Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-06
The Nevada Journal turned to an Adj
ministratiOn Paper.

The Nevada journal, that ancient, steady
and consistent Know Nothing sheet, comes
to us this week with the Administration
ticket hoisted at the head of its columns. 1t
goes in for Milt Latham and the balance with
its whole soul, explaining its new position in
the following language:
Our flag we throw to the breeze Since
the publication of the lie Clerc letter, and
the position therein assumed by the Admins.
tration against naturalized foreigners, and
after due reflection, We have concluded to
transfer our valuable assistance to Jimmy
Buchanan. The ancient Know Nothing par
ty suggested that foreigners were manufac-
tured into citizens too fast but they never
dreamed that naturalized citizens were nfe-
rior in rights or claims to the native born, or
that they remained the subjects of those pow
ers whose allegiance they renounced. They
never held that our flag did not protect all
citizens alike-that in spite of their citizen
ship those invited to our shores, and natural.
lied by our laws, could be dragged to the
slavery of foreign armies, perhaps compelled
to fight against their adopted country, and be
hung for traitors if found fighting in defense
of their new fresides All these improve
/
have been made by the present Lecompton
Democracy, the pretended guardian OF for
eigners i1 order 10 catch tie old o;ae Amcri-
can gote We are caught in the trap-we
cave The foreign vote has been deserting
Buchanan ever since his administration sought
a higher law than the Cincinnati Platform.
carrying States like Pennsylvania and Hi
nOis for his opponents, and he had little more
to lose in that direction, and therefore, by
one of those masterly strokes of policy by
which he is distinguished he at once throws
off all f-reign influence, and gracefully sub.
sides into the embrace of Know Nothingisn,.
Like all converts his zeal is fully up to his
new position. He does not approach the
Kyyis with empty hands-he proves his
faith by his works--he brings gift that at
once stamps him as a Jealous and sincere pen
itent. At the head of the government, his
voice and will potent, he declares that for
eign nations have a right to drag our natur-
allied citizens to fight for years in their ar
mics and to hang them like dogs if found il
arms against them even for our government
In few lines he destroys all the results o
Webster's diplomacy, and reverses the fiat o
his predecessors. lie fixes the policy of tn,
government fer the present, and gives tex
for tyrants in the future When some futur,
Polk shall demand the release of some futur,
Ryan, or some future jackson shall swear
"by the Eternal" that our government shal
make good the promises made our citizens
the solemn declaration of this administration
that it never possessed, or now renounces, al
right to protect naturalizcd citizens, will bt
qnoted as a conclusive answer to all sucl
novel claims. This substantial boon to tn,
spirit of Know Nothingisin should by al
means be accepted. Stupid dark lanternites
Your measures were feeble, your policy in
significant, when compared with the master
ly strokes of this new found auxiliary Raj
ly to the standard, then, and revive tn,
great American party under the lead of the
immortal James Come out of your holes
you defunct K.N'S and sun yourselves in thC
light of this new luminary.