Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-30


i Our Principles.
First We shall advocate . repeal Of the
laws Of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
comphshed. then such modification of those
Laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short Of Z residence Of
twsnty-one years, after taking the oath Of ale
glance to the United States, and of aijuration
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes
Second. We shall advocate the passage Of .
stringent law by Congress to prevent the im-
migration hither Of foreigners, who are sitAsr
paupors or cs-iainals and to send back to the
countries from which they come, al such for
eigners Of these classes a. 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 innss-
diats and ample sGtiyaction .tor such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Jorsign-5orn 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 tims Of oar; maintaining, a we
do the opinion, that the nGtios-60rn citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be centent 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.
F6urth We shall advocate and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form ~ an cath
to support tho Constitution cf tAs 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 gov
ernments, as viii effectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who shall not directly and
erplioitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force Of the Constitution Of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations or adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
al 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 frss ssa1Sags any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been .Jsyst
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 shan seek to bring
about such union.
Seoenth. We shall vigorously maintain the
sested rights Of all persons, of native or foreign
birth, and shall at al times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights
Eighth. We shah oppose and protest against
all o6ridgment Of religious liberty, holding
It as cardinal maxim, that religious foitA il .
question between each individual and bis God,
and over which no political government orother
human power, can rightfblly exercise any su-
pervision or control, st any time, in any place,
or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose all higher lawD
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
persons
Tenth. We shAn maintain and defend the
constitution rs II stands, the Union q IL ex-
lists, and the rights Of the 6tatss, without d.
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposjng Ct
al times, and to the extent Of our ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them.
Eleventh We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on tAs ground of his Opposition
to, or his support Of, Dsmoorotic measures, q
Whig measures; but We shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines and sustain those who
sustain our dootrinea-
ToslftA And lAstly, weshall use our utmost
exertions to build up m "Amsrinon party
whsse maxim shah BE-:
AxzzscAm suALI HuLx THEIR OousrEYi
AN ACT jbr establishing religious freedom, passed
In the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1855:
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts 10 influence 1t by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only to beget habits Of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are departure from the plan
Of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord
both of body and Of mind, yet chose not 10 prop
agate by coercions either as was In his almighty
power to do; that the impious presumption ofleg-
islaturcs and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical,
who, being themselves but fhllible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
Others setting up their own opinions and modes of
thinking the only true and infalible and a. such
endesvoring to impose them upon others, hath es-
tablished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all time
that 10 compel man TO furnish contributions of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbeheves Is sinful and tyrannica that even the
forcing him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion Ia depriving him of the
comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
70 the particular pastor whose morals be would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive to orghteousness and Is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro-
cecding from an appreciation of their personal con-
duct, are an additional incitement TO earnest and
unremtting lsbors for the instruction of mankind;
that our civil rights have no dependence on our re-
ligous opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry that, therefore, the prescribing Of
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by
laying upon him an incapacity Of being called to
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