Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-04-25

Ism would stick into your platform. would
have our government denlaud--aye, secure
the right Of respectful funeral ceremo-
MES to the American when he dies, from
every nation on the face of the footstool of
| Almighty God with whom We have AMIGA
bic relations. (Cheers.l
Is there any Catholic or any foreigner in
America who will dare say this is an unjust
demand. Sir, our movement, embarrassed
as it is by internal difficulties, must estab-
lisb, and will establish, sooner or later, that
which we have never had, because we have
never boldly asserted our right to lt-an IN
dependant nationality, [Cheers.l Yes, TO
use the expression of Kossutb, we must be
recognized everywhere as one of sthe peo-
ptes' Of the earth--as an Independent pow
er acting upon the principle of 'sequal and
exact justice" in cur intercourse with other
nations asking nothing more than that
which we give-accepting nothing less -
| Cheers.
We are charged with prescription Of
foreigners in proposing reform in our ma
turalIzation laws. A feg words, briefly, on
that point. With the right ef suffrage
which the foreigner who has immigrated, or
with his privilege to be naturalized under
cur present system; we do not propose to
Interfere. To those who are yet in foreign
lands VIC give notice of a new rule of law
which is 10 be established. That is ALL
Who can justly complain of thisa Ger
tainly not the man of foreign birth now
with Us. That there is necessity for
reform in this regard nd man can deny. /
viii not 60 into statistics on an occasion
like this, but have authentic documents to
prove that foreign governments, who profess
to be en- terms Of friendly intercourse with
US, have long been disgorging from their
penitentiar;es and their pest houses, their
felons and paupers, and shipping them to
the shores of America Ia some countries
particularly in Belgium tao Legislature
has seriously considered, as question Of
economy to the government, whether it
would not be better to abolish their prison
and poor house system, aud transport their
sslons and paupers to America. That Bel
GUM has often perpetrated this great inter-
national wrong there is no doubt. England,
too has sent her felons from Botony bay
Sir, "Young America'--that is to say,
Samuel aud bis family, have determined TO
PET an end to these transactions, even though
the remedy be that most dire Of all sorts
the word of s'faree little ietterS-w-A-R -
[Cbeers.l
What do We, in our States, provide in
reference TO paupers who are faaftvs born
.fmsricans BY statute, which regulates
the intercourse in the family of counties in
either of our States, it is provided that
paupers sent from one county to another
may be sent back at the expense of the
county sending them. That is simply all
we propose in our intercourse with the fam
ily of nations. When they send them to
America, we viii ship them back again at
the expense of the nation that sends them,
and we viii exact ssindemnity for the past
and security for the FUTURE LCheers-l
Why, sir, these paupers and telons be-
come soUereigns here under our laws. In
indiana, the Fundamental law gives them
sufsrages in one year after they are sent here.
| Under the Kansas-Nebraska act, each -cut
:hroat from foreign penitentiary, and each
loathsome disease pauper from the pest
house of Belgium, may be clothed in an
hour after his arrival there, with as much
power to regulate s'domestic Institutions"
and shape the destinies of those great ter
r;tories, filed by the God of nature with all
the elements necessary for the increase of
American power, as either Washington or
Jefrrson could have, were they TO arise
from their graves at Mount Vernon and
Monticello and appear at the ballot box =
This is no fiction. 1t is stern reality, and
the thought makes ones American blood
course quickly thaough his veins. -[Cheersl j
Whilst you make such laws aud submit
to such wrongs, what do We provide in re-
ference to Gus native born tetons9 Let Us
II
draw picture in illustration. One of these
old bullet-riddled soldiers of the American
Revolution, or one of the veterans of the
war of 1872, is in the lobbies of Congress
endeayoring to get bill passed 70 pay him
for supplies be furnished an army in the
days that tried mems souls. He is poverty
stricken, because the government has
withheld from him that which it owes. He
| has, perchance, starving family, and is too
proud to beg. He passes your market space
at twiligh t,wending his way to his desolate
home, and tempted, or rather driven, by
necessity. that law Of human nature which
overrides the provisions of all other laws
| he steals horse in order that he may buy
bread. He steales one of those old pF-