Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-01

laws OF NATURALIZATION, or II tnat cannot DC ac-
complished, then such modification Of those
laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short of q residence OF
twonty-one years, after taking the oath Of allie
glance to tho United States, and Of a6juration
Of eli other powers. potentates, and princes
y Second. We shall advocate the passage Of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
paupsrs or orimiaGls, and to send back to the
countries from which they come all such for.
eigncrs 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, inuns-
diats and 0mpls satiSfaGtion for such outrage,
land d proper inisnanity against the repetition
thereof af stsA Is9 h
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Jorsiga-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 cf soar; maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the naties-5orn 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 enacton, administration, or execution Of
our laws @
FbWrth We shall advocate and urge tho
adoption Of such an amended form Of an oath
to sspport tho Constitution Of the 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 will effectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who 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,
pctentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances.
n. FIFTH We shall maintain the doctrine that
no ono Of the States Of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of free sgtrage any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been. first
made citizen Of the United States, according
to the "uniform rule" of naturalization pre-
scribcd by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution. M
Si1th. 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. g
SeoenM. We shall vigorously maintain the
reef al r;oy,fc of all v,arcorv &c t;,,o -.
BIRTH and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights.
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
all abridgment Of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religious .taith is a
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 religionists, or by the adherents
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persons.
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as it stands the Union as it ex-
lists, and the rights of the States, without di-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
all times, and to the extent Of our ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them.
Elecsnth. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
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.
7hsIfth And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party"
whose maxim shall be-:
AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR CoUNrRri
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
in the assembly Of Virginia in the beginning of
the year 1885:
Wen aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts TO influence il by tenn
poral 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, yet chose not to prop
agate by coercious either, was in his almighty
power TO do; that the mpious presumption Of leg
islaturcs and rulers civil as well as ecclesiastical,
who, being themselves but hllible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion ever the faith of
Others, setting up their own opinions and modes of
thinking the only true and intallible and as such
endeavoring to impose them upon Others hath es-
tabshed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all time;
that to compel man to furnish contributions of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbeleves, is sinful and yrannical 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
TO the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive torghteousness and is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro-
cecdng from an appreciation Of their personal con-
duct are an additional Indictment to earnest and
unremtting labors 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 nn incapacity Of being called to