of opinion and
passion of the two great sections Of the Union upon
the subject Of slavery is threatening TO rend this
Union, and change confederated States and one
people into hostile and warning powers. Cesson
has recently given to us considerable numbers OF
the Spanish race, and greatly mmigra-
ton is constantly pouring in upon the hordes Of
Europe with their hereditary national animosities,
their discordant races, languages, and religious
hiths their ignorance and their pauperism, mixed
up with large amount of idleness, moral degra-
dation and crime. And all this heterogeneous
dsscordant distracted mass" to use Mr. Jeffersons
language, sharing with US the legislation" and
the entire political sovereignty. My word for it,
we are nursing in rapid growth, a blind political
Samson, and, sooner or later, he will grapple with
the pillars of our temple liberty, and pull 1t down
in ruin upon us.
Washington and Jefferson, and their associates,
though among the wisest and most farseeing Of
mankind, could not but descry In the future many
formidable difficulties and dangers, and thus be
premoushed to provide against them, in fashionng
our institutions. fthey had forseen the vast, the
appalling increase Of immigration upon us at the
present there can be be no reasonable doubt that
lava to naturaliEe the foreigners and TO give up to
them the country, its liberties, its destiny, would
not have been authorized by the constitution. The
danger though great, is not wholly without remedy
We can do something IL we do it quickly. The
German and Savonic races are combining In the
State Of New York to elect candidates Of their own
blood to Congress- This Is the beginning of the
conflict Of races on the large scale, and II must in
the nature ofthings continue and increase. 1t must
be universal and severe -in all the fields Of labor,
between the native and the stranger; and from the
myriads of foreign laborers coming to u.s. If 1t does
not become contest for bread and subsistence,
wages viii be at least brought down so low as to
hold our native laborers and their families in hope
less poverty. They cannot adopt the habits Of life,
and live upon the stintcd meagrc supplies to which
the foreigner viii restrict himself and which il
bountcous plenty to what he has been accustomed
in the old country. Already these results taking
place In many OF the mechanic arts. Duty, patri
otism and wisdom, all require us to protect the
libor, and to keep up to a fair scale the wages Of
our native born people, far as by laws and meas
ures OF public policy il can be done.
Look at the myrads who are pcrpetualy pour
ing into the northwestern States from the German
hiyes-making large and exclusive settlements for
themselves, which in few years will number Their
thousands and tens Of thousands living in isola.
ton, speaking a strange language, having alien
manners habits, opinions, and religious faiths, and
q total ignorance Of our political institutions all
handed down with German phlegm and inaeIibility
their children through generations. In less than so
years, northern Illinois parts Of Ohio and Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, viii be literally
possessed by them and they viii number millions
and millions, and they will be essentially distinct
people, nation within a nation, new Germany.
We can't keep these people wholly out, and ought
mt il we could; but we are getting more than our
share Of them. i wish they would turn their d.
rection TO South America, quite as good portion
Of the world as our share OF the hemisphere. They
could there aid In bringing up the slothful and de-
generate Spanish race; here their deplorable Of
fee il to pull us down. Our proud boast is that
the Anglo Saxon race Is the first among all the
world of man, and that VIC are shoot from this
nol, stock; but how long viii IL be as things are
progressingf In few years, as distinctive race,
the Anglo-Americans will be as much lost to the
world aud Its future history the lost tribes Of
Israel But let Va avert such a fate, let us post
pone II at least. Let withdraw from the new
corners the premium Of political sovereignty. These
strangers have neither the right nor the compe-
tcncy to govern the natve-born people, nor ought
they to be allowed the power to misgovern them.
Il Ia our right and our duty to govern ourselves,
and them too, when they come among US, and II rs
best for all parties that 1t should DO so; and this
difficult and important work be better per-
formed, without their taking part in it. oven when
their intentions are good, but, misdirected and
perverted by designing and wicked men, il IL fatal
hfatuation 70 allow il. This truly foreign power
nestled In the bosom Of our country, may, in its
arch and crooked policy occasionally act with ono
or another of the parties that spring up inherent
in this republic. But il has It's own paramount ends
TO circumyent and, when il seems to ally itseh to
any party Ia only rusc, and the true motive Is
the belief that il helps on to the contamination OF
those ends. With every civil right and liberty Sc
cured to the immigrant, and full share Of politi-
cal sovereignty TO be the heritage Of his children,
n he IL not satisfied 10 come and remain with us,
LET him po to other lauda.