Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-08

WE have had on hands for several days,
awaiting publication, the letter from Hon. John
Hickman, of Pa, which appears in our paper
this morning. There is no doubt but that
this letter viii have great effect upon the ma.
turalized citizens to whom it is specially ad-
dressed, as well as upon that class of citizens
all over the country. 1t seems to US to embody
some stronger points than even the article which
Mr.. Bolts wrote on the same subjc3 It For in
stance, we consider that the following points
are well and forcibly put:
1st THAT the Constitution Of the United
States makes no exception between citizens,
with the single exception already noticed,
(meaning the inelgbility of foreigners to the
Presidency I'd. Allegiance to State means f.
deity and subsection to that State. No man can
be in allegiance to two States at the same time,
any more than he can serve two masters All
our naturalization laws assume that old or inn
piled allegiance may be renowned, and new or
express allegiance assumed
We consider, we say, these two exceptions to
the decree of the Administration, well TAKEN
They certainly will meet with cordial endors-
ment from adopted citizens all over the country,
and will plague and vex, and hasten to its grave,
the fast decaying remnant of the party in power
1t is curious to notice how, step by step, sure
and certain. the party has been, and is being,
hurried on to its doom. First, it was Kansas.
Hebraska-ized-nextit was Lecompton-ized, and
made thing for the hearty and bitter hatred of
the whole North. Now it is un-naturalized-if
We might SO express it-and is fast becoming
IN abomination in the eyes of it's foreign ad-
herents, and, as if anything more was wanting
to make assurance dOubly sure" that its days
are numbered and will soon be filled, the de-
mand for slave code over the territories has
been raised in the south, and seconded very
generally by The Office holding organs of the
party almost everywhere. The fact is, that the
party In power, as Is obvious to every read
er who will but look, is but the mere rump of a
party, as sectional and one idead as a party can
well be. 1t has no effective existence North of
Mason and Dixons line 1t has become the
mere creature of the niger propagandists of
the South, just much rs their niggers are. The
South gives it its tone-gves it its poll
cy, and in almost every important movement or
principle, dictates its dognas 1t has lost all of
the spirit of the ordinance of 1887 that Thomas
Jefferson gave it. 1t has lost all its bent towards
fostering and protecting American industry that
James Madison gave it. 1t has lost all the anti
notification conservatism that Gen. jackson
gave it All these, we say, it has lost. We ask
any man to take up Benton's Abridgement of
our Congressional history from the formation
of the government down to the end of the 18th
volume of the Abridgement, and look through
it, and see how tortuous has been the course,
how entirely reversed are the cardinal features
of the party to-day from what they were under
the men, and during the eras to which we have
alluded.
1t seems to US that if this was an age in
which the enchantments of sorccrywere available,
as they were in the days of the Witch of Endor,
that James Buchanan, impotcnt in his official
position, and unhappy and entangled in his
personal surroundings, might go forth to invoke
the shade of the Sage of Monticello, and to
learn from him, as Saul did from Samuel, that
hand" ''''