Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-28

Our Principles.
FSrst We shall advocate repeal of the
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 residence Of
twsnty-one years, after taking the oath Of ale
glance to the United States, and of a5jurGtion
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second. We shall advocate the passage Of a
stringent law by Congress- to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are aithsy
pGupers or oriminals and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all 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, jmnse-
diGte and ample satiSaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof a
Third. Weshall 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 time of sodr maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the nGtipe-boyn 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.
Fburth. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form Of an cath
to support the Consultation Of tho United
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or ernolument, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as win efectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who shall not directly and
erplicitly 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,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all 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 free su6rdgs 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. s.sf,7o
SiSth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "anion of Church and State" no matter
what class Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
SeVsnM We shall vigorously maintain the
oested rights of al persons, Of native or foreign
birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridgmsnt II religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal mAxim, that religious faith Is q
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 al "higher law"
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
at nought violated, or disregsrded, whether by
politieions, by rsligionists, or by the sdhersnts
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persona
TsntA. We shall maintain and defend the
contribution as it stands, the Union as II ex-
lists, and the rights of the ,Statss, without di-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposino at
all times, and to the extent of our ability and
influence, az who may assail them, or either Of
them. x4na mrs ri fF
Elspsnth We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on tho ground Of his opposition
to, or his support Of, Democratic measures, or
Rhig measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines
HoelftA. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an "American party,
whose maxim shall be:
AMKMcArs SHALL RULE THKR CouETRrl
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
in the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1886:
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence Il by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil incspa-
citations, tend only to beget habits Of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are departure from the plan
of fthe Holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord
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 ofleg-
islntures and rulers civil well as ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fallble 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 ss such
endeavoring to impose them upon others, hath &C.
tabished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part of the world, and through MI tirne
that 10 compel man to furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbeheves, Is sinful and tyranical that even the
forcing him 70 support this or that teacher of bis
own religious persuasion is 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 righteousness, and IL Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro
ceeding from an appreciation of their personal con
| duct, additional Indictment to earnest and
unremitting lsbors for the instruction Of mankind
that our civil rights have no dependence on our re
lgious opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry that, therefore, the prescribing O
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by
laying upon him an incapacity of being called tc
the Offices of trust and emolument, unless be pro