Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-07-21

tion. and their settlement Oh our SOIL, " ehef-
ing to the honest immigrant: who from love
of liberty or hatred of oppression, seeks an
ASYLUM in the United States, a friendly recep-
ton and protection"
Honest immigrants, Oh ye heather del
ties, and diminutive inhabitants OF aquatic
regions One question to the immaculate ge-
Jus whose mind conceived and who promulged
that bright idea-where, when and how VIII
YOU ascertain who are honest immigrants =
What species of examination. or through what
all searching ordeal will you pass those who
through love of freedom or hatred of oppres-
sion knock at our doors for admittance =
Where will you locate the ''Grand Assize'
Will It he at the different ports of entry on our
sea board or in the different ports of embark
alton from the old world. Wilt be tAe lat
ter, in order to save those "who, upon due ex-
animation" are found to be dishonest, the
trouble, time and expense Of coming and re-
turning; Or will it be the former, that thou
sands mar by false inducements BE decoyed tc
seeking an asylum and finding an inquisitor
more fearful than that of the Romish hierarchy
in her palmiest days: And more especially
so if their cousciences should happen to dictate
to them that in cathedral is 1.-THE place
where men ought to Worship
Bat perhaps tlAs change in our laws per
tanning to immigration is TO be made by thi.
radical reform party, in order to create more
offices TO see men; in order to establish ex-
animation Offices in all our seal board cities
that every K. N may have an Office hunting
him down, as the hound hints down tho weary
stag. We have no objection to the exer-
case by Congress of the power vested in her by
the Constitution to make uniform our natu-
ralzation laws, and to forbid that foreigners
not naeuraEzed should vote at any election in
any State or Territory of the Union But that
Congress should so change our naturalization
laws as to compel all foreigners to reside
among us twenty-one years before being allow
ell to vote, and preventing them by latc stat
ute from holding any Office of honor or profit,
we do most unqualiiedly maintain, would be
unsound and anti American policy, and would
smack strongly of that doctrine SO dear to our
old original oppressors, so hated by the found
ers of our government taxation without
representation" being compelled to aid
By their purses in the support OF government
N which they must remain silent, and depri-
we'd Of the inestimable right of freemea--the
right of suffrage
But the lromulgations Of this section Of that
saving platform, have before been sounded in
trumpet tones from the Dan to the Beersheba
of our land, and the candid, the generous lover
OF the first principles of Republicanism has
turned from their contemplation in sickening
disgust, feeling that whatsoever the govern
ment of the United States should so far forget
her first sound policy and generosity of prac-
teal law as to make such change, that gov
ernment, from whose calling yoke she fought
herself away, would smile to think that the
''dog had returned to his vomit, and the SOW
that was washed. to her walowing in the mire,'
or yearn over her national folly, weakness
and re.rogrcssion. More anon