Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-14
Foreigners and their Allies.

What would the anti-Amsyican party do
without the aid Of their foreign allies De-
duct the foreign vote from those cast in Mas
sachusatts, New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Louisiana, and where would be the anti
american candidates, some ofwhom have been
elected? SO far behind the Americans as
scarcely to DO within sight or hearing. IT.
therefore to- Foreigners, yes, foreigners, two
thirds Of whom cannot read nor write, and
many Of whom cannot speak our language,
that the a,ati-A0sricdns owe their victories,
they have gained any. Thisis nation
al truly We cannot see how men Of character
and standing, and who bear American hearts
in their bosoms, can be content to become the
allies Of these foreigners, against a party made
up exclusively Of their own countrymen Do
they not perceive that they are occupying .
position quite similar to that occupied during
tho Revolutionary struggle by those who were
then denominated TONES, name which, rs it
designated such as were the allies Of foreigners,
and the enemies Of their own countrymeu, has
become the most odious that can be applied to
any mans
But why should native-born citizens oppose
Americans, or the American party. The office
holders and employees Of the government do
so, because they are required to do it upon
pain Of being removed, the administration
being anti-American to degree almost sur
passing the virulence which the Tories them
selves manifested towards the Wings. But
why should those not dependent upon the Fed
eral Government for their bread and butter
become the allies Of the foreigners amongst
us? Do they suppose that we intend to do
them any injustices Do they apprchend it is
our purpose to deprive any one Of them who
have now the privilege Of voting, however
wrongfully he may have obtained it, of the
right to vote? Surely they cannot suppose
this, for they knop we have no such purpose
in view. Our only object is to change the
naturalization laws, SO that those who come
among us hereafter shall not be entitled to ex-
ercise tho high privilege Of voting, before they
have had time to become somewhat acquainted
with our constitution, laws, customs, manners,
&C., and imbibc something of the spirit of free
men. Is this wrongf Does it injure any one2
Does it take from any man any right what
eyerf BY no means. VIII any enlightened
American say that the country has not suffered
great and manifold evils from the facility with
which foreigners have been permitted to exer-
else the rights and privileges of native-born
citizensf The fact is too notorious to be de-
MED. But in the face of this fact, with full
knowledge Of all the evils attending it, and
with view to perpetuate these evils, we be-
hold native-born Americans leaguing with
these same foreigners to put down and trample
upon an american party, whose purpose is to
arrest those evils, and place the country in the
hands Of those to whom it of right belongs
In doing this, they cannot but bring down
upon their own heads the odium which fell
upon that class of men whose cause, during
the Revolution, they are initiating. OF this
we give them fair warning. The Americaa
feeling has been reused by the events which
have transpired within few months past, to
high state of intensity. Let them beware how
they aggravate it. Americans do not mean
any longer to be ruled by foreigners, or those
who choose to ally themselves with them
against their own countrymen and the sooner
these anti americans become convinced of the
fact, the more likely they viii be to escape the
indignation which will be sure to fall upon such
as persist in their unnatural and unpatriotic
course.