Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-06

at Boston, an article upon the American plat
FORM" from which we cheefully present ex-
tracts imbodying the true principles on which
the party should stand. II says:
- None but Americans TO rule America; the
Union must be preserved; no foreign interference
in American affairs; inviolabity of national trea
ties no union of Church and State personal NOR
atty indispensable to Office an open Bible in all
public schools thorough reform of the naturaliza-
ton laws a capitation tax to exclude foreign pau
pers no appointments Of foreigners on diplomatic
posts; ajust tariff on imported Injuries in all me-
cessilies free trade strict economy in the govern
ment"
"This is the American platform. This is the
platform on which Americans are building up the
hopes and destinies Of America. Never was there
platform of principles more sound or more glori-
Gus; and never was there one reared In a more
eventful time than this The wellnigh miraculous
progress Of the United States, the marshalling OF
the hosts Of Europe In arms, the startling reyoiu-
tions in Asia, and the steady march of civilization
on the contineat Of Africa, all unite to hold forth
the nations of the earth in aspect of excitement,
agitation, and REFORM such as they never present
ed before.
ais America, indeed, to be the light of the
world, Then must she trim the lamp Of her des-
tiny with her own hands. Is America to be the
salt Of the earth Then must she hold forever
pure the SAVIOR of her birthright. She must not
hide her Americanism under bushel, nor sell her
inheritance for mess Of pottage. The sons Of the
men and the daughters of the women who first Lit
the yestal fame of liberty on these distant shores
L .fnc all has oh
and the cup wherewith she pledges her faith to the
world must be the cup Of Jacob, and not of Esau
She must be living epistle of virtuous breathing
speaking Americansm, known and read among all
men. On all her banners, on all her escutcheons
on all her temples dedicated to freedom education
and religion clustering among the stars and rolling
along the stripes of her national ensign, must shine
forth the declaration, None but Americans shall
rule Americap
"The sentiment we thus advocate is enshrined at
the foundations Of our Union. 1t is ngrafted with
the sovereignty Of the States. 1t will forever keep
foreign Intermediates from damaging the govern
ira powers cf this continent The spirit that
guides ii will preserve inviolae all our treaties
with other nations, and thereby prevent all lawless
expeditions and too great expansion ofour terri
tory. Actuated by this sentiment, the Church and
the State must forever be kept asunder; while none
but those who have personal probity as well as in
telgence, can control the councils of the nation. !
The sacred volume, without note or comment, will
speak its words of instruction and warning within
the walls of the school room, where the children
of the rich and the poor meet together on equal
terms.
"The balot-box, the grand palladium of our lib
critics, win be guarded from the profane touch of
ignorance, bribery, and corruption; the foreign
pauper and alien criminal cannot burden our poor
houses with taxes, nor fill prison cells with
felons; our relations with other powers will not be
involved by abrupt repulses on the one hand, nor
entangling alliances on the other American labor
viii be fairly protected against all unfair foreign
competition; our excessive importations will cease
our domestic products will be fostered admins
trative extravaganza, that bane Of republics, viii
come to an end ; and, to crown the whole, Ameri-
can Presidents, with American Cabinets, and an
American Congress, will unite their counseis and
put forth their patriotic abors to hand down I'M
impaired to posterity broad inheritance-an
inheritance purchased at the costly sacrifice of THE
blood of our fathers.
America welcomes the stranger to her domain
as guest not to be her ruler. If the foreigner
from abroad unites with the sons of the soil of
America to develop her resources, to increase her
wealth, to extend her republican glory, it should
be enough for him that he shares in the great and
lasting benefits she confers upon him that he is
protected in his person, guaranteed in his proper
ty, and guarded in his rights against all the ty-
rants that would Cypress him. What more can
the foreigner justly ask' But let him ask more or
less, he may rest forever assured that America will
always keep her own honor in her own hands
She will never confde the ark of her liberties TO
the care of strangers.
"What the Irishman does in Ireland, what the
Englishman does in England, what the Frenchman
does in France, what every native recipient of
power does in the land Of his birth, the American
does, and does rightly, in America When the
upright foreigner has resided in America twenty
one years when he has carefully studied for that
length Of time our form of government, and the
practical workings of our Democratic institutions
when he has thus witnessed the operations of our
laws; learned to prize, at its true worth our sys-
Of universal education and entire federation in
religion; when he has washed away, at this free
fountain opened in the wilderness, every alien pre-
JUDGE, every extraneous alliance every vestige Of
devotion to kingly rule and papal supremacy
then, but not till then, is he qualified TO assume
the high position of an American elector.
Heed us well, 0 foreign brother and be not
angry with us that we would guard the sanctuary
and shrine Of our destiny. 1t is for your good as
well as that thus aloft the standard Of
living nationality. Let that standard be borne
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