Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-02-07

WI VI luScl I'LL VIC 1OllOWluS IdCtS, WlllCu l.
have no doubt will interest the most of your
readers. The American party has been de-
nounced because of it's ''proscrip tion, f" as it's
vilifers allege, it's oaths and obligations [
wish now to show that the Administration
is not so sensitive upon this subject as some
of its supporters in our midst. Here is
specimen letter, shelving the requirements,
on the part of applicants, for Office under the
Administration
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
august Is, 1855.
SIR: Your letter Of Yesterday to the Secretary
has been received, and am directed to say that
it is not compliance with the advice given to you
on the subject, which vas, to present your afida-
ut, taken before proper officer, as you stated
you could concientiously do, that you did not be-
long to the Order commonly denominated "know
Ncthngs - that you never had been member
thereof; and that you have no sympathy with the
principles, objects, or designs usually ascribed to
such Order. Respectfully, SC.
CHAs. S. FRAILEY, Acting Chief Clerk.
Mr.. RoBr. v. Foster, East Thirteenth Street.
And the following declaration is required
to be taken by the members of the Demo-
cratic Association at Washington, before
they are s'admitted to full fellowship:
81 do declare upon my word of honor that am
not member of any secret political organization
or society, of any other organization, Of any
other association or society whose objects are an
tagonistical to the objects of the Democratic par
ty, as declared in the resolution of the Democratic
members of the House of Representatives of the
| lst Of December, 1862
So far as 7 understand the principles a.
vowed by the american party, they do not
sproscribe," but merely discriminate be-
tween the sons of the soil and foreigners who
flock to that soil in many eases, to the
crowding out of its native citizens. They
deny to foreigners who may hereafter come
to our shores, the right to vote and hold Of
fee until they have qualified themselves by
residence amongst US. A law modifying
the naturalization laws would as matter OF
necessity, under our Constitution, operate
prospectively, hence, could not affect the
rights of those foreigners now among u.s.
But they say the American party pro-
scribes man for his religious opinions |
have never been able to find out that pro-
scription, or what those who bring it for
ward mean by it, unless it is taken for gran
ted that foreign-born citizens are prescribed,
and then it would very reasonably follow
that if the man was prescribed, his religion,
if he had any, would also be affected. HUI
dibras upon this principle rode with but one
spur for it was his opinion that if one side
of the horse went along the other must fol-
low. Here must be where they get their
''religious prescription" But l am, Mr..
Editor, straying far from the object of my
communication The following resolutions
were adopted by the Virginia Assembly and
agreed to by the Senate, on the 18th Janu-
airy, 1899, and have been considered as Or
thodox in that State ever since by the De-
mocratic party:
"Resolred That the Constitution ought TO be so
amended that no foreigner who shall not have &C
CURED 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-
sentative in the Congress of the United States,
nor to any Office in the judiciary or executive de-
partmcnts.
The unparalleled success of this party is
owing, l believe, to the fact that its enemies
are it's best friends. They have brough hit SC
many and such unnatural charges against it
as at once to destroy confidence and to cause
those who might have opposed it to turn
enemies to those who were studieus to de-
.ceive The cup of abuse having beea ex,
hausted, and with greedy hand turned up
and up again to see if another drop coulo
be found to satisfy the cormorant appetite
Of dapravity, the Executive of our State
Mr.. Ligon, Gle gone ---the first part O.
whose name was surely we'll adapted to the
task, dragged forth its sediments, and will
hand used to such work. smeared and gor
med away to the utmost delight, no doubt
of his highly cultivated taste And wher
the Com.nittee to which his Message gave
rise shall have terminated its deliberations
it's work will become matter of record, ant
in Maryland, his name will never be forgot
ten, as her annals will record that of
Ligon Q4ie-gone.
Thomas A. MILLAR
Park, Ndnjemoy, JAM 1856.