The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-11-09
AmERICANsM NOTHING NEW.

The American party presents no novelty IN its
creed to the Republican. The Federal Cons;i-
tuition, made in 1857, and signed 'sGecrge Wash-a
incton,'' is a native American Document all over.
Even The Foreigners that helped to make that
instrument, and that fought shoulder to shoulder
with our Fathers, from 17I6 to a783, had the
sense and judgment to sec-that the Executive
Branch of the Government, that is onc-third Of
it, asa + gislative Branch-with the power Of
executing the Laws besides, must be "native,' .
and they insisted upon it. They gave that ina
tive" Executive the power of originating and
making Treaties, and they put in his hands cx-
clusively tic Army and Navy aud the United
States with the nialitia of the several States.
when called into activity bp the United States.
The presiding officer Of the Senate must be ma
tive to,--that prcsiling oai,er who presides over
that branch of the government which rafifies
treaties, inpcachcs judges and makes all confirm
ation' Of Off e, add thus holls inli ectiy all pa
tronagc aal Federal Power. Our Fathers, too:
gave Congress the power to make euniform natu-
ralization lawsr-an SO took from the States,
togiv to the Federal ,wcr, the right Of making,
or not making citizens of 'oreigners at ALL Up
on the qualification of S.nators and Representa-
tiyes in Congress, our Fathers also imposed sna-
| tive" elements which 60 q great way to keep au-
thority in American hands. What is worthy Of
note, foreigners themselves, in 1887, all saw the
justice, and the necessity of these restrictions
Such foreigners as Albert GaIlatiI, Switzer.
man, cheerfuIy concurred il. them,. though the,
cut him off from being President or Vice Pres;
dent.
Now. if the chillren of the Constitution in Is
80 carry out the principles engrafted upon tn
Federal Constitution in 1851. they present 10th
4 ing new, though there is little more dar ger 0
Foreign influence in 1866 with a half million }
foreign immigrants coming here annunlly tina,
there was in l7s7--with only some twenty o
thirty thousand.
So then, the American Party is no .isms--n
new light t--no novelty oddi' y--but the ol
organization Of Geo. Washington. Alexande
Hamilton Benjamin Franklin, &C, Of l7s7. ]
rc-fxes the public eye upon the polar star Of Ii
Federal Constitution. Il is the restoration Of !,
old land mark only. .1adeed the only principl
involved in it is as cd as the .Eternal hills
Rene, = and the outcry for it is one Of Demosth,
: mes and Cicero. As Athens WIS swamped by ii
Macelonian Philanxes, and the Asiatic Greek
against all Of which thenese made the stree
Of Athens ring; as Rome was swalnped by Col
$ and " Vandal lsgions, SO America under an inn
! grafton Of half million Of foreigners i year,
in danger Of losing its nationality, its spscialit
. its idosnycracy. Americans, then, preach /
: new principle incuicate 40 new creed. The
D lessons are twenty centuries old -oldsr than Il
i pyramids Of Egypt and all historysis rsd vii
/ beacons Of perilous forewarning, where there
: disregard Of them
5 Ifiutslligent Foreigners amoug Us now ia. s.
would only intimate the spirit Of the Foreigne
! here ~ 27a7 we should hare no trouble with Al
of item. ~ save their adopted ! land. they mu
: see, that IL must nof b throws oIJsn to thu.cu
! lof alI Europe, md they must bear and forbes
for che prbIic good. q did Alexander Hamilto
and Albert Gallatins de lareigo born men
Revolutionaxy era The Ballot Box, pal
hip ia g G5vernmonf cannot be safely open
u e half million = half million of strangers
yeer. for Governmeni i not 81 Instinct, bnt / !,
/. ence training 80 edncatiou- and experien
. heritage of hereditary precedents II b sfudi
. and 3 be oboyed Wotake2I years before /
e ALLOW or chIIdsea Il xo1s "a e expect d.