Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-13

Our Principles.
First We shall advocate repeal Of the
laws of naturalization, or If that cannot be &C
complished, then such modification of those
laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short Of q residence Of
twsnty-one years, after taking the oath Of ale
giance to the United States, and of o6juration
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes
Second We shall advocate the passage Of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the i'm
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
pGupers or crinsinals 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, imme-
diate and ample sGtisfaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof
Third We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointnent Of any Jorsign-6orn 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 of soar maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the natios-5orn citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be content with the enjoy
ment Of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
tha an ocf;ou sdyn;r ;ct~r 49,, -. .-a...A:. n
our laws
Fourth. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption Of such an amended form of an oath
to support the Consultation Qf the Uaited
Statss, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust, honor,
or emolument, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will effectualIy exclude from such
offices all pcrsons, who shall not directly and
egplicitly recognise the obligations and bind
| ing force of the Constitution Of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations Of adhe-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince, power,
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
| all circumstances
FIFTH. We shall maintain tho doctrine that
| no one of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment of free ssa6rdgs any
person Of foreign birth, who has not becn first
made citizen of the United States, according
to the uniform rule" Of naturalization pre-
scribod by Congress, under the provisions Of
| the constitution.
Sirth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "union of Church and Stats,p no matter
what class Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union
SeucnM. We shall vigorously maintain the
Ucsted rights Of all persons, Of native or Jcrsign
birth, and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights.
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridsment Of religious Mbsrsy, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that rsg;cioss fss<k Il !
question between each individual and hi God,
and over which no political governmsnt, e rexhsw
human power, can rightfully exercise any "a
pervision or control, at any time, in any placs.
or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose all higher lswn
doctrines, by which the constitution is 10 be set
at nought violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicidns, by religionists or by the adh0ents
or followers Of either, or by any other class of
persona
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
oonstitution Is 1t stands, the Union ss 1t ex-
lists, and the rights Of the States, without di-
minntion as guaranteed thereby: opposing ut
al times, and to the extent Of our ability and
influence, al who may sssai them, or either Of
them.
Eeventh We shall oppose no man, and sus-
ksss, L. r. "a
TO, or his support Of, Democratic measures. or
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctxincs
EeLftA And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up An "Ansricon party"
whose maxim shall be:
AnxRIcArs SHALL RULE THEIR OoUErnri
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
In the Assembly of Virginia In the beginning Of
the year 1888: H
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts to influence Il by tenn
poral punishments or burdens or by civil incapa-
citations tend only TO bcget habits of hypocrisy
and meanness, and are departure from the plan
ofthe Holy Author of our religion, Who being Lord
both of body and Of mind, yet chose not 70 prop
agate by coercions on either was In his almighty
power TO do; that the impious presumption Of leg
islstures and rulers civil AZ well AZ ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired
men, have assumed dominion over the faith Of
others, setting up their opinions and modes Of
thinking the only true and nfallible and "a such
endeavoring to impose them upon others, hath cs-
tablshed and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the world and through all time
that to compel man 10 furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
disbelcvcs, IL sinful and tyrannical that even the
forcing him to support this that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion Ia deprving him Of the
comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
TO the particulrr pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive tonghteousness 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
unremitting labors for the instruction Of msnkind;
that our civil rights have dependence on our re-
lgious opinions more than our opinions IN physics
or geometry; that therefore, the proscribing Of