The true Democrat., 1856-09-09

No. XI.
 Another principle of Know Nottingham con- slSts Tn excluding from the government the political influence which citizens of foreign birth wield in giving direction to public affairs. This object is avowed in their platforms and rltuals-fanatically clamored for in their pa pers, and murderously enforced by their indi- vidual partizans at the ballot box The govern. ment must be divested of the influence of fo reign born citizens
 We might say with propriety, that the policy of the government is controlled first and chief ly by individuals through the agency of their superior intelligence and wealth, which deni- zens, not entitled to vote, may wield us effectu. ally as citizens who are entitled. A striking example of the power of wealthy individual in commercial country, where he is not al- lowed the political rights of citizenship is the case of MT. Rothchld in England Upon the subject of removing the political disabilities of the Jews, Mr. Macauay says "The Jews are not now excluded from any political power.- They possess it; and as long as they are allow ed to accumulate large fortunes they must possess it. What power in civilized so- cety IS so great as that of the creditor over the debtor? If we take this away from the Jew, we take away from him the security of his property. If we leave it to him, we leave to him power more despotic by far than that of the king and all his cabinet
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 liament. But Jew may make money, and money may buy members of parliament. * That Jew should be a privy -counccllor to a christian king would be an eternal disgrace to the nation But the Jew may govern the money market, and the money market may govern the world The minister may be in doubt as to his scheme of finance till he has been closetted with the Jew. congress of their assistance. The scrawl of Jew on the back of piece of paper may be worth more than the royal word of three kings, or the na- tlonai faith of three American republics. But that he should put right honorable before his name would bc the most frighlul of national caIamilie>
 It was in ths way that some of our polit- ciano reasoned about Catholics. The Catholics ought to have no political power The sun of l1nSIanI is set for war If the Catholics have po- it.cal power. Give the Catholics every thing elst but keep political power from them. These wise men did not see that when every thing else had been given, political power had been giNen," etc. Nopoljtical policy can mpa. this influence in any man. With regard to power denved from superior intelligencc, take the instance of Mr. Bonnet, of the New York Her. ald, a foreigner by birth. Alr Bonnet by the force of his intellectual capacity wields no iu- considerable influence over the policy Of the government; his support is eagerly sought for l by Presidential aspirants. This influence would not be lessoned though he were ineh- glbe to vote or to hold an office-hc never did hold an office I believe, and his vote goes no farther than that of the meanest oafer of the Five Points. Thomas Paine, too, as poor as d rat, by the force of his pen, exertcd an inhu- ence second to no other, in bringing the public mmd ot the colonies to the revolutionary point.
 It is not the prospect of obtaining office that moves capitalists to exert a political influence foreigner no more than nativc-thev are moved by pecuniary considerations, infinitely more interesting to them; and if citizens of foreign birth a0ere not uAoa0ed to hold office or that the foreigner whose political capital, like that of Paine, consisted merely iu his intel- gencc, could not look for official station by way of remuneration for his services to a party. some other means would soon be discovered, probably more corrupting because more secret, to purchase the services of any such person whose abilities were known to be worth having It makes no difference where the article come, from so long as it is the thing that is wanted- Americans must rule America" and to this end our Gerards and our Bennetts must not hold ofce-stut1! Impotent conclusion.
 Secondly-let it be granted that persons by virtue of official station possess some political power. It is upon this account that Know Nothngs propose by excluding foreign born citizens from oflice--to rid the country of a great impending danger, which they profess to see and to be greatly alarmed at. Well, by the nature of this remedy, it may be assumed that the amount of political power Gin Know Nothing estimation) in the hands of foreign born citizens is proportioned to the number and the grade of offices held by them. And, that, upon examination, we will find the number of this class of citizens in the cabnct-in the two houses of Congress- and in diplomatic stations is truly alarming, and that their conduct in those capacities is frightfulv unpatriotic- why all this man-scaring tumult? Terrible remedies are only resorted to for terrible eviks. Doctors do not run up and down with their ugly looking surgical instruments and their most powerful drugs, for man who has only touch of the grpes-whcnever Mey do there is bound to be great many persons needlessly aiarmed--awfuly heaxed. But that game is some times played in the United States politi- coUy, and Know Nottingham is one of the greatest instances of it upon record.
 One of the greatest troubles to some men in the present age, Is thclr disposition to look out for some better guide for the future than their experience of the past If thing works we'll they are not satisfied to depend upon it in fu- ture if they do not understand the causes Ju its working well. They will endure much bet ter thing that operates miscrably if they un- derstand, or in their wisdom CD suppose they do, all the causes that are at work. It must be brought down to the level of their reasoning powers or they wont stand it, whether it is in the works of creation or the policies of man. If foreign born citizens who have held office have discharged their duty with an eye single to the welfare of the country, or if there has been but very few in important offices there is a cause for it. It is time enough to kick up when disasterous results begin to manifest