Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-14

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pwnS, N Opsa var on the past ~ om Catholic
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NJ Schools Of learning. Thsy AGhg thsss bat
LEI with real that can originate oaly IN IA
laticiSm. that strikes down the genius q relig-
ons kbsssyl Again. Yen % 70 Italy. sYou
AXE your panports, under the great seal Of the
Governments 81 the United States Of America.
rou take youf trunk, containing your wearing
lppsrsi, md Protestant Bibls--perhaps m
Id family. relic, the last present o. : ding
noshsss Then you cfoa the line TO PspAl
power, yor passport with the broad national
zeal VIII admit yourperson and your shirts, your
old boots, Gc.; bat they viii mot pans that good
old Book you love, If not for It's contents on sc-
count Of the associations that entwine It with
Government under tie power Of the Pope viii
not tolerate iss introduction, and under no cir
cumstances can you ever acquire political pow
er there yet st the same time. under the
iiberality OF the American law, We allow the
Church Of Rome 70 send here and circulate with
out restraint it, form Of the Bible BY ship loads,
accompanicd by thOusands and tens Of thou
sands Of members Of that Church, with whom
" divide the sovereign powers Of our Govern
ment.
Now, NJ. President, do not know that this
plank Is in your late platform, flor have not
examined It, and Am nick Of platforms, but it IS
ia mine. / would have Sam" when he gets
strong enough, land he will grow and strengthen
daily, exact Of Ill the nations of the earth with
whom NC are in friendly intercourse, equality in
friendly intercourse, equality in all things
lcheeB] especially equality in I'll that pertains
to religious liberty fcheersl and the right Of
Young America, to take with him, wheresoeyer
he may rghtfully 60, any form Of the Word OF
God which suits his religion, whether It be Cath
olic Of Protestant. prolonged cheering.
And again, sir: !" All men must die" Thus
il il written Natures record! In this great land
OF ours, the spirit Of Americans secures to the
wayfarer, who Is smitten by the fell destroyer,
Death, without regard to the place of his birth or
the peculisrities Of his religion, the freedom Of
funeral obsequies. How it inPapal lands with
tUo IAIlGH FVtSbS0At et9AA yWsA - y
not allowed to consign his mortal remains to their
resting place in mother earth, with as much de-
cent respect as a foreign Catholic in America is
allowed to bestow on the burial Of his Newfound-
land dog fCheera Here, sir, Is another
plank which my .Americanism would stick into
your platform. / would have our Government
demand-and, secure-the right Of respectful
funeral ceremonies to the American when he
dies, from every nation on the face Of the foot.
stool Of Almighty God with whom we have ami
cable relations. CHEERS.
Is there any Catholic or any foreigner in
America who will dare say this is an unjust de-
mand? Sir, our movement embarrassed as it Is
By Internal difficulties, must establish, and will
establish, sooner, or later, the. which we have
never had, because we have never boldly
asserted our right to tan Independent Ma
tionalityl TCheers.l Yes, to use the exF
preston Of Kossuth, we must be recogni-
sed everywhere as one Of the peoples' of the
earth as an Independent Power, acting upon the
principle of equal and exact justice, in our in-
tercourse with other nations asking nothing
more than that which we give-accepting moth
ing less! [Cheers. $500 !. 5sits9sss
We are charged with prescription Of for
eigners, in proposing reform in our naturaliza-
ton laws. A few words, briefly, on that point
With the right Of suffrage as to the foreigner
who has immigrated, or with his privilege to- be
naturalized under our present system, We do not
propose to interfere To those who are yet in
foreign lands, we give notice of q new rule of
law which is to be established. That is ALL
Who can Justly complain of this Certainly not
the man of foreign birth now with us. That
there is a necessity for reform in this regard,
no man can deny. l will not 60 into statistics
on an occasion like this, but have authentic doc
uments to prove that foreign Governments, who
profess to be on terms of friendly intercourse
with us, have long been disgorging from their
penitentiaries and their pest-houses, their felons
and paupers, and shipping them to the shores
of America In some countries particularly IN
Belgium-the Legislature has seriously consid-
cred, as a question Of economy to the Govern
ment, whether it would not be better to abolish
their prison and poor,house system, and trans
port their felons and paupers to America! That
Belgium has often perpetrated this great inter-
national wrong, there is doubt England, too,
has sent her felons from Botany Bay? Sir,
:" Young America that is to say "Sdnaueip
and his famjly--have determined to put an end
to these transactions, even though the remedy
be that most dire of all resorts---the word Of
"three little letters-w-A-Rl"f Cheers.
What do we, in our States, provide in refer
ence to paupers who are a,ative-born Americans
BY statute, which regulates the intercourse in the
family of counties Of either of our States, it pro-
yided that paupers sent from one county to an
other may be sent back at the expense Of the
county sending them. That is simply all we pro-
pose, in our intercourse with the, family of ma
TONS When they send paupers to America, we
will ship them back again, at the expense of the
nation that sends them, and we will exact in
demnty for the past, and security for the futurep
Cheers. geSI s.gsss
Why, sir, these paupers and felons become
sovereigns here under our laws. In Indiana, the
law gives the sufrages in one year
after they are sent here. Under the Kansas-Ne
braska act, each cut-throat from foreign peni-
Tertiary, and each loathsome diseased pauper
from the pest-houses of Belgium, may be clothed,
in an hour after his arrival, with as much power
to regulate "domestic institutions" and shape
the destinies of those great Territories, filed by
the God of Nature with all the elements neces-
sary for the increase of american power, as
either Washington or Jefferson could have, were
they to arise from their graves at Mount Vernon
and Monticello, and appear at the ballot-box!
This is no fiction. It is stern reality, and the
thought makes ones American blood course
quickly through his veins. [Cheers.]
Whilst youmake such laws and submit to such
wrongs, what do you provide in reference to our
feloLs? Let us draw picture in il
One of these old bullet riddled sol
liers of the American Revolution, or one Of the
veterans of the war of 1872, is in the Hobbies of
Congress, endeavoring to get bill passed to pay
lin for supplies he furnished our army in the
lays that tried mems souls!" He is poverty
stricken, because the Government has withheld
rom him that which it owes. He has, per-
,hance, a starving family, and is too proud to
BEG. He passes your market space at twilight,
vending his way to his desolate home, and temp
ed, or rather driven, by Neesssits-Tth law of
human nature which over-rides the provisions of
III other laws-he steals horse in order that he
nav buy bread. He steals one of those old Vir-
yinia nays. which we see there on market days
blind ii both eyes, string-halt and spavined--al
horse that would not bring two dollars and a
,uarter under hammer! What does your law
10 with that old soldier? It sends him to your
,enitentiary, and DISTINGUISHES him forever i
should he ever afterward appear at the ballot
,ox. your imported sovereign elon from Botany
Bay, with hands stained in the blood OF his wife
,r child, having voted, would challenge success
July the veterans vote, on the ground OF infa-
nyl !,
Now, sir, I appeal to men of all parties-I APP
,eslto the man Of foreign birth, who has adopted
his Is the land of his future destiny. and the
nome Of his children-I appeal to all men whose
political action is in any wise governed by the
principles Of moral rights not the American