Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-01

vernon. delivered in Lynohburg the 10Th oo-
tobei, 1885.
RrpoRrEp FOR THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Mr.. Flournoy delivered speech at Lynchburg
during the recent session of tho Convention of
the American party at that place. One OF the
special reporters of the New YoRK HERALD was
there There were at least three thousand per
sons assembled to hear him. aud ut the hour ap-
pointed for the night session of the Convention
Mr.. Flournoy took his stand upon tho platform,
and said;
Fellow Citizens-Though, for want of time,
having made no preparations to deliver an nd
dress yet it gives mo particular pleasure to adj
dress 70 large an assomblage oi the American
party in the gallant and patriotic city of Lynch
burg. My principal ohleot,s to advise the Amer
ican party SO far as mny take the liberty OF do
ing 80. AS TO its future action. While do not
condemn tho secresy or tho oaths of the parry rs
wrong in themselves, yet good policy would dio-
tate their entire removal md TINT in future there
shall be no ceremony of initiation. but that all
who sympathi2e in the great movement, ana who
will operate in its notion shall be regarded ns
members of tho organization. Not that beheve
that the seorosy or the oaths of the party are
wrong in themselves, but TINT their removal will
take from our adversnries the false issue which
enables them To avoid n discussion OF tho princi-
PIES of the party. do not mean 10 admit TINT
nnv portion of our countrymen having Tor their
objects the good OF the country and the presor-
vaton of our national Union have not perfect
right to meet in secret ns thoy choose, to consult
together for It's advancement and preservation,
or that it is wrong in itself to take solemn eb'-
CATION that they will advance no one into ohoo,
either by their votes or appointment, but native
born citizens of the country, who acknowledge
no allegiance paramount to tho allegiance duo
10 our own government And even now' whilo
| advise the removal of secrosy and The abandon
ment Of all onths of initiation. | would be willing
10 take in the presence of this assembly, most
solemn obligation TO sustain no one Tor oiiioe but
n native citizen of our country.
My opposition to the appointment OF foreign
ers TO Office arises from no hostility towards thom,
but from attachment to my own country
tChccrsD | would rejoice to see them through
ant the world enjoy the same liberty that wo cn-
oy. But the preservation of our own govern
nent requires that the cnnctmonts of its laws and
administration should be conhded TO tho hands
of its native citizens There is no reason why
any that sympnthise with u.s. and that aid IN the
nceomplishment Of the object in Wow, should not
participate in all the action of the party. lhe
organization nf the American pnrty was demhn-
ded hv the increase of imm grailon into our oonn-
try Nenrs ago. when the number was compara-
tivelv small, they were lost in tho mass OF tho
country, mud their influence not lnjuriously felt.
They come now in such numbers that they form
distinct and separate communities preserving
and perpctunting their distinctive characters ana
opinions. which nre nj wnr with the republican
simplicity of our institutions. Tho annual nm
migration is now 500 600, and will continue to
increase in all probability until it reaches one
million. We have not only the emigration from
Europe. but by the extension of our country To
the Pacific, the immense hordes of China nre
pouring in upon our western frontier; and II our
naturalization laws remain unchanged, and no
check be imposed upon immigration, IT must be
apparent that in the next twenty years. the To-
reign influence will become Il dangerous, II not Il
destructive element in our country. The wis
dom of our fathers saw the dangers and warned
us against those influences. Take tho best ex
nmples Kossuth, the Hungarian exile, who
came TO our shores and made the nations
guest ,hls heart filled with love of his own coun-
try and an earnest desire TO nvengo her wrongs,
with his burning oloquence well nigh overturned
the time honorsd doctrines of Washington an,
induces our country to embark III oil the tangles
politics of Europe. And who that has read the
columns Of the Citizen. editcdby John Mitchell
the Irish patriot and exile, who was received with
the same hospi,able feeling, that did not dlscov-
rr a strong desire to interrupt the friendly rela-
tions between our government and England, Tor
the purpose of ofavenging the wrongs OF Ireland
We find that another distinguished exile-Soule
who had received at the hands of one OF the
States of thi, Union the distinguished honor OF
seut in the Senate of the United States, and the
appointment of Minister TO Spnn from the l'resi'
dent became so interested in the affairs OF France
that the Emperor of the French, regarding it ms
necessary to the safety of his own government
refused him II passport through his kingdom, and
we thus became well nigh involved in n war with
France These are distinguished men and pa
trots of high intelligence and great moral worth,
but who ovince the power and influence of nativ-
ity and early association. Though in America,
the heart of Kossuth was in Hungary; the heart
of Mitchell in ireland; the heart of Soule was in
France And is il not natural that it should be
so, Where is the Nirgnian who, if he went to
nnv norton of the habitable globe aud became
citizen of any country, could forget his native
State, or could cease to sympathze with her III
any strupple or difficulty which she might have
TO endure, or the citizen Of America that could
cAer forget that America was his native
land. or could ever cease to feel for her pros
perity and the preservation of her government,
n deeper interest than he could feel for any other
government upon earhl We nave an American
citizen distinguished illustration of this truth
Peabody the great banker, of London, though
subject of the British government, having been
born and reared in the United States. entertnlns
so lively and devoted recollections OF the home OF
his childhood and his early manhood. than ever
in London. upon the return of each anniversary
Of our national independence, he assemblies oil
the Americans that can be found to celebrate its
birthday And who believes that in delicate no.
eotiaton between England and the United states
Peabody could be safely entrusted with the ~
terests Of England! Is there IL citizen OF our
own country who would not regard IL as an act OF
extreme folly in England 10 appoint him minis
ter to this government or to entrust him with the
management of her interests in any question in
which the interests of thcUnted States cama in
conflict with hers! And it is no disparagement
70 him that this is so. The feelings of nature
control him The teaching of history warn us of