Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-05-05
MR.: MILLER IN NORFOLK.

former place on Saturday last and favored the devo-
tees of the dark-antern Order with a speech full
accounts of which find in the papers of that City
Judging from the accounts it was bold speech and
in Miller's best style. Every one knows that he
speaks well, and that it is matter of no great mo-
ment to which side of a question he cspouses
We do not doubt, from knowledge of the man.
that he could have made just as impressive and pro-
badly more taking effort on the other side.
We shall not follow him through all his declama-
ton and invective, but there few points to
which we propose to invite attention The Beacon
reports him as saying that
'In England act of Parliament was necessary to
allow a foreigner to become subject, and then he
was ineligible to Office. The case of Swede, who
was elected Constable in London, whom Lord
Mansfield decided incapable of holding even that
office was cited. But foreigners came to this coun-
try, and not satisfied with holding property and
quring great privileges, wanted to be foisted over
natives of the soil, and to rule them. The Constitu-
ton of the United States and of Va, excluded them
from the highest executive offices. Such the
fundamental law. He wished to long term of
naturalization adopted in the U. Say 81 years
before they could vote"
We are called upon, it seems, to initiate England.
Mr.. Clay argued in 1874, that because England had
a national Bank the United States ought to have
too; and now Mr.. Miller contends that inasmuch as
England, despotism under the guise of Constitu-
in relation to foreigners the free people of the Uni
ted States should profit by and initiate the example
England, by her Church and State establishment
by tithes, by taxes of all Sorts by absenteeism, by
her secret societies. by her paid Spies by her nsoent
and overbearing police, and her systematic oppres
sion, renders Ireland intolerable to Irishmen;
and when, after having escaped these evils, they
reach these Shores Mr.. Miller would have the feder
al government become, in effect, the ally of Great
Britain in denying to these people the common
rights offreemen, and in forging for their worn
and weary limbs the letters of political and social
slavery, to be worn, not for five, seven fifteen
years. but for nearly an age in the generations of
mankind! Does Mr.. Miller really believe in insist
ing twenty-one years the term of naturaliza-
ton, that full grown from Germany, or France,
England, OF Ireland is ignorant of Consti-
tutions and laws, and incompetent to vote and
hold Office infant child That is his position.
Is it not monstrous? We have seen evidence of
the wish of adopted citizens to be foisted
tives of the SOIL and to rule them. Mr. Miller drew
on his imagination for this statement We would
repel, as he would, any attempt of adopted
citizens to " rule" America; but we must perceive
the attempt-must be convinced of the fact, before
we join in any effort to counterfeit it. Ameri-
cans, native and adopted, have always "ruled "
ca; that is not the Indians, who the real natives
but the descendants of all "nations, kndreds, and
tongues, " the African excepted and emigrants, du-
ly naturalized, from the continent of Europe 1t is
this aggregation of the spirit and power to speak,
of all nationaIities and this infusion, intermingling
and condensation of all boods, upon new soil, and
under common banner inscribed with the prnci-
pies of justice, liberty and toleration which have
made this country what it is, and which can alone
ensure its continuance in the path of improvement,
benefcence and progress. Erect your Chinese wall,
Mr. Mler-dg your impossible gulf around these
thrtyone States your federal predecessors sought
to do around the old thirteen and thus, while you
arrest the spread Of free principles this continent
prevent at the same time all emigration and put a
stop to this intermnging of races; and at the end
of your wentyon years. or at arthest thirty years.
these States, instead of being what they now
the nursery of heroes and statesmen, and pos
sessed of spirit, bone and muscle which could we'll
defy world in arms-would exhibit symptoms of
decline and decay, which nothing but return to
present policy could change avert The blood
would, in the end, out. 1t is we'll known that
the sicklest feeblest and most cowardly perons in
Europe are those who belong to the old noble and
royal families; and this is, Enthusiastically, the result
of long continued intermarriages between them The
same rule VIII Apply 10 peoples Snu haIohs.
The Beacon further says:
"Mr. Miller sustained his positions with solid and
compact logic which understood and apprecia-
ted by every nearer. His peroraton was truly elo-
auent The spirit of civil and religious freedom
" Sam"-was with the children of Israel in the Red
Sea- with Armodius and Aristogiton in expelling the
thirty tyrants from Athens; with Demosthenes
against Philip of Macedon; with Cato at Rome;
with Cicero against Cataline, and for the Republic;
with the dagger of Brutus in Staying the tyrant
Caesar; with the bold Barons at Runnymede, when
they obtained Magma Charta from King John; with
Luther, Calvin and Knox; with Latmer and Cran-
mer when burned at the stake; with the Pilgrims
when they landed on Plymouth rock with the pa
triots of '76 at Lexington and Bunker Hill +; with
Patrick Henry, " the forest born Demosthenes,"
when he exclaimed &C Caesar had his Brutus Charles
the first his Cromwell and George the third may
profit by their example, if this be treason make the
most of it,; with Jefferson and the signers of the
Declaration of Independence; and with Washington
at Monmouth, Trenton and York town."
"What long tai; our cat has gotl" What school
boy defamation Really, this is unworthy of Mr..
Miller. ''Sam"-skulking, sneaking, oath-bound
" Sam" Sam" with wide-awake hat and fash
vest on, a two-cent cigar in his mouth, with thumb
on nose and straw in hand, ready for the suction
attendant on the next julip-" SAM
this parsonage was with Moses and Cato and Bruus,
and Henry and Washington !-contending too for
"civil and religious freedom l"-lving in ante-dilu
Wan clover--for surely he aided Noah in building
the ark-and exuting in long contnuities of light
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