Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-26

composed OF the Counties Of Madison,
Greene, FIuvanna, AIbemarIe, Nelson,
Amherst, Buckingham, and Bedford.
FxLLow-oIrIzESs: By q convention Of the Amer
ican party, in this district, have been nominated
as their candidate for Congress. have accept
ed that nomination. The extent Of the district
will preclude my visiting every portion Of 1t, and
as wish my position to be distinctly understood,
now define II. Ur
Ny antecedents have been Democratic but
whilst have for years cherished the peculiar te-
nets Of that party, and still cherish them, have
never held, or believed, that the members Of that
party alone were to be recognised by the /" in
stincts Of gentlemen and patriots" but have ever
believed that the great body OF both political
parties deserved that designation, and were hon
est in purpose and In action, however widely they
might differ on questions Of mere political policy
The distinctive differences between the two great
parties, Democratic and Whig, are not now very
domestic policy, slavery excepted,) have been
virtually settled and It but remains, In my hum
BILE Judgment, SO to administer the government as
to preserve II In all It's original purity and ecien-
cy, and 10 maintain the relative rights of the re-
spective sections Of the country.
A new question has arisen Of late which is of
great and absorbing interest, to wit: the foreign
element In the infancy Of our country, we had a
boundless domain, and sparse population; and II
to invite population to our borders. Times and
circumstances have changed. That boundless do
main has, to a large extent, been populated; and
we are rich in land, productions, power, and peo-
pie. The tide Of immigration which Is now
brought to our shores, is composed largely of paI-
pers and criminals, who come not Of choice but
are forwarded by their governments as so much
merchandise to compete with our mechanics and
laborers to divide the bread 10 which our people
tlad. ~ -hn,,o o,,d
to hold the balance ofpower in elections, and to
denationalize our government and institutions. 1t
may be q part Of the policy of European despots
thus insidiously to break down and destroy our
free government
This foreign population which, to the extent Of
some 500 900 annually reach our shores, hasten to
the new States, people them, and then exclude
slavery from their borders by State constitutions
There are now 10000 foreign voters in the
domination of q foreign Pope--who exercises over
them temporal as well as spiritual control. ! am
in favor Of discouraging immigration by wholesome
restrictions; 80 modifying our naturalization laws
to require twenty years probation the period
required for our children; and of wholly excluding
foreign paupers and criminals from our shores.
am opposed to Americas becoming the Botany Bay
of the Old World s..
am native American BY birth, in feeling, and
in principle, and adopt the platform of the Ameri-
can party, believing it to be commemorative and
just in principle, and calculated to produce pros
perity in Virginia, well as to preserve the union
of the States and the rights Of the South. / am
for my own country in preference to any other
country, and the people Of my own country in
preference to the people Of any other country. j
sustain the Winchester ticket for the reasons given,
and oppose the Staunton ticketor the same reasons
and for the additional one that the State policy ad
yocated by Mr.. Wise upon the subject Of internal
improvement as well as that upon education, Is
too extensive and extravagnt, calling for taxation
which must make the people groan, groan,
grosn."
am aware that, In taking ground against the
nominees of the Stannton Convention, and in favor
of the American party, / shall have my political
acts misrepresented and my private life maligned,
by the whippers-in of the Richmond Junto Ny
position is the result Of conscientious convictions
and cannot surrender those convictions in obedi.
ence TO caucus dictaton- cannot forget that
. have country TO serve, as well as party to
obey" Helected TO Congress, shall endeavor
faithfully TO discharge the duties appertaining to
the post with an eye single to the interests Of my
constituents and the rights Of the South To
those of my fellow-citizens who may sustain me
shall be grateful N those who do not, shall not
deny the instincts Of " gentlemen and patriots"
"a Respectfully, $3.50