Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-04-23

Warrington ploAiOiA1> 4 ttoS..sSs -
one Parson French s. Evaps-tht
defeated Black Republican candidate
for Sergeant at Arms Of the present
House aloptedsby that conyen,
ton! !,
Do rou want more proofl Think
every intelligent. honest man in my
district. whofs not an aspirant for OF
fee. will exclain-s.Holl. enough
Butt for the benefit ofthe Know Moth
ing aspirants for my place in'the DIS
trict, Twill give two more facts. =
That the northern portion ofthat con
vention telegraphed 70 the Black ke'
publican Pittsburg conyentionthat tne
AMERICAN party 10 no longer unltea; -
Is Raise the Republican banner. ~
THERE BE No FURTHER E1yEN'
( sION4OF SLAVERY. THE AMERl,
9 CANS ARE With YOU"
- And thes still fnrthersignihcant tact
( that after the express population Q
!, the twelfth section. they denounee il
their platform the repeal OF the Mis-
souri compromise line. /
And now--I do not ask the aspir
ants for nv place. do not ask those
who want to go as Know Nothings te
the observation-disclosures who want te
( be sherifis. county judges, squires, q
constables. &c.-bnt | ask the trtit
men Of my district 1.-The real people
where I have always found my friends
the men who have no object but the
4 good OF their country at heart, to DC
Is Ihaye done abandon this organi
cation !-if it has not failei-utterly
completely, entirely failed, asasound
national. conservative party I
every intelligent man does not know
that It has SO failed land if every
! honest man will not acknowledge ths
factl
AS to the great catch-wori, Amer
leans must rule America !n-l ann in
favor ofAmericans ruling Ameiica
They do, they always have AMI they
always will rule America.
But who are the Americans! our
laws declare that, when q man M:
been here five years-whell he will
unier oath, renonnce all allegiancef e
any foreign prince, potentate. or Pow'
er,-when he will prove that he is o.
pooi moral character attached tothe
institutions of the United States-he
may be declared an American, and
your law makes him a citizen. II is
q fraud npon him, if you do not give
him all the rights Of citizenship!
Think oft! The poor old Pope Of
Rome. unable eYento defend his life
to protect himself has his throne
supported and upheld by French bay
onets! We have twelyenatiye to one
foreign vote in the United States!--
Why shout We fear the Pope! AN
cannot twelve Americans manage one
Irishman9 In the Congress of the
vJnitei States there is but one for
gner! In the last Legislature OF
State-electcd, as the, IN nibers
We, before the Know Nothing fool
--are was but one; AMI he was q
ieaa might say, without being
inyidns, the leading member Of the
Senate alluie to Colonel G. Zig
Ter, whcame, or who was brought
to this entry when an infant ofeigh-
teen mon, olaiI He Ia one OF the
flrst lnteilss Of our State, or any
State: H.has- been. my political
friend-my Fsonal friend --my sup
j porter IN even aspiration. | submit
! It to you, if tie is not something
radically wronsin an organization
which would PROFIT me from voting
for him, merely hause he was born
outside Of the Urill States. though
brought here when mere child
/ have used his namevithont anthor-
ity. Iknowhewill palon me. when
he sees that / have onl nscd # 10 Il.
lustrate more strongly tC,ur people
than ! could BY a hundrca ronmerts'
the absurdity of this ind Eliminate
prescription Of foreigniborn len from
Office. r
Ii the despotisms ofthe oldWorli
should ever attempt TO destrV onr
Government by senIing their pcula.
ton here, / will not, as your Rere.
sentative, pause to talktor argue abn,
our decentralization laws. shall spei
and vote prohibiting any foreigne
from treading his foot upon our soil
i shall strike at the root-not vast
my time and energies in hopping o
the branches. Il,
Ihave alwasys unierstoo / that tine
grand lea1ing IDEAS run through o.
! Institutions. giving them all Of the
vitality, their beauty, and their poy
er. First, that the people are cap,
BE Of self.govsrnmsnt. This is Il
doctrine ofthe Kansas Nebraska bill
Second. that we had made an ass,
lumn to which the oppressed Of evel
land might come as j relnge; that hel
they might worship as equals at IL
= altaf Of our liberty; that here the
might lift up their hearts to God, q
cerding to the dictates Of their col
sciences. and there should be none
rnolestthein. Third. that there shoul