Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-28
American Born Men! Read this !!
Is, 900 Foreigners NatUraIized in Nero York
Gin IN Sir WeeksH
WHO SHALL GOVERN AMERICA.

The following from the New York Herald
of the 22d inst, is enough to rouse the blood of
every American born man in the land. While
the country is fallen under shrieks of freedom,
and a noisy empty hubbub about Kansas,
freshly arrived foreigners many of them pau
pers and criminals no doubt, are, through our
defective naturalization laws, being made
good American citizens, to appear at the Polls
on next election day, there to jostle aud beat
away American born men, and deprive them
of the rights for which their fathers fought
and bed. These are not temporary but per-
manent evils, growing daily. Think of it,
Americans, think of four hundred foreigners
naturalized per day, or FIFTEEN THOUS-
AND i'll Six Weeks Read the Herald's state
ment:
During the past six weeks the Superior and
Common Pleas courts have been engaged in
the duty of increasing the number of citizens
of the great republic, and in lessening, in the
same proportion, the subjects of foreign prin-
ces, potentates and powers. The work com
lnences about 10 O'Clock every morning, and
continues without cessation till three or four
in the afternoon, and between these hours the
interior aud exterior of the City Hall presents
an unusually animated and lively appearance.
The eagerness with which the aspiring foreign
ers crowd about the entrances of the two
courts requires the presence of considerable
force of policemen, who find il a difficult mat.
ter to repress their ardor and Impotence, and
to prevent them from rushing unlimited aud
unbidden into the presence of the Judges
themselves. For six long weeks have the courts
empowered with the authority for naturaliza-
ton teen besieged this way, and during that
time about fifteen thousand Of our foreign born
population have been admitted TO the privile-
yes OF citizenship. They come from Pough-
keepsie and other places along the North river,
and Long Island has contributed large NUM-
Der, in addition To the jewellers in New York
who form the great majority Of the appli-
cants
A few-and they are very few-apply of
their own accord, but the great bulk are rec
cruited by the Natu, allzatioD Committees OF
Tammapy Hail ard the Republican Central
Club. The former have taken the Irish under
their special care, while the Germans, whose
tendencies are of q republican character, seem
10 have fallen 10 the charge OF the latter. Both
committees pay The nsturalizI tiou fees in consi-
deratOn, il is generally understood, Of the
votes which their candidates are expected 10 70
eeiVe in return. Now, as each lee amounts 10
tif,y cents, and as there have been about 81
teen thousand naiuralized, the whole amount
paid must be over seven thousand dollars. The
greater part Of this has been paid, il is said,
by the democratic committee, WHO have made
five citizens 20 every three presented By the
republicans. In the first week or two the Ger
man applicants prrpondera,ed, bot they have
since been lett IL the minority BY the constant
ly Increasing majority Of the Irish. The mum
Der naturaiized IN the Cont OF Common Pleas
and the Superior Court exceeds four hundred
per day, Tor about $4,000 within the last SIX
weeks bat during the last two days over
three h0ndred applicants receive their papers
in the Court Of Common Please alone.