Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-06
WASHINGTON D. c. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY g. 1855
Our Principles, !,

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Onr Principles.
FIRST. We shall advocate repeal of the
laws of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
complished, then such modification of those
laws as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short Of residence of
twenty -one years, after taking the oath Of ale
glance to the United States, and Of a1jilration
of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second We shall advocate the passage Of
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
pGupers or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all such for
eigncrs Of these classes Us may, in violation Of
such law, hereafter reach our ports; and to
require the President Of the United States to
demand from any government, which may
send hither such classes Of its subjects, imne-
diats and ample satistaction TOR such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof 4 st
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Joreign-5oyn citizen to any
Office Of trust honor or emolument, under the
Federal or State governments, or the employ
ment or enlistment Of such persons in the army
orlnavy IN time of Dar maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the nGtioe born citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be content with the enjoy
ment of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
our laws aE s3
I Fourth We shall advocate and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form Of an oath
TO support tho Constitution Of the United
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or emolument under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will effectually exclude from such
offices all persons, who shall not directly and
crplscitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force Of the Constitution Of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations Of adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince, power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances.
FVth. We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one Of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of free suffrage any
person of foreign birth, who has not been first
made citizen of the United States, according
to the uniform rule" of naturalization pre-
scribod by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution.
SiSth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "uniot Of Church and State" no matter
what class Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union. tH 6E
\ Seventh We shall vigorously maintain the
Oestsd rights of all persons, Of native or foreign,
birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights.
Eig1tA We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridgment Of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religious faith is a
question between each individual and his God,
and over which no political government or other
human power, can rightfully exercise any su-
peryision or control, at any time, in any place,
or in any form. taf -
Ninth. We shall oppose all "higher law
doctrines by which the constitution is to be set
at npught, violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicians, by religionists, or by the adherents
or followers of either, or by any other class Of
persons stsis ISIS &.
& Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as it stands, the Union as it ex-
lists, and the rights Of the States, without d-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
al times, and to the extent of our ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them. g
EGepenth. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground of his opposition
to, or his support Of, Democratic measures, or
Whig measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines NH gH s
7beLfth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an "American party, =
whose maxim shall be.
f AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR CoUNTRYl
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AN ACT for establishing religious freedom passed
in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1885: 1 Z
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence it by tenn
poral punishmcnts or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy
and rneanness, and are a departure from the plan
Of the Holy Author Of our religion who, being Lord
both of body and of mind, yet chose not TO prop
agate by coercions on either, ms was In his almighty
power to do; that the mpious presumption of leg
islatures and rulers civil as well as ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fllible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
others, setting up their own opinions and modes of
thinking az the only true and infable, and az such
endeavoring TO impose them upon others, hath es-
tablishcd and maintained false religions over the
greatest part of the world, and through all time /;
that to compel man to furnish contributions of
money for the propagation of opinions which he
disbeheves, rs sinful and tyranncal that even the
forcing him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion is depriving him Of the
comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
TO the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive torigbteousness, and Is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro-
ceeding from an appreciation of their personal con
duct, are an additional Indictment TO earnest and
unremitting abors for the instruction of mankind ;
that our civil rights have dependence on our re-
6gious opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry; that, therefore, the prescribing Of