Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-05


complshed. then such modification Of those
laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short of a residence Of
twenty one years, after taking the oath Of alle-
glance to the United States, and Of a5jurGtiou
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second, We shall advocate the passage of a
stringent law BY Congress to prevent the inn
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
pGupeys o. criminaIs, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all such for
cigners of these classes as may, in violation of
such law, hereafter reach our ports; and to
require the President Of the United States to
demand from any government, which may
send hither such classes of its subjects, insnae-
diate and ample satiyactisn for ssicA outyags,
and proper Indemnity against the repetition
thereof
Third. We shall oppose the election or APP
pointment Of any Joreign-6o'7s citizen to any
office Of trust honor or emolument, under the
Federal or State governments, or the employ
ment or enlistment of such persons in the army
or navy IN time Of scay;; maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the natioe-born citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be centent with the enjoy
ment Of life liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
our laws. aralaf a4A n
Fburth. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption of such an amended form of an
to support the Constitution of the y
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or emolument under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will effectually exclude from such
offices all persons, who shall not directly and
explicitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force of the Constitution of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations of adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince, power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances.
FIFTH. We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of free suffrage any
person of foreign birth, who has not been first
made citizen Of the United States, according
TO the g uniform rule" of naturalization. pre-
scribcd by Congress, under the provisions of
the constitution sa 1
iSirth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "union of Church and State, no matter
what class of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
SepentA We shall vigorously maintain the
rested rights of all persons, of native or foreign
birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights. -
Eighth We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridsment Of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religious faith is a
question between each individual and his God,
and over which no political government, or other
human power, can rightfully exercise any su-
peryision or control, at any time in any place,
or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose all "higher law
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
at nought, violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicians, by rsligionists, or by the adherents
or followers of either, or by any other class Of
persons
7snth. We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as Ii stands, the Union as il ex-
minuton as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
all times, and to the extent Of our ability and
influence, all who may assai them, or either of
them.
Eleventh.. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground of his opposition
TO, or his support Of, Democratic measures, or
Wing measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines
Tsoelfth And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party
whese maxim shall be:
AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR CoUNrRri
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
in the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1885:
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence It by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, by civil incapa-
citations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are a departure from the plan
of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord
both Of body and of mind, yet chose not to prop
agate by coercons on either was in his almighty
power 10 do; that the impious presumption of leg
slaturcs and rulers civil well as ecclesiastical
| who, being themselves but fallible and uninspircd
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
others, settingup their own opinions and modes Of
thinking as the only true and nfallibe, and such
endeavorng to impose them upon others, hath es
tabshed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all tine
that to compel man 10 furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation Of opinions which be
disbeeves, is sinful and tyrannical that even the
fbrcng him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion is depriying him of the
comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
to the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive TO rghteousness and il Withdrawing from,
the ministry those temporal rewards which, pro-
cceding from an appreciation of their personal con-
duct, are an additional Indictment to earnest and
unremitting labors for the instruction Of mankind
that our civil rights have dependence on our re-
lgious opinions more than our opinions in physics
| or geometry (; that, therefore, the prescribing Of
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence BY
laying upon him an incapacity Of being called 70
the Offices OF trust and emolument, unless he pro-
fess or rcnounce this or that religious opinion il
depriving him injurously Of those privileges and
advantages 20 which, in common with his fellow
citizens, he has natural right; that Intends also
to corrupt the principles Of the very religion il Is