Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-21
WASHINGTON AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 81 1855


Our principles.
First. We shall advocate repeal Of the
laws Of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
complished, then such modification of those
laws, as will prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short Of residence Of
twsnty-one years, after taking the oath Of ale
glance to the United States, and Of a6jwation
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
Second. We shall advocate the passage Of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
paupers or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all such for
eigners Of these classes as may, in violation Of
such law, hereafter reach our ports; and to
require the President Of the United States to
demand from any government which may
send hither such classes of its subjects, smme-
diate and ample satiStaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof a# f
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Joreign-5orn citizen to any
Office Of trust honor or emolument under the
Federal or State governments, or the employ
ment or enlistment Of such persons in the army
or navy IN tinne of Dar maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the nGtius-6orn citizens OF
the United States have The right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be content with the enioy-
ment Of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
our laws. @
Fburth. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption of such an amended form of an oath
to support tho Constitution Of tho United
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust, honor,
or emolument, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as viii effectually exclude from such
offices all persons, whe shall not directly and
explicitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force Of the Constitution of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations Of adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances. .
FIFTH. We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one Of the States Of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment of free outrage any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been first
made citizen Of the United States, according
to the uniform rule of naturalization pre-
scribed by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution.
SAITH We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "s1nion Of Church and Stats,n no matter
what class of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
SeUenth. We shall vigorously maintain the
pested rights Of all persons, Of native or foreign
BIRTH and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights. Ns
EghtA We shall Oppose and protest against
all sbrSdsment Of religious g;8srty, holding
1t as cardinal maxim, that rsligicus faith is .
question between each individual and his God,
and over which no political government, or other
human power, can rghtfully exercise any su-
pervision or control, at any time, in any place,
or in any form.
Ninth We shall oppose all @higher law
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be SET
at nought violated, or disregarded, whether by
politici0ns, by rsligionists, or by the adherents
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persons. tF stE p
! Tenth We shall maintain and defend the
ooMstitutioa a. II stands, the Union as Il en-
lists, and the rights Of the 6totss, without di-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
Ill times, and to the extent Of our ABILITY and
influence, all who may asssil them, or either Of
them.
Eleventh.. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground of his Opposition
to, or his support Of, Democratic measured on
Whig measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrinea
TSoslftA. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party, y
whose maxim shall be:
AnnnIcAss SHALL RULE THEIR CouxrRri
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
In the Assembly of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1855:
mind free that all attempts 10 influence II by tenn
poral punishnents or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only TO beget habits Of hypocrisy
and mesnness, and are n departure from the plan
of the Holy Author Of our religion, who, being Lord
both Of body and Of mind, yet chose not to prop
agate by coercions on either, was In his almighty
power TO do; that the impious presumption ofleg-
slatures and rulers, civil well as ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith of
Others, setting up their own opinions and modes Of
thinking as the only true and infallbe, and such
endeavoring to impose them upon others, hath es-
tablisbed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world, and through all time
that to compel a man to furnish contributions of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
dsbeeves, is sinful and tyrannical that even the
forcing him to support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion is deprving him Of the
comfortable liberty Of giving his contributions
to the particular pastor whose morals he would