The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-25
The American party and Foreigners.

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The editor of the Democrat makes another
ella borate effort to convince the public that
the doctrines of the American party nee.
essarily exasperate foreigners and cause them
either to make fight or leave US. There is
nothing in the doctrines that need produce
any such effect. We, who are now in The
country, have of course the right to make
and modify our own laws. If we choose to
modify or repeal our naturalization laws, of
course we have perfect light to do so. We
have the right to say whether foreign-born
persons, landing upon our shores, shall have
the privilege OF voting as soon as they get
here, on whether they shall wait FIVE wears,
ten years, twenty-one years; or forever
When the new party proposed the alteration
or repeal of the present laws, they did not do
SO in anger or n rage; they knew that they
were exercising an unquestionable right, and
they acted with the utmost calmness and
good humor. There never was better
tempered party on earth than the Know
Nothing party, and at the same time new err
was irmer and more resoute party. In
exercising their own rights, they felt and
knew that they were taking away nobody
eIse's, and, that they were acting in evident
pursuance of the best good of the ountry.-
But a large number OF foreign-born pers ons,
incited by the inhamatory appeals OF native
demagogues, chose to resent, as a mortal af-
| front and deadly outrage, the movement of
our people to control our own affairs
Catching up the fierce cry of the native DEM
agdgres, they have denounced the members
OF the new party liars, Williams, conspira-
tors, rufians, and assassins, and waged a
warfare against them as against SO many saw
ages. Aud now when the new party is
triumphant, the threat is promulgated that
the foreigners will leave us. Well let Them
| leave us, If they are such dupes and fools as
to think they have sufficient reason. Every
man and every boy among them knows hat
they can live here in perfect peace, security,
quiet, and harmony, and that no ties or old
| friendship or acquaintance need be severed
il they are only willing to let US of the Amer
lean party vote without molestaton as we
| please upon the subject Of our natura ization
laws as applicable to future immigrants, and
cast our ballots according to our own liking
among the candidates for office. The Amer
leans propose to deprive no foreign born per-
son now in the country of any franchise
/ that he POSSESSES or anticipates; they propose
that future immigrants shall enjoy the same
rights of property with themselves and 1--we
under the protection of the same equal laws;
but, if the foreign-b born, because we see fl
Ito 60 quietly for a modification of the natu-
/ ralizatioR laws which we ourselves have
made, choose to vilify us and denounce us
and wage war against us and shoot US down.
and, on failing OF success in the fight to take
their departure for foreign regions, let them,
in heavens name, go where they will. Ii
they viii not stay with US except upon the
condition of our tolerarng no party not in
favor of admitting all their successors from
abroad, upon as easy terms as we hav-.
admitted them, to a full participation IN the
welding of the powers Of our government, if
we cannot keep them save upon the condi-
ton of allowing no movement, however mild
and peaceful, toward excluding future hordes
from across the seas from the privilege oil
sharing the government of our country be-
/ fore knowing ything of its institutions, let
them be off with themselves to whatever part
of the weird they suppose to be best adapted
to their tastes and notions.
These vile demagogues of the press how.
ever, who undertake to pursuade foreign bcti
citizens to run away by telling them that they
are not secure here in lie aud property, are
/ their worst enemies. The members OF the
American party will certainly do all they car
torepeal or modify the naturally .tiou laws
and they will certainly vote for natfs E. born
citizens for Office, but, if the foreign born
can only tolerate them in these things, there
Ills no reason in the world why the two
! classes should not live together upon terms
/ of the most perfect cordiaIity and amity -
Have not our people always lived upon terms
of kindness with foreign born persons du-
ring the FIVE years preceding their naturali-
cation! Then why can they not live with
them'dpon the same terms even though the
1 five years be extended to twenty-one or ex-
tended indefinitely.
Gentlemen foreigners, if you only won,
I get angry at the Americans and call them
Vile names and shoot them for their endeav.
ors TO carry out their honest principles, you
!. will really find them the finest and cleverest
us,yd mhst agreeable set of feIloyvs that no.,