Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-04-07

classes OF people her ports shall be opened, what ra
ccs Of men shall vote and shah hold Office, what
shade opinions shall disqualify for enjoying the
rights, privileges and franchises of citizenship vir
gina will have surrendered to the last demand of
abolitiOnsm and been dispoed OF the astattribute
| OF State sovereignty.
He Iartes Tie North to Stop Prosperi,g, In Order TO
Appecse the Jca1oegly Of Virginia.
| But instead of such rotten doctrine, docs our
model State Rights Governor, expectant mean to
lnaintn that aitating this question here in Virginia
is calculated to bring about the exclusion of imiri
grants from the North by voluntary legislation
the part of Northern States Ii so, in what
contemplate attitude does The proposition stand? He
raises huge Glamour in Virginia about the rapid
increase OF political power in the North FROM imni
grafton, for the purpose of inducing these people
Themselves to destroy the main agent Of their own
growth and progress He agitates here to induce
them to cease to grow and prosper, in order to graf
ify Mr.. Fleurrot's pperile statemanship, and to
stothc Virgnia's dog in the-manger spirit. Of all
the absurd and stupid proposition. we have heard it
is this of Mr. Flournoy, borrowed from Gov smith,
that, BY acitatinr and raising hello-beloo here in
Virginia about the great augmentation OF northern
power from immigration, shah indnce them to
lay suicidal axe at the roots Of tleii cwn amazing
prosperity
And yethe Tams up at Last States Right Naai
After announcing these rank and fanatical doc
rines of FEEDER al interference. and Interstate inter-
ference it mockery of State Rights politics, and
an insult to popular inteliigence-enly equaled by
the late similar profession of Wilson OF Massachusetts
for Mir. flournoy to declare:
81 advert particularly to one other principle of the
American party-the ''non-interventon of tho Fed
cral and State government with the municipal affairs
of each other. The strict observance of this princi
pie will make the union Of the States perpetual
The force of impertinence could no fun ther go!
lie desires Virginia to Scom the Great Heyt en- a
Tour Of Prescriptions.
Mr.. Flournoy takes still further pains to proclaim
this rotten Abolition doctrine of interference in the
domestic affairs of other States. The following am
bilious, sophomoIic sentences have prominent
place in his remarkable letter:
ct may be said that there comparatively but
few Foreigners and Roman Catholics in Virginia.
She Is not eeting fer herself alone. She leading
member of this great ssterhaod of States, ard her
action will be feit veal woe, BY them all. Her
destiny is identified with theirs she cannot look
with indifference to the fact, that the great valley of
the Mississippi. watered by twenty thousand miles of
of navigable rivers, and the immense and fertile Ter
rieres stretching beyond to The Pacific capable of
sustaining population of hundred millions, are
rapidly filling up with this class of people,
So, then, our chivalrous Commonwealth, under
the guidance OF his Respondent craftsmanship, is te
assume the honorable Office Of common scoa and in |
termeddler, and to 90 forth into the West and ORTIZ
west, bcratng Catholics and shoe shoong foreigners
like depredating poultry-=out of their gardens
and potato patches A fit Governor for such a COM
monwealth, would be amable Mr.. Flournoy-the |
stateman
Virginia is to go out into the West and Northwest,
jealous, seololng .uho attended by her Know
Nothing Argus OF an hundred eyes, threading their
twenty thousand miles OF rayieahe rivers, expelling
''iorcigners" from land they have held since DE
Soto and la Sale, and excluding Catholics from the
offices OF government IN all its departments We
pity the spirit Of narrow jealousy and intolerance
which dictatas such policy much as the igno-
rance it betrays. Mr.. Fiournoy will be surprised to
learn that there is scarcely a square inch Of the
countries here mentioned in which the Catholic citi-
is not protected ana guaranteed ir all the rights
mmunties and privileges. pn'iticl n,f religious, of
express compacts sacred, inyolabe isrepeaable and
perpetual.
lie is Taught Lessoac rome Importance to .4cfe8-
man fom The Aredieres n he Country.
We shall first apprist our Governor expeetant Of
the existence OF clause in the celebrated ordinance
of llS1 "lor the government OF the territory of the
United States northwest OF the Ohio river" in the
nature OF perpetual compact, framed by some OF
the best men and lnfeSS pastiats viii. whom Sod
venerable statute runs thus
Art. !, No person, demeaning himself in peacca-
Bile and orderly manner, shall be molcsted, on
account of his raode Of worship OF religious scnt
ments, in the said territory.
We trust that no dernagcaue will inlerpose |
here. the shallow qnihble, that 10 insult cil
4, n. with tho declaration thu, his religious
sentiments render him All unsafe deposilary of
official responsibility, L. mol m0leSiing hun Oh
account ut his ,ellsion.
Again, that vas! trrIitdry. acquired by the
Louisiana purchase stretching from the pacific |
10 the Mississippi. embracing Oregon, Taxas,
Missouri aud all tho intermediate domain,
which Wa, ee,led b. France. ani was lirs, set
lleI, az was northwest county lsl mentioned
by Catholics, Is subject 10 the following Solemn
stipulation. being the third article in the Lonis-
lana treaty OF the 3D,h April, 1903 :
Art. 3. The inhabitants OF The ceLed terri.
Tory shall be incorporated in the Union Of The
United States, and admitted as soun as poss
bile, ascending Ia The principles III ihe Federal
Consultations, to the Equipment ot ALI. the
rights, advantages and Iunnunles Ui cilIZens
oil the United States aud, in The meantime,
they shall be- maintained and protected in the
free enjoyment o their liberty, property aud he
religion ,caich they profess.
Instead oil maintaining and pae,,ing ,hem
according 10 HE spnil oil this schema compact,
in hi, religion, Mir. Flcuinoy p,ap"s,s. en- ac-
coam Of 1t, 10 prescribe Them IRON Office and
degrade then: from the rank ot sovereign Gill.
Zens.
Proceeding farther in this Interesting his,o-
rlcal enquiry, we find annlhef portion OF The
Union, watered in par, b, the Mississippi, cnn-
seciated perps,ually TO religious ioierttion.--
The Treaty III Feb. % 1919, with Spain, nn-
der h'ch We acquired Florida and IA large adj
lacen, terilioy, contains these two arlic
les
! ARr. 5, The inhabitants OF the celed ierri-
tories shah be secured in The free eIefeise o!
lhuil ,eleion, ,oitbout ANY restriction; and all
those who may desire 10 remove to the Spanish
loulinions sIi II be permitted 10 sell OF export
their effects al any lime whatever, without be
| ing SUBJECT, in either ease, to duties.
| AKT. &. The inhabitants Of Inc territories
which HIS ,thoiit Majesty cedes IN the Uni
ted States, BY this Treaty, shall be Incorporated
in The unan oil The United States, as suon as
may be consistent with the principles oil the
Feleiai Constitution, aud admitted 10 the en-.
jymeni otAi.L ths privileges, rights and im-
muaiiies oil the u rlXt.Ns OF The Uulled States
And eoinlne Still further down, oven To "a,
own times, re iiitd tina. our vas, acquisition,
from Mexico, IN enrile Itself, in HE magnitude
Of lis ara, It's population and wealth, TO be in
delbly stamped with an holy cannon of religi-
ons taleraiian. In tho Treaty Fl may 30, 1919,
With The Mexican kepubli;, under which, au-
iiorons California became a part OF our uaon
OCCURS the oowina golden provision.
ART. 9. Mrxieans who, in The territories
aforesaid, shall not preserve The eharaelero ct-
izens OF The Mexican Rspahlic bu shall elec,
under ihu pieca,lins clause 10 be citizens OF
the Quilted States So shall be Incorporated
into the Union OF tho United States, and be
admitted al the proper lime l,o be Judged OF by
the Congress III tho United S'atss) to tho Gu
oymen, OF ALL the ahls Of citizens OF the