Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-07
Our Principles.

R'e 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 ofaa residence Of
twenty -one years, aasr taking the oath of ale
glance to the United States, and of a1jurdtion
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes
Second. We shall advocate the passage Of
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, imnss-
diats and ample satistaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof RsA
Third We shall oppose the election Or ap-
pointment Of any JovSig,a-6osn 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 time cf Uar; maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the Saties-5orn citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth and that al immigrants
from abroad should be content with the enjoy
ment Of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
cur laws m
4, FbprtA We shall advocats and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form Of an oath
to support the C0nstitHtion 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 Stste gov
ernments, a. viii efectually exclude from such
Offices all persons, who shall not directly and
egplcitly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force of the Constitution Of the United
States, as paramount to al 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
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to admit to the enjoyment Of .Jrss outrage any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been first
made q citizen of the United States, according
to the g uniform rulen Of nstnr Aviation pre-
scribcd by Congress, under the provisions Of
the constitution %
Sirth We shall oppose now and hereafter,
any "anion ef Church and Ssses," no matter
what class Of religionists shall sesk to bring
about such union. - la as rala
Seventh. We shall vigorously maintain the
uested rights Of Al persons, Of native or oreigx
birth, and shall at al times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights. asiss
Eighth We shall oppose and protestaeainst
az a6ridgmsnt Of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religiou JsitA 10
question between each individual and his God,
and over which no political government rother
human power, can rightfuIly exercise any su-
pervision or control, at any time, in any place,
or in any form 5ls, f 49,
Ninth,i We shall oppose all higher law"
doctrines by which the constitution is to be set
at nought, violated, or disresardsd, whether by
politicians, by religionists, or by the adhsrsnts
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persons. g... ~
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
conssitution as 1t stands the Union as it ex-
lists, and the rights Of the States, without di-
rninution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
all times, and to the extent of our. ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either Of
them. t Eia .g,a rft.rsas53 slslt s.-5sT
.Eleoenth We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground of his opposition
to- or his support of Democratic measures, or
Whig measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines. .9fn
Tmelth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an American party
whose maxim shall be: ...ss
AMERICANS SHALL RULE THEIR OousrRri
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
In the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1885;
Wen aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence 1t by tenn
poral punishments-or or burdens or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only to beget habits Of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are 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, in his almighty
power to do; that the impious presumption ofleg-
slstures and rulers civil az well as ecclesastical,
who, being themselves but flIble 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 infalible and such
endeavorng to impose them upon others, hath es-
tabtshed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part of the world, and through all time
that TO compel man to furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbeleves, Ia sinful and tyrannica; that even the
forcing him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion is depIving him of the
comfortable liberty Of giving his contributions
to the particular pastor whose morals be would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive torghteousness and is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro-
ceedng from an appreciation Of their personal con
Duct are an additional Indictment to earnest and
unremiting labors for the instruction of mankind;
that our civil rights have no dependence on our re-
ligous opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry; that, therefore, the prescribing of
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by
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