The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-17

-. Va "ss SVou WOIai character, and OF hi
atachment TO our Institutions and laws. ane
of that he is not mere adveuturer. 6lhbuster q,
1e so)ourner IN less period than fvo years? If sf
of the time slould be dminishcd-if not, it should
~ not be reduced.
Many emigrants are as well qualified to be-
on come citizens Of the United States when they
~ nrst land on our shores-they are as intelligent
INDUSTRIOUS, moral and trustworthy, as the ma :
he tive population. This is particularly true al
to those from some Of the German States. In their
u. ovn country they enjoy the advantages OF
'e- common schools, similar, and, ss some think,
superior 70 our OWn open to the children OF all
classes, including the most ndigent-and of
IN academical instruction of the highest grade
O. The mass OF the people are well educated; aud
70 they furnish the world with their full propor-
I'd ton OF the rpest scholars and most profound
thinkers Of the age. In the highest walks of
q. literature, science and art, they have no supe
,r riors. people thus taught-emigrating to
= tnis country, and desiring to become citizens
D. would seem to require but short probation 10
Is nj them Tor the performance of all the cores
pondinS duties Nor could much difficulty arise
IN their case, IN making proof Of bona fde in-
tention to become citlzens, or OF their moral
o character and attachment to our form of poy-
d ernment. But is this equally true of the mass
; OF emgrants from all countriess They come
oh account OF variety OF causes operating in
8 the Old world, and their number and character
J. nuctuate. At one time the number is one hun
8 dred thousand per annum; at another, in conse-
4 quence OF famine in Ireland, and other causes
IN the States OF Europe, it is half million. in.
cludlng mendcants, vagabonds and criminals.
: IN whose hands no free government could be
! safely entrusted. Many Of them remain as SO.
Jourhers ana adventurers for a time, and then
return to the father land. Financial embarrass-
ments, famine, pestileoce, and civil war in the
states OF Europe, exert powerful influence to
SVEN the tide, and when peace is again restored
and plenty returns, the number is again diu;n-
ished. We may reasonably expect these huc
tuating causes to operate more Do erfullv in the
future. The improved condition of navigation, |
the vast increase OF the commercial marine OF |
the world, and our changed relations with the |
hordes OF Asia, where district OF country as
large as Iowa sustains fifteen or sixteen millions
OF human beings, may cast on our shores at any
time new and crude population of millions
suncieht, II admitted to immediate citizenship
to inundate the great commercial cities and to
| overwheim the Atlantic and Pacific States. This
must Oe provided for in our naturalization laws,
but u Is AS difficult to frame laws on this subject
discriminating between the worthy and unwor-
| thy OF foreign birth, as 1t is between natives of
| ms country. And it is hardly to be expected
that Christian nation will exclude emigrants
from citizenship merely ON account of the eoup.
| try in which they were born-excude the Irish
man and admit the nglishman-exclude the
frenchman and admi. the German; or that the
individual States will attempt persstently to
exclude from settlement in the country. emi.
grants from particular States, a, California is
understood to have done in relation to those {
from China. Ii would better accord with the I
spirit and genius of great and just nation. to I
furnish an asylum for the oppressed "of every I
land, kindred, tong.e and people," to grant I
them the protection of our laws, and the ben /
ents OF our free institutions, and to admit them
u the rights OF citizenship as speedily as is /
CONSISTENT with their permanent safety, and our S
own as the custodiaDs OF free government be- v
queathed to US and the world by our Fathers. d
Inc rule should be general: but the length of e
the probationary residence must ever remain n
an open question to be controlled by the iudr- n
ment OF the nation, under all the circumstances "
as they may arise. But after their admission U
as citizens OF the United States, under its
laws, 1t is unjust and offensive for a State eff C
the Union to discriminate against them by it's a
local laws. %
when the foreign emigrant complies with the a
requirements OF the naturalization laws, and p
becomes citizen OF this great republic, he as II
suines all the responsibilities involved IN the il
reation, and Is emitted 10 ali the corresponding U
immunities and franchises and il is an iud = ~
nity to him and to the republic to impose pecu p
liar burIhens or disabilities He is then as much b.
q citizen under the supreme law of the land as Il
ination against him were attempted by foreign pl
government, it would be regarded as an insult p,
to the nation to be avenged at every hazard bi
anu at any cost That a state of the confeder- ca
acy has power under the constitution to treat I'll
Its own citizens or the citizens of her states Ii,
residing within the jurisdiction, unjusty cannot Of
be denied while fifteen OF these States hold in to
absolute slavery one half OF their people, who bt
are bought and sold like cattle in the market at
But We are not bound to approve all that we ca
have no power to redress WI
1t is clearly the in crest Of the republican pa
party, and OF the nation, to encourage the emi OF
grafton and settlement among US OF the indus wi
rious and Intelligent and moral from every its
bart OF the world, and to facilitate their natural
zdton and admission TO the endowment of all Sta
me franchises OF free men. conclusive reason be
or this is furnished by the present condition OF OF
)ubi,c affairs. new course of alarm for the ha
taelty OF our free institutions has arisen with of
n a few past years new party has engrafted in
tseif on the old democratic party, ,sand assumed tn
Is name, which denies the truth 0. the tunda- 1t
mental principles of liberty proclaimed by the ex
oubders oil the government. Its leaders deny III
that all men entitled to lille, liberty and the no
'nJoym OF property they deny that it is in.
or the protection of these rights that govern
nents are instituted among men: they deny ev
hat governments derive all their Just powers wi
rom the consent Of the governed They man- Ur
ain that those who perform the simple and un. sla
Killed labor OF the country should be slaves lat
hat capitalists should be able to own the labor wi
re- needed in their business pursuits, and thus ev
void competition in the market: that God has to
eversed the decree that man shall earn his own ge
read by the sweat OF his face and has provided go
weak and doce race to earn bread tor those pic
rho are strong and poweriul that the enslave- its
nent OF those who perform simple labor is alb ins
oiutely necessary to perpetuate the freedom of pc
ne intellectual and more highly endowed: that
his alcne will secure the development of the sa
ighest degree OF civilization and refinement: AZ
hat consequently slavery should be extended: as
nat Tree states OF neighboring republic should me
e conquered to open . new field for the ex- gu
ansion OF slavery. For this purpose they have Pr
ecured the repeal of all laws excluding slavery PEI
rom the territories of the United States-and for
y an unjust formation Of the judicial circuits mi
r districts, securing the appointment of a ma op
ority OF the judges of the supreme court from
be slave states, they have secured from that ma
ourt declaration denying the right OF Con- lie
ress or Of the territorial legislature to protect
y law the right OF personal liberty in the ter ito
ltories: and maintain that whoever holds en- ins
lased a human being in slave state, may con. sla
lnue the bondage in any of the territories. By Je
ngraftng themselves the Democratic party its
nd securing the control of its organization in Ge
he North, as well as the South, they have sue for
eeded in electing q President OF the United mt
'tates, majority 0: Senators and Members of vii
he last Congress, and have thus controlled OIL
very department of the government, and are w
ow making bold attempt to fortify their tin
over by securing Cuba and Mexican States 10 the
9 reduced to servitude. The Unparalleled +,
rohIgacy OF the administration, the enormous ito
lcrease of the expenditures from forty odd to
yer eighty millions per snnum during the past str
* years, and the consequent hard times under in
'hch the people are groaning, are bus inc- No
ents, conpared with the great evils that await 10
leir final success, IL not averted. sio
To counteract these influences and to bring les
,e government back TO the principles that con- the
oiled under the administration OF Washington, f..
EMERSON, Madison and jackson, the Republican wit
Arty was organized. IL was organized to de- ors
mo the principles SO lucidly set forth IN the ser
Of the Independence hy The Areat Val