New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-04
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FACTS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS"
On Monday We had an article under this csp-
tion, showing how, while the anti Americans
protested unbounded love for adopted citizens,
their acts proved conclusively the reverse
showed that they were anything but the friends
they pretended to be- As evidence OF the truth
Of our assertion, we referred to the nomination
Of Thomas Green Davidson in the Inird DIS
,rict, and to pamphlet, published in 1889,
containing an address most proseriptlse IN Its
Nat;va Americsuistn, signed by Mr.. Davidson
IA many other prominent citizens. We have
hssn told that Mr. D. wrote the address, but as
~ don't know positively, we do not charge its
authorship upon him. The fact thatfhe signed
is sufficient for our perpose We also promised
to recur to the matter again, and new proceed
to do 30.
1t will be- borne in mind that the extracts
from the address, given by US on Monday, an
nounced that portentious evils were to be
dreaded from g foreign influence" and de-
nounced associations of adopted citizens in al
most every city, town and villagein the United
States, for holding their meetings in a great
degree in secret;" that those meetings were
held for purposes g entirely foreign etc.
At the conclusion Of our extracts. We pre-
sumed to premise, in view Of the stupendous
SANDERS heaped on the American party on ac-
count Of a little nominal secresy in its method
Of working, that if American privacy was
criminal, foreign conoealment could not be en-
tirely Christianl We still hold to that opinion.
| We now proceed to give additional extracts,
| to which we invite particular attention Let
| the general reader, as we'll as adopted citizens,
bear in mind that these extracts were signed,
| IL they we're not written, by an anti American
candidate who aspires to a seat in Congress,
| where the question Of amendment, if not total
| repeal of the naturalization laws, will unques-
tionably come up before the expiration Of his
term Of service, il he is elected.
Speaking Of the illustrious JOHN ADAMS
honored aud evergreen be his memory who,
from some cause or other, has never been popu-
lar with adopted citizens, the address, or rather
Mr. Davidson, says;
The elder Adams whose pers and suerings in behalf
a, American liberty and Independence enttle him TO
he gratitude and veneration Of posterty all time
nited States from indisorimnate foreign immigration
and the oboquy which has been heaped upon his
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simost slcoeeded In sxing blight upon bis memory
n not only proof Of the patriotism which dictated his
opinions and Induced MN 70 devote nms- to bis coui-
feeling and fore gn influence which pervades the United
/ States. ID
In hel.lf Of American liberty have almost been neutral
ized and his good cast out evil because he
sought to protect his country from the dangers of foreign
be the American citizen who would raise bis
parrcidai join foreign caor against any one
of the fathers Of our beloved Republic,
This unqualified endorsement Of the opinions
Of Mr.. ADAMs-and that they weretoo stringent
we are free to admit-from man, and from
the nominee Of party which seek the sup
port Of naturalized citizens as sine qua non.
ought to excite feeling Of suspicion among those
most interested, to say the least. JOHN ADAMS,
like GEORGE WASHINGTON, was thoroughly en-
bued with Americanism. Heart and soul, they
both believed in the superior honesty, capacity
and intelligence Of the sons of the soil.
That the eulogy pronounced upon JOHN
ADAMS is true in every point; that he was the
noblest among the noble, although stern and
unyielding, is written in imperishable let
tiers upon the iron tablets Of history; that
injustice has been done to his memory, and that
execrations have been howled upon his name
in accents NOT American or English, is equally
true. We have heard those same howlings, but
then il was dangerous to express the feelings
that throbbed like lightning through our brain.
We now say, however, and cordially join Mr.. Da-
wilson in the expression, "dccatrsed be the Amer
lean citizen who would echo "foreign
clamor . against any one Of the fathers Of the
Republic.
Here is another choice extract from this
friend Of adopted citizens:
1t is not to benefit country that foreigers
amongst u.s. accommodate themselves Bat ii 1t even
could be substantated that repeal of the naturalization
laws would prevent immigration to this country we re-
It ia better for eountrys population to in
firmly soindly, and radically although slowly,
than rapid badly digestsd and ant growth
TO become prematurely infrm and unsubsiantial.
We have no comments to make upon the fore
going. Itspeaks for itself Ali We ask is that
it be read carefully,
Then, here is the following, which, We opine,
is not altogether destitute Of attraction:
We only receive into country hordes Of aliens
in feelings principles prejndces and habits Of thinking
but through tbs fundamentally OF naturalization
law, endow them with the prerogave Of influencing
institutions and deciding the future desnies of
beloved country--ean such men who have been
taught from their earisst infancy to despse ard abhor
country her Inhabitants and her insttutons(see
0'GonnelHs spseches1men who have idea of rational
liberty social virtue political subordinaton except
the strong hand and iron rule Of vicersge esk matters
Infatuated by education tumnt and insu fection
and practically familiar with the foulest actions
prissd In the dark catalogue Of crime
We defy any adopted citizen in the State of
Louisiana to point out language used by any
American organ as severe, reflective and defam-
atory, as the foregoing Yet they are expected
to vote for the man who signed, or wrote it,
and assist in the triumph of the party that
nominated him Are they dolts, fools, idiots
From the conduct Of the anti American leaders
it would seem that it is thought SO. Else why
their mendacious appeals
In conclusion, we submit the following ex-
tract. It, like the others, needs no comment,
1t is bitter, yindictive, and sweeping beyond all
precedent:
Are such these to be depended on to protect our
country from forei INVASION when perhaps, onehA Of
them imbued with feelings of superior loyalty to the
invading enemy and devotion their success while the
remainder utterly destitute Of any moral restraint
of snoh degree OF fidelity they conceive be imme.
diately conducive to their private and individual In
teEests? a.@si
We have paid good deal of attention to this
address, and to another address, and shall pay
more, as time and occasion serve We have