Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-22

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orr agent to make collection Of claims due this
Office in the city. We trust that it may suit the
convenience Of those to whom be may present &c
counts to make prompt settlements.
Preaching out Of the other side " the Mouth.
The following paragraphs which appeared some
time ago in the government organ, ut Wash
iug,on, escaped our attention. until we found
them reproduced in the columns Of a contempt
rary:
In taking lis position. il should be carefully
borne in mind that the Democratic party neither
assumes that the naturalization laws they now
exist are perfect. nor that foreigners hive not
on some occasions subjected themselves TO just
eensures. nor that the Roman Catholic religion
is based upon the true Christian creed Citizen
ship is boon granted to foreigners by the hber-
aty Of our institutions, and this fact cannot be
too carefully weighed and appreciated by our for
eigp ci.izens They should constantly reinem-
Der that the high privileges conceded them have
been granted upon the reasonable expectation
that they would surrender their distinctive native
nationa.ties. and become fused and assmilated
to our native citizens in all their feelings, sent-
ments and devotion 10 our liberal Institutions
1t becomes them now in view of the late sgnh
cant expression If popular feeling. TO consider
well whether, in their past conduct, they may
not have given occasioi to much of the opposi-
ton which exists against them.
Native Americans are Justly proud OF their high
prerngaiyes. md they naturally jealous OF
anything like foreign influence upon their insti-
iuiious. In these sentiments and feelings we
participate TO the fullest extent, aud it is because
we do. that We So csrnesly.repel the mpaia'on
that tie Democratic party has pursued or will
pursue. IAN incendary policy" in order to con
cae the gn vote. Aaturalized citizens
ought 10 see in the immense increase OF foreign
immigration within the last few years, legitimate
reason for an earnest investigation by native
citizens Of the probable influence of this increase
Of foreign population upon our Institutions.
This is faig aud les sub ee for discussion
and lift shall Jesuit in the conviction that ma
turalizaton laws are defective and require to be
amended or reformed. the ndtdr-hzed citizens
ought neither TO be SURPRISED nor complain II
may be assumed as n fixed fact that the native
American population will never consent 10 any
modification oftho principles which characterze
their institutions, ard from whatever quarter
they see danger Of tlds kind they will be prompt
to meet and repel it. Wien the Suggestion is
made that this danger turks under the religious
creed Of the Catholics, it is right and proper that
the truth Of the suggestion should be sltted to
the bottom, and to such an investigation none
will contribute more than the Democracy.
Now, batting that part of the foregoing which
arrogates credi, to the Democrats party for
sensible views and laudable purposes in the pre-
misses, the opinions therein expressed are those
which we understand to be held by the American
party-that party against which the Union has
been for months declaming with rabid and no.
lentless fury.
1t is only necessary to say, in response to the
fair pretences of this Democratic organ, that the
abuses and dangers which it admits TO exist have
grown up under Democratic fostering and en-
oouragement. Not only has that party failed to
exercise the power which it has had in the ma
Gonal Legislature. for upbroken series Of
years, to guard against remedy the evils which
the Union recognizes, but it is demonsira-
BILE that Democratic legislation has been direct
ed to the distinct object of increasing the for
eign element in our population, while Demo
cratic electiopeerng policy has done more than
all other causes to make foreignism power in
the State, and to corrupt it to the uses of that
party.
The whole tendency ofpolitioal discussions
for the past twelve months has been, on tho part
of Democratic advocates, to aggrandize the for
eign element,and exasperate it against those who
we're proposing to DO the very things, which the
Union, now that the elections are over-,imidly
pledges its own party to do. Let the reader
contrast the admissions and the admonitions Of
the metropolitan Journal we will not say with
its own columns. for they are not so familiarly
known, but with the tone of the Democratic
press in this State, during the late canvass for
Governor, strikingly STILL with the speech
es Of Mr.. Wise, who led the party in tina, can
yass' Did We see or hear then any such decar.
atoms as that foreigners had Subjected them
selves to just censures' and given occasion to
much of the opposition which exists against
theml" Did we have then any admission from
Democratic lips pens that the immense in
crease of foreign immigration within the last few
years" is Legitimate reason for an earnest in.
sestigstion by native citizens of the probable in
crease offoreign population upon our institu-
tons! Was there then any insinuation howev-
or obscure or oblique. that danger to our nstitu-
tons "lurks under The religious creed of the
Catholics" and that it should be .sifted TO the
bottom"l
Not one syllable sound so signifying dis.
turbed the UNIVERSAL chorus that chanted the
praises of our foreign-born fellow citizens. But
khe tune is changed With the words which meas
ure it. The music now is altogether different
Ifforeigners cannot dance as nimbly aud as
gi3efdlly to it, as they did to that which was
played them before the elections, let them look
to the pipers. =" a.. 80
What Railroads do tor Formers.
The following paragraph from the Athens,
Tenn Post shows what yalwavs do for farm,