True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-08-08
From the Baltimore 7lipperl
GRAND AMERICAN COMMANDMENT
OF F0REIGNISM.
KnOsO Nothingism Legacy from our
Patriot Fathers.


American party. If the trainers of our
Constitution had thought that foreigners
we're better than citizens of native growth,
(as the Forney and Pierce politicians rep
resent they would have made foreigners
ineligible to the Presidency, nor required
them to reside here even one year before
making them voters
Ring this fact in the ears Of those
unfortunate Americans who @ntinue to
vote their own degradation, by supporting
the nominees of the administration party.
The fact that the Constitution shuts
them entirely out of the Presidency, ar
CUES want of confidence in them on the
part of our patriot fathers; and General
Washingtons letter, written from "White
Planis," early in the war of the Revolu-
ton, to Governor Morris, of New Jer-
sey, no doabt awakened the founders of
our Government to the necessity of placing
an impossible barrier between the Presi-
dency and emigrants from abroad. This
letter of General Washington's you pub.
lished in the Clipper two weeks before the
last election, and cannot be forgotten by
your readers. In that letter General
Washington said that he had no confidence
in any of the foreigners then holding COM
missions in the American Army, but Gen
eral Lafayette, and that he held it to be
our best policy to keep them all out of the
army. lie regarded them as mere adven-
turers, who had cspoused our cause purely
from selfish motives-from an anxiety to
earn little military fame, mere than a
devotion to our interests--and as likely to
create more mischief by their arrogance
than their services we're worth.
Let this fact be pinned on the foreheads
Of those who make out we had no heroes
in the Revolution but their Montgomery,
Kosciusko, De Kalb, and two or three 9th.
er foreign adventurers.
The foreigners in our army at that Pc
riod, were very superior order of men
compared to the mass of the half million
that are now transported every year, and
Washington was so distrustful of them,
how much more should we be Of those who
are assuming so much authority among us
at the present time.
That great and good man went down to
his grave with apprehensions that the in
Auence exercised by foreigners coming
among us, would prove the ruin of our
country, and consequently, in the farewell
address he issued to his countrymen, we
VIC find the following admoniton -
against the insilious wiles of foreign
influence l conjure you to believe me, fel-
low citizens, the jealousy of a free people
ought to be constantly awake. 1t is one
of the most baneful foes of republican
government"
In these identical words did Washing
ton warn us, and no Forncy and Pierce
politicians dare deny it.
Had the patriot Washington been among
us in 1851 and 80, and seen the Pierce
Democracy promising a war with Austria,
France and Spain, to please the foreign
adventures from Hungary, Italy and Gu
ba, Or looked into the House of Represen.
tatives in 1854, and seen Congress voting
away all our public lands to crafty tn,
demands Of foreign socialists, he would
have pronounced the country already un
der that baneful foreign influence agains
which be warned us. The fact that the
Administration played the traitor towards
the exiles from Hungary, Italy and Cuba
and sold itself to their opprcssor at th'
head of the Church Of Rome, to retain tn
support of Catholics, does not prove tina
foreign influence has not been far NOR
powerful than native influence with til
Pierce Democracy.
Thomas Jefferson the founder Of the ol
Democratic party and the author of til
declaration of independence, appeared
have still greater dread than Washingto
of the malign influence upon our cOuntr
and her republican institutions, that wouI
arise from an excessive influx Of foreigr
ers among US. The foil owing from h
eloquent and patriotic pen, bears witne'
to that fact:
81 hope we may find some means in fl
ture of shielding ourselves from ForeiG
influence, political, commercial, or in wha
over form it may be attempted. l am Q
, most ready to join in the wish of Sill
Dean, that there was Gan ocean of fire b
tween this and the old world"
y This ocean of fire between the old al
y new world that Mr.. Jefferson wished fC
would stop emigration entirely, and nece
y sarily shield us from either political, cor
mercial, or religious influence of u foroii
nature. Il goes further than The much-oJ
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