Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-19
AMERICAN STATE CONVENTION.

AMERICAN STATE CONVENTION.
Iowa CRY, Sept. I'd 1857.
Convention met this day by appointing
Col VIM. II. Henderson, of Iowa City,
Chairman, and +. Cadle, of Muscatine, Sec
retary.
The TO lowing Counties were represented:
johnson, Washington, Muscatiue. Linn aud
Van Buren,.
Easin Morris, G. D. Croshwait, D. X.
Shaver, Philip E. shaver, and VIM. IL Hen
derson. from johnson. VIM. II. jenkins
and William Wilson, from WASHINGTON. J.
| H. Wallace and R. Cadle, from Muscatine.
Adam Perry from Linn P. w. Richman
| and Z F. Bur man, from Van Buren.
! On motion Committee of, three was APP
pointed to craft Resolutions, who returned
the following which were received, and on
motion adopted
| DECLARATION OF POLITICAL OPINIONS.
/. A rigid adherence to the letter ana
spirit of the Constitution of the United
! States, and the perpetuation of the Federal
| Union, as the Pail dun of our Civil and
Religious Liberties. .....
9 If it is right that native-born Irishmen
should rule Ireland--that the Germans should
rule Germany-that the Polanders should
rule Poland; and the Hungarians, Hungary
then it cannot be wrong to contend ard
maintain that americans should rule Ameri-
ca. Aud consequently it is right that ma
,ive-born Citizen should be selected for all
State, Federal and Municipal Offices, or
Government employment III preference 20
| all Others.
3 That no person should be selected for
political station (whether Of n tive or for
eign birtD who recognizes any poiitical al
leyiance or obligation to any foreign Prince,
Poientate OF Power, CIR who refuses to rec
ognize the Federal and State constitutions
leach w,thinits sphere) as paramount to ali
other laws and rules OF political action. -.
4. The unqualified recognition and main
tenance of the Reserved Rights of the sew
eral States and the cultivation of harmony
and fraternal good will between the citizens
of the several States.
5. The recognition of the right of citizens
of the United States, permanently residing
in any Territory thereof to frame their Con
stitution and Laws. and to regulate their
social and domestic affairs in their own
mode. subject only to the provisions of the
Federal Constitution, with the privilege of
admission into the Uuion whenever they
have the requisite population for one Repre-
sentative in Congress; Provided, ol,coys,
That none but those who are citizens of the
United States, under the Constitution and
Laws thereof, and who have fixed resi-
dence in any such Territory, ought to par
ticpate in the formation Of he Constitution,
or in the enactment of Laws for the govern
ment of said Territory orSfate. .
|. 6. That Congress having the constitution
al power, should provide, by law, that the
rules of naturalization should be the same
in all the States and that no State or Ter
ritory ought to admit Others than c,uzens
of the UnitedStates TO the right OF suffrage,
or of holding political office.
7. a change in the laws OF naturalization,
making continued residence of Twenty
One Years, of all persons, not herein bef',re
provided for, an indispensable requisite for
citizenship: and excluding all paupers, aud
persons convicted of crime from landing up
on our shores but no interference with the
vested rights of foreigners.
s. Opposition to any union between
Church and State and to to the comming-
ling of National or State Politics with Re-
/ leious Instruction, by Clergymen, Elders,
Preachers, Priests or Bishops.
8 Free and thorough investigation into
any and all alleged abuses Of Public Func-
tionaries, and strict economy in Pubic
Expenditures.
10 The maintenance and enforcement OF
all Laws, coustitutionally enacted, until
said Laws shall be repealed, Or shall be de,
clared null and void by competent judicial
Authority. :.
! 81. That factious opposition, ss made