The American patriot., 1855-12-15
Sound and True Ooptrine.

Sound and True Doptrine.
In late speech delivered By Senator Crit.
tsndsn, Of fKentucky-than whom noble man
and truer patriot does not breathe-the follow.
ing passage occurs, which is 70 beautiful, true
and just, and In such exact consoAanes with
The American sentiment, that ~ copy Il with
pleasure:
feel no unkiodness, no hostility to foreign.
erswhatsoever- am willing to offer him eve
rything, every blessing our country affords,
will tell him, como and share them with US.
If you have been the object of oppression in
foreign land, come here and free. fin anoth-
or land you have suffered from want, come
and share our plenty. Our laws will protect
you; our laws will give you such freedom as
you cannot enjoy elsewhere in the world be-
side. But we reserve 10 ourselves the right to
govern our country. Leave that to u.s. You
shall have all the benefits our free institutions
afford That is the great boon we offer. What
other country in the world offers the sameP
None. Can any Of you 60 to foreign land
and become invested with the poor political
privileges conceded to the people Of itf No,
not one. Let the foreigner, therefore, come
here, and take everything but the right to gov
ern US. We must take care that we do not
become aliens in our own land. This liberty
is ours. Our blood and that of our fathers has
been shed for it. 1t is ours by our right and
our title; and this land we intend to govern.
and we will govern.
If any man has an indefeasibie right to speak
plainly to naturalized citizens and aliens, with
out calling forth expressions Of fdisapprobation,
John J. Crittenden is the man. When the ia.
mine in Ireland was more than decimating the
population, he rose in his place in the United
States Senate and proposed resolution appro-
priating five hundred thousand dollars, to be
expended in the procurement Of the necessaries
oflife to be forwarded to the starving. His
motion although, it did not finally prevail,
showed the overfowing kindness Of his heart
and, although it is questionable whether it
would gain him single vote where he na-
tional candidate, still it ought to relieve him
from the attacks of carping, ill.natured criti-
cism, on account of frank and manly express
sion of his honestly entertained sentiments
We are not aware, personally, whether Mr..
Crittonden belongs to what is termed the Amer.
ican organization. Whether &c or not, he has
embodied, in few brief sentences, the leading
paramount idea Of the organization. And it is
done, too, in style as truthful as it is void Of
offence to all rejecting, unprejudiced men, we
care not what soil was their national soil.-
Why, here, by way of practical illustration,
in the State of Louisiana, hundreds of intelli.
gent naturalized citizens voted the entire Amer
ican ticket, from . sincere conviction that the
great principle, Of which it was the examplar,
was right and ought to prevail-that it was
recognized and enforced in all civilized coun.
tries, and that, as . natural consequence, it
should be recognized and enforced here
We have not the smallest doubt that but for
the patriotic aid afforded 6y well-informed and
disposed naturalized citizens, the city Of New
Orleans would have gone for our opponents by
five or six hundred majority The aid we re-
ceived from them counterbalanced about ffty
per cent, Of the desertions of the old liners,
many of whom, we understand, do not feel as
though they had succeeded in getting into par
ticularly enviable political quarters.-N o.
Crescent.