The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-12

Thursday Morning, July IL, 1855.
Much has been said and written about
the political wrong which the success of the
measures of the party, ycleped "Know
Kothing," would infict upon class of our
citizens who have been so unfortunate as to
be born upon foreign soil, or whose con-
sciences will not permit them to worship
the Almighty after the form Of those who
set themselves up as the possessors of all
the patriotism Of the country, and as the
censors of religious faith. The "princi
Piles of this party will not bear investiga-
ton. The evidences of patriotism displayed
by foreign and adopted citizens, are so
numerous and so brilliant, that none but
the political demagogue will assert that the
heart Of the man who happened to he born
on the soil of France, or Ireland, or the
German States, throbs less freely for the
success of political and religious freedom
to oil, than him who was SO fortunate as to
first breath the air in our own and favored
land. The opponents of this exclusive
American party, have proudly pointed
to the names of LAFAYETTE, of MoNrGoME-
RY, of SrEUBEN, and other Revolutionary
heroes. as monuments of patriotism which
should crush the vaporings Of this party of
q day, and shame them into an acknowledge
ment of their demagoguism, in asserting
that the liberties of this country are en-.
dangered, or its peace threatened, by shar
ing with the descendants and countrymen Of
those illustrious heroes, that boon of free
dom for which they so CALAMITY fought and
bled. But this view of the subject has be-
come hacknied, and we will not satiatc our
readers by a repetition. But there is
another light in which the carrying out Of
the measures Of this party should be looked
at, which may, perhaps, not before have
occurred to the advocates of the revamped
alien doctrine of the elder JOHN ADAMS. 1t
is the effect which repeal Of the naturali-
zation laws would have upon the settlement
and increase of population Of the Western
States, and particularly of this Territory
Let it once be understood that no foreign
er can become citizen at all, or not until
after the expiration of period of twenty
one years, and emigration would be almost
Immediately checked, and thrown into other
channels-such as South America and Aus
tralia, which are making great efforts to in
duce settlement from other countries. We
venture the assertion, that had the doctrines
advocated by the Know-N Nothing Fusion
party been carried into practical operation
ten years ago, the great west would not
have been one,half so prosperous and popu-
lous as now. 1t was the immense foreign
emigration that has made Chicago take
such giant strides to greatness and that has
caused Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, to be
filed almost to over-aowing within few
years. Minnesota has already felt the ben
e6cial effects of foreign population in the in
dustrious farmers and the thrifty artizans,
which the facilities of citizenship have in
duced to settle within her borders Saint
Paul is crowded with natives of all climes,
who have heard Of her promising greatness
and the liberality Of our Territorial laws in
regard to naturalization, and as long as our
present system continues, thousands of in
dustrious emigrants will yearly continue to
flock to our shores to enjoy the immunities
Of citizenship and to delve wealth from our
teeming SOIL
As matter Of policy alone, then, all
well-wishers for the prosperity of our Terri
tory, should frown down all attempts to
throw obstacles in the way of emigration,-
should put the seal of condemnation upon
this party, the success of whose policy would
work such serious detriment to the advance
ment of Minnesota.
The Losr MAN.-Some months since q
Mr.. Mellen, q respectable man, suddenly
disappeared from Chicago. Since then, a
man answering his description in size and