Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-04-05
PLAQUENlINE PARISH OF IBERVILLE LA. April, s. 1856
The American Party Defended,

The American Party Defended
The following extract from the speech Of
Mr.. Crttenden of ofKentucky, at the great ratf
cation meeting of the American nominations
held in New York, is truthful and eloquent
He vndicated The American party from the
ISLANDERS ofits enemies in manly and convinc-
ing exposition of the true position of the par
~. He said
He had no antipathies against the foreig~
ners; the party has none. Let the oppressed
and down>tr0dden of all nations comes to US.
Let them share the beneficence and justice of
our laws. Let them share our educational
facilities. Let them share our language and
our customs; but we tell them in all kindness,
both for their sake and our own, that thew
must leave us to govern and manage the coun.
| try, or in their hands, unaccustomed as they
are to its delicate machinery, it will be wrongly
directed, and its power will be thrown against
| itself, and it will be involved in one mass of
| splendid ruins.
The whole philosophy of our principles lay
in one memorable order gaHen by the Father
OF his Country during the darkness of the rev.
| oIuton: "Place none but Americans on guard
to night" There were brave men of foreign
birth in the army; but they were not sons of
the soil. The magic attraction or patriotism
did not blind them 10 the land. The tugging
at their heartstrings was not for the country in
whose service they were then engaged, but for
their country beyond the sea. They were not
to the manor born, and could not say. "This is
my own, my native land!" Then, was it not
policy, and was it not philosophical, to place
men who were bound by those magic ties in
the most responsible situations? And if it
were best, then, is it not the policy of the ma
ton still, to place none but native~born patriots
at the helm Of State, the most responsible of
all situations to US at this time? And should
our foreign brothers object to this policy when
tits SO constantly followed under every other
government? Cheers.]
And how did our party arise! That it was
the work of an oyerruling Providence is evia
dent. 1t was not the work of propagandism.--
1t was from the germ of patriotism in the
hearts Of the people. On its first manifesta~
tion, the people gathered silently around it,
drawn by their best feelings TO enlist in the
cause. It spread silently and surely, without
noise, without effort, being rolled onward by
its own weight, when it was once started
Like the wind, it is said no one knows of our
day are so mentally blind as to say they know
not whittier it goeth! [Laughterl But, to
his mind, it was evident that ''it goeth towards
the White House, as its home, and towards the
Capitol as its place ofindustry."' '[Ggeat Ap,
We have thrown down the dAuntlet-let |
them take it up who will--we aFe ready for |
the fight. Our ranks are full, but We have |
room still for those who prefsr.to struggle with |
US TO lighting against as, for t'has come to that
point And let those who see the truth of our |
principles at this the eleventh hour come to |
our banners and receive the welcoming hand |
from those of US who have borne the heat and |
burden of the day.
TO our naturalized brethren we say, we do |
not love the foreigners less than when we first
extended an invitation to them to find home
from oppression upon our shores; we do not
love them less, but we love our country more.
And we find if we do not protect theark of our
liberties from the prOffered suppOrs Of oficiOus
hands, we shall all be involved iE one common
destruction.
When the emigration Of oar country did not
exceed 10000 per year, ws did not feel the eff
iects of it. Those who Ihus came among US
we're absorbed in our cAstoms, and forgot their
Bative country in Ueaaure, and stEove to be-
come Americans. Now the small stream has
become an overwhelming torrent, and threat
ems to anbmsrge the whole land. Instead of
mixing with US and becoming q part of rs,
whole counties are found 10 which the English
language cannot be understood.
The foreigners retain their clannish spirit.
their customs, traditions, habits, yea, and langu.
age they form Breign colony in our midst as
distinct in fact rom us as they are in babt,
hough they aD under our government. It is
his we deprecate. Itis this we would prevent 4
He did not regard the foreign born citizen II
With feelingsof distrust or hatred, nor did hel J,
'arty. Hecould cordially welcome them, bit =
Ie could GOT accord to them the power to pile Il
md ruiz the common country. No map felt
more charity for the misfoEtunes of oppressed
ands than he. !.
In this very hall, not many years ago, he haG = "
poken at q meeting, in which thg citizens of u
Washington were raising monef to send to
anime stricken Ireland, and henad introduced
bill in the Senate, which ws4 passed, appro- "a
rating $5OO,0OO from the National Treasury
'r the benefit of the starving Irish. u
The business Of the American party was TO II
reserve the Constitution and the Union in
lct; TO preserve them from every hand that
lould be raised against them, and ttey had -,
Verything to hope from the patriotism ofGher =
purse. ne
He closed BY saying Eve sttire for our ma wi
Ve sovereignty and our natiVe-6orR supFema- tbt
in the land which benifcedt God has Civ.
! us. Whc is he that can ,esist the American
,opIe, when in AUST cage they stand before -.
cd and nan to defendth rights? II The ~ Y.
rty willbut aet>worty of their noble Gauss, ~ ~
ey will triumph throgh its purity and patriot ast e
n. [Cheers, Ioug1nd lOud1 'u'
"When 7 goe shopppin," said an old LADY -