Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-04-25
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Raise the Republican banner. Let there
be no further extension of slavery The
Americans are with you r.
And the still further significant fact.
after The express reputation Of the issh
section, they denounce in their platform.
the repeal of the Missouri compromise
line.
And now-I do not ask the aspirants
for my Plaee-I do not ask those " Q
want 10 GO as KnowSN Nothings 10 the Le-
gislatnfe. those who want to be sheritis.
county judges, squires. or constables,
&c.--but / ask the true men of my
district-the real people. where I have
alwayo found my friends-the men
who have no object but the good Of
\heir county ~ hease, 10 DO Us \ MNSe
done abandon mis- organisatipnl If u
I has not 6fled-ufterly. Completely. en-
tireiy failed, as a sound. national, conser-
yatire party ?-if every Intelligent man
does not know that &c has so failed ?-and
itevery honest man win not acknowledge
the fact
As to the great catch. words, t'Ameri-
cans shall rule America ln--I am in fa-
vor of Americans ruling America. They
do. they always have, and they always
will rule America.
But who are Americans Your ia2s
declare that when man has been hero
Eve years, when he will, under oath, re-
nounce oil allegiance to any foreign
prince, potentate. or Power-whenihe viii
prove that he is of good moral character.
attached to the institutions Of the United
States. he may be declared an American,
and your law makes him citizen. Its
fraud upon him, IL you do not give him
all The rights of citizenship.
Think Of it, The poor old Pope Of
Rome, unable even to defend his life Ito
protect himself-has his throne supported
and upheld by French bayonetsl We
have twelve native to one foreign vote in
the United States Why should we fear
the Pope? Aud cannot twelve Ameris
cans manage one Irishman? !? In tho
Congress of the United States there is but
one foreigner In the last Legislature
of our S;ate-elected, as the members
were, before the Know. Nothing food.
there was but one and he was a leading,
l might say, without being inridious, the
leading member Of the Senate allude
TO Col. O. Zeigler, who came, or was
SASNShk w bht0 0VuuhAJ "hVh va tWtebS
eighteen months old He is one Of the
first intelleCts Of our State. or any Slate.
He has been my political friend-my per"
sonal triend-my supporter in every ass
piration. L submit It to you, IL there is
not something radically wrong in an or.
ganization which would prohibit me from
voting for him, merely because ho was
born outside Of the United States, though
mere when nero child 1 have used
his name without his authority. know
he will pardon ME, when he sees that I
have only used it TO illustrate more stropg4
ly to our people. than could by hun.
dred arguments. the absurdity OF this in-
discriminate prescription Of foreigu>born
men from office.
II the despotisns Of the Old World
should ever attempt to destroy our Gov
ernment by sending their population here.
Will not, as your Representative, pause
to talk or argue about our naturalization
laws. l shall speak and vote for pro.
hibiting any foreigner from trsading his
foot upon our soil shall strike At the
root, not waste my time and energies In
looping off the branches.
have always understood that three
grand leading ideas run through our In
stitutions, giving them all oftheir vitality.
their beauty, and their power. First.
that the people are capable Of self-goyern.
ment. This is the doctrine Of the Kansas.
Nebraska bill. Second, that We had made
an asylum 70 which the oppressed Of every
land might come as refuge that they
might worship as equals at the altar Of our
liberty; that here they mightlift up their
hearts TO their God according to the dictates
Of their conseiences, and there should be
none 70 molest them. Third, that there
should be no aristocraey Of birth. have
regarded. and do regard, these ss the PEE
culiar pride and boast Of my country. I
regard them as the three grand aud mas
siYe pillars upon which the whole mag.
nifcent structure Of our Government rests.
will not, by any action of mine, dcfaee
or mar these pillars.
have been often asked IL am NOT In
favor Of the recognizing The Wbig par.
~" answer that. in the present con.
ditioD Of parties and the country. ia my
judgment, such an effort can do NO good,
and might do great harm.
say 20 you, that we have no sound
material North out Of which 70 re.con
struct that party. Look back ~ the past.
Every Whig Representative from the
North, in 1849. voted for the wiImot pro-
viso. But three Of them ont Of seventy
three voted for the fugitive slave.law--
that Law which does bat common justice
to the South, and which is commanded
by the Constitution itseIfI Not one
Wing north Of Mason and Di1on's line
voted for the Kansas EebrssLa bill Of
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