The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

character, attached to the institutions of the United States-he may be declared an Amerl- can, and your laws make him citizen. It Is fraud upon him if you do not give him all the rights of citizenship!
 Think of 1t! The poor old Pope of Rome unable even to defend his life, to protect him. self, has his throne supported and upheld by French bayonets We have twelve natives to one foreign vote in the United States Why should we fear the Pope? And cannot twelve Americans manage one Irishman? In the Con- gress of the nited States there is but one for eigner. In the last Legislature of our State, elected, as the members were, before the Know Nothing flood, there was one; and he was the leadlng-l might say, without being invidious, the leading member of the Senate. l allude to Col. c. Zeigler, who came, or was brought to this country when an infant eighteen months old. He Is one of the first intellects of our State, or any State. He has been my political friend, my personal friend, my supporter in every aspiration. 1 submit 1t to you, if there is not something radically wrong in an organi- zation which would prohibit me from voting for him, merely because he was born outside of the United States, though brought here when mere child. I have used his name without his authority. l know he will pardon me when he sees that have only used 1t to illustrate more strongly to our people, than could by hun dred arguments, the absurdity of this indiscr- mnate prescription of foreign-born men from office
 If the despotisms of the Old World should ever attempt to destroy our government by sending their population here, 1 will not your representative, pause sto talk or argue about our naturalization laws. shall speak for fnroi treadng his foot upon our soil. Ishall strike at the root not waste my time and energies ln looping off the branches.
 1 have always understood that three grand leading ideas run through our institutions, giv- ing them all of their vitality, their beauty, and their power. First, that the people are capable of self.government This is the doctrine of the Kansas N ebraska bill. Second, that we had made an asylum to which the oppressed of every land might come as refuge; that here they might worship as equals at the altar of our liberty; that here they might lift up their hearts to their God according to the dictates of their consciences, and there should be none to molest them. Third, that there should be no aristocracv of birth. 1 have regarded, and do regard, these as the peculiar pride and boast of my country. l regard them as the three grand and massive pillars upon which the whole mag nifcent structure of our government rests. l will not, by any action of mine, deface or mar these pillars.
 have been often asked if I am not in favor of recognizing the whig party? l answer that, in the present condition of parties and the country, in my judgment, such an effort can do no good, and might do great harm.
 say to you, that we have no sound material north out of which to reconstruct that party Look back at the past. Every whig repre- sentative from the north, in l849, voted for the Wilmot proviso. But three of them out of seventy three voted forthe fugitive slave law that law which does bat common justice to the south, which is commended by the constitution itself Not one whig north of Mason and DiXon's line voted for the Kansas N Nebraslla bill of 1854. On all these measures a majority of the northern democrats voted with the south. Have we, then, not reached that point in the north, pre-supposed by Mr. Clay when he said, eff the whig party ever becomes merged into contemptible abolition party, 1 will abandon it in disgust?' and should not we, his old fol- lowers, take his implied counsel and his pro- posed example, when he says: <" will act with that party whatever its name may be, that stands by the constitution and the Union?"- To endeavor now to reorganize the whig party,
 
 national men of the south.
 Where have we an ally in the north, outside of the democratic organization? These allies have been true to us in the past. With a patri- otic devotion to the union of the States, and patriotic regard to the constitutional rights of the south, they have barred their bosomS to the ragings of the storm--thev have stood unmoved while malignlty and fanatciSm have poured their fiery torrents upon them 1 take them to my heart as political brothers, and wear and cherish them these.
 How stands the democratic party? I have given you the resolution of the present men- bers of Congress.
 Listen to Ohio! Stepped as she has been in freesolism; in State convention assembled, with the boldness of right, with the candor of man. hood, they declare, on the 8th day of January last as follows:
 Il. ResolOel, That slavery (being the crea- ture of positive law, cannot exist without it) Is a domestic institution, and that Congress has neither the power to legislate it into any terri tory or State nor to exclude 1t therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and re guate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.
 "2. RssoIvei, That the fight of the people of each particular state and territory to establish their own constitution or form of government to choose and regulate their own domestic iu- stitutions of every kind, and to legislate for : themselves, IS a fundamental principle of all free government and that 1t is the self-same right to secure which our ancestors Waged the war of the revolution-a right lying at the very foundation of all our free institutions recognized in the declaration of independence I,N,, ol,1 k %I,o United States; and we hereby endorse and re- affirm this now disputed principle"
 Contrast this with the resolves of the Know Nothing convention at Cincinnati
 Listen to Indiana, as she too, speaks in her democratic state convention. She says: Res0lveL That we approve the principles of the compromise measures of 1S5O and their application, as embodied in the Kansas Ne braska bill, and will faithfully maintain them"
 Hear the democracy of New York, as they, too, in convention declare:
 Resolved That the determination of Con- gross, avowed in the Kansas ebraska bill, to reject from the national councils the subject of slavery ln the territories, and to leave the people thereof free to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States, is one that accords with the sentiments of the demo-
 
 cracy of the State, and with the traditional course of legislation by Congress, which, un- der democratic auspices, has gradually, in suc- cessive territorial bills, extended the domain of popular rights and limited the range of congress sional action; and that we believe this disposi- tion of the question will result most suspicious ly to the reace of the Union and the cause of good government"
 All, everywhere, from Maine to Texas, speak the same language, declare the same principles, and rally under the same flag! Is not this par ty national? Contrast these resolves with the fact, that the Know Nothing party, but two years old, has managed, even in that short time, to be in favor of secrecy against secrecy, in favor of test oaths against test oaths-in some States for the Catholic test, in others against the Catholic test-on one side of the Union for the twelfth secton on the other side against