Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-13
Politics in Mississippi

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Fillmore and Donelson
Politics in Mississippi.
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GEN. JAMES Il. r. TAYLOR s LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
SIR; Your letter Of August 2, conveying the intel
hgence that the American State Central Committee
bad unanimouslN nominated me to fill the vacancy
upon the American ticket for the State at large was
received by due course of mail and commands this
my hrst uninterrupted attention. My pressing pr-
yate engagements cause painful regret that the
honor mad not fallen upon some one who would be
enabled, with an undivided zeal aud energy, to de-
vote his entire time and talent to the discharge of
the duties necessarily incumbent upon the selection
Buslness OF private and important character COM
pels me to vpit North Carolina, which will cause my
absence from the State until the first of October!
Leaving five weeks only to the fulflnent of the obli
cations deyolvng upon any one who assumes the
responsibilities OF the station assigned me- All
though these considerations of vital moment To
my party, yet | unhesitatingly accept the appoint
ment, holding the demand upon my services as my
awaken the proud satisfaction of duty well perform
ed and every opposition shall redouble my energy
great moral and political struggle between par
ty ON the one hand and patriotism the other now
excites the American mind and challenges all inherI
tors of our blood-purchased hberty-afl who would
uphold intact the coequa rights of the confederute
States, all who would stand by the Union and the
Constitution and transmit this Magma Charta. this
bIli OF Rights, halowed, untouched and uncorruped
TO array themselves against the dangerous and sedu
ous foreign political influence, sought to be ingrated
as Q constituent element of American policy 1890
The efforts OF the Democratic party to inauQlrate
the policy of the political equality of the foreigner
with the native-born citizen of the United States and
the dangerous doctrine expounded and maintained
by their party leaders that the States possess the
power TO qualify electors, concurrent with and indie
pendent OF the authority delegated under the Cops-
tuition to the Federal Congress- and guarantee the
right of citizenship, successful will establish the
ory wholly at war with the fundamental principles of
our government, prove subversive of social order,
and dsunte the bonds of fraternal interest and de-
pendence, which cement the States of the Union b
Assuming this basis of reasoning the exploded
doctrine OF notification assumes foothold and the
vitality of the constitution is lost beyond remedy
Each State Of the Confederacy abnegates at will the
written letter Of the Federal compact and for itself
assumes that sovereignty over naturalization which
by article ls section 9th clause 4th of the cnstitu-
ton, was delegated to the Congress Of the United
States. And in place of uniform rule of naturalza-
ton, as many as there are States might exist, each
conflicting with and in hostility to the declared win
Of the whole by the legitimate authority expressed,
Under the acknowledged power of State Of the quail
fcaton of voters the Democratic party claim for the
States the concurrent right TO invest an alien with
sufrsgan rights, the highest behest vouchsafed to
citizenship, None for a moment deny the reserved
power in the States to qualify her own electors but
just construction Of the constitution forbids the
idea that State can qualify person until he be-
comes a citizen of the United States Were il other
WISE under article A. section 2, aliens declared cti-
sens by State would be already entitled to all the
privileges and immunities Of citizens of the several
States. aAh
Any State Of the Union with seaboard might in
vite foreign immigration, confer the privilege Of ct
zensbip, and In contraventon of the constitutional
prohibition of coterminous State inundate her ter
tory with uncongenial and vicious class of citi-
zens, The destiniex of the whole Union might be
leopardized even destroyed, by such impoitc State
Legislative assumption The power TO confer upon
unqualified persons the right to exercise the elective
franchise, is right inherent in sovereignty and SOW
eighty is and indivsible and the faacy that the
concurrent right resides in the States and the Federal
Government rs manifest, even not considering the
danger which would threaten the integrity Of the
Union by such an exercise of such power States
jealous of political power, acting upon this principle
would naturalze foreigners the emergency should
srequire and by such parrieidal means augment the
basis of their Federal representation The Democra
cy alone contend for such unbeard-of power
In the States TO enable them by State Intervention to
parayze the Federal arm In the alteration or mod6-
cation of the naturalization hws and bolster up
the insdous doctrine of alien squatter sovereignty
The necessity for the organization of the American
party, as brought home 70. the understanding and
ready appruval of every unbiased mind which calm
1y surveys the political condition of the country
brought about mainly by the Introduction among us
of immense classes of Foreigners heterogeneous and
discordant, who breed crime and pauperism, and
fearfully swell the sectonalism which is numbering
and has well nigh numbered the DAYS Of the Union
The statistics of the country exhibit the startling fact
that there are now more than four millions OF for
elgnsrs IN our midst while the entire population of
the United States does not reach twenty-five millions
including more than four millions of slaves showing
ratio of one foreigner to every five nativeborn sub
jects, exclusive of slaves Annually Europe emptes
herself upon our shores by hundreds of thousands,
and we welcome them "a equals constitute them as
master-workmen upon the mighty fabric Of human
liberty, and share equality with them around our
eonsecrsted affairs before they have learned to APP
preciate our institutions have shaken of the dog
mas of the dynasties of the Old World. ~ "a tAf
More than twethrds Of foreign immigrants land |
IN the free States and find their wav 20 Western ter
ritories occupying the public domain, and determine
the question Of slavery the admission OF new States
into the Union IL education and early prelndices
direct moi their minds adverse TO slavery, their local
ity pursuit and association soon temper their jud .
rnents and them 10 swell the maddened fanat
icism against the institution. Again, there is
tagonism in labor, which drives the foreigner from
the South which sntagenism arises from tine con- I
dton and color Of the lsbornR ciasses. resulting in /
jealousy on the part of the foreign white labores \
No Axiom strike The mind with more force than
the fact that nine out OF ten Of foreign immgrants
when probed, show want Of sympathy for the in |
stitusions at the South, or found ranked with !
Aboionists At the North. This immigration. IL pro-
dnctve Of no other eyi entails crime and psupsrsm
10 an alarming extent taxing the people through the
courts Of the country, or through charity more than