The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-04-16

| tnis County, AHc botuocfo"S Po'y "e'
always gloried in this policy, and its fruit
have been 10 increase our population ant
our power, with unexampled rapidity, and 4
furnish our country with vast numbers OF in
dustrious patriotic and useful citizens. Sursl.
the name Of democratic Americans was al
unfortunate designation for the Native Amer
icsn party.
!, "The Native American party, an 'Ameri
can excellence, and The glory Of its founder
chin Belongs 10 George Washington No
fsllow ci,, 'zens, the American people will rise
nm. with one .>ccord TO vindicate the memory
of The, ;,Iu.,,;ou man from such an imputa.
ton. Aelong as he recent memory Of ou
revolutionary struggle remained vividly i'm
pressed on the hears of our coun'rymen, ne
such party could have eve, eA'"eu. ine
.soAilaaiinn Of Montgomery, La .'sye"e, ~
Kalb, Kosciusco, and long list Of '0to'sn'
ers, both officers and soldiers, who '.'ee,y
shed their blood TO secure our liberties, wol w
have rendered such ingralilude impossibls.
Our revolutionary army was filled with the
brave and patriotic natives Of their lands !;
and George Washington was their command
er.in-chief. Would he have ever closed the
door agatns, the admission Of foreigners TO
the rights Of American citizens =. Le, his
acts speak for themselves. So early as the
26lh of March, 1890, General. Washington
as Presiden, of the United States, approved
the first law which ever passed Congress on
the subject Of naturalization and this only
required residence OF Two years, previous
to the adoption of foreigner as an Ameri-
can citizen. On tie 29h JauuaIy, 1875, The
term Of residence was extended by Congress
to five years, land thus it remained through.
out General Washington's administration,
and until after the accession of John Adams
to the Presidency. In his adminis,ra,iou,
which will ever be known IN history as the
reign Of terror, as the era of alien and sedi.
lion laws, an Act was passed on the 18th of
June, 1898, which prohibited any foreigner
from becoming citizen until after resi-
dence OF fourteen years, and this is the law,
or else, perpetual exclusion, which General
Scott preferred, and which the Native Amer.
ican party now desire 10 restore.
'The Presidential election Of 1900 secured
lhs ascendency of the Democr alic party, and
under the administration of Thomas Jeffer-
son, its great apostle, on the l4lh Of April,
1902, the term OF residence previous to nat
uralizaton, was restored 10 five years, what
II had been under General Washington, and
where il has ever since remained. No, fel-
low-citizens, the Father OF bis Country was
never Native American. This American
excellence never belonged to him"
"The Fugitive Slave Law is all The South
has obtained in this compromise of 1850. 1t
is law founded both upon the letter and the
spirit of the Constitution, and sirnilarslaw
has existed on our statute books ever since
the administration of George Washington.-
History teaches us that but for The provision
in favor of fugitive slaves, our present Con.
sitution never would have existed. Think
ye that the South will ever tamely surrender
The fugitive slave law to Northern fanatics
and AboliIionists.
"And now, ellow-citizens, what glorious
party the Democratic party has ever been
Man is but the baing Of summers day,
whilst principles are eternal. The genera
tions OF mortsls, one after the other, rise and
sink, and are forgotten, but the principles of
Democracy, which we have Inherited from,
our revolutionary fathers, will endure to bless
mankind throughout all generations. Is there
any Democrat within the sound Of my voice
is there any Democrat throughout the broad
limits of good and great old Democratic
Pennsylvania, who will abandon these sacred
principles for the sake of following in the
train Of military conqueror, and shouting
for the hero of Lundy's Lane, Ceno Gordo,
and Chapullepso"
And when the campaign resulted in ,r-
umph, President Pierce rendered to MIR. Bu-
chsnan the leading foreign mission, which
was accepted. Circumstances have trans
pired, within The last lew years, to make The
American mission 10 ST. James singularly
important, and ii has happened tina, during
Mr.. Buchanan's stay in London, several
great questions of a vexatious and compli.
Gated character have disturbed the intercourse
betw cen the two nations. However i'm.
portent is both the cultivation o. fraternal fee.
ling and good will, the fact that Great Britain
sees our growing progress with jealousy and
alarm, and the fact that we behold her prdg-
rnatieai Interference upon this Continent wter-
ever an opportunity is presented to her, with
indignation, render our relations with Great
Britain of the most delicate character. The
very intimacy of our business connections,
constituting as it does, The real cord which
binds us together, is apt, moreover, TO come
in conflict with political considerations, and
the commercial attraction, go 10 speak, ihsows
into dangerous nsfshborhood English ambi-
ton Oh the one hand and American progress
on the other. 1t has become proverbisl that
the selection of a wise, able ard experienced
man TO represent the United States at the
British Court, is one of the first duties Of an
executive, hardly secondary 10 the selection
Of its own chief cabinet ministers, because
the English mission 10 always intensely inn
portant TO the immediate interests of our
peonla Duvip a the tyy,pu u 4; -. oe Al, a.,