American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-02-28
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mosican platform from which we cheer :.
fully present extracts em5odying the true !
principles on which the party should stand,
It'says: +
e"None but Americans 10 rule America;
the Union must be preserved; no foreign :
Interference in American %atitir; involabili- +,
~ OF a~ational treaties; no union Of Church
aal State; personal morality Indispensable ,
10 office; an open Bible in all public schools;
thorough reform OF the naturalization laws;
a eapitation tax to exclude foreign p1upers; .
no appoin.men. Of foreigners on diplomatic
posts; sjast tsrif on imported Injuries; in
Ill necessities free trade; strict economy in
the government"
tFhis is the American platform. This
is the platform on which Americans are
builisng up the hopes and desliuies of A
meilea. Never was there a platform OF
principles more sounl or more glorious;
and never was there one reared in \ more
e%vcatful rime than this. The well nigh
mirsenlous progress of the Uniiel States,
the 10 arshaliing Of the hosts OF Europe IN
arms, the starting revolutions in Asia, and
the s'eady march OF civilization on the con
tinent Of Africa, all unite to hold forth the
nations Of the earth in an aspect OF excite
ment, agitation, an reform, such as they
never presented before.
y + y n
sis America, indeed, to be the light Of
the world? Then must sho tim tho lamp
Of her destiny with hor own hands. Is
Auerica to be the salt Of She earth? Then
must she hold forever pure the SAVIOR Of her
birthright. She must not hid her Ameri-
eanism under a bushel, nor sell her inner
itance Cor a moss OF pottagc. The sous Of
the men md the daughters of the women
who first lit the yestal htme of liberty on
these distant shores must be her chi'f
counsellors in all her high places; ard the
cup wherswith she pied ses her faith to the
world must be the cup OF Jasob, aui not of
Esau. She must be n living episle OF rir-
tuous breathing, speaking Amsricani3m,
known aud read among all men. On all
her banners, on all her escutcheous, on all
her temples Dedicated TO freedom, educa-
ton. and religion, clustering among the
stars nnl rolling along the stripes of her
national ensign, mus shine forth the dee
l%nrnion. None but Americans shall rule
Americal
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'The sentiment we thus advocate is en-
shriued at the foundations OF our Union
Ills engrafted with the sovereignty of the
States. I; viii forever keep foreign inter
msddlers from damaging the governing
powers Of this continent. The spirit that
guides it will preserve i~nvlolato all our
treaties with other nations, and thereby
prevent all lawless expeditions. and n too
grea! expansion Of our territory. Actual
ed by this sentiment, the Church and the
State must forever be kept asunder; while
none but those who have personal pro5ity
"a well as intelligence, can control the
councils Of tho nation. The sacred vol
una, without note or comment, will speal
in words Of instruction and warning with
in the walls OF the school room, where Thu
children of tho rich and the poor meet to
gother on equal terms.
1.-THE ballo;-b0x, the grand palladium o
our l~,og.t.es, will be guarded from the pro
fane touch Of ignorance, bribery, and cor
%ruption; the foreign pauper and alien Grim
iual cannot burden our poor-houses will
taxes, nor I'll our prison cells with felons
our relations with other powers will not b
involved by abrupt ~repulses on the on
hnai, nDr entangling alliances on the 9th
er; American labor will be fairly protecte
all unfair foreign competition; our ex 'es
sive importaIions will cease; our domssti
products will be fostere1: administrative
extravaganza. that bane Of republics, wi
come to an end; and. to crown the whole
American Presidents, with American Cab
inets, AMI An American Congress. will u
nite their %counsels and put forth their pr
triotic llbors to hand down unimpaired
postsrity oar broad inheri,ance-an inner
iiaece purchased NJ the costly sacrifice G
The blood of our fathers.
"America welcomes the stranger to he
domain rs a guest. not 10 % her ruler
1.-THE foreigner from abroad uni:es with th
sons Of the soil Of America to develop he
resources. to Increase her wealth, to eS
tend her republican glory, it should be {
nough for him that he shares in the gre;
and lasting benefits she %conlers upon hin
that ho Is protected in his person, guarar
teod in his property, and guarded in h
rights against all the tyrants that woul
Cypress him. What more can the foreigr
OF Justly ask? But let him ask more
less, he may rest forever assured that A
merica will always keep her own honor
her own hands. She Will never conf,
the ark Of her liberties to the care OF stral
gers.
What the Irishman does in %Irelan,
what the Englishman does in Englau
what the Frenchman does in France, VIII
every native recipient of powerdoes in Il
land Of his birth, the American does, ~
does rightly, in America. When the u
right foreigner has resided in America
years: when he has carefully studied Il
that length Of time our form Of COVER
ment. aud the practical workings of OF
Democratic institutions; when ho has thl
witnessed the operations Of our law
learned TO prize, at its true worth, our 81
tenn Of universal education and entire &c
Grafton in religion; when no has wash,
away, at this free fountain opened in 4
wilderness, every alien prejudice. eve
extraneous alliance, every veslige Of der
ton 10 kingly rule aud papal supremacy
then, but no. till then. is no qualified
assume the high position of M Americ
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