The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-07-12
From the Beueville Advocate.
buchanan on Naturaiized CitizenShip.

J VI wv dtiC party, thcH idiSliSiS al
just now engaged in the base attempt to re-
! present Mr. Buchanan as being unfriendly
to the system of naturalization which has
! been so long upheld and sustained by the
Democratic party. To this end they present
under an entire false construction and un-
warranted censure, language he used in an
address delivered during the war OF 1917 10,
with England, and directed-not against ma
turaized citizens, but against GttC7ls lurking
IN our midst whose aims at procuring mis-
chief to our Union and to this country was
SO palpahe as to cause general alarm and TO
arouse universal objections &c their presence,
from well founded suspicion of their CO.
operation with the "Crowned heads of Eu-
rope" in the effort to overthrow the Au,e.i-
can Republic.
There was nothing known at that day of
a political Native American" party, and ell
that Mr.. BUCHANAN said on that occasion
against "foreign influence" was meant by
him, and understood and lauded by the peo-
pie, as being directed against foreign govern
rnents and their subjects who, though among
Us. refused to be Of US, but continued their
allegiance to the potentatc and government
under which they were born.
At tatcI day, and when, what has more
recently been Crgsnzel a, a party VI lcr the
adopted title of Know Nothings. was as ye,
known as the Native American" party.
rs. BUCHANAN Was prompt and decided in
condemnation of all such narrow minded
propositions. His whole course Of ife proves
that IT was contrary TO his nature not less
than to MS wei! ua,urec principles, to yield
assent 10 such policy. He was against 1t
inaiinctiveiy aud rotu the start. Ia The
campaign Of 1859, he delivered Iii, seEl.-
ments ON this subject, as Ee had derived
them iTon the founders Of our goveThment.
Ia P,nn-y .vauia the N4ttris;s had assumed
the name Of - Democratic Americans" ana
opp0scd ,as election Of the Democratic party
candid IL a speech delivered t. u i.ass
meeting Of the democracy, on the 7th OF
October, 1852, at Grecn,bgFg. in western
Pennsy y!vlHia, Nr. BUCgAyAS gave his op:H-
ions on tho subject, IN the .snguagc fol
lowing:
"From my soul, sbhor the practice Of
m;ngliFg up religion with politics. The doc
time OF al our constitutions, both fedora.
and state, is, that every man has an !a1e-
feasible right TO worship lis Cod according
t. the dictates Of ms own conscience. H.
is both bigot and tyrant who would IN
teriere with that sacred r.gGt. when = can
c!da.e is before the people for Office, the in
curry ought never 10 be made, what form Of
religou, faith he pr0iesses; but only, in the
language CT NJ. Jefferson, Is Ae honest, IS
he cspatic:'
"D-mocratic Auler'csrs!' Wha: S name
for a native American party! When al
the records Of cur past history prove tat
American democrats have ever OpeHeC wlds
their arms, 10 receive foreigners !iyins frO...
oppression IL their native aud, suI have a.
ways bestowed upon them tie IisL;. ot
AmeIican citizens after brief p-rio. Q: re-
. - o
'ty have always g!.gi,d ia tAis + 9, and
its fruits have been - iGCryss- our pV.uts-
ton and oCr power, with uucxsm2.e 81 ID ylL-
ity. and to iuInisi, oVr country WIKI vast
numbers OF industrious, patriotic and iGI
CITIZENS. Surely t.e na.n- o! "Dc.HCcrtt c
AIne'i-aus' vas all unfortunate designation
for the naive AIa=I:csn par y.
Inc naiive Al. an parry, III g ADcr!-
can exec !ence. aud the & cry ol !js fo1ndr'-
ship, belongs 10 Grorgc Washington No,
fellow ciuz-ns, the Am er.can people wiii r!>G
up with one accord - yiHdila,e The memory
o. tina; .us.iiJus man from ---A ilIp1ts-
tons. As long as the recent u!eIuurY # our
revolutionary struggle remained y.vldly i'm
pressed on the hearts Uf oar country men,
no such party could ever have existed. Ia.
recollection Of Montgomery, lafayette, De /
hslb, hosclusco, and a long list Of foreign
ers, both officers and soldiers, who freely
shed their blood 10 secure our liberties,
would have rendered such ingratitude i'm
possible. Our revo!u utiUnary army was filed
with the biaye and pstr.otic native, Of their
lands; and George " ashington wa. t.rlr
command r-ia-c;iiet. Would he have ever
closed the Go against the admission OF to-
reIgncrs 10 the risAts Of American citizens.
Let his acts speak for themselves. So early
as the 2Jth OF March, 1890, General Wash
ingion, is president Of the United States,
approved the first law which ever passed
congress on the subject Ot natural .7aii0n /,
and this only required q residence OF two
years, previous to the adoption of foreign
er as AN American cilizen. On the 2ytn ot
january, 1895, the term OF residence
extended by congress to tive years. and thus
J. remained throughout General NashI. &
tons administration and unit after the ac-
cession OF john Adams to the presidency.
Ia his administration, which VIII ever he
known ia history as the reign Uf terror, as
TIE era OF alien and sedItIUn laws an act
YVES passed Oh the Ism Oi June, ITyo, which
prohibited any foreigner from becoming 4
cI!zcn until alter a residence Of fourteen
year,, and this is the law, else, perpetual
exclusion, which General Scott preferred,
and which the Native American party uow
desire TO restore.
" The prvsidentia! election Of 1900 secured
the ascendancy Of the Democratic party aud
under the administration OF Thomas Jeiicr-
son, its great apostle, on the 18th Of April,
1872, the term OF rcsid> nee previous u na-
turaIzaton, was restored 10 i've years, what
Ii had been under General Washing ton, and
where 1t has ever since Renamed. No, tel
Low cltI2vnS, the FATHER Of ni> country was
never native american. Iuls " American
excellence" never belonged 10 him"
The REAL IssUES.-The following State
mert Of the present position OF parties We
find in late number Of the New Haven
Register, and whatever may have been ;he
issues in previous presidential conflicts, this
extract presents those Of the present canvass
in a form as correct and lucid as it is con-
else:
There are practically bu: two parties in
the present contest-the democratic, which
is guided by the obligations of the constitu-
tion-which seeks to render "equal and ex-
act justice to all mcn'-which protects every
man in the enjoyment Of his religious opi
niOns-which leaves to each state the ar
rangement Of its own domestic affairs-which !
endeavors to cement the bonds of the Union, !
by fraternal feeling among the several !
states and which would make our country
an asylum for the oppressed of all nations.
The opponents Of the democratic party are
OF all creeds and colors-and have two well T,
defined characteristics one of which is the |
persecution of men for their reli ,ou, be- |
lief "a hideous spisiD and the other, de-
termination to dictate to the people OF other
sections of the country on the subject Of
slavery, or break up the Union. They are
now urging the people on to civil war in