Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-09
MR.. MILLER IN NORFOLK.

MR.. MILLER IN NORFOLK.
Mr.. Rayner having declined to meet Mr.. Wise,
and Mr.. Wise having gone in the prosecution of his
campaign some two hundred miles west of Norfolk,
H. w. Miller, Esq, of this City, appeared in the
former place Saturday last and favored the devo-
tees of the dark-antern Order with speech, full
accounts of which find in the papers of that City,
Judging from the accounts. it bold speech. and
in Mier's best style. Every one knows that he
speaks WELL and that it is matter of no great mo-
ment as to which side of question he cspouses
We do not doubt, from our knowledge of the man,
that he could have made just as impressive and pro-
badly more taking effort on the other side.
We shall not follow him through all his declama-
ton and invective, but there few points to
which we propose to invite attention. The Beacon
reports him saying that
''In England act of Parliament was necessary to
allow foreigne to become a subject, and then he
was ineligible to office. The case of a Swede who
elected Constable in London, whom Lord
Mansfield decided incapable of holding even that
Office, cited But foreigners came to this coun-
try, and not satisfied with holding property and
quring great privileges, wanted to be fosted over
natives of the soil, and to rule them The Constitu-
ton of the United States and of Va excluded them
from the highest executive offices. Such the
fundamental law. He wished to see long term of
naturalization adopted in the U. S.-say 81 years
before they could vote"
We are called upon, it seems, to initiate England
Mr.. Clay argued in 1874, that because England had
a national Bank the United States ought to have
too; and now Mr. Miller contends that nasmuch as
England, despotsm under the guise of Constitu-
tona monarchy, is rigid and oppressive in her laws
in relation to foreigners the free people of the Uni
ted States should profit by and initiate the example
England, by her Church and State establishment
by hes, by taxes of all sorts, by absenteeism, by
her secret societies, by her paid spes by her nsoent
and overbearng police, and her systematic oppres-
sion, renders Ireland intolerable to Irishmen; !;
and when, after having escaped these evils, they
reach these shores, Mr.. Miller would have the feder-
al government become, in effect, the ally of Great
Britain in denying to these people the common
rights of freemen and in forging for their worn
and weary limbs the fetters of political and social
slavery, to be worn, not for 6ve seven, fifteen
years, but for nearly age in the generations of
mankind! Does Mr. Miller really believe in insist
ing on twenty lone years the term of naturaliza-
ton, that full grown from Germany or France,
or England, or Ireland is ignorant of Consti-
tutions and laws, and incompetent to vote and
hold office as an infant child That is his position.
Is it not monstrous? We have seen no evidence OF
the wish Of adopted citizens "to be fosted
tives of the SOIL and to rule them. Mr.. Miller drew
on his Imagination for this statement We would
repcl, as soon as he weuld any attempt of adopted
citizens to "rule" America; but we must perceive
the attempt-must be convinced of the fact, before
join in any effort to counteract it. Ameri.
cans, native and adopted, have always "ruled -
and "rue, " and always should "rule" Ameri
ca that is, not the Indians, who the real natives
| BOD of Ill md
tongues, the African excepted, and emigrants, du
ly naturaliZed, from the continent of Europe 1t il
this aggregation of the spirit and power, to speak
of all nationaiities and this Infusion intermngling
and condensation of all bloods upon a soil, ant
under common banner inscribed with the princi
Piles of justice, liberty and liberation, which hav
made this country what it is, and which can alon
ensure its continuance in the path of improvement
bene6cence and progress. Erect your Chinese wall
Mr. Miller-dig your impossible gulf around thes
thirty States your federal predecessors sough
to do around the old thirteen, and thus, while yo
arrest the spread of free principles this continent
, prevent at the same time all emigration and put
stop to this interminglng of races; and at the en-
of your twenty years. at farthest thirty years
these States instead of being what they are no,
the nursery of heroes and statesmen, and DO
sessed of spirit bone and muscle which could we
defy a world in arms-would exhibit symptoms ,
decline and decay, which nothing but return to OF
present policy could change avert. The bloc
: would, in the end run out. 1t is well known th
the sickliest, feeblest and most cowardly perons
Europe are those who belong to the old noble ar
royal families; and this is, unmstakably, the resu
of long continued intermarriages between them. tt
: same rule will apply to peoples and nations
, The Beacon further says
"Mr. Miller sustained his positions with solid al
i compact logic, which was understood and appreci
- ted by every hearer. His peroration was truly ell
quent. The spirit of civil and religious freedom
"Sam"-was with the children of Israel in the RI
Sea- with Armodus and Aristogiton in expelling Il
u thirty tyrants from Athens; with Demosthen
l. against Philip of Macedon with Cato at ROM
!. AGAINST Catalina and for the Renuhli