Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-23

| Our Principles.
| FIRST. We shall advocate repeal of the
laws of naturalization, or if that cannot be nc
complished. then such modification of those
laws, as will 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 a5jurdtion
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second. We shall advocate the passage of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
paupers or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all such for
eigners Of these classes rs 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, imnse-
diate and ample satistaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any J0reign-6orn 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
or navy IN time Of Dar maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the native-6o7n 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.
Eburth We shall advocate and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form Of an oath
to support tho Constitution Of tho 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 gey-
ernments, as will efectually exclude from such
offices all persons, whs shall not directly and
explicitly 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
Fifth. 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-
scribed by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution.
Sirth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "union Of Church and State" no matter
what class of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
Seoenth We shall vigorously maintain the
pested rights of all persons, Of native or foreign
birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights.
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
all G6ridgmspt Of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religious faith is q
question between each individual and his God.
and over which no political government, or other
human power, can rightfully exercise any su-
pervision or control, at any time, in any place,
or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose all higher law"
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
At nought violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicians, by rsligionists, or by the adherents
or followers of either, or by any other class Of
persona ~ aa.
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as il stands, the Union as Il ex-
ists and the rights of the States, without d.
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
ali times, and TO the extent of our ability and
Influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them. So ie h
Eleventh. We shall oppose no man, and us-
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.
7IelttA. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american partp,"
whose maxim shall be:
| AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR CoUNTRYi
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
| in the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning oi
the year 1885:
| Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts TO influence II by tenn
i pora punishments or burdens or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only TO beget habits Of hypocrisy
| and meanness, and are q departure from the plan
Of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord
both Of body and of mind, Jet chose not TO prop
apate by coercions on either as was In his almighty
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isatures and rulers, civil as wen as ecclesiastical
Who being themselves but fallible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith Of
Others, setting up their own opinions and modes Of
thinking as the only true and infalble, and such
endeayoring to impose them upon others, hath e.
tablished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all tine
that to compel man to furnish contributions ol
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbeeves, is sinful and tyrannical; 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 bis contributions
, 10 the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels mos
persuasive TO righteousness, and is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro
ceeding from appreciation Of their personal con
duct, an additional incitemcnt to earnest ant
unremitting labors for tho instruction Of mankind
that our civil rights have no dependence on our re
ligious opinions 1nore than opinions In physics
8 or geometry, that, therefore, tho prescribing O
3 any citizen IS unworthy the public confidence by
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