The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-25
What the American Party Desires.

what the American Party DESIRES.
A very mistaken idea seems to prevail with
some, that the American party aims to ex-
clude all persons of foreign birth from any par
ticipation in the management of the Govern !
ment, and to deprive those who are now Amer
can citizens of their rights as SUCH Inns Is
mere nonsense, or a belief imposed upon the
credulous by the unprincipled enemies OF this
party. Nolaw can be made, even If any sue
cessful party desired it, to take away from any
portion of American citizens their rights and
privileges as such. A man once an American
citizen is always an American citizen, unless he
chooses to divorce himself from the connec-
ton. So that it is an absurdlty to speak Of any
party making tia principle to uanaoke American
Citizens. No such ez-post facto law, as would
be required to take away the name and rights
of anAmerican citizen from man can be passed
Neither is it designed to prevent foreigners
who earnestly and honestly desire becoming
American citizens, and thus participating in
our Government, and voting forts law makers
and rtileTs; from doing this But the Americanpar-
ty does insist, that foreigners, directly they land
on our shores, shall not be placed on an equah-
ty with those who have been born on the soil,
or with those of other countries who are now
American citizens under the present law This
party is DESTROYS, and only DESTROYS, that before
they become citizens, they shall remain long
enough in this country to obtain knowledge
of our language and institutions-of our Gov
eminent and its workings-and that as the
American born are compelled to wait till they
are twenty-one years old before they can ex-
ercise the privileges Of American citizens, SO
shall the foreign born wait at least long enough
to make some degree of equality between them
and the native born in the time of probation-
What intelligent foreigner need object to this
At present; foreigners land on our shore, and
are forthwith snatched UP by denlagogues, and
before they can speak word of English, or un-
derstand the first principle of our Government
are hurried to the polls and help elect our law
makers and rulers. They are at once placed
on an equality with their countrymen who had
to await five years to be able to do the same
thing Our laws want correcting to prevent
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want altering in this particular.
Why, here in Indiana, a foreigner, in si1
months after he steps foot on American soil
can have just as much to say as to who shall
be our next Congressman and legislators, anc
State and County officers generally, as German
and Irish citizens who have spent half thei
lives here, to say nothing of citizens who were
born in the State and country. Do intelligen
foreign born citizens approve ofthis law ? TIL
American party would have it changed, so tina
no man unless he be citizen of the Unite
States shall vote in the State of Indiana. BE
cause the American party desire these thing:
and are determined to crush this demagogueis1
which is ever prostrating Americans and Am
erican interests at the feet Of foreigners, the
are traduced and Whitfield and their objects an
motives misstated the country over. And toh
has the progress of this party raised such a tel
rible storm? Simply because in striking 9
demagogueism and at those who are eternal
trucking for the foreign vote, it directly strike
the Old Line Democratic party-a part
whose leaders can see no good nor glory
anything not Of foreign BIRTH and who are III
terly opposed to the principle that American
shall rule America.