The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-20

the abuses to which policy is liable would
have passed the necessary laws to prevent recur-
renee of them if such ameasure had required the
entire exclusion of foreigners and the Just and
able portion of foreign population must have ap-
proved the act am not going into an examination OF
the dsgracefl riots which have occurred in different
portions of the country nor to intimate opinion that
blame does not attach to both parties sufficient for my
purpose is to call attention to the fact that the cause
to be found in the excessive number of immigrants
coming to the country, with the facilities of making
them citizens. s5E=S Sir .s5sag yzs5tf -
But, sir, another great danger, and one still more
formidable to institutions is to be found in the ap-
prehension expressed by Mr.. Butler The love of ma
tvity, the influence ofeary impressions of which men
can seldom entirely dvest themselves, is common to
ALL from the most cultivated to the veriest savage
The poets of Europe for years after they settle in our
country, sing the praises of their mother land The
savages untutored mind loves the spot on which he
first looked upon the g and admired the rising sun
loves the gliding stream, waving grass and towering
hills which charmed his first impressions So with all
the intermediate classes: exempt from it. 1t
is princp affection of cur nature and while we
do not condemn it, whenever find its exercise detr-
mental to the public veal, becomes our imperative
duty as prudent Legislators to guard against it. That
the evil exists In the country to dangerous extent
proceed TO snow by the separate combinations and or
CARNATIONS OF varlota kinds within our government
The first evidence shall offer extract from the
Freemans journal, in which it is said:
"Irishmen learn in America to bde their time Year
BY year the United States and England touch each
other more and more nearly the aas Year by year
the Irish are becoming more powerful in America At
length the proptious time will conn., some accidental
sudden collision and presidential campaign at hand
We aoM use, then, the oery progacy of politicians
for urpurposes They will want to buy the Irish vote
and we will tell them how theycan buy it in lump
form Maine to California-by declaring war on Great
Britain and wiping off at the same tirne the stains
of concessions and dishonor haour Websters and men
IpI a5 ho
American flag by violence of tie British agents
There is the danger, Mr. President, of number of
persons in country who canbe combined together
fora purpose inconsistent with the safety and
opposed to the interest of this government. This ed
tor supposes have politicians .mong us base enough
to buy them hope it is not tue yet, for fear such
men do exist, and that such combinations may control
our elections, l would at ,ut stop to this in
creasing vicious power The Btston Pilot of October
3lst, 1874 says:
We say to all men in the United States entitled to
be naturased become citizens while you can; let moth
ing delay you for hour Let hindrance short of
mortal desease Danish you from the ballot-box. To
those who are citizens say, vote your principles,
whatever they be- never desert them do not be whee
died terrified; but vote quietly seriously and unob
trusvely. Leave to others the noisy warfare ofwords
let your opinions be proved by your deliberate and de-
termned action. We recommend to you no party; we
condemn candidate but one, and he is Theodore
Frelinghuysen. We have nothing to say to him
whg have nothing to say Mr.. Clay any other
whig as such, but to the President of the American
Board of Foreign Missions, the friend and patron of the
Kinks and Coxes, we have much to say. We hate his
intolerance, dislike his associates and shudder
at the blackness and bitterness of that school of sect
rians to which he belongs, and among whom he is re-
garded an authority"
Upon this effort in 1874, tomingle religious preju-
dices with political elections and to excite the
against the protestant denominations in this
try have comments to MAKE except to express my
regret that such effort should have been made
by religious papers politicians Isuch has been the
and evil should result from it, the greater blame
will attach to him who commenced it. That is sub
ect, however, into which it is my purpose to
quire. To show that even patriotic naturalised
foreigners may become little egotistical and consider
themselves seperate class and entitled to exclusive
privileges, ask the attention of the senate to
munication dated Philadelphia December Is, lS45,
addressed to president Polk. The communication ex-
plains itself:
"SIR: We are naturalised citizens and members of
the democratic party, who, having heard with extreme
surprise that Geo. W. Woodward has been urged upon
YOU as person qualified to fill the vacancy upon the
bench of the supreme court beg leave most earnestly
to remonstrate against any such appointment In the
convention to amend the constitution of Pennsylv-
MIA this gentleman proposed to amend it as to pre-
vent any foreigner who may arrive in this State after
the 4th of July, 1871 from acquiring the right to vote
orhold office in the commonwealth. Such doctrines
might have been suited to the days of the elder Adams
but were considered by every democrat as entirely at
with the principles of the great democratic party
Those principles were LUMINOSITY expounded in the
resolutions of the Baltimore convention and upon that
faith we urged and advocated your election with all
zeal and strength We do therefore sincerely trust
that they will be fully carried out in relation to this
great judicial appointment. There is an intense ex-
citement among our naturalised citizens which moth
ing could restrain if such nomination were to be
made We therefore protest most soemnly against
Geo. ". Woodward
Here they speak of themselves as separate class,
foreign citizens; and attempt to ntimidate the pres
ident and control him in the discharge of his high d
ty by informing him that there is can intense excite
ment among the naturahsed citizens; as such they
protest against Mr.. Woodward's nomination. Fortu-
nately Mr.. Polk at the head of the government
and did notheed TIE threats and attempted dctatlon
of these mpertnent foreigners He sent the nomina-
tlon to the senate yet through some influence, it was
not confirmed. You viii recoeet, Mr.. president,
similar remonstranees against the action OF the
ate during the last congress- They had no more in
uence on this body than the just read had on Mr.
Polk Yet if immigration continues it has recent
ly, the time will soon when the
the dictaonof foreigners will be omnipotent in this
land and native born citizen will be compelled to
bow submissively to the yoke, be it light or oppres
stve
We have in our country many German organisations
whose objects will be best understood by referring to
their platform of principles Here is an extract from
one of their circulars and platform of principles:
S'To all true republicans in the Unlon
''The free Germans of the Union have found 1t ne
cessy to organise themselves for the purpose of being
able to exercise political activity proportionable to
their number and adapted ta their principles.
"Ihe free Germans furthermore indulge in the hope
that it will be possible to form powerful reform par
ty, embracing all who want that liberty now much
endangered and the progress and happiness of this
our common republic to be secured on principles last
ing and truly republican and democratic They wish
after having completed their organisation, to estab
sh, with the aid of their liberal minded fellow cit
zens, such power of votes to be able in 1856 to
decide the victory in favor of party of true reform
ers. Signed by the committee.
Louisville, Kentucky, March, 1884,
To show further their purposes, / will read from
a German paper published in st. Louis:
"The first and most principal mark whereby we
distinguish ourselves from religious people is that in
the belief on a God and that which connects it.
self with this belief recognise destructive
which for thousands of years has been gnawng at hui
manity and preventing it from attaining its destiny
No individual can live asa human being, in no fami
" can true happiness flourish the whole human race
is Fastening on the ways Of error, so long as the
(escheulichsten Popanzel most abominable hobgob-
hne-God future existence, eternal retribution-are
permitted to maintain their ghostly existence
therefore the task of every genuine revolutionst to
put forth his powers for the destruction of this hag
tious non tro viz: the hobgobline of God, future