Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-29
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Hon. u Crittenden.

Famautb. Nv, Hon. Jno. J. Crittenden. one of
the 6r-t Of living statesmen, addressed the crowd
in substance follows:
Amidst the party strife Of the last few years.
when the only one struggle seemed To be, not
how the country should be governed, but who
should govern it-unexpeotedly new party had
GROWN np Without a causel No. 1t came
from the heart @. the people. A conviction was
making It's way from heart TO heart. that foreign
influence threatened liberties. Aud the
thought Of having them subverted our own
soil aroused every true citizen. 1t was the peo-
Piles party.
Immediately after the Revolution, when our
country was impoverished. and our forests Ia he
subdued, foreigners did not care about coming to
share our labors. For the first twenty years
but 5000 per nnnum came. In the next twenty
from 1910 to 1880, they came at the rate OF IL
900 per annum. These were absorbed by cur
people and became Amer'canlZed,
But since that time new scene has been eN-
b;bi,ed From 1910 TO 1850 they came by the
hundreds of thousands. and since 1890 they had
been coming at the rate of between and ooo,-
600 per nnnum. This foreign invasion Of armies
of voters beoape alarming.
Was there any probability OF its decreased
No. !. YVES true that it had felleu off little
in the past year, but when the war which was
now swallowing up the surplus population of En-
rope closed, we should be again inundated with
the worthless desperadoes II has made
The like of such an emigration the world never
saw. When the children of Israe quilted Egypt
they were not more in number than this annual
immigration.
Yonr forests are now subdued, and your coun-
try made habitable. and ihey now come 10
share il with YOU. Your free institutions have
become a hghtto the world, and they are attrac-
ted by it.
The grave question is. are these foreigners 10
be entrusted with the preservation ct ohr ioer-
Ties He would not boast nut he did not believe
there was another race oi Gods men on ehrfh,
that could have formed thefree institutions mede
by our fathers. Since the WORLDS story com
menced. Washington had never arisen in any
country but ours.
1t required all our vigilance 10 preserve this
government Foreigners could not 1T. They
did not love il MS did He did not blame them
Every man lived his native land better than any
other.
As long as we could be safely generous. we
were So; and we say to them, even now como
md share our liberties. our blessings; we make
only one single reservation. aud that Tor your
good rs well AS ours We are but the trustees
of God who has given these blessings, find we
dare not commit them to strangers.
He wished change in the naturalization laws
an extension of the time rs 10 give foreign
ers better opportunity to become acqua' nted
with our Institutions and to fit themselves for ia
king part in our government. No man was 10
be upbraded for wishing to take the best possible
care of his liberties. for refusing 10 share
them out until the little residue was not worth
keeping. These men came from nonarchies,
where they had been accustomed not TO govern
ing. but to being governed Were they ever call
ed on to vote there ! Why, the doctrine OF
transubstanta,on was not greater mystery To
them than the elective franchise
r.l- e ali,nt,, ptpos VT tended
law entirely repealed, it would make the differ
ence in the imagination. Foreigners did not come
here TO vote. They know nothing about the ell
ective franchise until they learned 1t on our soil.
He did not object TO their coming. On the con
trary, he would say, come one come all. we
will receive and entertain them; but the right oil |
governing we must reserve 10 our selves, and re,
pei every enrouchment upon II. and we would |
call on our adopted citizens ,ohep US. If these for
eigners come with cartridges. we would call on
them TO assist III repelling them; but cartridges
in their hands would not be half as dangerous 10
the brave American people as ballots
Foreigners already formed third estate-gv-
ing preponderance to either party, as they cast
influence with it. They had become an object
for parties to pay court TO, and they were w"oed
to one side and the other by every sort OF prom
Use and manoeuvre.
They feel their influence, and are claiming
their share in the offices of the country not as
Americans, but as foreigners; for they keep up II
separate political organization, and are as much
foreigners here as in the heart of Germany.
They favor US with their views In regard to I'M
provements in our government. A fellow had
hardly shaken the dust of the Black Forest oil
his feet but he was suggesting amendments to
the Constitution; and some OF the things they
proposed to give us in exchange for our liberties
were curious enough. They would abolish the
President and the Senate, and have q. single pop
ular branch of legislation, whose members could
be recalled at pleasure. They would give us
their German dream of democracy.
Kossuth-that begging patrot-who got his
country in fight, and then was the first TO run
away and leave her, charged the Germans here
to band themselves together and watch the OPP
portunity to vote in such way TO benefit their
father land. He did not upbrad them for doing
So They had right to love their country
as he had to love his, but to submit to be govern
ed by this foreign horde was to make us native
born the only aliens in our native land. lie then
spoke in glowing terms of the Union, and said he
loved the American party beeauseit was devoted
to its preservation. Their principles must ultl-
mately prevail. They would continue 10 advo
cate them Notwithstanding their failure in other
States; would submit To be called proscriptonists,
if loving their own countrymen better than any
other de them such, till these principles should
be trumphantly established at the capitol OF the
nation.
PREN1Iss Among recent publications one OF
the most interesting, we venture to say without
bov;ro soap II IL a Memoir of the late s. s. Prem