The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-22
We find in the Frankfort Commonwealth ;

John Crlttenden-the greatest OF kentucky
living sons-in favor of American principles
It is Just such a document as one would
expect TO emanate from a great statesman, but
is entirely too long for our columns. In re-
viewing the rise and progress of the new party
he stated that in its origin it was small, obscure
and weak: but scarcely did a summer cloud
arise and overspread the sky more rapidly than
it overspread the whole country. 1twas re-
markable phenomenon-the history Of parties
contained no parallel to it. Improved that the
public mind, every where, had been drawn to
the contemplation of a common danger, and
that vast volume of American feeling had ac-
cumulated in the popular heart, and needed
only the electric touch which the new order
gave, to burst forth in tremendous explosion.
Of that explosion the American party was gen
Grated. He demonstrated the necessity for the
American party, to do what the old parties
decayed and falling to pieces as they were
would not and could not do. He paid 6 low
ing tribute to the new party-a party which had
sprung from humble private citizens, not from
politicians, and the members of which were all
native sons of the sol--men born on the land
who had here the homes of their childhood and
the graves of their sires-whose love for their
country was Unborn, pure and strong, and IN
whose hands. if anywhere, the destiny of the
country would be safe. He took up the slave
ry question, and demanded what any man
even the most ultra pro-slavery man--could
ask, than the position of the American party
on that subject? What could be more nation
al, more safe, more peaceful? There is to be
no more action on the subject in congress; the
people of the slave States are permitted to go
into any of the territories, with their slaves,
and when the territory is ready for admission
as a state, she is to come into the Union with
or without slavery as her own people may de-
termine. The charge of freesoism or aboli
tonsm made against the party, in the face of
such a platform, was an established falsehood
and neither deserved nor required any argument
to be used aganstit He was in favor of re-
form Of the naturalization laws, and instanccd
the immense increase of immigration; that as.
many aliens had arrived lattcrly in one year,
as came in the whole Of the first thirty years of
our national existence; and that the present
rate was sufficient to fill up a State as popu
ous as Kentucky every two years He show
ed that we had already passed far beyond the
limits of our ability to assimilate and Ameri-
,anise them as they came; that they were now
sccumulating in groups and clans, and coun-
les. and almost States-perpetuating their for
sign habits and language, and prejudices, and
hat thus the process of Americanising them,
which was expected to be accomplished in FIVE
,cars, was not even commenced. They had |
llready come at the rate of half million in
ear; and at the same rate of increase they
would soon CONC by millions; and he wished
O impress it upon his hearers that unless the
present rapid process of comforting citizenship
pon these immigrants was arrested, the sons
# the soil would Soon be the ruled and not the
ulers of their own land, and the glorious trust
If empire and freedom which we had received |
rom our fathers and our God, would pass into
he hands of those who knew not how to admin
stcrit. He reminded them that the republics of
I'D had been totally destroyed by foreigners.
That the liberties of green Ireland and her
warm hearted children had been betrayed to a
orcign government, by means of foreign infu-
,ncc That chivalrous Poland had been sub
jugated by foreigners and divided among for
,ign governments. That glorious Italy and
heroic Hungary had been overrun brforeign-
us, conquered and subdued, and were now
3roaring under a foreign yoke. These things
should serve as warnings to all Americans
hev should be remembered, and pondered
over every day; for, without remedy is APP
piled, and speedily, the liberties of America
will also sink under foreign influence.
A correspondent of the New Y ork Post says
that touching the outrage committed on the Z.
States steamer Water Witch, something must
be done by the general government, or the S
American governments will entertain but a
poor opinion of our power or bravery. He
further states that Americans having neglected
to assert their rights, are now treated with
more nsolence and annoyance than either the
ENGLISH or French. The fact is, it appears to
be a part of the principles and creed of the pre-
sent administration, that Americans and the
flag, may be grossly insulted by any
foreign government or official, without it being
incumbent on general Pierce to demand salts
faction or PREPARATION.
The Democratic Times learns from friend
that, while he was returning from Monroe to
Bastrop, he met several wagons laden with cot
ton, boundfrom Shreveport to LakeProvldence,
a distance of near two hundred miles; and asks
the planters and merchants of north Louisiana
edo you want any stronger evidence of the ne
cessity you are under of applying all your ener-
GIGS and resources 10 the early completion of
the railroad, now in course of construction from
Vicksburg to Shreveport, than this simple fact?"
6 M RoOth the Pierce editor AGAINST whom