Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-08-04

'sed. candilly md trn hf l'y to proclaiu
u h, assem- mu, i; ..Ie not .,,l, h 8
princi le :, but his view IN sentiments
upon Ill gus ions that my come efore
him in bis r'pres NATIVE capacity
OF the catch phla.e that & american
shali rule An.erica,'' and Of the duis
ii the 5 'ut, in view of the ,pe atl,l,>
Of the Order, the f flowing opinions arc
.iven:
"What we of the South should now d.
is, not TO 60 into my Know Notiii' 9
mumme y or mischief, as it may be, but
TO stand firmly By those men at he No tL
who are tru' 10 the Constitution and the
Union, thout regard ther to th,i
bi III place or relig on. The question
we should n~id r is not simp> aeho
",ha'l rule Anne ica," but srho wi | V. tc
tor such measures as will best promote
the Interests Of America, aud with that
the in er, SIS Of mankind
True Aueicanism, d. I have learned
it, is like true ,tianity disc pies in
neither are confined t. any iiatl"n, cl m .
ar soil whatsoever. Amrricani>m 10
the product Of the soil, it sp. in.s not
from the lind Or the ground it IS no
from the earth, or earthly it emauate
from the head and the heart i, 10 X
upward onward, and outward it's
life and -oul are those gr nd id as of
governm mt winch char cterize our in
stitutions and distinyui h us from all
9th nat ons, as free liberation of re-
li.ion, and the dc rine Of expatriat'on
the ri.h, Of a IN IL t, throw off is
alltgiance I" any an every other State;
p ince or po ate W a,soever, and Ly
natnia IL ,'ion 10 tie inc ,rpofated as eli
zels into our b"dy p"litic. Both these
princip es are specia ly provided for aud
firm y establish, d in 'ur Consli ution.
But these Ame. an ID as which
were proclaimed n 1889, by our 's'rcs
e 49," are by their IONS . t tlis day
d.rid,d and scolicd at. We are now
told iii t ''nAtura.izl ion'' is Il 'humbu!, }
and 'hat it is an ''impossibil ty.' So
did our fat els not ihi k. This .'hnn-
bug" and impossibility' the, plant ii n
t Constitution and vindication o.
the same principle was one oil he Gus es
of our ,ccond war of ind pendeuce..-
En- land held that naturalization was
an impossible thiag- She clamed til
alleeiance of subjects born within her
r. aim, Notwithstanding they had become
eli zens OF ihi~re b ic by our Cnnsti u
ii II aud law. .She not on Y claim, i
Ihe'r alIegi nee, hui size q lined the
light to sea ch our ships upon til high
seas, a'.d take f ON them I'll ,uch who
nj rht be found ia them. 1t was IN MIR
suance OF this ct,:na Of hars--or t,e
right to sca RI f'r our "naturalized''
c't.zen - hat the Che, apeake fret
intG whicu imm date cause of
i.e war OF 1872
Let I, O man then, b rel, because he
| was DO n in America, presume to be i'm
bued with the real true "A rteri an
i'm" who either Ignor he d r ct and
positive OBJ tatinns of the Co .stituti n,
or m res hi one # its mo silik
chrract ii tics. As W Il m ght auy un-
liesing sinner CT i'm to be one uf the
faith ul-on of the eject eyen--barely
because lie W borr somewhere within
the I'm is of Oh 'stendom And just us
well might th Jaco ,ins who ID ere d
God "ut OF his Universe" lave dubbed
their club "Ch isiian Association, y
becau til y ere bora on Chri tan soil
''Th genuine dis ipl of'tr'lr Ameri-
canisn,' ik. th'. genuine fol overs OF
the Cross, a those whose hearts are
warmed, pu ii4 !, elevated AMI ennohled
by those principles, doctrinrs an p e.
cepts which chAract rizs their respective
systems. 1t is fr thi, reason that a
KamscIarkan, il Brit n. ii jew, or Il
Hind,o, can be as 'od Christian as
any born OF 'Cah y brow" or where
the "Sermon on tn" M"unt" was preach
ed An 10 the same rea on Irish
man Frenchman, It German or Rus
sian, IN be rs thoro 'ahly American
as If he had be born w thin the walls
of tn. I'D | ID -:,endence Hal itseifn
~ Johns III say, thai tn greltest
magicians OF tn az are p PR makers
-they fans ro-n, ,ba baor,rs, r,,e ;r.o