The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-17

which ttntons are exposed are those which vii
now Iom errors "a the conduct Of our domesti' pocy
Our system OF siaes constituting, In their union, one
geps raj WITH restricted powers IL yet
experiments system Of gigantic proportions, but
vhcn IL IL established be maintained in integrity, be.
hevs thst viii stand forever, and that the American
nS ,soss. ns'a not TOO satsndsa ior s per-
government shall continue to conne itself within tho
narrow limits contemplated BY the founders OF the
sovereignty, leaving the states exercise their srgsr
powers in their broader Hed Of action and the
our vsst and st unpsopisd lands severay adhere to
the simple policy Of regulating their domestic af
fairs without with those Of their nsghbors
then We Safe and the proudest republic upon which
the run has 'hown will stand tho shocks Of time but
not otherwise
powers when It hss provt I'd, In the best PRACTICABLE
mocs or pa2nsl expsnditure, and assured tbs means
Beyond this narrow limit it begins Of en-
croachment which must time sap the foundations OF
It's strength Whenever unmindul Of the few great
purposes OF its creaon IL trespasses upon State rights
nvades the domain OF private enterprize and indivd
ual action 1t is beyond its sphere, and endangers the
Each State can well apply its powers in provaing for
tie good order and education Of M ctlssns and for
rsnsinDg numberless subjects Of nsceasAry sg.tio
to which the sxbaustess ingenuity and the varied
terIrises OF free people give riss.
The experiences OF the past has rated that re-
pubcs more exposed to the danger of the
ton Of tber public than other forms governms snt
Ard am one OF those who view with great add
Ing alarm our large surplus revenues whcl seem to
attract the annual upon the nsti0na treasury
OF numerous body OF INSCRIPTIONS depredators The
great men, 10 whose purity ana patriotism in.
cebted for those high privileges OF civil liberty which
characterize the Anne, lean nation designed for us
frugal government Thsir apprec alton Of the effect,
pu bic economy and political honesty upon the welfare
of patton marked, and we'll desgusd the
institutions they supposed they esta ,lishn to
that simplicity which itself against
lavsgsnce ard corruption that they made provision
for the systematic disposition of surpas revenues
They assumed as we'll they might that the public senti
national treasury to become so ensorged to excite
the rapscty of horde OF puo,ic piuuderers,
whose schemes would about half OF the tins
of Congress- onai sessions md they entertain
ed the apprehension that that kind Of would
overtase the public Of nation whicn could per-
m' acts OF Congress 70 become frauds upon the
1t that our surplus revenues might better
be at once applied to the qui iaon at cost OF our
national debt, and TO the construction Of navy
what commemorate with existing aud prospective
commerce TO HDich no limit u stsigaable than to
permitted to become the source of corruption which
threatens II not arrested to undermine ho integrity Of
the nstlon. Generalization and extravagance win de-
y but quite as eectuay as that Of an indvid ua man
question Of domestic policy has OF late ariasn and
attracted to great degee the attention Of people
refer TO the subject Of naturalization laws Il
well known that existing regulations upon the
jet Of naturalization enacted at a period whsa
en- grafton ,nconsidersble and when public
Inconvenience was to be anticipsted from un
due hbtrality in the extens on OF the privi-
.eges Of citizenship. II Is also true that the
81 bas inverted the subject with difficulty aud an
mpor which it has not heretofore assumed 1t
been srggefted that our regulations upon this subject
require revision sha better accomplish pur
pose Of preserving American nationality, and of guard
ing sga,nst the danger Of some Of the most serious
descriptions Of conflict which Institutions may be
forced to encounter have never yet met with
single adopted citizen OF Intelligence education who
has hesiated to express the opinion that the facility
with which permit the rights OF citizenship 30 be-
acquired bad tendency to lsss0o the pubic estima
Of their value. Neither have ever met with n.tivs
horn iye IN nm DuQt0 he lliuyf frantv n
people have derived froa the sss.smsa nm among aa Of
and labor, have largely added to the stock OF our
national wealth. No can doubt II is the trus
tor ts' and ID % venture q assert that No native native
horn ctzrn ne found who would deny to
the The emsran. fror, foreign lands the hospital
spirit Of America offers to the oppressed and the
IMPOVERISHED Of every cline To attempt TO drive from
shores that large industrial of whose
predecessors have done much to accomplish our
tional aggapdizement by developing and
euhjectDg to the use OF mankind vast domain wh,h
century seo vas the roaming ground OF the savage,
would be reproach 10 the intelligence OF people.
To seek to deprive our ADOPTED citizens of any social
political privileges which toey have acquired under
tipg laws, woild be OF wrong ignonuious
TO ourselves unjust TO them. II cannot questioned
e1, nan M rsn ., every nson 70 the
conferred upon thote not born within its dnmnions;
pcr 1t Be doubed that the American people sho ald
oroan their stem OF naturalization that for ali time
20 come American nationality and the principles upon
which its foundations rest shall stand unsnaksn We
owe this cuty 10 ourselves. and II equally to
those who seek their new homes upon territory.
Il my conviction that the term in which, un ier
existing Jaws the rights Of citizenship may be
Ia short for the plishment OF the wise ana
ces.ary purposes for which it is prescribed
1t is insufficient for the requirement Of that know
ledge Of peculiar American institutions which wilt
esable the strar ger, who has learn through the me-
dunn Of SYSTEM many lessons of liberty regu
lated by law to protect hs right OF suffrage against the
assalmeDts Of political roguery In its forms
To pervert the great right Of suffrage to possible
destruction of those PRINCIPLES OF civil and religious
liberty which its unTestrsnec freedom designed
secure would be to take step backward the moral
social and political progress Of the human race.
Our patiopa lesislsture should, with rompttude,
and by such enactments shall secure sgainst all
the dangers which from this polit sal
eafety settle the question before 1t ripsn into
ect OF serious controversy feel well assured that this
and every other evil shch tbresteus political fab
ric, will be speedily averted and that our fut ure is
destined to be as glorious our past
But will not dwell more at length upon themes
which, 10 OF action rather than of words, have
teen hitherto the subjects of thought rather than Of
discussion and close reply more heightened than had
designed with most sincere Acknowledgements for the
persona kindness which dictated your commun cation
am gentlemen, your friend and very obd't svn't
To the Hon James A. PennipgtoD Henry E. Lafetra,
Jacob NJ Merselea, Garret Schenck William Logan ana
others, embers OF the New Jersey Legislature.
City Intelligence.
A EKw NAME Ksow NoTmSGs- MEETING OF THE
Sons OF THE REPUBLIC "a public meeting was held
last night in Convention Hall, the of Eighth
and Thirty fourth street of what purported to
be the "sons of the Republic Upon reaching the
Ball, found it filed with very respectable sudence
Of both ladies' and gentlemen and upon the stand eight
a