Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-14

", development and progress OF a
common country not much less dear
to them thanto us.
Against those who thus wor5hily |
come, who quit the misraled Empires
of their fa.her land, whose hearts have
been fred with the love OF our ideas, |
and the institutions even IN distant
climes, | would not close the door of
admission. But to all such as our f.
theirs did at first so / would continue
most freely and generously to extend
q welcome hand.
We have from such a class
nothing to fear. When in battle or.
in the walks Of civil life did any such
ever prove traitor or recreant to the
flag or causes Of bis country? Onwhat
occasion have any such ever pro-
ven untrue or disloyal to the Consti-
tuition?
Twill not say that no foreigner has
ever been untrue to the Constitution,
but as class they certainly have not
proven themselves so to be. In
deed, | know Of but one class Of peo-
pie in the United States at this time
thas | look'upon as dangerous to the
country. That class are neither for
eigners or Catholics-they are those
native born traitors at the North, who
are disloyal to the Constitution Of that
country which gave them birth, and
under whose beneficent institutions
they have been reared and nurtured.
Many Of them are Know Nothipgs.
This class of men at the North, OF
which the Massachusetts, New Hump
shire and Connecticut Know Nothing
Legislatures are but samples, con-
slider, as our worst enemies. And
to put them down, | will join, as po-
htical allies now and forever, all pa
hiots at the North and South, wheth-
CT native or adopted, Jews or Gen
ties.
What our Georgia friends, whether
Wings or Democrats, who have gone
into the New Order, are really after, OF
what they intend TO do Icannot imag.
inc. Those Of them whom | know
have assured me that their object is
reform, both in our State and FEEDER
al Administrations-to put better anf
truer men in the places of those who
WELD authority-that they have NJ
sympathies as party men or otherwise
with chat class | speak of at the north
that they are for sustaining the Uniol
platform of our State of 1850, ant
that the mask. Of secrecy will sool
Ike removed when all will be made pub
lie. If these be their objects, and al
so to check the frauds and correct tn
abuses in the existing naturalization
laws which | have mentioned, withou
the indi5criminate prescription Of an.
class of citizens on account of thei
birthplace or religion, then they vii
have my cooperation, as | have toll
them, in every proper and legitimat
way, to effect such reformation.-
Not as a secretly Initiated co-worke
in the dark for any purpose, but a
an open and bold advocate of trait
in The light Of day. Bat Will the.
do as they say? VIII they throw Of
the mask?
This is the question. Is it posi-
bic that they viii continue il politica
party fellowship with their worth.
brethren' of Massachusetts,, Connect
cut, New Hampshire, and the entir
North? Every one of whom elected b
the next Congress is our deadly foe
Do they intend to continue their ali
ance with these open enemies to on
institutionsand the Constitution Of tht
country under the totally misname(
association of the American Party
the very principle upon whichitisba
being anti-American throughout.
True Americamsm as Have learned
il. is like true Christianity-dis
ciples in neither are confined to an.
nation, clime, orsoil, whatsoever A
mericanism is not the product Of tn
soil, it springs not from the land o
the ground, it is not Of the earth o
earthly, it emanates from the hea'
and the heart, it looks upward AM
onward, its life and soul are thos
grand ideas of government which char
acterize our institutions and dlstln
guish us from all other people: ant
there is no two features in our system
which so signally distinguish us from
all other nations as free liberation o
religion and the doctrine of expatria
tion--the right of man to'throw OF
his allegiance to any and every othe
State, Prince or Potentate, and bynat
uralization to be Incorporated as clti
zens into ourbody polite. Both OF thes'