Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-03-08

are now natives in the United States, whose
interest 1t is to come here-who would be
riddance to their own countries; and that
the motire and the means exist TO send them
here. Then the question is forced upon us
by the existing state Of things, whether the
.Ndttre americans will quietly let the sove-
reign power Of our government pass into
foreign hands9 Or, in other words, will
they suffer it to pass to the Church of Rome?
for nine-tenths of the immigrants belong to
that church.
Many there are among us who cry out
''there is no danger" and council us to
"stand STILL" because some distinguished
foreigners came hither to seek for fame on
the fields of our revolutionary glory. But
if Lafayette and Montgomery could be per-
mitted TO revisit us now, who can believe
they would counsel us 10 place the sovereign
power over the liberty they bled for, in the
hands of the floating itinerant world Of man
kind? Some of the most sensible foreign
ers with lis are the frmest friends of the
American cause.
Some natives appeal the fathers Of the
Republic, and the laws they left, in regard
t" foreigners, as precedents that we should
follow now. What they did, was done on
the facts before them. Europe had not then
been brought into our neighborhood by steam:
very few foreigners could vote under the
original constitutions of the Sta,cs;-,hey
did not then swarm at elections. like the To-
Gusts OF Egvpt;-thcy then did not hold the
boIance Of power, between the native par
tieS;-they had not then introduced corrup-
tion into all the departments Of the govern
ment. The limits Of the United States then
did not exceed S2O6SO square miles:-It
now contains 100000 square miles. Pre-.
cedents drawn from the then state Of our aC-
fairs, afford no guide for us now. But, even
then, the fathers of our institutions seem to
have seen the danger in the distance. Mr..
Jefferson, as early as the date of his notes
on Virginia, wrote as follows:
"lmmgrants will bring with them the
principles Of the governments they leave,
lml Ibed in early YOUTH or. if able 10 throw
,hem on 1t will be in exchange for an un-
bounded Ilcentionsness: passing, as is usual
from one extreme 10 another. 1t would be q
miracle, were they 10 stop precisely at the
point of temperate liberty These princi.
pies. with their language, they will ransmit
to their children. In proportion to their
numbers. they will share with Us in the leg
iSla'on: they will infuse into i. their spir,t.
warping It's direction. and rendering it 9
heterogeneous mass"
How exactly we have seen verified these
ideas of Mr.. Jefferson.
It's known also, from numerous letters
Of Washington, that he wos most decidedly
opposed to foreign immigration, and foreign
influence in all of its forms.
To give up the power of voting, is The
surrender Of the sovereign power, which i.
, equivalent 10 giving our property, our civi
and religious Liberties, into foreign hands
If we give up TO them, will they exercise ;
safe guardianship over us?
No other nation ever had its origin unde,
similar circumstances 10 ours; no such form
of government ever existed Oh earth. Tn,
French have made many efforts to copy it.,
They tried voting; but they soon voted dcs
potic power into one hand, with view I,
get leave to wear their heads.
The Mexcans tried voting; and the other
day they fled in terror from their licentiou,
freedom, and voted a dictatorship to SAyrA
ANNA, to keep them from cutting one an
others throats.
lfforeigners act in this way for themselves
what will they do for us?
No one can expect the blessing of Cor
on any undertaking, unless the object be ,
righteous one; and the means of its attain,
ment just. The object of the .4merican.
will be the defence, security, ard preserva
tion of their liberties; and the inviolable in
tegrity orthis Union.
And was there ever on earth more no.
ble purpose than this? Is not this work
that righteous man can do;-can reflect
upon;-cnn sleep and wake upon;-con die
upon? The means are as just as the Object
is grand.
The passage Of the naturalization law,
was matter of discretion; and their repeal
is a matter of right. The authority of the
States over the right Of suffrage, both as tc
natives and foreigners, is a thing unques.
toned. As TO the question of right the
sovereign Porer is as much the property oi
Americans, as their houses and lands, and
foreigners have as much right to demand ,he
one as the ether, The Americans propose
to make no invasion on the rights Of any hu
man being they place themselves N the de.
fenslve. No means are necessary to the at.
iaInment of the holy object, that is inconsis.