New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-08
SOUND AND TRUE DoCrarNE,

In late speech delivered BY Senator Critten.
den, of Kentucky than whom nobler man
and truer patriot does not breathe the follow
ing passage occurs, which is 30 beautiful. true
and just, and in sach exact consonance with the
American sentiment, that we copy it with plea
sure:
feel no unkindness no hostility TO the foreigner what
soever am willing to offer him every thing every bless
ing our country Affords will tell him. come and share
them with us you hare bean the object Of oppression
In foreign land come here and be Free Ii in smother
sno y0a nsys I'M laws viii
uch freedom 10 you enjoy elsewhere IN tho world
beside But " reserve g ourselves the right TO govern
chr courtrY Leave that to You shall have all the
bsnsdts our stee Institutions Afford. That is the great
boon We osr What other country in the world offers
ne same None Can sny Of you 81 to fessign land
and become invested with the poor political privileges
ceded to the people Of il No not one Let the foreigner
therefore here and take everything but the right 10
II 81
and that of fathers has been shed for it, 1t
by our right and title and this land intend to
govern, and We will govern. @ IL g5
II any man has an indefeasible right to speak
plainly to naturalized citizens and aliens, with
ont calling forth expressions Of disapprobation,
John T. Crittenden ID the man. When the fa-
mine in ireland was moro than decimating the
population, he rose in his place in the United
States Senate and proposed resolution appro-
printing i've hundred thousand dollars, to be
expended in the procurement Of the necessaries
Of life to be forwarded to the starving. His
motion, although it did not finally prevail,
showed the overlooking kindness Of his heart,
and, although it is questionable whether it
would gain him single vote were he national
candidate. still it ought to relieve him from the
attacks Of carping, ill-natured criticism, On
account Of . frank and manly expression Of his
honestly entertained sentiments.
We are not aware, personally, whether Mr..
Crittepden belongs to what is termed the Amer
lean organization. Whether 50 or not, he has
embodied, in few brief sentences, the leading,
paramount idea Of the organization. And it is
done, too, in style as truthful as it 10 void Of
offence to all rejecting, unprecedented men. we
care mot what soil was their natal soil Why,
here, BY way Of . practical illustration, in the
State Of Louisiana, hundreds Of intelligent nat
uralized citizens voted the entire American
ticket, from sincere conviction that the great
principle, Of which it WAS the examplar, was
right and ought to prevail that it was recog-
nized and enforced in all civilized countries, and
that. W natural consequence,it should be
recognized and enforced here. We have not the
smallest doubt that bat for the patriotic aid af-
forded by well-informed and disposed naturalized
citizens, the city Of New Orleans would have
gone for our opponents by i've or Six hundred
The aid we received from them
about fifty per cent. Of the de-
sertions Of the old liners, many Of whom, we un-
lerstand, DO not feel as though they had suc-
,eeded in getting into particularly enviable po-
itical quarters