New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-27
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER s7. 1856. =
DAILY CRESCENT.
JOHN y. cRITTENDEn
- ssi ON AMERICANIsM. j

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4ss s9s ON AMER ICANISM =
Ihis Distinguished gentleman--who has. eve
been only second in the estimation Of the peopl
OF Kentucky TO the illostrious HENRY CLAY
an open, bold and eloquent advocate Of th
great principles Of the American party. Wit
| hundreds of thousands, his advocacy of an,
measure is sufficient evidence Of its justice, an,
We may say, without assuming too much, tha
better evidence could not well be obtained. @
"A short time since he delivered powerful ant
eloquent speech in frankfort, in which he dis
cussed, at great length, the various topics con
nected with the formation and principles Of til.
american party. Twas reported IN Frank
Tort paper. We subjoin the report, knowing il
viii be interesting to thousands Of our readers
whe justly regard John J. sCrittenden. as tht
flrst. greatest and purest Of living America
statesmen Speaking Of the origin of the Amer.
lean party, he said: f
"In its origin the American order was small
obscure and weak; but scarcely did summer
cioua ARISE and oyerspread The sky more
rapidly than 1t overspread the whole country.
IL was q most remarkable phenomenon4-the
history of parties showed nothing like it. 1t
proved that the public mind had everywhere
oeen drawn. to the contemplation If a, a,coranon
danger, mad accumulated in the popular heart,
ana needed only the electric touch which the
new order gave to burst.fe in a tremendous
lexriosions vi that explosion the American
party was generated
- Mr.. u. demonstrated the necessity for the
American party to do what the old parties
eHete and falling to pieces as they were--would
not and could not do. He paid d rlowinrsapd
just tribute to the material Of the American
party-a party which had sprnpg from humble
private citizens, not POLITICIANS, and the mem
bers Of which we're all native sons of the soil--
men born in the land, : who had here the homes
Of their childhood and the graves Of their
tathers--whoseilove for their country, inborn,
pure, and strong and in whose hands, if any
safe.
"Mr. G. then took up the slavery question,
and demanded what more any man--even the
most ultra pro-siayery nan--eould ask, than
the position Of the American party ON the sub b
Jscts 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
Ierrltory>is ready for admission asa State, she
Is TO come into the Union with or without
M, =. oe noA o"A PeePie may determine.
The charge of Free-soilism or Abolitionism
made against the party, in the face of such a
platform, was an established fuisehood and
neither deserved nor required any argument to
be used against it.
."Mr. Q. next passed to the subject of
reform in the naturalization laws. He showed
the immense increase Of immigration; that as
many had arrived recently in one year, us came
IN the whole Of the first thirty years Of our ma
tional existence; and that the present rate was
enough to fill up State as populous as Ken
tuoky every two years. He showed that we had
already passed far beyond the limits of our abil-
lty TO assimilate and Amerieanize them IS they
came; that they were aceumulating now in claus,
ana groups, and counties, and almost States
perpetuatlng their foreign habits, language and
pfsEsd n i've YEARS. ears Was not even
They had already come at the rate of half
million in year; at the same rate of increase
they would soon come by millions; and he i'm
pressed it upon his audience, with an elequence
and power of argument we cannot describe,
that unless the present process of conterring
upon these immigrants was arrested,
the sons of the soil would soon be the ruled and
not the rulers in their own land, and the gtori-
GUS trust of empire and freedom which we
had received from our fathers and eur God,
would pass into the hands of those who, know
INV hoWz " haAlui6tNI SpUu GulS buNJoGlt
Mr., G. was especially eloquent and powerful,
but want of room compels US to break off even
this imperfect sketch Of his remarks
We suppose that, for this address, Mr.. Crit
tenden will bedenounced as sssa midnight con-
spirator," "&sssa violator of the Constitution
proscriptionist,' etc., for purity Of charac,
ter is sufficient to protect a man against such
if he belong to the American party
The mere fact of his being attached to that
party is enough with its opponents,to to justify
the application of tue most abusive epithets.
But what does it matter?. ,. Such men as MIR
Crittenden will demonstrate the propriety and
Of the organizations which the Ameri
cans have formed, and Of the reforms which
they oontemplate-and must greatly strengthen
the American cause throughout the Uni, NJ Mr.
Crittenden is looked upon in Kentucky as one
)f the ablest and purest statesmen of the Union,
even by his political opponents; and the conf
1ence in his integrity is universal
He draws correct picture of the result
which may fow from the facility of naturali-
ting foreigners, who arrive in our country at
the rate of half million year; and shows
the utter impossibility of such mass of people,
strangers to our institutions and principles, be-
coming assimilated to Americans within 80
short q period as five years. 1t is considered
by our laws, that q native born
should reside here twenty one years before be-
ing admitted to enjoy the election francise-toI
participate in the election of our rules, or in
the formation of our laws-and yet, by the
present naturalization laws, foreigner, who
does not Understand our language, and who
shows no disposition to acquire it--who brings
with him all his foreign principles and habits,
and studously adheres to them here--is quail
fed after residence of five years, to dictate to
us who shall be our rulers, and what kind OF
Laws we should be governed by.
1t is thus that foreigners have been elevated
above Americans, and taught to believe that
they we're Of q superior race. But the spirit
which has been gathering strength for years
past in the hearts of the American people, has
at last become manifest, and has burst forth
with power and intenseness which will over
whelm all opposition. Foreign -dictatien will be
no longer tolerated and Americans will resume
their rights Hereafter the foreigner will be
protected in his person and property when he
locates himself amongst US, but he will not be
permitted to interfere in our political concerns,
until he has had time to learn something Of the
nature of our government, and properly to ap-
preciate American liberty His children will
bless the Americans for the stand they have
now taken in defenos of American rights, ard
the Constitution and Union. ~ stt
Hume, the author of Douglass, one day enter.
tanned at lunch the Lady Randolph of his play
the celebrated Mrs. siddons. She was asked al
the table what beverage she would take, ano
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