Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-20

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First. We shall advocate = repeal Of the
laws Of naturalization, or If that cannot be ac-
complished, then such modification Of those
laws, as viii prevent future immigrants from
becoming citizens, short of residence Of
twenty -one years, after taking the oath Of alle-
glance to the United States, and Of abjurGtion
Of all other powers, potentates, and princes.
8Scond. We shall advocate the passage Of a
stringent law by Congress to prevent the inn
migration hither Of foreigners, who are either
p0rpers or criminals, and to send back to the
countries from which they come, all such for
eignors 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, insne-
diats and ample satiydction for such outrage,
and proper indemnity against the repetition
thereof ssl# es, eg9
Third. We shall oppose the election or ap-
pointment Of any Jorsiyn-born 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 Sn time of uGr maintaining, as we
do the opinion, that the nGtipe-6oyn 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 tho enjoy
ment of life, liberty and property, under our
institutions, without seeking to participate in
the enacton, administration, or execution Of
our laws. 4H
F6urth. We shall advocate and urge the
adoption of such an amended form of an oath
to support tho Constitution Of tho United
States, and to be administered to all persons
elected or appointed to any Office Of trust honor,
or emolumcnt, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will eHectually exclude from such
offices all persons, whs shall not directly and
erplicitly 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
al circumstances
Fifth. We shall maintain the doctrine that
no one of the States of this Union has the right
to admit to the enjoyment Of free suffrage any
person Of. foreign birth, who has not been first
made a citizen Of the United States, according
to the uniform rule" Of naturalization pre-
scribcd by Congress, under the provisions of
the constitution.
iSirth. We shall oppose, now and hereafter,
any "uaion Of Church and State" no matter
what class Of religionists shall seek to bring
about such union.
Seventh We shall vigorously maintain the
uested 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 a6ridsment of religious liberty, holding
it as cardinal maxim, that religious faith is a
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. t
Ninth. We shah oppose all higher law
doctrines, by which the constitution is to be set
at nought violated, or disregarded, whether by
politicians, by reJigionists, or by the adhcrents
or followers Of either, or by any other ciass Of
persons.
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend the
constitution as It stands, the Union as it ex-
lists and the rights Of the States, without di-
minution as guaranteed thereby: opposing at
all times and to the extent Of our ability and
influence, al who may sssail them, or either of
them e a rf
Eleventh.. We shall oppose no man, and sus-
tain no man, on the ground Of his opposition
to, or his support Of Democratic measures, or
Whig measur es; but we shall oppose those who
oppose our doctrines, and sustain those who
sustain our doctrines
TDeLfth. And lastly, we shall use our utmost
exertions to build up an american party
whose maxim shall be:
AMERICANS sHALL RULE THEIR OoUSTRYi
AN ACT for establishing religious freedom, passed
In the Assembly Of Virginia in the beginning Of
the year 1885:
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 beget habits of hypocrisy
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 to prop
agate by coercions on either, was in his almighty
power TO do; that the impious presumption of leg
isatures and rulers civil as well as ecclesiastical
who, being themselves but hllibe and uninspired
men, nave assumed DOMINION over the faith OF
Others setting up their own opinions and modes Of
thinking the only true and nfalible, and such
endeavoring to impose them upon Others, hath es-
tablished and maintained false religions over the
greatest part OF the world, and through all time
that 10 compel man TO furnish contributions Of
money for the propagation of opinions which ho
disbeIeves, Ia sinful and tyrannical that even the
forcing him TO support this or that teacher Of his
own religious persuasion ia depriving him Of the
comfortable liberty Of giving his contributors
to the particular pastor whose morals he would
make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most
persuasive torighteousness 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
unremtting labors for the instruction Of mankind;
that civil rights have no dependence on our re-
lgious opinions more than our opinions in physics
or geonrtry that, therefore, the prescribing of
any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by
laying upon him an incapacity of being called to
the Offices Of trust and cmoument, unless he pro