New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-28
REAUrIfuL coNsIsTENoY.

fsllowsr political tact and nesse rarely squaeaaud
many Of them to our personal knowledge are as good
fellows as ever breathed but 1t went do at this uno
ture to chase them up to the line of oopsiateucy for
there they are found wanting They can't stand the tes
Of truth Apply the touchstone OK facts and away 40 all
their to consistency and up rass the convic
ton that they consider all tactics fair in war
They enounse the Americans an being opposed to
seners yet take particular that the name Of no
adopted ctissn sppears upon their State tiokat what
SURPRISING friendship Voters from other olmes should
throw up their hats and shout for joy over such
nincent appreciation CT their claims.
They claim that the American party intends to make II
rule that foreigner shall hold ocethat the ,ops ~
the soil shall alone be selected administer the
mental affairs Of the sowhils at the same time thew
nominate for the most important stations in the
the commonwealth to bessow, the py oupaess Of Nass
.aayicanis,t in Louisiana.
Adopted citizens should be particularly Obliged 10 tho
anti for such useful and practical snays !,
intense friendship and profound regard.
We might 10 with similar iliwstr.tion. d. ,,
any length but our limits consran us to these for IN
present.
Some eight or ten days ago. readers will reoolle,t
VIA published letter written by Thomas Grean n.v;s
sonnow Democrato candidate for Congress in the Third
Distrotdatsd Jan. g. lS4s, avowing stronger Native
Amsricansm than that advocated blythe strongest Native
Americans
There 10 some significance in this But wa bsxa vo..
proof. friend Of friend white, Of the
Minerva has put him in possession Of an old namnb,.,
containing some twenty closely printed octave pauss
titled can Address Of the Louisiana Native
Association to the citizens OF Louisiana and to tina ,nb.
itsnts Of the United states This address la signed bv
committee Of hundred citizens apnointad ~ ~.
purpose Of preparing the same in tho wear 1880 .nd
spicuous among the signatures the name OF this
u r1-- IN
Mr.. Thos. Green Dayidsono To give an idea OF Nv
sysws at shas lime, we make the following extracts
taken OF random from the Addressn only regyettin,
that our limits will not permit us to publish il ent;rs
The undersigned having been appointed
prepare address 70 YOU On the subject Of foreign
ralzaion in the United States have endeavored to
form that duty with deep and solemn copyieton If
Importance and responsibility Of the which has been
In the first place shen we distinctly state, once for
all ,Dhat should De Oea understood by eperu member f mr.
Republic that there exists tribunal Of power " tna
United States which could in any shape manner Or form
interfere in the slightest degree with the rights ~
raised citizens as guaranteed to them by TIC laws and
l constitution
That the minds q many foreigners have INDUCED in
aginngs connected with the possible future
Of all political power in the United States In not or
shxdowed forth in the hostility OF large 10y
chem to repeal Of the naturalization laws and their
slanderous and yituperative assaults on those NATIVE
Americsts who foreseeing the dangers which thraa,s
their country have avaed themselves Of right
1 teed BY the constitution to every American siti.sn a
have pettoned Congress this subject but Tia dssis
has been openly ayowed in the following bsn5h
was Literally circulated in the city of New York at the
| late charter eeotion
1t Is in these words:
"IRIsHMEN to your post, you will lose America Nv
you may become its rulers BY negligence
you will become its slaves Your own country WAS ost
py submitting to ambitious This beautifl cnnnfrv
you gain by being firm and united. Vote the ticket
l ALEXANDER STEWART, Alderman, EDWA RID FIAN
AGAIN, for Assssor-both true IRISHMEN,n
"Here,o says recent report of special committee If
its body 70 Congress Here you have tho objects
avowed-the subVerson Of your Goyernment-and reyo
luton contemplated 3-'2l@>
Marx the language Of this appeal and remember that it
was made 70 Foregners In the CITY of New York. at
election for officers OF the City Government within which
they number more than one hundred thousand FOREIGNERS
We therefore, like those PATRIOTS seeing portentious
evils approaching our country from foreign influence ike
them though far inferior, will cease to warn tbs
people, till those evils corrected or ayerted
When we sometimss converse with our oountrymen,
who have never reflected on the momentous subject Of
foreign influence. they sometimes reply our
of apprehension On what few Foreigners more or
less, do TO ipiure the United States ~,
But when we tell our countrymen that In 1907 the
foreign born population In the United States bore
ten the native of about forty and that nov
the proportion about FIVE or six and that from
two hundred Thousand foreigners arrive annually
In the United States.
When We tell eountrymen that there are now five
millions Of individuals OF foreign birth the United
Ssles about ons-third Of whole population OF
whom about 10000 paupers and Migrants supported
at the public cost at an expense to the American people
and their Government of two millions and quarter OF
dollars annually OF sum about equal to the annual
Of the whole American navy.
When tail our eountrymon that such are the hordes
Of foreign msehanics and artisans now conereeatpR
hher from other lands who by underbiddng the native
American mechanic, have almost monopolized the whole
mechanical business of the United Stateslat hoss OF
foreign merchants have congregated In cities and OBJ.
tanned the control of almost all commercial and bank
ing interests and operationshat every department Of
Law Science and Divinity ID being rapidly
and absorbed By foreigners and foreign inaeneehat
thirds OF the teachers In schools eemnares and
institutions for the education of youth and the in
i
who have themselves been brought up in distant
embued with feelings preudices and aspirations alien
our ownand who cannot With the patriotic fire which
burns In the heart Of native American call their atten
ton and veneaon to the deeds Of their ancestors who
whom should they undertake to sketch the outline Of
patriot and statesman to their pupils worthy Of emu
aton would select their a ideal the heartless despot
Meternch, or the beggary agitator, Daniel oConnel
When we tell our countrymen that many Of the pro-
essorsin colleges and universities foreigners
that the pess, the great moral lever OF nations hai
almost been absolutely m0nopolzed by toreig
melancholy to relate, fvhen atiue .americais oB cses
Foreigners too often permitted 10 cono enthat presses
whose whole object aim and end ID the establishment Of
foreign tone and feeling among the muarious hosts
foreigners now In conntry have been quietly permit
ted to erect themselves through every part Of the Untst
States.
n When we tell our countrymen, that throughout th,
United States in every city town and village there exs
soeet Of foreigners who hold their meetings in grea
degree In secret and their proceedings remain unscru
tinted by native Americans and that although generally
under the color Of benevolent purposes their object
may DO POLITICAL at least be entirely foreign Nothing
that could be beneficial to cur country result from
| them.
When tell our eountrymen all these things, ant
every native American heart responsive echoes the trut
aud justice Of our assertions, let native American
hereafter say In to appeals, Oh few for
egners more less never do the United States
IS HARM
The elder Adams whose perils and suferngs in behal
Of American liberty and independence, entitle him t
the gratitude and vsneration Of posterty 10 all TINT
advocated law having for Its object the protection
Of the United States from indiscriminate foreig
immigration and the obloqay which has been heape
o upon bis name by almost every foreigner for tina
act and which has almost succeeded In aiixng bgh
upon his memory is only proof Of the patriotism
which dictated his opinions and induced MIN to deyot
himself to his countys safety, but 10 striking common
tary on the foreign feeling and foreign influence Whc
| pervades the United States.
All his revolutionary perls, prvations and sutferngs
behalf of American liberty have almost been neutrazet
and his good cast out as evil because he sougt
protect his country from the dangers Of foreign Unfit
ence.
Accused DO the American citizen who would raise hi
parricidal voice to Join foreign camor against any
l. Of the fathers of our beloved Republic.
"A The next argument which 10 employed TO demonstra
the necessity Of continuance Of the naturalization law
Is that their repeal would prevent immigration to tn
country and that we require foreign aid to cultivate
fields, navigate fleets, and give potency to our mil
t, tary establishments.
=, 10 this We answer:
1t not to benefit our country, that foreigners coz
amongst US, but to accommodate themselves. But If
could be that repeal Of the natural
cation laws would prevent immigration to this countr
we respectfully conceive that such circumstances shoa
not prevent 1t Ii better for our countrys population
increase firmly souudly and radically although sowl