Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-02

Our PrincipIes.
First We shall adyocatea repeal Of tho
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 b residence Of
twsnty-onc years, aftsr taking the osth Of slle-
glance to the United States, and Of 05jsrction
Of Ill other powers, potentates, and princes
A. Second. We shall advocate the passage Of .
stringent law by Congress to prevent the I'M
migration hither Of foreigners, who are sithsr
p0s.pors or cr;minaSs, and to send back to the
countries nom which they come, al sucA for
eigners Of these classes as 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, inHs-
aiato and omple satsUaotionJar suoA outrags,
and = proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof II sss,t II. ss.zgs af N S.s
q Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Jorsign-5orn citizen to any
Office of trust honor or emolumont under the
Federal or State governments, or the employ
ment or enlistment Of such persons in the army
Or navy IN tin,s Of war; maintaining, - we
do the opinion, that the natics-5orw citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be csntent 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. goaa Esa9 ,aotlsAiso
n FbxrA We shah advocate and urre the
adoption. fsuch en- aosssdsd form ef an sstN
to support tbs C0astleutic~ ef tho United
States, and to be administered to al persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or emolument under the Federal or State gov.
ernments, as win efectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who shall mot directly and
erplicitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force Of the Consultation or the United
States as paramount to al obligations Of adho-
sion or allegiance 70 any Foreign prince, power,
potentata or authority whatever, under any and
Ill circumstances. stk @ aa io
FIFTH We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one Of the States Of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of trss s46rsgs 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. Aa
Sirth. We shall oppose now and hereafter,
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what class Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
SsoentA. We shall vigorously maintain the
pested rights Of al persons, Of native or torsion
birth, and shall st al times oppossths slightest
interference With such vested rights.
Es3hth. We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridsment Of religious liSorty, holding
it u . cardinal maxim, that rslieicHs fditA Is Z
question bstwsen each individual md Iii God,
and over which no political government brother
human power, can rightnally exsrsiss any sa-
pervision Or control, 1t any time in any phcs,
or in any form ~
. NSnth We shall oppose ~ 9 hiEhr law''
doctrines, by which the const1tution . 70 bs eel
st nsnsht violaAsd, or dissgAsdsd whsthsf by
polis5Osans, By rsligiosists, o. By ths sdhsssnta
Or fonowss Of either q y any cth~ elas d
'r-TsrsA We shsa nsts,<lu "a dsesud n,
oonstiMtScn q II stus6R ths UnioA = Il ex.
istA, and the rigAh ofGSe &Gtes, without di.
minution - guaranteed tharoby expressing a
al times, and 10 the sstenf = cr s6ility and
inAuepoa ~ who znag assa1 fhh q ithr q
them. 81 \ NJ 4 -, W. = - '.s. VI
EasvsntA We shan oppsss no nm, s.a sus.
tain no man, on tbs gyesnd Of hh opposition
| TO, or his support Of, Dsmserotse msesures, o.
| Rhig measures; but We shall oppoas tkoss whc
oppose our doctrines, and suslsin thoss who
sustain our doctrines el snia cree ~
noslftA And lastly, we shall ~ our utmosl
sxertions to build up m !" "AmSrieoa party, ,
whssc maxim shall be-: 40. n
AnEaroAsn SHALL RULE rHnl CouxrxYi
AN ACr fbr sstablishing religious freedom, pssssd
\ in the Assembly Of virginia IN The beeinnhe O
the year 1885: -
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to in6uence Il BY tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or BY civil incapa.
citations, tend only TO bsgst habies Of hypocrisy
and mcannees and are departure from the plan
both Of body and Of mind, yet chose not TO prop
agate by coercions on either, ~ was IN his almighty
power TO do; that the impious presumption Of leg
slatures and rulers civil ~ well ~ ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion ever the NTH Of
Others, setting up their own opinions and modes Of
thinking ne the only true and infhble, and ~ such
endcavoring 70 impose them upon othsr1 hath e.
tablished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through IN time
that to compel man 10 furnish oonfribufisns oi
money for ths propagation Of opinions which he
dsbcieves h sinful and tyrannio~l; that even the
forcing him to support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persussfcn II dcpHving him Of the
comfortable liberty Of giving his ooutrbdtions
70 the particular pastor whose morris he would
mako his pattern. and whose povon hs fesls most
persuasive tonghteeushcss and is withdra wing from
the MINISTRY thoss temporal rewards, which, pro.
ceeding from IN appreciation Of their personal con-
duct, are m additional incitement TO earn osx and
unremitting labors for tho instruction OF mAhkind
that our civil rights have dependence on our re.
ligious opinions more than our opinions In physics
or geometry; that, therefore, the Proscribing Of
any citizen as unworthy the public conAdence by
laying upon him an incapscity Of being called 70
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