New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-24
IrrrrR FROM. EX-SENATOR CLEMENS.

Tn compliance with numerous requests from
many quarters Of the State. and in consonance
rith our own feelings, We have found rocna,in
another part Of to.day's paper, for elaborate
extracts from q letter written by ex-senator
Clemens, Of Alabama, to friend in that STATE
which was extensively published in the month
of July last. Although it has been Wioeiy
read. still thousands Of our readers may mot
have perused it, and as it is one OF shose docu-
uzants that always instruct and enlaghten -
never beaome stale by ags--we have concluded
IN rive il the bepeft Of our circulation ltstrkes
81 No Intelligent, candid man, can rise fron'its
uprusaI without being convinced that the aims
and objects of the much maligned American
party are sminently conservative, patriotic, and,
10 aii respects, deserving popular confidence
and encouragement.
The whole subject is taken up and argued
with masteffy ability, interspersed here and
there with passages Of genuine eloquence, while
faets and data are not wanting to sustain and
Illustrate Che positions advanced. The produc-
ton, like we'll finished edihce. is compact and
strong Is % geodly to the mental eye as tine
specimen Of architecture is pleasant to the physi
cal organ Of vision.
of course we have no idea OF attempting
synopsis Of that which every reader will peruse
for himself, stfn there are one or two points IN
Col. Clemens' letter we think particularly de-
serving Of notice. They have been argued,
| time and again, by American presses, but We
do not recoilect Of having seen them SO forcibly
and truthfnlly put. Speaking of the PROPOSE
/ ZION that Americans should ell. exclusively,
American political Offices and that is the
ground. work Of the new Organization and that
such distinction is bilious and upjust to our for
eign population. according to the anti Ameris
can argument--he proceeded to take up both OF
the points involved, and to handle them without
gloves. He maintains that no injustice is done
that there il nothing edions practised, or in
contemplation; that the American principle
does not deprive the foreigner Of anything !;
that it Yields him more, a,thousand fold, than
he ever enjoyed. in his native land; that it ac-
cords him the right Of suffrage that it protects
him in person and property; that every thing
enjoyed by the native is accorded him with
free hand and open heart; fsAs privileges and
benefits have been showered upon him, such as
| he never dreamed Of in the land Of bis birth
! and that, because we will not yield to him the
prerogatiye of making our laws and moulding
tour institutions, he, inSnngrateful arrogance,
turns upon and asperses those TO whom ~ owes
1 so much! There is h. large amount OF naourIi-
full truth in Cob Clemens portraisuTe,r as almost
every foreign Journal in the country affords
ample evidence. Noither history or tradition
point to the instance, or Illustrate such con-
lditien of things as new prevails in the United
States Never, in any age, or in any country,
have the natises Of soil been mahgned by for
eigners seeking refuge from oppression and
want upon that soil, because they assumed Q
paramount right to its government.
i Gel. Clemens then asserts that cit is delu
sion to talk about the rights Of foreigners and
that privileges ID the proper word; that WI
were not bound to give them the right of suf
rage; that we weresaot bound to afford then
\ protection, liberty, peace and Independence.
that all of these were voluntary gifts -philan
thropy in its broadcast sense and that there IL
not one ssof the millions who flood the country
! uha tooala not hare erehaaged.his otsn lana
.16r ouss epen isMe CSssstifmi@r had denied
him The privilege Of pofihg"
We. entertain no doubts whatever Of the lit
eral correctness Of the foregoing. We have oil
extensive, intimate and friendly ACQUAINTANCE
among adopted citizens, and have yet to NEE
i the man who will say that he emigrated to thi
country beoauue 1t allowed the privilsgeof suf
rase after due probation, to aliens, or that h,
would not have emigrated If that privilege has
been absolutely withheld! If thsre is such {
man in the unions Barnum should be forthwith
advised Of. the fact. He could make more none,
by exhibiting him than by one hundred Bah,
EShews '55s
Then the letter goes on to Illustrate that th
Emain principle of the American organization
tsustained and enforced by the Constitution o
the United Sbates-that that very instrument
ithe handiwork Of the sages and warriars of th
| Revolution draws the distinctions the Aptie
tcemplain Of. Norman can be Representative il
tCongresa without he has been seven years a citi
ssn-no matter II he has resided here for
quarter Of . century md no man can be Sen
ataF unless hs has been nine years citizen
falthough he may have been q resident fft
Hyears. And tina same instrument exclude
tadoPteds eitiaens From the Presidency and Vice
Presidency by imperative, inexorahle provision
Sc, no matter what objections demagegues ma
utter against the Americans, the faet--th
great truth, 10 as clear and indisputable as an,
ever brought to the knowledge Of mankind, tina
the American party isonly extending, earryip
i out, the manifest designs of those grand oil,
men who won for US tho inestimable blessing
ef civil and religious liberty which We now on
Ley, and which it 10 our solemn duty to trans
nit uaimpaired to our pdsterity Had sAe,
only foreseen the eslamities now threatening TIL
lceuntry, which they partially guarded against
and which we, their descendants, are now stri
fying to avert, they rould have carried thei
restrictions to an extent ample for the mos
teomplete protection---woul have done ali, 10
trying to do which the Americans Of the pres
/ ent day are dcnouaced BY every Infamous teri
known to the calendar.
But, we ara DEPRESSING somewhat from GU
original intention, snd must bring this artiel
to close. We again ask the public to psrus
the letter We have referred to, carefully.
| 3Fs 39frs
&aT a subscriber, is informed that sickness
among ouremployeea caused what he complain
Of. II has now been remedieds Has he an,
cause Of complaint in the last four paperss
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