The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-01

have been constructed without them and execute with adj
mrable energy and skill the drainage of plantations
through swamps in which unwilling to risk the
health Of our people
Those who have professions or trades depend upon them
for their support and remarkable as class for their
patriotism the proprey Of their conduct their prudence
and their If in instances Of these after
becoming naturazed eonquers by good behavior
eror talent the preudces which, here elsewhere have
always existed against foreigners and be is deemed the
worhiest occupy public Office, the party which
has other bond Of union than his exclusion from il has
its foundation in gross injustice and hagrau violation
Of national faith and IL cannot shall not stand.
am not here the representative OF naturazed ei-
GEMS II born abroad, that event occurred SO long
ago that had almost forgotten H. can just remember
that on my first appearance in public life when Amer-
cans considered foreigners here and the French and
Creoes united against them and attempted for the
last time disregard the act of Congress annexing the
Florida district louisiana and expe its senators aud
representatives from the legislature stood pur
pose on the side of law and right That (pontng TO
the portrait of General Philemon Thomas in the ha and
his colleagues retained their seats and thanked me for my
assistance while abused by the French party
coqfoaadea Anericdnp 1t is rather hard that the Amer
cans should this late day round aud cast OF
as a COMPOUNDED FenchD,aa Then now, felt and acted
citizen of this great republic regardless Of any detr
ment which might result from the performance of an
exalted duty.
stand in relation to the party in q more favorable
position than any Creole of age in Louisiana be-
cause they Catholics and not and they as well
myself born under foreign flag, and only natu
rallied by the act Of Congress which admitted Louisiana
into the Union State, the treatymakng power which
acquired it having authority TO make citizens.
They foreigners according to the ideas of the
party Their delegates been lately excluded from the
general convention now being held in Philadelphia as
Cathocs and should that be given up after the with
drawal of the northern delegates which do not believe
possible they to be excluded foreigners the
sons of foreigners.
fit the sense of the American people that the nat
razation laws should be modified let it be donei but
that rights acquired by nauraaed citizens under the
stituiion and laws should be thus tramped under foot is
unjust and unfair it is uncaed for by the experience
OF the past No naturalzed citizen has betrayed the
country, prosued the office he has filled, for purposes
of corruption oppression They must be permitted TO
remember with pride that Lafayette foreigner and
that Benedict Arnold was not
1t may be true that the class of naturazed cit-
who dwell in cities occasionally sell their votes but
is equally native Americans buy them and that
the exclusion of the best amongst them from Office will
remedy the evil In this, in other cases the reform
from above Let there be bidders and the
| traffic will cease.
Sir have shown that this organization ought to be pc
culiarly obnoxious the Creole population of Louisiana
but my main objections to IT rest higher grounds than
and arbitrary exclusion from Office by classes ARE retro
grade steps in government and in civilization. oppose
it because it is vulgar despotsm more crushing and
more absolute the opinions and conscenees OF men
than were the tribunals of the Spanish inquision that
greatest blot of all upon the religion it persecues OPP
pose it because its inevitable tendency, exemplied in
Massachusetts, to exclude from power not only natural
lied citizens and Catholics, but along with them all the
men qualified exercise it benetcially and to replace
them by low dcmagogues and ignorant fanatics Had the
last legislature of that State been taken from the class OF
men who had till then been elected to it although ma
inrty of those men might principle have been opposed
10 slavery you would have heard of the PERSONAL
liberty bill and the other outrages by which that egsa-
ture disgraced itself Poserity viii refuse believe that
body of men calling themselves Christians, and acting
under the sanction Of OATH did vote an address TO the
governor distinguished judge simply because
he had done his duty in the teeth of mob.
1 The men who rule the New England States are far
more nicai than the freesoilers their predeces-
sors and the hope to form national party with them can
no longer be entertained They have seeded from the
Philadelphia convention for the purpose Of uniting with
the abotoniss and it is demonstrable that the demo-
cratic party united with the truly national wings can alone
defeat this combination The attempt 10 form know
nothing party without the North would be- the face OF
it, sectional There is material for it here in any of
the free States and it would be nothing more than d
version il favor of Mr. Seward and bis party Secret assoc
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purpose of securing the patronage of the State government
but the people of Louisiana far too hshminded to
enter into such disrepuiable combinations and if 1t did
enter into them the ancient population of the State would
soon find that lions share of the spots would generally
go to the unworthy and TO them They have
had oreaste of this in the late nomination OF sheriff Tor
the parish of Orleans General Deuys the old standard
bearer of Creole wings candidate and no one en-
terained doubt of his success But be Catholic
and born under the Spanish flag, New England shop
keeper who has been here but short time and whom
body knows was preferred to him. Such viii, in a
cases, be the rule.
Out of the city Of New Orleans the only parts of the
State in which know-nothingsm is stubborn and unyeld
ing are those in which the Methodist persuasion largely
prevails The people in those parts crowded by for
egners there amongst them; but the hostility
of the Metbodists TO CATHOLICISM is well known, and they
consider themselves engaged ina religious crusade against
it and cannot be changed TwsrnNhe Creole population
to beware of the mminence of their danger As their true
friend as n who has passed bis life amongst them,
and has fevent wish than to see them retain their
position in the land of their BIRTH entreat them, beg
them piore them in the Of their fathers who never
gave up the right TO be masters Mt home IN the name OF
their children whom they about to rob of their bright
est inheritance 70 pause before they sink deeper into the
pit which is being dug under their feet The war against
foreigners is little more than pretegt War to Catholic
cism is the true aim aud object Of the association II
remain exclusively Protestant or it cannot live
But told do they not call themselves the Amer