Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-03
BEAUTIES OF KNOw-SOTUINGJsu

proper under the circumstances, our appeal wou:t
then be against them to the people of the State
BEAUTIES OF Observation-Disclosures.
Gov. Gardner, the know-Nothing Governor o
Massachusetts,, makes the following recommends
tons jim his Inaugural Address
As common school education or its equivalent
Is necessary to rightly understand the duties and t.
be competent to properly appreciate the privileges
OF free man, recommend further constitutions
provision, to the effect that person shall be per-
Dattet to cotc 17O cannot read and acrite the Enq-
Lish hunguage
| recommend an amendment to the Constitution
so that no person shall be eligible any office in the
gilt OF the people who shall not he legal voter in
accordance with the previous suggestions
The honor of the American flag should be confid-
ed only to those who born on the soil halowed
by its protection they alone justly be required
to vlndcate its rights. One of my earliest official
acts then will be- if sanctioned the laws require
by the advice and consent Of the Executive Council
whom you will select to disband all military CON-
panles composed of persons of foreign birth.
I:recommend to your consideration the expedien-
cy OF exemptng all alien citizens from military duty.
Ii, in your wisdom, this should be deemed INSULT
Gent to meet the designed object | recommend for
bidding by law payment of State bounty to any mil
itary company which fIas enrolled among its members
persons of foreign BIRTH
person is to be allowed to vote who cannot read
and write; and yet free negroes, who own certain
vi 10 vote IN most
Of the free States. White men, because they were
born in Europe, to be required to remain here
twenty years before they can vote; whereas,
free negro, perhaps fugitive slave may vote almost
as soon as he touches the soil of abolition States
The honor of the American flag should be con-
hded only to those who are born on the SOIL " and
no " military company is to be permitted to en-
roi among its members persons Of foreign birth. "
How times have changed since the American revolu-
ton! Then DeKalb, and Pulaski, and Lafayette,
and Steuben fought side by side and shoulder to
shoulder with Washington and Greene each pour
ing out his blood, and Lafayette his gold like wa
ter in defence Of the common liberties-the first
Dckalb, meeting death on The plains of Camden
pierced and torn by eleven wounds while Gates the
native commander, seeking safety in fight
There were persons of foreign birth with Wash
ington when he crossed the Delaware to fall upon
the startled lines of the enemy, and to comncl
victory in the face of want and suffering and against
fearful odds-a victory which turned the tide of sue
cess in favor of the American arms, and inspired
new hopes in the bosoms of the American Coonists
aye, persons of foreign birth, " as we'll as natives
6orn pledged to each other and united in the noble
resolve to be free die, left the mark of their max
ed feet in characters of blood that stormy night
On the lce-bound shores of the Delaware. This crv
ot exclusion-of "down with foreigners, " was not
then heard, as the States of Holland and the Cqtho
&c empire OF France came to our relief Neither |
vas it heard during the late with Mexico, when
persons offoregn birth" fought step by step with
natives born at Angostura, at Monterey and from |
he heights of Cerro Gordo to the CITY of Mexico |
when the gallant Shields, Irshman by birth, fell
hot through the lungs, covered with blood in lead
ng the glorious regiment of South Carolina against
he foe. His reward has been prescription at the
lands OF this new American party he is "person
# foreign birth, and he therefore defeated for
he Senate few days since in the Legislature of L.
nois
Sir, Washington and Hamilton fought TO- liberty
nd home-you fought for liberty alone " were the
locuent words of Judge Toomer to Gen. LAFAYETTE
1hen he visited Fayetteville in 1925
The ancestors of the people of Massachusetts, fed
'om England to escape religious persecution; but
ne present descendants of the /" Pilgrims " are the
cost ntolerant and bigoted of any people in the
,nited States. And this with Common Schools.
'eedom of speech and of the press, a free Gospel,
nd under the sun of the nineteenth century.
Gov. Gardner, it Will be recoected recently voted
S one of the authorities of Harvard College against
ne appointment of Judge Lorins as Prof ssor in
lat Colleges because, as United States Commissioner
aided IN enforcing tile Tugitire-slare lar. Know
othings of the South, behold your-6rother!