New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-16
President,-HON. BERNARD MARIGNY

John Dolhonde, W 7. Gerard
Robert Conway, Jas T..Andersons aS }5s
+ Iharies Calosne Hon. j. Bermudez.
Geo q. Brewer, James w. duncan. u
sEcRETARIEs
Henry Bier, A. G. Brice,
Edward Bonligpy, p. Wharton. Gollens,
Augustus Dsvan. ag4
v Mr. Hunt not having yet arrived there was mpa-
tent pause Of few moments He finally appeared and
was greeted with Thunder enthusiasm that shook the
building to its foundation.
Mr. Hunt hegaa by stating that he present In re-
sponse invitation by committee Of the American
party upon the platform Of the National Amer
Council at Philadelphia modified By the American
party Of Louisiana The principles Of that platform said
he are SO simple that they need only to be read to be
erstood aad proposed that the platform b. read
dc meeting before proceeded with bis speech AT his
request Col Walton took the stand asd read the daeu
ment being interrupted in his readng by frequent
cheers. g{stt e -g Ey4g y7,F8
MI Hunt then resumed. He exnstiatea at length upon
the strength and simplicity of the plattom, every word
of which he endorsed He spoke with great enthusiasm
upon that part which claims for Americans the right
rule America Said he, as Engishmen rule England-as
Irslmten wish to rule Ireandso Americans wiAh to
rule America [Immense applauseJ It is the instinct
inf our nature Who heard Of free people being
By others than themselves? If we do lcok
about u.s. and guard liberties closely fate will
long be that OF the serfs offoreign despotsm.
The speaker next treated of the evils of The present
immigration system and the increase of the
foreignb population lie read statistics of
potent bearing upon the question The returns
decades from 1850 1850 sho wed the following increase
Ii the rst decade rom 1890 to s00) the annual imi-
grafton was 5000 in the second 1000; in the third
II 600 ia thu fourth is ooo in che nth $1,000 and
the sixth (from 1870 to 1850 10000 per annum He
then read other statises. showing the increase since
1856 to be in the sams alarming ratio, s-s A. Ed
Other figures showed the proportion Of foreigners to
natives, that nearly fourth of the white reputation
are Of foreign birth and that before another census
shall be taken the foreign population Of the country will
eScsed the entire free white population Of the United
States The extraordinary proportion of foreigners
principal cities OF the Union and their preponderaneen
certain wards in of those cities also shown.
what viii be the result asked the speaker Of this
nous in pouring of freigners country Does not
common tell u.s. that they will bring with them their
foreign feelings notions aud prejudces? Does it not~te
us that the facility with which they will become citizens,
and the ease with which they will interfere in matters
government must necessarily produce discerds andtro-
besi Here the speaker read extraetfrom Jeersops
Writings lii which that great statesman urged the bid
policy Of encouraging foreign Immigration shatforeignsEs
for the most part from the most corrupt monarehes
of the old world bringing with them their peculiar ideas
and prejudices and that if they renquiah those
preudices it will be for liberty Of the most unbonnded
licentiousness, 14e@. s.4s4, gEAN $.
The speaker then proceeded to show, from census
records that the great of foreigners com
ininge with the Americans They intsrmarry; settle
In communities preserving their native languages, no,
tons and organizations The Free Garpans societies
of the Northern cities with their German ignorance
Gernan iumnism- their wild fantastic notions Of lib
ery and equality and their incorporating hostility to
negro good showing up, particularly
those in Louisville Baltimore and Richmond all in slave
States; in which those Germans have openly avoWed
their determination to combine and exert all their power
to abolish saysry in the South demand the repeal Of the
fugitive slave law national degradation and insist
that our Government shall interfere with its strong arm
despotisms Of the old world wherever the cry
liberty may be heard Kossuth--his visit-his mupu-
dent attempt to set aside the doctrines of the eat
Father of Countrywide manifesto to thu Germans
the country when he Left stating that the Wing party
" ould sustain fneutral policy Of Washington and adj
wishing them to for Percewere cathingy reviewed
He was smarting then fsaid the speaker) under the
whitening rebuke administered to him by the great States
man, Henry Clay. Pierce was elected and what has
been the result Look at the diplomacy of country
since his accession Since that event. have had the
timeto cross the ocean, visit different countries and
expressions Of contempt and repraach for conn
Try it is present. from tips that have spoke with en-
thusiasm Of Washington Franklin, Jefferson and other
great Of easly Republic, and have blushed my
cheek has singled with the blush Of shame that could
not answ and repe those reproaehes for could deny
the truth This part of hts speech the speaker closed by
enuerating the list Of foreigners who are appointed to
represent this country in tho countries OF the Old World
The subject of States in this Union Illinois and Michi-
for instance comforting upon Foreigners the right to
vote without their being naturazed next taken up
and orcbly treated Michigan when she became State
permitted all foreigners who had settled within her limits
to vote without being naturazed States have no such
power he argued it is exclusively national power To
give foreigner the right TO vote give him The right
to govern let the States gsethe this right and every
the Government would depend upon The vote
Of some State or other. @
The debates in Congress the subject and the PARTS
taken therein by Messrs Clay, Calhoun clayton and
Judge Porter Of Louisiana alluded to- Said Calhoun
suppose should break between this country and
Great Britain and the country full of people not natu
raEed and by that reason still British subjects shse
woald b. the result Why every QUE of them wela be
prisaner of var and all his Possessions oud be oonds
GATED Other absurait no less glaring than this Womb
be the result of such system Said Clayton by reading
the history Of Roms discover that go long as Rome
fined the rights of citizenship to native citizens %
. Republic but that SO sooa4s she invested seps
With the rights pf citizenship she became monarchy
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1he eonrse Of Mr. Bapjamin in the United States Sonata
~s treated IN most tellisg manser The nbolitIansz
And aisanonsts Of The North exulted OYER Rep;sain
sentiments and Seward fattersd him The fact thai rus
OF every ten Foreigners who arrive in h.
s1s ths states and erritories the exntatisn of nc
papers as the Chicago Democrat, New yer .h,,,.
NATIONAL era over the potency of the ors,o
slavery and addngs' boast that 80 "a
could DC mustered for Chase, the aholtou
1oscrhef o. onio ah received the attention ,av
esnNslnens Mnen we see these immense hor,iss - =
esners pouring intothe country, and settling in M
aud from ocean TO oeean-in Kansas Nsbras.s
everywhereare we 70 do nothipg2 Are wa ID st,na i,
and see the liberty Of our country perssh For on
NO w For years Was member Of the wh,s 49,. =.
labored earnestly in its behalf but now see soa,h.
more important than ever commanded my attention tb
the dark OF foreign immigration sshua thu Tow,
dalton of American liberty, and tho temple about Ia
submerged beneath Its waves.
The speaker then considered foreign paupers awb,,
and cited Charity Hospital and other records on the m
beet After that the corruptons Of the old parties /,
primary meetings the brokers in votes and men waitir
% y bought like shsep in the shambiss particular
sno fsfs. election contest of the registry law an
the reason why u has not been passed of elections
sss pas. ana TINS ono in this city in March, 1859 a.
q tne feceot one IN Loasyts where American c,t.a,
were rnthessiy assasfinated In the stra.ts s az, ~.
crime Than holding the opinion that Amsrisans
rae America. o'sa'