The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-08
The RirSt 10 make voters OF Aliens.

kd biH.
There is one other provision ofthe act
that challenges attention. 1t is thaswhich
gives foreigners the right to vote on condi-
ton.
The fifth section provides:
"That the right of suffrage and Of hold
ing office shall be exercised only by citizens
of the United States, aud those who shall
have declared on oath their intention to
become such, and shall have taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the United
Statesand tie provisions IF this act"
In this connexion quote the constitu-
lional provision, that Congress shall have
power "to provide a Uniform rule of natu-
ralization" Upon what principle of just
popular sovereignty Congress may allow
foreigner in Territory the highest right
of citizen. 10 wit, that of suffrage, the
day he arrives on our shores from Baden,
when it has declared by lis acts that be
must reside FIVE years and make certain
proof of attachment to our institutions be-
fore he can be citizen, and make the rule,
"UnJonn." not clear 10 my mind. l do
not propose, however, 10 discuss this sub
iect ofnaturaliza.ion now. There will,no
doubt, be time for work on that subject in
the future, when the question is more ap
propriately before US. Besides my friend
from Tennessee Mr.. Taylor has given
notice ola bill to perform the naturaliza-
ton laws. He may be zone Of EN-" of
whom the disclosures speak, and it would
be manifeslly wrong in me, an outsider"
to trench on his ground. My only pur-
pose is to look into the "foreign sovereign
ty' of this Nebraska act; aud would in
quire, lift was the intention to give for
eigner who seeks liberty in this land the
right of sovereign, why did you impose
on him the bumiliatng condition ofswear-
ing to the principles ofsuch an act, as we
show this To be?
Mr.. Chairman, by way OF illustrating
the matter. / hope to be pardoned for rela-
ting an incident in. my personal observa-
ton, few months since. After the Ne
braska act passed. the weather was hot,
and We were all jaded and wcaried. A
vailing myself of the recess, / went tc
Boston to spend the 4th ofJuly. In COM
pany with the learned Attorney General
Mr.. Gushing. | passed through Bostor
Common at sunrise Of that morning.
There was scene to make the heart glad
All was animation and life--the busy prep
arations of the city authorities to accommo
date the million upon the Common, thu
huttering Of the stars and stripes at ever,
point, the roar ofariillery, the clear swee
I chimes from the church bells, announced
9 that it was Independence morning. To a
Q void the heat, afterwards took steame
to cross to Nahant.
3 Passing over the waters Of that harbor
|, viewing thousand national flags from
shipping and bouse-top, amid the roar o
cannon from Boston Common, with Bunk
er Hills monument in the distant view
(musing over the incidents that had occur
red hereabout in the good clIen time, )m
attention was directed toa large shipwhlc
lay at anchor. We passed within an hun
v dred yards, and l saw her decks crowde
!, with human beings, securing and clean
ing the vessel, and the surface of the WI
! ter, for great distance, strewn with ol
G beds. bedding, chests, &c. My first ide
! was that it formed a part Of the celcbra
/ ton Of the fourth, and that there had bee
n a casting overheard ofa sham cargo. b
L way Of reviving recollection ofthc Bosto
9 harbor tea parIyl My curiosity was 500
y satisfied on inquiry. The ship, l was tol
'e was one of those engaged in the "carryin
q trade"-that is, she was in the employ
:, ment OF foreign governments or their {
- gents, to bring over, at fixed rate p'
~ head, their paupers and fellons. She ha
IN just arrived with large cargo, and di
r ease had broken out. She was on qua
eer rantine, and the crew were at work in Il
J. business of publication preparatory to al
rs other voyage. / was pointed TO tho ho
70 pital, TO which these persons had 10 be Sc
20 at public expense, until the health Office
10 pronounced them in condition to be put {
Ut shore without danger. Subsequently,
y gentleman who had been aboard gave II
y u descriplionof tho condition ofthe perso
nc u, of some of these poor beings, which vast
I'll loathsome to DO repeated.
y Now, sir, by the provision of the fact
IN have quoted. each of these paupers al
us lclons, thus forced to America, ii in Ka
re sas. could be made sovereign in ten mi
he -u;es, welding as much power, through |
IL vote, as "Sam. Adams" who threw t
49, tea into Boston harbor, could have, if tho
c' Those who supported this bill may ma
,s' Buncombe speeches in regard TO their lii
oe rality to foreigners; but the wind is SON
ID what taken out Of that sail among intel
gent emigrants. who, coming here for i
re- erty, and from choice Of governments, f
ne they cannot vote until they degrade the
ne selves by swearingto to the principles of
Gu act they cannot approve.
Sc In this connection would put proI
DIV sition to those who voted for this bill, a
ou through them, to their coufding consti
'e' ents, who endorse it on their recomm,
hs dation. If the act is proper exponent
we the true theory of self-government, W
nd do you not advocate the migrating W
AN your several State constitutions and Ia
10 such provisions? Why not have 'popu
or or sovereignty" of the same sort in Virnin
VII Why not in South Carolina? In Alabar
we &c. lit is democracy for Kansas, W
nu not make it Democracy for Gorga? !
err understand why Senator's voted for or
KS; gainst the provision separately, with v
ma TO weigh down and kill tie BILL, but v
nr- anybody could vote for the final passag
ear such a blu Nth sach ireight, remains v
!.t we me mystery.
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