The true Democrat., 1855-06-19
The following is the creed of true American

ism, as MT. Stephens understands it:
 "True Amercanism, as I have learned it, is like true Christianity disciples in neither are confined to any naton cline or soil whatever. Amcricanism is not the product of the soil; it springs not from the land nor the ground; it is not of the earth or earthly; it emenates from the head and the heart; 1t looks upward and on- ward and outward; it's life and soul are those grand ideas of government which characterize our institutions and distinguish us from all other people; and there are no two features in our system which so signally distinguish us from all other nations, as free tozeration of religion and the doctrine of erpatraataon-t right of man to throw off his allegiance. to any and eve- ry other State, prince or potentate whatsoever, and by standardization to be incorporated as citi- zens into our body polite. Both these princi- pies are specially provided for and firmly esta- bllShed in the constitution.
 But these American ideas which were pro- claimed in 1796 by our 'sires of '76,' are by their sons at this day derided and scoffed at. We are now told that naturalization is a 'hum- bug and that it is an impossibilty.' Sodid not our fathers think. This humbug' and 'impos- sibility' they planted in the constitution; and vindication of the same principle was one of the causes of our second war of independence. Eng land held that naturalization was an i'm possible thing. She claimed the allegiance of subjects born within her realm, notwithstand- l ing they had become citizens of this republic by our constitution and laws She not only claimed their allegiance, but she claimed the right to search our ships upon the high seas, and take from them all such who might be found in them. It was in pursuit of this doc- Urine of hers-of the right of search for our i naturalization citzens-that the Chesapeake was fired intO which was the immediate cause of the war of 1872.
 "Let no man, then, barely because he was born in America, presume to be imbued with real and true 'Americansn,' who either agaores the direct and positive obligations of the consti- tuition, or ignores this, one of its most striking characteristics As we'll might any unbelieving sinner claim to be one of the falthful-one of the elect even barely because he was born somewhere within the limits of Christendom. And just as we'll might the Jacobins, who de- creed God out of his Unlverse,' have dubbed their club a Christian association,' because they were born on Christian soil.
 "The genuine disciples of true American. ism, like the genuine followers of the Cross are those whose hearts are warmed and fred purified, elevated, ennobled-by those princi- pies, doctrines and precepts which characterize their respective systems. It is for this reason that Characterization, Briton, Jew or Hin- doc, can be as good Christian as any one born on Calvary's brow, or where the Sermon on
 the Mount was preachedH And for the same
 reason an Irishman, Frenchman, German or Russian, can be as thoroughly American as
 though he had been born within the walls of old Independence Hall itself. Which was the true American party, Arnold or Hamilton.-
 The one was a native, the other was an adopt | ed son."