The American patriot., 1855-09-01
For the American Patriot.
"A Word in Reply"

Under the above heading the Especial COM
mite come out with lebored and affection
ate article, column in length, in answer to my
article entitled Democratic arguments" pub
lished in the Patriot short time sicne- As to
the sore annoyance hard words may he to me,
it is to be hoped it win not occasion the waste
of any sympathy towards me, which seems TO
be so scarce commodity in their onslaughts
upon the American Party. A few years ago
the editors of the Democrat would have dis
liked very much to have been allied with dis
tinguished Whigs," and it was but few weeks
ago that they would have recoiled with horror
from the most distant connection with Know
Nothings, and still worse New ENGLAND Know
Nothings.
Now they establish proposition, to wit
"Distinguished Whigs" "a council of eighty
one Know Nothings in Connecticut" disgusted
Knor. Nothings from Maine to Texas, "all
agree" in calling the American party uncon-
stitutional, and conspring against the rights
of naturalized and Catholic citizens: ergo, WE,
the expounders of the Democratic faith, the
followers of jefferson and Madison, are right,
in what we say! Because some good men be-
long to party it does not follow that it is right
"Love of power and place." ''man is liable to
eer the natural opposition Of our WHIG
BRETHREN to oppose the Democratic party"
all goes to show that the American party is "a
mid night oath bound clan," that "they have
invaded the sanctity of the judicial ermine,"
that it is "northern born and low bred ism"
and as a natural consequence that those united
with it, are midnight assassins, traitors to their
country, and anything else but peaceful law
abiding citizens.
Most cogent and conclusive rcasonngs. Re-
ally, we will have to stand from under lest the
rocks fall upon our devoted heads and crush
us. On first reading the Special committees
reply thought with Dion Borcicauit in his
play of "Tm used up when as wealthy En-
g|ish nobleman he is seeking in travel some-
thing to relieve the ennui that oppresses him,
he climbs Mount Vesuvius looks into the era
ter, and in tones Of disappointment, crys out
''there's nothing in it," but on a second read
ing suppose must acknowledge myself demo-
lished-intirely Bnt this is not ALL Again,
Because, among the cardinal principles of JEFF
ferson was the right Of foreigners to become
citizens of this country, and also the right Of
all to worship God according to the dictates o.
their own consciences, hence therefore, accor
dinghy it is not right for an american either
to believe that Congress NAY pass uniform nat
uralzation laws-it is not right to vote fo
men to represent us in Congress who will 81
amend those laws as to best serve lin our opin
ion) the interests of our country-it is no
right to oppose the emigration Of foreign pau
pers and criminals to our shores, thus maxim,
of our loved country an almshouse, and a Bot
any Bay-it is not right to refuse confidence
in men who will, like Brownson, declare tina
"the Pope is the proper authority to decid
for me whether the Constitution is or is NO
REruGNANr to the laws Of God,-it is not righ
to prefer, in the language Of Judge Perkins, al
J things being equal, the native of the Unite'
States to the native of foreign land, to fill ou
/ Offices and make our laws-and, finally it is no
, right to oppose the democratic party!
If the democratic committee" will motto
. more particularly, they will find that | max
{ no charges against the party, except in refer
ence to its opposition to the American party
9 as to its course previous, have only to say
that after the real issues that divided whig an