Washington telegraph., 1856-07-16
THE FEBRUARY PLATFoRx,

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week our examination of the February
Platform. Referring to our issue of the
11th June, we find the ninth section Of
that Platform the subject of our remarks.
The proposition which We consider the
basis of that section We have stated. and
repeat here and now. "Under the opera
tion Of the present system of naturalization
the foreigner is made the equal of the
native, and seeks to become his superior. /"
We have discussed and examined the DO
sitiOn of the Church Of Rome in connection
with this question. We have adduced
proof, which ought to be satisfactory to all
unprejudieed minds, that the institution
recognizing the Pope as its visible head
and front, aims at universal supremacy,
neither admitting nor recognizing any con-
fiction with, or dispute of, the justice of its
arrogant claims The nature of the Ro-
mish institution Is essentially foreign to
all ideas of American republican liberty.
1t is despotism, operating through the
influence it exerts upon the fear with
which 1t inspires men of punishment, to
mitigate and avert which, it processes to
possess the power 1t is, wherever it ex-
lists, at once the reflex and executive of the
designs, aims and purposes of crafty and
powerful, sleepless and untiring foe of all
rights, save those which it arrosates to
itself. In America, it is the confessed
instrument of the avowed determination
Of Its spiritual and temporal head to con-
vert America to the true faith. as it terms
its creed, to bring this land and this peo-
pie under Its spiritual subjection, and as a
necessary consequence to the achievement of
this end, to exercise the paramount power,
social, moral and political throughout the
land For these reasons we find the Amer
lean party opposed to its power, its influ-
enee, Its emissaries, and their promotion to
the high places of the land Avery large
majority of the two millions and more of
the Catholic population are alien in birth
and sentiment Upon the continually in
ereaslng influx of these foreign hordes, the
principles of the ninth section, which the
American party propose to incorporate into
the national policy, are intended to oper-
ate There is beside the foreign Catholic
class, another class, numerous, prcsump-
tuous, influential and determined in their
opinions, against which the American party
stand arrayed- We propose in this article
to examine into the nature of the demands
OF this class of men, and consider them in
connection with the proposed amendment
OF the naturalization laws, embodied in the
section OF our platform now under con-
slderatlOn, and to glance briefly at the
other requirements of this section. The
class to whom We refer, compose resu-
larry organized league, holding in many
districts and very probably in some States,
the balance of political power, and inya-
nably exercising it as unit wherever
and upon whatever occasions, any purpose
oi their own can be subserved, no matter
now trivial the success afforded them, or
how remote from the accomplishment of
the ultimate scope of their great design.
This body of men, recognized under the
general term of the Free Germans. unite
within themselves all of the worst elements
OF radical and anarchical Democracv.-
Their expressed opinions and declared
objects, constitute nothing more nor less
than an lmperious demand for the subyer-
sion of our existent forms of government.
and the moulding of our present institu-
tons to suit their socialistic ideas of the
proper form of Republic. Deeply init
ated into the profane and revolutionary
mysteries of a league which processes to
teach, and promised to accomplish, the
overthrow of all forms, and the establish
ment of universal equality-these pro-
pasandists of Illuminism, looking through
the fogs Of their own distorted dreams of
freedom, see nothing but evil in the forms
Of law to which the American people have
Oeen subject for nearly a century, and
Which have indued them with power, to
eject an hitherto undreamed of advance
ment IN art, science, literature and all that
makes nation great, prosperous and hap
ps; and they do not rashly estimate their
strength nor undervalue their influence
anu power as a constituent element of the
POiltical body. From the larvae, blown
W the Demon of discord into their heated
''aihs, are hatched out a swarm of unclean
ra O'es' to obscure the very atmosphere of
.0efty, and engender in their turn null
npned continuation of curse ,as loathsome
'na' which, in the old time, afflicted the