The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-17
RrwARE or FOREIGN INFLUENCE.


We would espeially direct the attention Of readers
10 the perusa or the following article from the New York
Evening Post That paper that il Is now, for the
FIRST time afraid OF foreign influence and gives the follow
ing reasons for II;
~ have acerAned 10 our entire satisfaction that there
Il secret and very organization with mysterious
agencies in nearly every village in the United States now
engaged banding together the people OF foreign birth
among and in keeping alive among them all the national
preudiees and preferences political, social ard religious,
which they ma with them shores Ii seems
TO be principal object Of this nothing organization 70
alien residents from becoming Interested IN and den
tilted the American institutions and people, and from
parting with their allegiance the under which
they we're born In accomplishing this result they neglect
no opportunity of oentng the most malignant anpAthes
and in breasts of alien residents they induce
them believe that they win be deprived OF employ that
their lives and property are insecure and that their
will wrested from them by the courts or perhaps burnt
by obs The instruments Of this know nothing
ganizaon secured prominent positions In egsa-
emblies of their devsng occupy very
consde able share Of the time Of representatives, its
powerful aud often controlling influence at
political meetings. and there those among them who
do disguise their expectation of elevang Of their
order 70 the presidency at the next election
But all their plans lave before stated contemplate
sepa alton OF feeling between our native and
population and in furtherance of this object
they have recently procured the introduction Of bill into
the nted States which designed to limit the priv
ege citizenship persons who have resided IN the couA
try for period OF least twentyone years Tins indions
adv upon grounds of pretended patriot
ism who reflects upon its operations Tor single
the dar ker purpose whehies behind ~
to bind the foreigners together by the ties OF common IN
Justice and prvaton and at the same time to d.
minsh destroy, all interest in the prosperity Of
their adopted country. They reason correctly that the
half million from the old country who annually
seek in the United States required to wait TWEEN
y-one years before they allowed any influence in ma
king the laws which they required to submit or in
expendag the towards which they required
contribute very few years their numbers would become
great to create mighty nation in our midst, dis
gusted by intolerance unrendy to our institutions, in
disposed minge with people, and ready to unite witt
our enemies whether internal external at moments
tiee.
This ntoerant organization, have good reason io
believing already numbers several hundred thousand
bers What renders it the dangerous well as dis
graceful the that each member is admitted under thu
solemn and impressive oahs to conceal not only its OBJ
/
We presume what have disclosed of their proceedings
viii satisfy readers that, whatever their purposes
be- results which they aborng to accomplish
most mischievous that they at with the spirit
institutions and with the true interests of country
which depend very great degree upon the contribution
| of imported labor and capital"