Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-08-25
Anti-Know Nothing Consistency.
/" Whats written lives;
Whats spoken dies"

inp should have been III such general use at a time
when their views were so widely different from the
principles they now profess. Doctrines now dis,
claimed as damnable heresies, were once proclaim.
ed to be of the only true faith and the misfortune
is that the dirty types should have indelbly fixed
them on the scroll of history. Public men should
be very cautious, in these days of isms, not to
make themselves ridiculous by glazing inconsistent
ces in their public acts. They should look over
the records and see that they have not irreyocaby
committed themselves on some political dogma be-
fore they espouse another DRAMATICALLY opposed to
it, because they think it popular.
An example of this neglect and forgetfuness
was most ludicrously shown up in last weeks
American Exponent" in an article headed Mr..
Benjamin's answer to his Anti-Know Nothing let
ter" wherein the editor copies one of Mr.. b.
speeches in the convention which framed the pre-
sent Constitution of Louisiana, and it is certainly
one of the most complete refutations of all the ar
guments used in his recent "great Southern party
letter. that could have been written. Certain it is,
Mr. Benjamin did not have this speech in his
"mind's eye" when he penned the letter in ques-
ton.
Another case in point is the position at present
occupied by Mr.. THOMAS GREEN DAVIDSON, as
the Ant-American nominee for Congress in the
Third District of this State friend of ours and
Of the American party, has just put us in posses
sion of an old pamphlet containing some twenty
closely printed octave pages, entitled IAN Address
of the Louisiana Native American Association to
the citizens of Louisiana and to the inhabitants of
the United States" This address is signed by a
committee of one hundred citizens appointed for
the purpose of preparing the same, in the year
1889; and conspicuous among the signatures is
the name of this same Mr.. "Thos. Green David
time we make the following extracts, taken at
dom from the Address only regretting that our
limits will not permit US to publish it entire:
The undersigned having been appointed COM
mittee to prepare an address to you the subject
of Foreign naturalization in the United States, have
endeavoured to perform that duty with deep and
solemn conviction of the importance and respon-
sbity Of the trust which has been conded to their
hands.
In the first place then we distinctly state "once
for all " uhat should be ueU understood By every
member of our repubic, that there exists no
tribunal power in the United States, which could
in any shape, manner, or form, interfere in the
slightest degree with the rights of naturalized
citizens, as guaranteed to them by the laws and
constitution.
That the minds of many foreigners, have INDUCED
in imagnings connected with the possible future
of all political power in the United
States is not only Swallowed forth in the hostility
Of large proportion of them to a repeal of the |
laws, and their sanderous and vitu-
perative assaults on those native Americans, who |
oreseeing the dangers which threaten their country
have availed themselves of right guaranteed by
The constitution to every American citizen, and |
have petitoned Congress this subject but the
design has been openly avowed in the following
1andbl which was literally circulated in the City
If New York, at the late Charter Election.
1t is in these word -
"IRTSHMEN to your post, you will lose America. By
perseverance you may become its rulers. By negligence
ubmit:ing to ambitious men, This beautiful country YOU
:ain by BY being firm and united Vote the ticket ALEX
or Assessor DO h true FRESHMEN"
Here, says recent report of special committee
If its own body to Congress. Here you have the
objects avowed-the subversion Of your Govern
nent-and revolution contemplated"
Mark the language of isappeal, and remember
hat it was made to Foreigners, in the City of New
FORK, at an election for officers of the City Govern
nent within which they number more than one
hundred thousand Foreigners
We, therefore, like those patriots, seeing por-
entous evils approaching our country from foreign
influence, like them though far inferior, will never
lease to warn the people, till those evils are cor
ected or averted.
When we sometimes converse with our country
men, who have never reflected on the momentous
ubject of foreign influence, they sometimes reply
o our expressions of apprehension, ooh what
an few foreigners more or less, do to injure the
United States?'
But when we tell our countrymen, that in 1907,
he foreign born population in the United States
'ore a proportion to the native of about tone to
orty," and that now the proportion is about to
i've or six, and that from two to five hundred thou
and foreigners arrive annually in the United States
When we tell our coCntrymen, that there are
low five millions of individuals of foreign birth in
he United States, or about one third of our whole
population, of whom about 70, 900, are paupers and
agrants, supported at the public cost, at ex-
ense to the American people and their govern
nent OF two millions and quarter of dollars an
ually, or sum about equal to the annual cost of
he whole American navy.
When we tell our countrymen, that such are the
ordes Of foreign mechanics, and artisans now
Ongregatng hlther from other lands, who BY I'M
erbidding the native American mechanic, have al
1ost monopoized the whole mechanical business
the United States,-th hosts of foreign mer-
hants have congregated in our Cities and obtained
he control Of almost all our commercial and bank
,g interests, and operations, every depart
lent OF Law, Science, and even Divinity is being
apidly overrun, and absorbed by foreigners, and =,
oreign inhuence-that two thirds of the teachers
our schools, seminaries, and institutions for the
ducation Of our youth, and the instruction of the
sing generation, consist Of foreigners, who have
themselves been brought up in distant lands em-
ued with feelings, prejudices and aspirations alien
} our own,-and who cannot with the patriotic I
re which burns in the heart of a native American,
all their attention and veneration to the deeds of
leir ancestors, who projected our happy institu-
ons, and the majority Of whom should they I'M
ertake to sketch the outline of patriot and
tatesman, to their pupils, as worthy Of emulation,
ould select as their beau ideal the heartess des-
OF Meternich, or the beggarly agitator Daniel
fConnell
When we tell our countrymen, that many of the 8
rofessors in our Colleges and Universities are for
igners, and that the Press, the great moral lever
nations, has almost been absolutely monopolized
Y foreigners for melancholy to relate, rhen native
[merscans ocn presses, foreigners are too often
ernaitted to control them-that presses whose
hole object, aim and end, is the establishment of
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