Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-12

with him, for the cases are not parallel The Amer-
can party have not combined TO exclude from
Office naturalzed citizens simply for the reason
that they are not natives. But On account OF the
general llteracy, vicious habits, and want of moral
training Of emigrant aliens, the ignorance, many
Of them Of our ow- language, and, as TO nearly
all OF them, their profound ignorance OF our
constitutions and laws, and of our republican In
situations; many of them, oreover, paupers and
criminals, and tax upon our industry, We believe
it 10 DO unsafe TO confer upon them, on short
esidence, the most precious rights and privileges
feefnen can ePjoy--the blood-bought privileges
Of our venerated sires, which we are satisfied such
people cannot rightly appreciate In short time,
Offices Of trust after they have been naturalized,
which We believe they cannot be qualified to fill TO
the public advantage Not only 80, but we have
reason to believe that most of them are under the
guidance Of men who are iniinical to civil and rel
gious liberty, who are sent hero for purposes hos
tile TO our free institutions, and TO elevate them TO
places Of trust and power In our government, is to
lay the 70 the root of the tree Of liberty Is this
more than Wings and Democrats respectively have
been doing formany years towards each otherf Is
!. unconst tutiona FIR Wh'gsto combine TO exclude
Democrats and for Democrats 70 combine to exclude
Wings ON Officer As citizens, their rights-surely
Mr.. johnson will not deny it--are as constitutional
and legal as those of naturalized citizens only
No, no there 10 nothing unconstitutional In either
II Wings, being In power, believe that certain
rty or order of men possess principles and
motives antagonistic to their own, calculated to
mako them dangerous as public officers to the
great interests of the country, and that therefore,
as conservators of the general welfare, they ought
not to confer on such persons Offices OF trust, /
contend they have the right TO exclude them. ]
go further, and say, If they conscientiously be-
leve that the appointment of such persons would
be pryudicial to the general welfare--they ought
to exclude them. just SO with the Democrats-so
with the Americans 80 with the anti Americans,
or Tories
But, i do not comprehend how combination
Of Observation-Disclosures than Congress itself--can,
directly violate the provision of the constitution
which simply invests Congress with the power " to
establish uniform rule Of Naturalization 1t can
only be done, ! apprehend, indirectly. That is,
by violating the rule which the Congress have al
ready established Mr. johnson does not pretend
to designate any part Of that rule which has been
violated, or may be violated, by the American
party in carrying out their principles yet he
affirms that they do violate the constitution. /
know that Mr. johnson Is an able lawyer; never
thcless, do not hesitate to deny, emphaticaly,
the truth Of hs assertion, aud shall wait to be
coniounded by his making 1t good. A
In conclusion, would ask Mr.. johnson if he
does not know that the paramount end and aim
the polar star--of the Roman Church is universal
uOHilnlOu! ~ Dc III TGhHiy tHht WuCll "a Ciuiuicu
for It in their creed the mother and the mistress
Of all churches, and the Pope the master Of the
whole earth. 1.-The does not know this he has read
it's history to little purpose If he has read 1t
at all can II him that If he does not know this
do. And II be prepared for it, Is be ready, for
himselis he willing Tor his posterity TO submit to
thiss He may be, bullet me tell him, the Ameri-
can party is not, and never will be. No true or
pure American over can be-
If the Roman Catholics among US understood
us rightly, and were not blind to the Vaccinations
>of the Jcsuits, they would know that the Ameri-
can party is their best friend, instead Of being an
enemy; because, its aim is TO prevent that con-
summation which would make their descendants.
in common with all others, slaves. In Italy and
Austria we would be hailed with joyful acclama-
tous as the friends and brothers of the do~n-trod
den misses, az we should be everywhere because
we are foes to all who would deprive mankind of
civil and religious liberty; because we wage an
Incorporating warfare against despotic power;
not that despotism only which binds and crushes
the physical man, but, in the language of Jefferson,
"wc have sworn upon the altar Of our God eternal
hostility to every species Of tyranny over the
mind of man "