True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-08-12

the principle " GHUIaCtS. ~ however,
in my estimation comports with this rule
of preference to.say, that cases may arise
wherein, by reason Of diversity of char.
acter and of principles involved, | would
be bound, as an American, to prefer en-
trusting Office % :. citizen of foreign birth,
rather than to his competitorof American
nativity.
Your opdinquiry commands ready
affirmative. Let the rights and interests
OF free Amerieon labor be preserved, pro.
lected and defended by all the appropriate
powers oi Government, State and Ma
tional ; so that every good citizen, in
every avocaIion, may have his hear,
cheered. his arm neryed, aud his home
endeared, by the ever present thought
that he lives and labors under laws enac
ted and administered for the prosperity
and happiness Of himself and his family
Your third inlerrogatory involves con.
sideraiions Cf grave and perplexing i'm.
port, The ballot box is the most delicate
of all the vital organs of free government
1t is the very well,spring of our political
life, into which no unolean thing should
enter, To establish uniform rule oI
naturalization is one of the delegated
powers of Federal Govelnment-.lhC
regulation Of the rights Of suffrage is d
prerogative of S,ate Sovereignty. Hence
this im portant right may be restricted, oil
enlarged, without any alteration Of our
naturalization code. But as in most Of
the States-not in suffrage is made
to attend upon naturalization, some re-
form seems to be necessary. FHhis need
not be exclusive. For, were our natural
izalion laws, even as they now stand, ad
ministered according to their letter ant
spirit-cOnierring the rights of citizen
ship on no foreigner, who. during TIT
proper period Of probation, has moi be
hayed himself as man of good mora
character, attached to the principles o
The Constitution of the United States
and well disposed TO the good order ant
happiness Of the same, our election
would soon cease to be the subjects o
reproach abrOod and danger at home.-
have little confidence in penal enact.
. ments and Registry laws, ST. long as ou
courts impress the seal Of citizenship in.
Discriminatory upon all who apply. w
have TOO long been sought 10 be made tn
Botany Bay and pest-houses for half tn
nations of Europe. And while ! am vii
J ling to share our common heritage of fre
soil and free government with the homes
and industrious foreigner, of every cline
| want no community of residence, cili
zenshlp or suffrage with the hordes of pau
j bers and criminals who crowd our poils
Shut them out. Subject, therefore, tt
the qualifications therein indicated | al
firm your third proposition.
The principle Of "non Intervention" b.
Church hierarchies in politics, embrace,
in your fourth inquiry, is too palpabI,
just to require any exposition. Let tn,
members Of every ecclesiastical organiga
tion, inimical 10 our civil and religion
liberties, enjoy all their social and perso
nal rights; but let them not pervert thei
spiritual power, or belray their allegenc
10 "Kingdom not of this world" by ar
rogating pretenrions TO political control.
10 deny or doubt the truthfulness o
the principles embodied in your fifth pro
position, would be to seek to undermin
The entire structure of our Republican
liberties. Education should be as free a
the. air. Il is the very atmosphere 0
freedom: and should therefore be as pur
as Heaven and man can make it. Sue
purity can be found in the Bible Alone
Our governments were founded in III
Religion and Ethics which it teaches
and can be upheld only by their continu
ed inoulcalon through every channel 0
influence, from the cradle to the grave.
| greatly rejoice that the American Or
der in Pennsylvania has-as evinced b,
this authoraive embodiment of its princi
Piles TO which | have just responded
severed itself from those extraneous issue
which recently disturbed its action, am
dimmed the lustre of its early victories
, il has emerged from that inapproprial
excusiveness and indiscrimination whicI
beset its early career.--Ils workings ar
now open and acknowledged. Its aim
have become more single and a NOR
t liberal spirit guides to its accomplishment
1t has adopted itself to co operation wit
:, other political organizations whose attain;
bic ends harmenize with its own. Fo
who can fail to see that the rights of fre,
: honest, intelligent suffrage, and Of fre,
# honest labor; have, now, one commc
enemy that these around US who su
. cumb to the arrogant aggressions OF Sc
y 'ional power, are they who court, al
'e coalece with, the deluded followers of
foreign herarchy:-that the feculenc
.r upon which slavery extension feeds,
that which poisons and pollutes our bs
= lot boxes. There should then be no stri
u between the American and Republic
n parties in Pennsylvania, for they be bret
rem. We are all Republicans-we are
h Americans. And they of either fai
r. who war against the other, are, howev
ii unwittingly, but the allies Of pow
d which seeks to crush us all.
am Gentlemen,
IN With very high regard.
at Your friend and feIlow-citze
10 JAMES VEECH
a. TO John Botherline, John Covode, D. NJ
is. Murlrie, J. N. Power and Geo. 4
VS. Patton. Esquires, Committee, &c,
ri W.