Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1856.
The Democratic Party the only Ark of Safety
for the Foreign Born Citizen.

W NANoO "AR NV ~ AAOiA ~
expressions Of the old world, and cast their
lot with us in the new. The history Of the
country-the records Of journalism-the
edicts of legislative enactment-all TEEN
with the proof of the fidelity and the con-
stancy of the Democracy to the liberal prin
ciples embodied by JEFFERSON in the Decla-
ration of independence. The following res
olution on this subject, passed by the Balti-
more Convention in 1910, has been reiterated
by every subsequent National Convention Of
the Democracy, and is now, as it ever has
been, one of the fundamental articles of
their creed
ResOlued, That the liberal principles en-
bodied by jefferson in the Declaration of lnde-
and sanctioned in the Constitution,
which makes ours the land Of liberty, aud the
asylum Of the oppressed Of every nation, have
ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic
faith, aud every attempt to abridge the priv.
lege of becoming citizens and the owners of soil
among us, ought to be resisted with the same
spirit which swept the alien aud seditiou laws
from our statute books.
The sentiment here expressed is unaai-
NOUS. Through every recognized channel
of conveying the settled principles and con-
victionS of the party to the people, comes the
same evidence to-day that came in the days
of the Revolution and at the organization of
parties at the election of JEFFERSON to the
Presidency.
The opponents of the Democracy have, on
the contrary, just as persistently opposed the
admission of foreigners to the rights Of citi-
zenship. In all the changes Of party names
by which the opposition have been charac-
terized, they have been uniform and con-
sistent in their persecution and prescription
Of our foreign born population. We might
fill our entire paper with extracts from
speeches, resolutions, and newspaper para
graphs, showing that as Federalists, National
Republicans, Wings, Know Nothings and
Black Republicans, they have attempted to
interpose an insurmountable barrier between
the foreigner and the rights of citizenship.
SO powerful and predominating had this
sentiment become with the Wing party, that
it finally resulted in its total extinction and
the organization of the Know Nothing or
american" party, on its ruins. In the
Southern States the Know Nothing party is
the only opposing element of the National
Democracy. In the North, a fragment OF
the party acts in fellowship with their South
ern brethren, while a large majority, impelled
by their strong anti-slavery instincts and an
inordinate lust for office, act in concert with
the Abolitionists. The opposition north of
MASON and DIxoN's line is made up. there
fore, Of National Know Nothings, Abolition
Know Nothings and Abolitionists. With the
entire opposition South, and the two Know
Nothing branches of it North. there is not, OF
course, any difference Of sentiment in regard
to citizenship. Exclusion from Office and
from the polls, of all men of foreign birth,
constitutes the very framework of their
organization. 1t is their ultima Mule-the
great end and aim of all their Efforts
Here, then, is fully two-thirds of the oppo.
sition to the Democracy, whose open and
fat-footed warfare upon the rights of for
eigners in this country it is not necessary tc
prove, since it is officially self confessed
Now, how is it with the remaining one-third
many of whom cordially espouse this great
leading principle of the Know Nothing creed
but who have kept themselves aloof from
the Order, simply in consequence of their
radical sentiments on the subject of slavery
There are thousands upon thousands of Alb
olitionists who are heart and SOIL with thu
Know Nothings in their prescription of for
eigners and Catholics, but who are kept out
side of their. Lodges and their Councils be
cause they cannot subscribe to their platform
on the subject of slavery. In proof of this
we propose to present a few extracts from tn,
savings of soma of the prominent leaders o
this class of the opposition. Though these
extracts date back many years, they ar,
none the less valuable, as showing the firm
and settled convictions of leading men il
the ranks of the opposition, who do not be
long to the Know Nothing party as a dis
tinct and separate political organization, bu
who may yet be regarded as perfectly viii
ling to unite with them at any time, when
ever they have the joint power, in deprivin:
foreigners and Catholics of the right of citi
zenship. RUFUS KING, now editor of Tn,
Milwaukee Sentinel, the leading Black Re
publican paper in Wisconsin, was, in 1910
editor Of the Albany Daily advertiser. II
the campaign of that year, he wrote as fol.
lows
otis no new opinion with us, as our reader
well know, not one hastily adopted, that ~,
man OF foreign birth should be admitted 10 III
political rights of an american citizen"
JAMES WATSON WEBB, of the n. Y. Con-.
rier and Enquirer, another leading organ O
the present Fusion party, in 1910, said -
ave can discover no security against tn,
threatened danger, but in the repeal of tn,
naturalization laws. Let our Native Amer.
can population meet in their respective ward.
and resolve that they will not support for any
office whatever, a candidate who does no,
pledge himself to use all honorable means tc
insure an immediate repeal Of our natwaliza.
tion laws"
The Boston Atlas, the organ par erceneno
of the Black Republican party of Massachu.
sets, spoke as follows, in 184O:-
"Mr. VAN BUREN's adherents have STRONG
hopes that, with the aid of foreign uagabond.
and illegal voters, they will carry the city OF
New York"
Again, the Troy Wing, in the same year
expressed itself thus:
"The children of bigo ted, catholi cIreland
like the frogs that were sent as a plague
against Pr ARAc, have come into our homes,
ovens and ~kneading troughs. The Irish,
when they arrive among us, are too idle and
vicious to clear and cultivate land, but dunn
themselves down in our larger villages and
towns, crowding the meaner sort of tene-