The American patriot., 1855-09-08
From the New Orleans. Crcscen
Beautiful Consistency.

Beautiful Consistency.
The Democrats of Louisiana are smart fel-
lows-shrewd fellows in political tact and
finesse rarely equalled-and many of our per-
sonal knowledge, are as good fellows as ever
breathed ; but it won't do, at this juncture, to
chase them up to the line of consistency for
there they are found wanting. They can't
stand the test Of truth. Apply the touchstone
of facts, and away go all their pretentions to
consistency, and up rises the conviction that
they consider all tactics fair in war.
They denouncc the Americans as being op-
posed to foreigners, yet take particular care
that the name of no adopted citizen appears
upon their State ticket! What surprising
friendship. Voters from other climes should
throw up theirs hats and shout for joy over
such magnificent appreciation of their claims.
They claims that the American party in
tends to make il rule that no foreigner shall
hold Office that the sons of the soil shall
alone be selected to administer the government
al affairs of the soil-yhile at the same time
they nominate for the most important stations
in the power of the commonwealth to bestow,
the pery founders Of Natioe 1mericanism an
Louisiana.
Adopted citizens should be particularly OBJ
lged to the anti-Amercans for such useful
and practical displays of intense friendship and
profound regard!
We might go on with similar illustrations
to almost any length, but our limits constrain
US to these for the present.
Some eight or ten days ago, our readers will
recollect, we published letter written by
Thomas Green Davidson now Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Third District
dated Jan. g., 1913, avowing stronger Native
Amclieansm than that advocated by the stron
gest Native Americans of the present day.
There is some significance in this. But we
have more proof a friend of our friend
White, of the Thbadeaux Minerva, has put
him in possession of an old pamphlet contain
ing some twenty closely printed octave pages,
entitled, An Address of the Louisiana Native
American Association to the citizens Of Louis
lana and to the inhabitants Of the United
States" This address is signed by commit
tee of one hundred citizens, appointed for the
purpose of preparing the same in the year
1889; and conspicuous among the signatures
is the name of this same Mr.. "Thos. Green
Davidson" To give an idea of Mr.. DIS views
at that time, we make the following extracts,
taken at random from the Address, only re-
GREETING that our limits will not permit us to
publish it entirc
The undersigned having been appointed
committee to prepare an address to you on the
subject of foreign naturalization in the United
States, have endeavored to perform that duty
with deep and solemn conviction of the i'm
portance and responsibility of the truth which
has been confided to their hands.
| In the first place, then we distinctly state,
"once for all" echat Moulaje aceU understooa
By erery member Of our Repubic, that there
exists no tribunal or power in the United
States which could in any shape manner or
form, interfere in the slightest degree with the
rights of naturalized citizens, as guaranteed to
| them by the laws and constitution.
That the minds of many foreigners INDUCED
| in ima9iningS connected with the possible fl-
tnre usurpation of all political power in the
United States, is not only Swallowed forth in
the hostility of a large proportion Of them to
repeal of the naturalization laws and their
slanderous and vituperative assaults on those
native Americans, who toreseeing the dangers
which threaten their country have avacd them
selves of right guaranteed by the constitution
TO eveiv American citizen, and have pettioned
Congress on this subject, but the design has
been openly ayowed in the following handbil
which was literally circulated in the city Of
| New York at the late charter election.
Tt is these words:
"lRlSllMEN to your posts or you will lose
America. BY perseverance you may become
It's rulers. BY negligence You will become it's
slaves. Your own country was lost by sub
hitting to ambitious men. This beautiful
country you gain by being firm and united
Vote the ticket, ALEXANDER STEWART,
Alderman, EDWARD FLANAGAN, for As
sessor-both true IRlSHMEN."
Here" says recent report of special
committe of its own body to Congress-" Here
you have the objects avowed-the subversion
of your Government-and revolution con-
templated.
Mark the language of this appeal, and re-
member that it was made to Foreigners, in the
city of New York, at an election for officers of
the City Government, within which they num-
Der more than one huadred thousand Foreign-
ers
We therefore, like those patriots seeing per-
tentious evils approaching our country from
foreign influence, like Them though tar Inferior
will never cease to warn the people, till those
evils are corrected or averted;
When we sometimes converse with our coun-
trvmen, who have never reflected on the mo-
meltous subject of foreign influence they
sometimes reply to our expressions of appre-
henSion, "Oh what can a few foreigners more
o. less do to injure the United States?"
But when we tell our countrymen, thai in
g lso7,, the foreign born population in the Unit
ed States born a proportion to the native of
al out Zone to forty" ard that row me pro-
forlion about one to five or six, and that
from two to five hundred thousand foreigners
arrive annually in the United States
When we tell our countrymen that there are
f now five millions of individuals of foreign birth
in the United States or about onc-third of our
whole population, ofwhom about 10000 are
paupers and vagrants supported at the public