The Placer herald., 1856-10-18
Our Adopted Citizens.

the hand of oppression. Failing however in
their efforts to weaken their attachment to the
Democratic cause, in a spirit of vindictiveness
they turned round and organized party based
upon the single idea of remorseless prescription
of the men who had come among us, seeking
home under the liberal institutions of America.
They declared one Of their cardinal principles
the repeal of all naturalization laws, or failing in
this they declared in favor Of residence of the
foreigner in our country of twenty years be-
fore he should be entitled to exercise the elective
franchise in any State or Territory. No one can
forget the argument made use of on the stump in
support of this policy. They compared the full
grown man of ripened intellect and experience.
OF foreign birth. to the new born babe requiring
for each the like number of years of tuition and
practice under our government, before they were
fitted to take upon themselves the duties or eXer
else the rights of citizenship. This the doe
trnc of the knowNothing, alias the American
party, but now to avoid the odium of their in
famous prescriptions, call themselves the Fillmore
party
When Mr.. Fillmore was nominated it was
question whether he was proper exponent of
the party. There were those who were ready to
swear that ''he was never inside of wigwam.
Lodge. or Council of the ORDER This was dis
tasteful to those who were opposing. as they call
ed them. 'the foreign paupers, and were bent on
prosecuting the believers in the Roman Catholic
religion.
In order to retain the vote of this class of men.
there came forward another class of men who
swore they 'were present when Mr. Fillmore was
initiated into the order Here was apparently
a contradiction in direct terms, but it turns out
that all these persons told the truth This old
man. with his rpened years of experience, fresh
from the Presidential chair. stopped to the mum
merry of re-swearing allegiance to the L. States,
and hostility to the man of foreign birth and had
a committee of the order Of wNothngs risit
his parlor in the City of Buffalo, New York, and
there administer to him the necessary oahs and
initiate him into the signs passwords, and other
mysteries of the order. Hence he is called the
"parlor member" These are facts well known
to the country, and will of course prevent any
man of foreign birth. who respects himself and
regards his true interests, from supporting that
ticket. either National, State or County.
Upon the ruins of this party in the non-slaye
holding States. there has sprung up party, who
now impudently claim the support of these adopt
ed citizens, and who call themselves Republicans.
We have shown that the members of this Ameri-
can party are inimcal to the man Of foreign BIRTH
then how does it come that the same men who
adopting abolition doctrines, ,discards his old faith
and all his hate for foreign paupers' turns into
ardent love?
If we will examine into the signs of the times
we shall see that it is but hypocritical preten-
sion, the lie being too palpable to deceive. Mr.
George Law. the competitor of Fillmore for the
nomination at Philadelphia has declared himself
for Fremont and because, as he says, Fremont is
Il better american than Fillmore The Hon. E.
Marsh. who was president of the convention that
nominated Fillmore and Donelson, recently pre-
sided over Republican convention in the State
of New jersey, and has come out without reserve
for Fremont.
At the State Convention of Republicans. held
in Bloomington, ILL.,, some time since. the Presi-
dent of that body, John W. Palmer made a speech
in which he said
Il think that the privilege Of living under the
government Of the United States. and enjoying
the rights and privileges of a citizen of free Re
public, should be sufficient for any foreigner with
out the right to hold Office
The Albany Register. a leading KnowNothing
paper says that ''everywherc except New York,
these two titles-Know- -Nothngsm and Black Re
puhicanism-are indissoubly joined together in
a holy wedock.'' The Register further says:
IF Fremont is elected the country will owe the
American party debt Of gratitude; for it is not
doing injustice to other noble advocates of free
soilism to say that the american organization
in the East and West is the backbone of the Re
publican party
The Know Nothing State Convention ofIllnos
friends Of FrcmonD adopted the following
among other fanatica resolutions:
That the time has arrived when the American
party Of the United States are called upon to
take open, fearless, and unrescrved ground upon
the great question Of Slavery. that is now agita
ting the people of every section of this Union:
and, that the intense excitement and qualification
which at the present time are distracting our
country upon the subject of Slavery have been
caused by the repeal of the Missouri Comprom-
ise.'
The essential modification of the naturaliza-
tion laws by extending the time of residence re-
quired of those of foreign birth to entitle them to
citizenship
"Resstancc to the corruprng influences and ag-
gressive policy OF the Romsh Church. unswcrv-
ing opposition to all foreign influence, or inter
ference of foreign cmissaries, whether civil or &c
clesiastical"
These two parties have fused in Massachusetts, in
nearly all the other n England states, and in many
of the middle and western states. We hear of news
papers changing from Fillmore to Fremont, and
from Fremont to Fillmore, showing that there is
really but little if any difference existing be-
tween them upon matters of principle VIM. II.
ri nf Norl, ic to ha
mover, the very head and front Of this Republican
movement, and it is said that it was chiefly thro'
his influence that Fremont was nominated.
AT the ls sessiont 3 lst Congress, Gov. Fooe,
then Senator from the State of Mississippi,
made the following charge against Gov. Seward
In the of that rnnt tlrman.