Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-28


ginia whether these Utah and New MEXICO bills
which the gentleman bad no objection to, did not
contain the very principle of squatter sover-
eighty as the Kansas and Nebraska bills didS
Mr.. COBB. And the principle OF alien suffragei
MIR. HARRIS. Yes; did they not contain both
these principles1
Mr.. CARLILE. propose, with the permission
of the House, this morning to conclude the re-
marks commenced on yesterday. When | was
interrupted, | was about to reply to my friend
from Alabama Mr.. HARRIS who sits before me.
was about to reply to the question which had been
propounded TO me, and (which was this Had
been member of Congress in 1850, would have
voted for the bills establishing the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico? / am not prepared to
say, sir, how / would have voted but desire to
correct an erroneous impression which prevails in
the country, that the same principle of alien suf
frage is to be found in the bills establishing the
Territories of New Mexico and Utah which is con-
tanned in the bill organizing Kansas and Nebraska
viii here read the sixth secton of the act estab-
fishing the Territory of New Mexico the same
provision is in the Utah bill:
"SEc. 9. 4nd be IL further enacted That every
free white male inhabitant, above the age oftwenty
one years. who shall have been a resident of said
Territory at the time Of the passage of this act,
shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and
shall be eligible to any Office within the said Terri
tory; but the qualification Of voters and ofholding
Office at all subsequent elections shall be such as
shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly,
provided that the right Of suffrage and Of holding
United States, including those recognised as cti
zens by the treaty with the Republic of Mexico,
concluded February 2, l84S"
Thus combining the exercise Of the right of suf-
frage and the right to hold office to citizens ofthe
United States who are inhabitants of the Territory.
There is also this further difference while the
bills establishing New Mexico aud Utah require that
81 all the laws.passed by the Legislative Assembly
and Governor, shall be submitted to the Congress
of the United States, and if disapproved shall be
null and of no effect" no such provision is contain
ed in the bills establishing Kansas and Nebraska.
Iwould now appeal to the members of this body; ;
/ appeal to the friends of the administration, II
they cannot, for time sufficient to organize this
House upon a conservative, national basis, ignore
and forget their party fealty, and whatever advan
tage they expect to attain by continuing longer to
refuse all association with those who, like them
selves, are prepared to organize upon national
basis?
Sir, is not the preservation of this Union--is
not its peace, its quiet, and its integrity, far
above all party considerations Are not the con-
sttutional rights of the South held by the friends
of the administration paramount to any party ad-
vantage which they may suppose they will gain by
continuance of this struggled If they are, why
cannot they unite with US in an effort to place in
the chair the distinguished gentleman from Penn
sylvania, Mr.. FULLER, with whose position upon
this subject no Southern man can find fault ? All,
but am told he is an American. Sir, is that 80
Objectionable Do you make the preservation of
the Union subordinate to your hostility to Ameri
canisns But he has taken the oath, probably, to
which the distinguished gentleman from Georgia,
who sits before me, Mr.. Com, alluded to when
he addressed the House, as making gulf deep,
wide, and impossible.
fl am correctly informed, it lies not in the
mouth of this administration to object to oaths.
hold in my hand letter, upon the envelope Of
which is Department of the Interior, official bu
siness, Charles S. Frailey, acting chief clerk" adj
dressed to Mr. Robert T. Foster, East Thirteenth
street, Washington, and which reads as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
August Is, 1855
Sir: Your letter of yesterday 10 the Secretary
has been received, and | am directed to say that
il is not compliance with the advice given to you
on the subject, which was, to present your aft
darit, taken before proper officer, you stated
you could conscientiously do, that you did not be-
long to the Order commonly denominated Know
Nothings;" that you never had been member
thereof; and that you have no sympathy with the
Objects designs usually ascribed to
such order. Respectfully, &C.,
CHAS s. FRAILEY,
Acting Chief Clerk.
Mr.. RoBT. T. FOSTER,
East Thirteenth Street.
The following pledge or declaration is required
to be taken and subscribed to by the members OF
the Democratic Association of this city, before they
are admitted to full fellowship
~ do declare, upon my word of honor, that
am not member of any secret political organiza-
,,,fan bar a,,iz Of fhar
association or society, whose objects are antago-
MYSTICAL to the objects of the Democratic party,
as declared in the resolution of the Democratic
members of the House of Representatives Of the
LIST of December, 1856"
think it ill becomes those gentlemen who are
an administration which requires these
oaths and pledges to object to oaths. ask them
not to sink their party organization; not to leave
their party associations; not to ignore their party
principles but to try and effect an organization OF
this House which, it does seem to me, every lover
of his country should desire. think that they
can, for the time being, unite with us in placing in
the Speakers chair a gentleman who is as sound
on the subject of the constitutional rights of the
South as any man on this floor. Is 1t, Mr.. Clerk,
because the distinguished gentleman from Penn
sylvania Mr.. FULLERl believes that it is better
that native-born citizens, acquainted with the ge-
MUS and spirit of our institutions, should control
the destines of this country rather than foreign
ers, that he is objected tor Sir, think that the
Democracy ought not to object to him on that
ground. The resolutions of 1898 and 1899, adopt
ed by the Virginia General Assembly, have been
considered orthodox by the Democratic party; and
now, sir read from the Statutes of Virginia one
of the resolutions adopted at that memorable SEES
sion by the House Of Delegates on January IL,
1799 and agreed to by the Senate on January l6,
1899:
RESOLVED, That the constitution ought to be so
amended, that no foreigner who shall not have ac-
quired rights under the constitution and laws at
the time of making this amendment, shall thereaf-
ter be eligible to the Office Of Senator or Repre-
in the Congress of the United States, nor
to any Office in the judiciary or executive depart
ments.n