Butte record., 1855-12-01
The kye Eve Principle.

in the many platforms they have adopted
and the many arguments and addresses
they have put forth. That principle is
the exclusion of all from office and the
right of suffrage, who were not born on
American soil. California, the youngest
State in the Union, by the late election,
declared in favor of this single principle,
and without glance at the past, or a
pied ge for the future, surrendered the
government into the control of men who
enunclated, erected and stood upon this
platform. That she was deceived and
betrayed into this exhibition of narrow
minded, iliberal and bigotcd policy, We
confidently b. lievc. and quite as conf
IDENTIFY believe that she will embrace the
first opportunity to wipe the stain oi
bigotry and intolerance from the fair
page of her history. The history of our
requirement of California, should teach
US to be more liberal in our intercourse
with other nations Legislators who
declaimed against Judaism and Cathol-
icism, should have rendered that both
sects contributed largely to the acquire
ment of California-the first in furnish
ha ha nf
war-and the latter in fight ne for Ame-
rica against Catholic Mexico. Those
who arose in tho legislature and de-
nounced Jews, must have forgotten, if
indeed, they ever knew, that Jows fur
nlshcd the means to prosecute the war
by which California was acquired Who
ruled America then? Who furnished
the means to acquire California. A
Jew, whom the tyranny of England ex
cludes from participating in the affairs
of government, and towards whom the
republican government of America is
now called upon to practice like tyr
ranny. The scrawl Of Jew on pi, ce
of paper, may be worth more than our
national faith, but yet jews must not be
permitted to exercise the right of suf-
fragc or to hold office. Give them every
thing else, but keep them out Of office.
The great ignoramuscs of Know-Noth-
ingism cannot ace that when everything
else is given, political power has been
given. Speaker Stow, when delivering
his anathemas against tho Jews last
winter, could not see that be owed his
position to an English Jew. In the
spirit of ignorance, in which bigetry and
intolerance is ever founded, they only
remember that tn. family register shows
their birthplace to be in America, and
they are prepared to swear that inteli-
gent, honorable and generous men, can
not be born elsewhere.
To carry out the principle of the K.
n party, individual members of each
nation must crawl back within the lines
of their territory, like turtle under its
shell. Dutcbmen mast live in Holland
Spaniards in Spain, Frenchman in
France, Engli>hmen in England, Mexi-
lean in Mexico, Yankees in New Eng
land, New Workers in New York, Pike
Countians in Pike County. Another
plank will soon be added to their plat
form for the purpose of compelling peo>
pie to remain in the State County and
townships where they were born. They
were born TO liberty, and what more can
ask If it is right to exclude from lib>
erty those who were born in slavery, we
must preserve the balance of power, by
keeping those born in liberty within her
precincts Can anything be imagined
more absurd in the governmental policy
of a country Is it not repugnant TO
all the better impulses of the human
soul, and antagonistic to the designs OF
Providence in the gift of the earth to
man, and in the appointment of a COM
mon progepitor for the human race
Is it not at enmity with the mission Of
the age in which we live, and does it not
suggest foreign policy which all those
nations whose power now contols the des>
tinies of the world, have pronounced
against Such doctrines can only be
maintained where despotic rulers shall
disregard the voice of the people, where
the press is shackled, and where liberty
oil speech and even of thought is denied
or curtailed, where education is of the
most limited character, or utterly neg
lected, where selfish ambition of rulers
runs riot, and where timidity and cow
ardice, twin sister vices of ignorance
and incidence, reduce the people to a
Dolitical imhecilitv