Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-11

/ Our Principles. T..
FIRST. We shall advocate yepcal of the
laws Of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
complished, then such modification Of those
laws, as win prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short Of residences Of
twsnty-o one years, after taking the oath of ale
glance to the United States, and of a5jurGtion
-of all other powers, potentates, and princes
Second We shall advocate the passage Of
stringent law by Congress to prevent the I'M
migration hither of foreigners, who are sitAsy.
paupe,s or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all sueA 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 lsither such classes of its subjects isnnss-
diote and ample satistaction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
| thereof
Third We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any .Joreign-6o1n citizen to any
office OF trust, honor or ernolument 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 natipe-5orn citizens Of
the United States have the right to govern the
land Of their birth; and that all immigrants
from abroad should be centent with the enioy-
tnent of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enaction, administration, or execution Of
our laws.
F6urth. We shall advocate and urge tho
adoption Of such an amended form Of an oath
TO support the Constitution Of the United
States, 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 effectually exclude from such
offices all persons whe shall not directly and
erptid5tly recognise the obligations and bind
ing force of the Constitution of the United
States, as paramount to all obligations Of adhs-
sion or allegiance to any foreign prince, power.
potentate, or authority whatever, under any and
all circumstances. ~ n
FIFTH. We shall maintain the doctrine that
. no one Of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment of freq suffrage any
person Of foreign birth, who has not been first
made citizen Of the United States, according
to the "uniform rule" of naturalization pre-
sc,ibcd by Congress, under the provisions Of
| the constitution. d9
SirtA. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "uaion Of Church aad State :. no matter
what class of religionists shall seek 10 bring
about such union ae hs a.5
Seventh. We shall vigorously maintain the
Vested rights Of all persons, of native or foreign
BIRTH and shall at all times oppose the slightest
interference with such vested rights.
Eighth. We shall oppose and protest against
all a6ridsmsat Of religious liberty, holding
il as cardinal maxim, that religious faith is
| question between each individual and his God,
and over which no political government or other
human power can rightfully exercise any su:
pervision or control, at any time, in any place,
or in any form. ,,...,., -. -.
NinA We shall oppose al ahigher lsw"
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
at nought violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicians, by religionists, or by the ndherents
or followers Of either, or by any other class Of
persona usaFl t1atg up
Tenth We shall maintain and defend the
oonstitufson Ms II stands, the Union as II ex-
lists, and the rights Of the States, without al.
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
al times, and TO the extent Of our ability and
influence, all who may assail them, or either of
them.
Elecenth We shah oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground Of his opposition
| to, or his support Of, Democratic measures, or
Whiq measures; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines.
| noslfth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party
whose maxim shall be:
AMERICANS SHALL RULE THrR OourTRri
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AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, psssed
in the Assembly Of Virginia In the beginning Of
the year 1855:
Wen aware that Almighty God hath created the
mind free that all attempts 70 influence It by tenn
poral punishments or burdens, or by civil incapa-
citations, tend only 10 beget habits of hypo0isy
and meanness, and are departure from the plan
Of the Holy Author Of our religion who, being lord
both Of body and Of mind, yet chose not 10 prop
agate by eoercons ON either In his almighty
power TO do; that the irnpious presumption Of leg
slaturcs and rulers, civil well 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 as the only true and infable, and such
endeavoring 10 impose them upon others, hath es-
tablishcd and maintained false religions over the
greatest part Of the vorld, and through all time
that 10 compel a man TO furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation Of opinions which he
dsbeieves, ia sinful and tyrannical that even the
forcing him 10 support this that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion IL depriving 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
persuasve 10 righteousness and Is Withdrawing from
the ministry those temporal rewards, which, pro
ceeding from an appreciation Of their personal con-
duct, are an additional Indictment 70 earnest and
unremitting sbors for the instruction Of mankind !;
that our civil rghts have dependence on our re-
ligious opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geometry that, therefore, the prescribing Of
any citizen AZ unworthy the public confdence by
laying upon him an incapacty Of being called 10
the Offices Of trust and enolument unless he pro
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