The true Democrat., 1855-10-09
IVT IIIC I ITUt DCl American Citizens hip.

If there are any native white men of these United States whose political rights and pr- viIc5es are inferior to those of any other sue h natives--it is all inperrection that the vital principles, to which this government owes its existence, are, by the force of their nature, con- tinually striving to correct; and the reasons gi- ven for toerating the existence of such an ano. maly should be similar to those that will iusti- fy the withholding from man the control of his own property.
 What we call the government of the United States is the instrument that the people there ofhave conStructed-- trough and by which eacA citizen may, as directly as is practicable, pro- vide for his own happiness and the welfare of his posterity, by adopting such measures of poli- cy, as he and lis fellow citizens can, from time to time, agree upon. In his own private domiciI he IS legitmately the chiefof its inmates; but in his great natjopa! domcll, he is an equal to every member thereof and he cannot be de prlved of this equality without usurpation.- This condition of things-of peculiar relation here between their people and the government, and between each other-is the natural conse- quence of the great social fact that prevailed here at the commencement of our national ex- istence. Ihe nation "a0as born so''
 The people of the colonies, when they threw off the British rule, found themselves merely a collection of free and equal persons, without master without government, and they con- stituted themselves people, commencing with these memorable words:-"We the people of these United States etc, for the purpose in part as they then declared, ''to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posteritv,' in which constitution no man or class of men rehnquished mora natural liberty than any oth- CT, nor was limited to a less amount of bower or privilege in conducting the affairs of the government than any other, on account of his religion, or any other peculiarity, saving crime
 II, ln any European country, the people evel attain to such equal rights, they cannot claim a title to them upon such grounds as the people here clrim; for the people of one class the po- pular class tlere, to become equal with those of the superior ctaSs it must deprive that superior class of rights that it has held from the begin nln9 ot ther national existence. Thus, some few years ago in England, the act of taking from few aristocratic families, the right to fill HIS seats in the legislature, without being elect ed by the people, and placing in the hands of the people the right to give those legisla tive offices to aobom they p1eased-this act say was stl9matlzed there as an act of robbery, of ''transfoning property from one individua to another without an equivalent'-bu her the people H1emse1ces are the primative sover e;gns-'all power belongs to them" and i ever this condition of things is abridged, in tn least degree, it will be by robbing one portion o class, to make aristocrats of another.
 Throughout all ages of civilization the elfor has been made by many we'll meaning men, t prevent. among people, an unequal distribu ton of wealth. Some of the laws of Lycurgu the Agrarian laws of Rome-the projects o the Jewellers, Fourerists and other socialists O modern times are noted efforts of this character It IS the nature of wealth and it's uses to chang hands-and if an equal distribution should b made, men are so unequal in capacity that j, proportionably unequal distribution would agair soon prevail. The wealth that one man would loose would be added to the wealth of his shar per neighbor, which would increase that neigh bor's ability to still augment his riches. In.thi way the rich becomes richer and the poo poorer" great deal of this process by whicf the rich get richer and the poor poorer, is sim lar to that by which one portion of the com munlty must deprive another portion of thei rights and privileges, until, at length, thos, rights which belonged equally to all, become: the property" of only few-an aristocracy So, when ever any portion of the people, under any pretence whatever, are deprived in the leas degree, of any of their rights and privileges inequality has commenced. The power lost by one has been gained by another, and the gainer k made thereby, that much stronger in the work of desroiling, to still greater extent, the peo pie of their rights.
 | The spirit of our institutions looks with azealou eye upon that policy or principle that denies an, portion of the community any of those rights and privileges which are the common propert, of all, whether that portion of the community are of native or of foreign brth-because suct condition IS in contravention of her grand de- slgn That spirit requires that every man shal do hls own governing-shall take upon himsel the duties and responsibilities of providing fol his own house. hold. In the proposition to de- prive portion of the people of equal rights tthere are hundred chances for its being natu. 'rally destructive of popular rights-to one fo