Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-25

Our Principles.
First. We shall advocate . repeal of the
laws Of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
complished, then such . modification Of those
laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short of residence Of
twenty lone years, after taking the oath Of ale
glance to the United States, and Of G5jurGtion
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second. We shall advocate the passage of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
pGrpers or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which thoy come, all such for
eigners of these classes as may, in violation Of
such law, hereafter reach our ports; and to
require the President of the United States to
demand from any government, which may
send hither such classes Of its subjects, imms-
diGts and ample sGtiSfaction for such outrage,
and . proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any .toreign-6orn citizen to any
Office of trust honor or emolument under the
Federal or State governments, or the employ
ment or enlistment Of such persons in the army
or navy in time Of uar maintaining, AZ we
do the opinion, that the natiee-5oya citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be content with the enjoy
ment Of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
our laws
FburM. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption of such an amended form Of am oath
to support the Consultation Of tho United
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or emolument, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will effectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who shall not directly and
explicitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force Of the Constitution Of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations Of adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince, power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances
FIFTH. We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of free suffrage any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been first
made citizen Of the United States, according
to the uniform rule of naturalization pre-
scaibcd by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution.
6irtA We shall oppose, now and hsrsafttr,
any anion Of ChSych and State, = no xzSftsr
what clans Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union. 49,
6sssptA We shall vigorously maintain the
sssted rights Of all persons, of native or foreign
birth and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
Az o6ridsment Of religious liberty, holding
1t Is cardinal maxim, that religious faith is q
question between each individual and his God
and over which no political government brother
human power, can rightally exercise any su-
pervision or control, at any time, in any place.
or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose al "higher law"
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
at nought violated, or disregsrded, whether by
politicians, by religionists, or by the sdherents
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persona -
7sath We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as 1t stands, the Union as II ex-
lists, and the rights Of the States, without di-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing At
all times, and TO the extent of our ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them.
Eleventh. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground Of his opposition
Whig measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines.
Hoelfth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party"
whose maxim shall be: f#N
AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR CouHrRYi
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AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
in the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1855:
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence Il by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations tend only to beget habits Of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are departure from the plan
Of the Holy Author Of our religion, who being Lord
both Of body and Of mind, yet chose not 70 prop
agate by coercions either, in his almighty
power to do; that the impious presumption Of leg
slatures and rulers, civil as wen as ecclesiastical,
who, being themselves but hllible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
others, setting up their own opinions and modes of
thinking the only true and infalble, and az such
endeayoring TO impose them upon others, hath es-
tabshed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part of the world, and through all time
that to compel man to furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation of opinions which he
dsbeleves, Is sinful and tyrannical; that even the
forcing him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion Is depriving him of the
comfortable liberty Of giving his contributions
TO the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive torghteousness and Il Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro-
ceeding from an appreciation Of their personal con-
duct, are an additional Indictment to earnest and
unremittng lsbors for the instruction Of mankind;
that our civil rights have dependence on our re-
ligious opinions than our opinions in physics
or geometry that, therefore, the prescribing Of
any citizen as unworthy the public confdence by
laying upon him nm incapacity of being called TO
the Offices Of trust and emolument, unless he pro-
fess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is
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