The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-07-25
THE SPIRIT OF DEM0CR ACY

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be sent back at the expense of the ship
in which they came.
"3d. 70 make the ship liable to heavy
penalty for the first offense, and confsca-
ton for the second.
"4th. To see that the laws so passed
by Congress be carried out fully to the
very letter in all respects whatever
"5th. To enable the laws better to be
carried out that shall or may be passed
by Congress, let all the petitioners sign
their names to the different petitions which
may or shall be sent to Congress, under
the sacred word of honor, to see that the
laws passed be legitimately carried out.
"6th. In the event that Congress does
not repeal the naturalization laws that all
due diligence shall be used by all classes
of native born citizens to bring about in
as short a time as practicable a repeal of
the naturalization laws so as to stop the
food of foreign pauperism, which is food
ing our country, and sowing seeds of dis
cord among, our once united people,"
1--WE cannot recommend too strongly
to send the vagrants back. Within a
month, some fifty have been returned to
Ireland, and some parts of Europe. What
is wanted is a direct and ample response
bility for every immigrant sent or coming
to our shores poor or otherwise. The Dis
nothing like agitating these questions"
So thinks G. j. Albright, a professor
of religion, who should know that God
created all mankind-white and black
and placed them on this earth which is
his and the fullness thereof. No particu-
lar locality was assigned to them. The
EARTH like the air we breathe, was free to
all. All were endowed with an immortal
soul, which has, hereafter, to live in an
eternity of veal or woe; and as a nation
protesting the evangelical religion of the
Bible, we, under God, owe duty to our
fellow beings, rich and poor, but more
especially the poor; he that giveth to the
poor lendeth to the Lord. We have no
claim to this or any other country by Di-
vine right, as under the Jewish theocracy,
and as claimed by the Pope in Italy. 1t
is the Gland of the free and the home OF
the brave"
Matthew IL C. 5 V. "The blind receive
their sight and the lame walk; the lepers
are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead
are raised up, and the poor, have the e os.
pei preached to them.n
Luke C. Is y. 1.-THE spirit of the
Lord IS s%pon me, because be hath anoint
F., ed me to preach the Gospel to the poor
he hath sent me to heal the broken heart
ed, to preach deliverance to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind te
set at liberty them that are bruised"
Mark 10 c. II v. "And when he ha6
gone forth into the way, there came ont
running, and kneeling to him, and asked
him, Good Master, what shall do that
may inherit eternal life?
1S. "And Jesus said unto him, WHY
callest thou me good? There as none goot
but one, that is, God.
19. "Thou knowest the commandments
Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Dc
not steal, Do not bear false witness, De
fraud not, Honor thy father and mother
20. "And he answered and said unto
him, Master, all these have I observed
from my youth.
81. "Then Jesus, beholding him, loved
him, and said unto him, One thing thor
laekest: Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast and gave to the poor. and thou shalt
have treasure in Heaven"
would now ask my dark lantern friends
how these passages in Holy Writ, from
God himself, compare with the language
as before stated and used by them in re-
gard to the poor and oppressed who come
to our shores from oppressed Ireland, TIA.
ly, Spain, Portugal, and Austria where
they are oppressed till oppression has be.
come burden. They hear Of the west.
ern world and Of its free institutions, and
God having inspired them with Divine
thought if they could not read the Bible
in the land of their nativity, and hear the
Word of God in its purity, that they
would come to this country and find an
asylum and home where they might
worship God according to the dictates Of
their consciences.
On the subject of the naturalization
laws, how stands the matter. "Before the
United States Constitution, as it now is,
was formed, during the fourteen years the
Union existed under the provincial car
ticles of Confederation" the faith of the
struggling colonies was frequently pledged,
by delegates at home and Ministers abroad,
to extend equal rights to foreigners, aid
ing in the war of independence; or other
wise choosing this country for their own.
Thus in the address of the Continental
Congress to "the People of Ireland" is
sued in l775, and signed by John Han
cock, we find these remarkable sentences :
"Your parliament had done us no
wrong, You had ever been friendly to
the rights of mankind; and we acknowl-
edge, with pleasure and with gratitude,
that your nation has produced patriots,
who have nobly distinguished themselves
in the cause of humanity and America.