The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-14

fruits has come the evil and now when invited BATTERED
pandered To- the foreign population North has grown
70 be power in the Statewhen Il asserts its rights
guaranteed BY the constitutions Of these very States 10
JOY equally with the naysborn de privileges Of the cit
lzeni Is 10 be marked down for political prescription
Now, we condemn as thoroughly as any the abuses
which have arisen under the naturalization laws and
desire reform But Is for that very that reject
The plans OF the knownotng party utterly inefficient
Modify the naturalization laws extend the Of citizen
ship 10 ten twenty years. and what viii lie accomplish
cd vi not perjury be as readily committed then
now VIII he pause in that does not hesitate
the otherf Modify the naturalization laws-nay,
peal them-and would not the unnaiurazed foreigner sin
exercise the right Of suffrage in States in this Union
whose constitutions permit 1.-THE very States too where
foreign influence il deeply felt? Modify repeal the
naturalization laws and would not every State in the
Union IN the exercise Of m exclusive control suffrage
be able to admit foreigners naturalsed vote in the
teeth Of either modification repeal What win the
plans proposed by the nownorhng party effect in these
seven States whose constitutions have quoted Seeing
that any changes in the naturalization laws must prove
inefficient proposes also effect he repeal by the legis
atures Of the respective States of all Stale laws allowing
foreigners not nRturalized to vote
Now, have seem it is the State constitutions and
not the State laws which confer this privileges and these
constitutions be amended before it can be taken
away. Yet what chance does Che know-nothing party
stand Of efecung such amendment The foreign ele-
munt controls some and is powerful in all of these Sates
No party opposed 10 such Issue obtain power
sufficient 70 carry the amendments needed This the
know-nohings in thcse States feel and acknowledge and
hence they call upon national party help them ia their
extremity brought about by their acts. They call
upon the South, whose institutions they revie, whose
rights they nssa and TO whose destruction they look with
all the hendish hopes Of anatcism and grated political
lust to assist them in in which she has little
interest They propose her influence ia the national
councils to effect their ends and then to the GOV
ernment for her overthrow They propose changes and
excite issues which have already the country in bitter
and angry ieuds and which, when accomplished viii have
utterly failed 10 achieve their object What sympathy eau
the South feel in such scheme2 How she bliadly
consent TO be made the ats-paw Of her enemyi
We revert to the great principles Of the constitution,
and rejecting the visionary expedients Of modern reform
rely upon TO suggest the remedy wherever remedy is
needed To the exercise Of those immortal principles Of
State rights to the free and fall sovereignty of the States
upon this vital subject confidently ponta the true
and only Of remedy for whatever evils may exist
The State is competent-he State is the medium Of
form and national parties only deserve her indg
nant Reproduction when TO the proofs OF utter thlessness
they add that of usurpaon by seeking to invade under
the specous pretext of REFORM the sacred right Of State
to decide for itself who shall and who shall not exercise
within her limits the right Of suffrage