The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-20


pose, / will read abstract of their purpose:
I /. Universal suffrage.
2. The election of all officers by the people.
3. The abolition of the presidency
a. The abolition of senates
S. The right of the people to recall their represen
tatives cashier them} at pleasure. ...5s
t. The right OF the people to change the consttu
tion when they like. s.S - &
I. All law suits to be conducted without expense.
8. department of the government to be set up fol
the protection of immigration
| 8. A reduced term for acquiring citizenship.
| 10. Abolition of all neutrality.
IL. Intervention in favor of every people struggling
for liberty. [Our democratic platform approx
mates this feature -
12. Abolition Of all laws for the observance of the
sabbath. .s@
| l3. Abolition Of prayers in congress.
ID. Abolition of oaths upon the bible
10. Supporting the emancipation exertions Of Gas
sius NJ. Clay by congressional laws.
| l6 Abolition of the christian system of punish
ment and the introduction Of the human ameioration
system. pug
II. Abolition of capital punishment
A German missionary, speaking of his own coun-
trymen says: S #% s@ So
"Infdelity and sabbath PROCLAMATION are raging
among my countrymen like cholera in the Orient The
thronged and curious events of the times have i'm
parted to thousands of Germans taste for the news
papers, and there now think eight German ne ws
papers edited in New York, and their general bearing
lodges. They are numerous and have ostensibly for
their object the support the sick but indirectly they
deep g a of san feae e. and e shF RFng @ h
ism and atheism. The lodge is the great speculation
field of bad spirits"
But lest with portion of the senate the authori-
ties have relied be objected to- will read
tract from the United States Magazine and Democratic
Review of June, 1850, which authority trust one
will doubt:
tThe European reformers are foeking hither by
thousands bringing with them the pestilent products
of the out soil of the old world, which, it would
seem, whenever it falls into labor, produces nothing
but monsters They bring with them host of extra
VACANT notions of freedom, plenty of crude, undi
gested theories, which utterly rreconciable with
obedience to laws of our making and the consti-
tuition of our own adopting. They come with their
heads full of division of property to country where
it is already divided in manner most sautry to the
general welfare by existing laws and Institutions al
lowing every man equal chance, and placing no
artificial distractions in the way of any"
At recent trial in Cincinnati, the district attorney
read circular from which the following is extract
Awake then, Irishmen of Ohio, and to the rescue.
The day of England's tribuation is The with
erng breath of an angry God is upon her, scourgng
her for the robberes the murders, the OF
ages, and dissoving her power like snow before the
warm With the opportunity presented and free
dom before u.s. shall we, the exiled sons of crushed
and acerated mother remain forever helots of every
pepole who wish to put the yoke upon our necks,
toll through reproach and opprobium in the rags of
servtude and die with slaverys tetters limbs
without an effort to eface the black and bitter
ry of the past? Ireland speaks to us through the Mas
sachusetts platform and plan Of action, and is duly
authorised to organise the State of OH The Robert
Emmett club of Cincinnati therefore calls upon you
lrishmen to organise clubs in every city, town. and
village in the State the above PLAN and every
sary information will be furnished you here on up
plication to our secretary. When the State is thus
cad into 1uhs w
and State directory elected who shall manage the
funds a.d other business of the society
'Irishmen let no man fail and falter now. The work
is light if action be united and every do his duty
Here, sit, you see extensive combination formed
within our limits to bring about war with country
with which we not only atpeace, but with which
we have more commercial intercourse and interest
than the whole world besides and appeals Of the most
inhammatory character addressed to the native pride
and prejudice of naturally excitable and patriotic
people 1t certainly cannot be necessary to adduce
further evidence this head. If this proof does
satisfy senators of the danger to which have alu
ded shall despair of finding proof to effect that OBJ
)ect, however abundant may exist.
/ Having said all that desire upon that branch OF
the subject will barely call the attention of the
ate to the injurious and depressing effects upon the la
Dor of our countrymen. A foreigner, writing upon
that subject, SAYS: NJ
"But there is another consequent which is desery.
ing of notice. and it is this: Our manufacturers iron
makers, machinest, miners, agriculturists railway
canal and other contractors private families, hote
keepers and many others have got into the way Of
pecting and seeking cheap labor through the various
supplies of operatives workmen, laborers, house
help and various other kinds of workers, kept up by
the indscrimnate and unlestraned admission Of i'm
migrants. Indeed it is no secret that immigrants, ,oi
rather foreign workers, have become article of i'm
portacn professedly for the purpose of providing fol
the deficiency of supply in the labor market but in
reality with the intention of obtaining efficient work
ers at lower wages"
may be told that the north is much more deeply
interested in this branch of the subject True. the
north is much more deeply and directly affected but
what injurously affects one portion in greater ol
less degree affects the whole Can you cut off the
hand without injury pain to the whole body? But
sir, was told in my State during the past summer
that all parties were opposed to the admission into the
| country of foreign criminals and paupers; that
would have the hearty cooperation Of the democratic
party IN passing any constitutional laws to shield the
country from that evil. am confident that shall
have upon the feature of this BILL if upon other the
aid of my distinguished colleague I will proceed
briefly possible to examine into the jurisdiction
of congress the subject First, however, to sus
tain the proprety of this section of the bill Gala
tenton to the Recommendation Of consul List at Leip
sic, in 1927. He says to the secretary of the trea-
sury:
ITO remedy the evil would propose the following
measures:
n That all persons intending to immigrate to the
United States would have to produce to the consul o
the United States in the seaport testimonial from the
magistrate Of their residence, purportng that they
have not been punished for crime (potical punish
ments excepted for the last three years; that they
are able to maintain themselves by their labor cap
ital."
% That the consul of the United States in the sea-
port should have to certify these testimonials; that
the masters of ships who would ake passenger with
out such testimonial should have to pay aconsidera
BILE fine on landing him in the Unitod States. I.
80. That the consul of the United States in the
port should have power to refuse his certificate to all
those immigrants who in his opinion would become
burden to Che community on their arrival in the U
States 80 6
That congress has the power ovor this SUBJECTS,
think, clear and unquestionable. j will read some
authority to support my opinions Chief justice Mar
SHALL in the Of Gibbons vs.. Ogden (9th Wheaton
p 26 in delivering the opinion Of the supreme court
said, in relation to the ninth section Of the article
of the constitution: rs
The section which restrains congress from prolai
biting the migration importation Of such persons
as any of the States may think proper to admit until
1908 has always been considered exception from
the power to regulate commerce. and certainly seems
to class migration with importation. Migration ap,
plies as appropriately to voluntary as importation
does to involuntary arrivals and as far as an excep
ton from power to regulate commerce applies equal
of eu,nloyed