=AM
my lips, and...put for you I never could
have spoken 'out and cased my libart."—
At ;length I returned. Then came our
nittOiago morning. We invited no strange
'fades, '• We went about—on foot ;-because
it.Ovakoned pleasing recollections. There
were some signs in . 'hor attire which might
have told it was her marriage day, but it
waa,4ithal so plain, that we escaped all
observation. The sister of 5 , 4 Gellert
served es bridesmain, and the sexton sign
ed, the book.
Afterwards, the old man walked with us
and 'talked to her of other days; until we
- came again to the -gate that opened into
tbe‘bighroad. Then he blessed us again,
and (cooked eller. us until we wore gone.—
And, hand in hand, a lone,we took our way
together ; ; but all our Eden lay before us in •
She days to come. •
' >GOd' bless the other garret ! I found m'y'
pd6a. there, and it abides with me.
• Diskins' Household Words.
ZIIItUOLVETON.
For the Rc•rabllcao
anAnrret D, July 19, 1852.
Messrs. Editors:—Let it not be inferred
frorn 'any remark in my last, that I am
diiposed to undervalue the thorough exam
ination' Ma School-teacher. Such an ex
(imitation dies at the very basis of the
QiiMinien School system—and which I con
tehdllnit, it.is not in itself a sufficient test
°flits merits, iyet it is essential as a foun
dation fbr every good School. In fact, the
finidamental error consists in - the filet that
this examination is either entirely neglect.
ed'or very imperfectly done. I said in
toy Matof tat the "law has done its duty."
An examination of the law, since made,
would most materially modify the remark.
The law of Pennsylvania, on this sub
1661, if I correctly read it, is an anomaly.
'eannot , find a single clause in the law
Providing either what branches of study
shall be taught in our Common Schools, or
what shall be the qualification of teachers
employed in them. The only clause ap-
Peittiining thereto, which I can find, reads
as,_,follows, under the head of duties of
sChool, Directors : "They shall, either
thertiselves, or by such persons as they
shall appoint for that purpose, examine ail
per Sons who may apply for employment
ea teachers - , and who shall give to each
.
teacher found qualified and of good moral
character, a certificate, setting forth the
branches of learning he or she is capable
oPieaching, which certificate shall he sign
ed by a majority of the acting hoard of Di
rectors, and tie person shall be employed
ns, teacher without having, procured such
certificate, which shell be renewed anon-
Another section says, “they shall
determine and direct what . branches of lan
guage shall be !aught," &c. Thus it will
be seen that the Directors are otnniptent as
to the branches which shall be taught, and
(he.qualifications of the teachers. If they,
, iu . the plenitude of their power, see fit that
Only reading and spelling shall be taught,
theY haze to examine the candidate only
,upon these branches. Ifon the contrary,
the, director has a son whom he wishes to
tit for College, he has a perfect right to in ,
silt that his teacher shall be qualified to
. leech in the classical department. By this
law - , the chief design of t lie-Cotnmon School
may. be dm/tiled and rendered wholly nu
gatory. I ask what security or protection
is there in it for the mass of the people? It
is as I have said, nn anomaly. lam well
,acqoainted• with the school laws of several
leading state!) in the Union. In every one
of them, the very basis of the system con.
sistsin pointing out distinctly and clearly
the branches which shall be taught in the
Common Schools, and then demanding of
the examining board.that teachers shall be
brottght up to the standard of qualification.
-The Ixaird has • no discression whatrver—
hole° there is uniformity throughout the
state,andqnalificatio thesameevery where.
No man can teach unless lie passes a sat
isfactory examination in Reading, Writ
ing, Spelling', Grammer, Arithmetic, Go.
ograPhy; History, U. S., and in some in
, ,stances Nat. Philosophy. Here, then, is a
safe . , legal guaranty to the poorest man in
the state,that these branches shall be taught
in the common School, and teachers ex
unlined with direct reference to their übil
ityrto teach each and all of them. Here is
of
,a thorough system. The law
• tifkennsylvania being what I have quoted,,
•
I - cotlie to be surprisdd at the 'condition of
many of her schools, and the entire incom
,;yetency and indifference of many,employ
ed to , teach. I - had not before ascertained
'that the law itself engender§ such a state
: — OfihinWs---=nor do I 'now wonder why so
'tnanY Oiliir themselves as 'teachers . , who
perfixtly conscious of their incompe-
Aeney. The law throws no serious ob
struction in theieway. There may be an
•
Occasional hoard of Directors who do their
;IYhote - duty . thoroughly in this matter, but
4illigent enquiry . has not revealed any such
to ine. When your law shell specify dis.
linctly and decidedly what branches shall
be' taught in your public Sehaols, find ap
t. point a competent and efficient officer or
officers to e warnine:applicants in rega rd to
their qualifications to teach these branches,
. ; .requiring that they come to a certain
standaid, then, and not till. then, will
~4eU have the proper basis of a system that
supply you with good teach
l'erA, and make your Common Schools what
they ought to be, and were designed to be.
~There will even then be quite opportunity
„ e nough far poor teachers to slip in, but
;compared with the present, their numberi
Will be very small, and there will be some
satisfaction in knowing that the law givesi
no encouragement for them to, offer them-I
.I may, indeed I have been \ told,!
that teachers of very limited• ahilities'only
urp heeded in must of our schools. This;
not ,only a g,reat. mistake but an 1111C011.
Scious.•iatilefonho intelligence of the pen- !
,plc. . lc it:is important that your children!
be' taught' at ,all; it is equally, yes ..cVen
more important, that . they . , be taught.cor
reedy and thoroughly. "No man Can;
letieh What he rs ignorant Of," is an aXiom'
iiiiEMM==
long since established and it might be addL
ed, nut'ono tenth of men have thefaculty
'of teaching one tenth part of ' what they
know. Many a studious bay has wasted
months and years in attempting to gain a
knowledge of Reading, Arithmetic end
Grammar, Merely from the inability of his
teacher to give Mina proper model, or ex
plain the stibioet to his understanding, and
praciicallyapply the theoretical principles'
of the books. DOCENDUS.
I i r thu lteuub ram
GEN. PIERCE nntl lIIS DIMMERS.
CLEnarnme, July 20th, 1852.
/I.ficssrs. Editois:—The whig ptipers have
commenced and carried on for sonic time,
a musade • againSt the military reputation
of Gen. Pierce. They lidsoly assert, that
he was not, during his whole military ca
reer, in a single engagement with the en
my; that he is theihinting t4eneral, &c:
And, as the Bomb Shell, the principal
propogator and circulator of these mis
statements and misrepresentations is wide
ly circulated, and almost every whig gen
tleman in this borough, have at all times
'one or more .numbers in their pockets,
ready at all times to attack every man
learning in from the country, and thus give
a more extended circulation to misrepre
sentation. The democrats do not claim
(r Gen. Pierce a single vote morily on
account of his military reputation. God
forbid that the time should over come, that
the democratic party should elevate a man
to the highest office in
. the gift of the
American people, having no other qualifi
cation than that of a successful general.—
Gen. Taylor is a warning, too recent to
be forgotten. The democratic party seek
to elevate Gen. Pierce, on account of his
fame as a statesman, a patriot, his upright
ness of conduct, his uniform consistency
of principles, and above all his uniform
opposition to sectional agitation. Ma mil
itary man, the democratic party claim for
him simply, that he volunteered in the se
vice of his country ; that he nobly and
gallantly performed It's duty; that he fought
bravely ; that he received the high com
mendation from the Commander-in-chief
and from the Generals of the division—
for the truth of which, I respectfully beg
leave to refer to the following extracts
from Gen. Scott's official despatches, ns
returned to the war department and pub
lished by order of Congress in 1840.
Gen. Scott says in his despatch dated
nine miles from Mexico, August 19,1847.
"The battle mostly stationary,continued
to rage with great violence until night-fall.
Brevet Brigadier General P. F. Smith's,
and Brevet Col. Riley's brigade, (Twigg's
division,) supported by Brigadier General
Pierce's and Cadwilladers brigade,( Pillow's
division) were more than three hours un
der a heavy tire of Artillery and musketry
along the almost impassable ravine,in front
and to the left of the entrenched cam."
To the above extract - some of the w . h:gs
object by ship?, although Pre - ree!..s.briglide
was there, tlere is no evidence tlikhe in
person comma ded it, because his name
as being perso ily present is not men
tioned. Now. let,any, candid man look and
see the force of thiS - clbjection. If General
Pierce is pot men6ned as personally pres
ent, aeitlier is Gen. Smith, Col. Riley,
Gen. Twins, Gen. Cadwalader, or Gen.
Pillow, the despatch leaves them all in the
same catagory----if one was not present
neither were the others. Then who com-
manded these brigades? According to
whip argument, they were entirely with-
out commanders. Besides, in all General
Scott's, as well as all other General's des-
patches,whenever any regiment or brigade,
or part of a regiment or brigade was com
manded by any officer not its own legiti
mate commander, the name of such coin-
=alder is invariably- given. There is not
one single instance on record in which it
is not so
Gen Scott says in his despatch, dated,
Tacubaya at the gates of Mexico, August
28,1847:
"Accordingly the two advanced divis
ions, and. Shield's brigade marched from
Contreras under till immediate orders of
Gen. Pillow, who was now joined by the
gallant Brigadier General Pierce, of his
division, personally, thrown out of activi
ty late the eveninit e' before, by a severe
hurt received by the 101 l of his horse."
It must be borne in Mind that this des
patch gives an account of the fighting that
occurred on the . 24th of August: General
Scott says, Pierce was thrown out of ac
tivity late the evening before, which would
make it the evening of the 19th August,
and the same day on which Scott's last
despatch says hil i brigade .was under a
heavy fire for three hours. Now all the
whips admit that he was at the head of his
brigade when he was thrown from his
horse, and that occurred late in the even
ing. Where was he during the three hours
fighting that occurred before night? How
came he at the bead of his brigade • just
close alter the fight? Whigs, for once be
candid, and admit that _you knbw well
enough ho was there all the time, and got
hurt ut the close of the fight, but was on
duty the next day as stated in the above
extract and the following one.
Gen Scott says in the same despatch:—
"Next, (but in ten minutes) sent Pierce,
(just able to keep the saddle) with his bri
gade, (Pillow's division,)
_conducted by
Capt. Lee, engineer, by a third road, a
little farther to our left, to attack the ene
my's right and rear, in Order to fitvor the
movement upon, the convent, and cut
the retreat towards the capitol. And
finally Shields, senior Brigadier to Pierce,
with the New York and 'South Carolina
Volunteers, (Quitman's div.sion) was or
dered to follow Pierce closely, and to take
the command of our left wing. All these
movements wore made with the utmost
alacrity by our gt►llant troops and Corn
niandors. ' .
The above, extracts are•correctly taken
114.411 the official despatches, of Gen., Scott.
Those official despatches are now hereto
wo,,niid may he seen and examined, at
length, at my office, by' Whig or
!democrat, at any time, and I would be Igtp.
Ipy to have thorn examined by. every man
wishing to know the truth. My object, in
thus appearing before the people, is not to
render myself conspicuous or notoriOus;but
to ddjustiee to a distinguished Man—and
as thb despatChes are entirely.too voliirnin
ous to be 'published at length, I have-taken
the only : methecll could thinknf to inform
the public Where the . despat6hes can be
had. Further extracts from Gen. Scott's
despatches, will, in duo time be published,
and extracts from Division General's des
patches, in which Gen. Pierce is highly
complimented.. J. S. FRANCE. •
Registration of 'Births; deaths, and
The Act of the Legislature, passed Jan
narylBs2, providing for the registration
of births, deaths, and marriages in the sev
eral counties in the State, went into opera
tion on Thursday the Ist , day of July.—
The following synopsis of the provisions
of the Act, and their several facts to be
embraced in the certificate of returns to
the Register of Wills office, will enable
those interested, to know fully what the
requisitions of the law are, until they shall
have an opportunity of reading the entire
copy of the Act :
The Ist section declares that the law
shall go into effect on the Ist day of July,
1852.
The 2d, 3d' and 4th sections, direct
that marriages, births and deaths respec
tively, shall be returned to the Register of
Wills in the form of a certificate, which
certificate shall be signed by the person
who certifies to the filets contained in it.
The 2d section provides also, that under
certain circumstances,thc parent may make
the return of the birth to the office. Par
ties are not subject to a penalty for neglect
ing to make a return, except, as to deaths
occurring in the city and county of Phila
delphia. Physicians, &e., required to fur
nish persons having .charge of burying
grounds, previous to interment with n cer
tificate,. in the form as provided for in the
4th section,and the persons having charge
of the grounds are required to ,procure
such certificate; and a physician or surgeon
neglecting to furnish, or a sexton neglect
ing to procure, or having procured the
same, neglecting, within thirty days to re
turn to the Register such certificate, arc
subject for every offence to n fine of five
dollars.
The form of the return of a death must
be signed by the sexton; but the act does
not, however, require that the name of the
sexton shall be entered on the register.
The sth section embraces marriages,
births, or deaths happening previousl y to
the passage of the Act. The proo f in
these cases must be upon oath or affirrria
tion
The 6th section provides for the return
of deaths preliminary to letters testamen
tary, &c., aro not required to be under
oath. The returns made under this sec
tion must contain the items set forth in the
4th section, ns far as it may be in the
power of the party to return them. It does
not say who shall make the return, but re
fers to the 41h section, in which it is made
the duty of the physician or surgeon to
make the return within 30 days after the
decease. The return must be made before
the granting of letters, &c.
If application is made fur letters on the
estate of a person who died previously to
the passage of the Act, it must be made
under oath, as required by tho .sth section,
and the registry entered among tho un
current registrations.
The 7th section refers to the action of
the Orphans' Court, and tnakeS a previous
registration of the birth in the Registers
office necessary to time appointment of
Guardians, &c., the proof to bo made un.
der oath, when the Register will furnish a
certificate, which the party applying for
the minor will file in the office of the Clerk
of the Orphans' Court.
Every return is to be considered as an
application to register,' and a failure to
register accordingly within fourteen days
after such application subjects the Register
to a penalty of $lO.
False swearing, or returning false cer
tificates and false entries, are provided
against in the 10th section.
For registering births or deaths which
took place, or of mat riages contracted
previous to the year 1851, 25 cents are to
be paid by the party ,making the return,
bui no charge is made for administering
an oath or examining a witness, unless
the testimony is reduced to writing.
For making current registrations since
the passage of the Act, six cents to he
paid by the County Treasurer.
In the case of deaths, the return is to
ernbrace the full name of deceased ; color
sex, age, name of father, name of mother,
occupation, place of birth, name of wife,
name of husband, date of birth and death,
cause of death, name of place, town, town-
ship and county in which the person died,
place or into anent, with the name of per-
son making return, place of residence,
and' date.
In the case of marriages—full name of
husband, name of father of husband, name
of mother, occupation of husband, resi
dence of husband, birth-place of husband ;
full name of wife previous to her marriage,
name of the mother, time `svhen marriage
was con‘racted, town, township and county
where contracted, color, by what ceremo
ny, name of person pronouncinr*.marriage,
residence of person lust named, date of
certificate.
. Incase of birth—full name of child, sex,
color,name of other issue livingirall name
of father, occupation of lather, name of
mother previous to marriage; hour, day
of week, of month and year of birth ; town
or township, name , of nhysician.or other
person certifying or on whose application,
registry is made ; residence of such person,
date of; certificate.
()* -- Sectarianism, when carried to ex
tremes, is a miserable short sighted preju
slice. It makes you hate your neighbor
because he eats his oysters roasted, when
you, prefer them in the shell,
THE REPUBLICAN.
CLEARFIELD Pa,, July 30, 1552.
FOR PRESIMINT,
Gen. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OP NEW Ittuursuutr..
FOB MR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM. R. KING,
OF ALAIMMA.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
1 Mr the State at large—Senatorial,
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, of Luzern°.
WILSON M'CANDLESS, of Allegheny.
ROBERT PATTERSON, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS..
1. Peter Logan, 13. H. C. Eyer, •
2. G. H. Martin, 14. John Clayton,
3. John Miller, 175. 1:50,ac Robinson
4. F. W. Bockius, 10. Henry Fetter,
5. R. McKay,fr., 17. Jas. Burnside,
0. A. Apple, 18. M. McCaslin,
7. N. Strickland, 10. Jas.McDonald,
8. 4. Peters, 20. W. S. Colahan,
0. David Fister, 21. Andrew Burk,
10. R. E. James, 22. Wm. Dunn,
11. J. Mcßeynolds, 123.I 23. ,T.S.McCalmont
12. P. Damon, 24. G. R. Barrett.
FOR CANA!. COAIMISSIOFER.
WILLIAM NEARIGHT,
OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
Democratic Primary Election
Tho Democrats of Lawrence township
arc hereby notified, that the primary elec
tion for electing delegates and instructing
them, &c., will be held at the Court House,
in Clearfield, on Saturday the 31st•day of
July ,1852, at 4 o'ciocic, p. m.
By order of Coin, of Vigilance.
The 24th of August,
And Brookville, will suit the Democra
cy of this county, as the time end place
for holding the Congressional Conference.
Senoot. TEACIIER.—A good situation for
a School teacher is offered at Curwensville.
See advertisement.
07 - Our fair correspondent, The Tur
tle Dove, is a welcome contributor to our
columns. c•
KrThe communication of "a Whig of
'4O, '44 and '4B, giving'"reasons why no
whip should vote for Scott, is too long for
this week. We shall take pleasure in giv
iag it in our next, and ask for it an atten
tivo perusal, as it is a veritable document—,
a sound egg.
SETTING TYPE.--•The first page of this
paper was put up in one day between sun
and sun, by ono set of fingers, all except
tho last two paragraphs in the last column.
Now, typos, beat this if you can, and if
you can't, let us know,and we will do it for
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A SNAKE.
On Tuesday last a little girl,aged some
Bor 9 yoars, named Lxvtsu3Tox, living
with her Brother, in Bradford township,
died very suddenly from the bite of a snake,
ns is conjectured. The men were cutting
grain, and the little girl was heard to cry
in a distant part of the field. No further
attention was paid to her for some ten
minutes; but when found she was in con
vulsions, and the blood oozing from her
nose, mouth, &c. After being carried to
the house she revived enough to tell that
she had been bitten by a snake, but could
give no description of it, and ceased to
breathe in about two hours alter she -was
supposed to have received the wound.—
The bite was on the top of the foot, and
supposed to have been inflicted ,by a hoop,
or horn 'snake.
WIIO SAYS GEN. SCOTT IS A COWARD ?
In 1817 Gen. Scorr declined to meet
Gen. JACKSON under the code of honor, on
the ground of "religious" and "patriotic"
aversion to the .practice of duelling. In
1818 ho had a misunderstanding with DE
WITT CLINTON, of New York, growing out
of some of the circumstances which had
caused the difficulty bet Ween he and Gen.
Jackson. In 1319, Do Wjtt Clinton was
inaugurated as Governor of New York,
and took an oath against duelling. Very
shortly after this, Gen. Scott challenged
Gov. Clinton to meet him in mortal combat.
The Governor was obliged to decline, and
in doing so, intimated to the General that
'he could not be answerable to him under
the code of honor until ho (Gen. Scott)
settled an :unadjusted difficulty with "one
A. Jackson."
The correspondence growing out of these
difficulties, and embodying the above facts,
have been presented to the country, and
forthwith the Whig press send forth a tor
rent of indignation at what. they construe
into a chnrgo of coivardice on Gon. Scott,
and parade all the battles of his life, from
Lund Y's Lane down to the COurt-martial
of Gen. Pillow—(at "mist
. one engagement
in
,which Gen. Scott's friends cannot pa
rade a victory)—to prove his bravery.—
Such a volcanic outburst of high-sounding
indingnation is almost enobgh to disturb a
man's nerves, and, to nil/6 him believe
there,is reallysomething criminal in the
publication of this history.' .
But who says that Gen• Scott is a cow
ard! The democratic press almost inva,
riably give him credit for bravery, and a
degree of military skill.that is denied by
high authority. But aro we to be /I respon- -
r sible for the whig construction upon these
! peculiar facts, or for the impression .they
may . makd upon the public mind . ?. Wo.
(that, is, the Democracy,) . say, Gen. Scott
is a brave , min; notwithstanding this cor
respondence show's that he preferred to
challenge a man whom- he know could not
fight him, to accepting the challenge ofone
who was ready and 'Milling end his equal
in every . particular. Some may say, by
way of explanation, that ho did not like
Gen. Jackson, and therefore would not
fight him ;. others, that he was not in a
fighting humor at that time. Some will
say one thing and some another, but we
think the fuir_and most charitable concht
sion to come to in this affair is, that be
tween the time that Gen. Jackson challeng
ed him, and the limo that ho challenged
Do Witt Clinton—a period of about two
years—he had changed his "religious" and
"patriotic" scruples, - and began to think
that duelling - was not such a bad thing as
some people thought. And why not 'Gen.
Scott has often changed, and why not in
this as well as in other respects? As all
this occurred before the days of the "hasty ,
soup," wo can find no other version of the
affair that is at all favorable to the General.
Many men change their religious notions;
and it is right that they should do so, pro
viding the change is not from bad to worse;
and who will say that Gen. Scott hasn't as
much right to change as other people ? We
say he has ; and we say that Gen. Scott
is a great General, and that the whig par
ty—that is, the Seward-Johnston whig
party, is a great party.
MORE lIELP!
Wo have the authority of the Philadel
phia Daily News for saying that that nu
merous and highly respectable class of
voters in Pennsylvania—the Friends, alias
Quakers—will vote for Gen.. FRANKLIN
PtEnc., This will add tremendously to
the democratic majority in November next,
and we cordially welcome them—though
it be at the eleventh hour—into the sup
port of correct and liberal principles ; and
as it is from good
. Whig authority, of
course we will not doubt it.
But does the Daily News know, that as
often as . they intimate (they dare not make
the charge direct) cowardice, or want of
gallantry as a soldier, on the_ part of Gen.
Pierce;
,they as often charge their own
candidate, Gen. Scott, with cool and delib
erate falsehood? We don't believe either.
Nono but fools, or mad-men, would make
such n charge.
General Seott's proposed System of Naturaliza
tion.—Most Outrageous Doctrine.
In 1844, a communication was address
ed to Congress, through the columns of
the .Niztional Intelligencer, signed "Anzcr
icus," suggesting a radical change in our
naturalization Idws, and presenting a draft .
of a law for the purpose, and enforcing its
adoption in a long, labored and studied ar
gument. This law we present to our
readers below, and are only prevented from
giving the argument accompanying by rea- 1
son of its great length.
This production was recently brought
to light by the editor of the New York
Herald, whose Argus oyes never lets any
thing escape, or pass into forgetfulness.—
The editor charges Gen. Scott, with the
authorship, decla ring his readiness to prove
it clear as day ; and Col. Oles, a member
of Congress, in his seat the other day al
so made the same charge, and defied any
friend of Gen. Scott to contradict or gain'
say it. This they, did not do. Nor has
either of the whig organs at Washington,
in one of which the article originally ap
peared, and of course they know all about
it, dared to say a single word either in de
nial or defence of it. 'rho authorship of,
this monstrous proposition is, therefore,
fixed upon the whig candidate for Presi
dent as firmly as if he would avow it in
every shape and form.
That such a law as was thus proposed
would be anti-republican,und of dangerous
tendency to our well-being as a nation, is
to speak of it in terms of meek submission.
The old Alien and Sedition law, as hard
as it was, was the perfection of justice, and
wiso political economy, compared to this.
Look at this laws—tripped of its legal and
technical terms, and dono up in plain Eng
lish: Hero it is :-
1. To reduce the time of naturalization
from five to.threo years.
2. To exclude all aliens forever from thq
right to vote in any public election
whatever, except
3. Such , aliens as shall have served two
years in the army or navy, who shall
thereby be entitled to the rights of citi
zenship, including the right of suffrage.
4. Aliens shall be exempted from involun
, •
tary service in the militia, the army, or
navy, (just as free negroes and Indians
5.- The law to go into operation in six
m6nths after its passage.
This isn' fair digest of Gen: Scotk
nat
uralization lab. • 'Llbok at it,.ye forage: ,
born American voter Could any thing b e
more unjust, or more illiberal. - To-be-sure.
the. foreigner , would have rights. Yes, th e
right to be taxed, and to pay his taxes, lb&
right to improve and enrich our cotintri,
and. the right to, aid us in all things tend.
ingto make us e,great and happy nation;
but no right to a voice in the government;
they are to have no rig/et to vote l--except
upon ono condition, and that is, Two yeari
service in the U. S. army
. or navy/ 41 0.
other service, no other duty, no other quell.
fication can procure them this inestimable
right. Ira foreign-bona. citizen should de:
sire to obtain and enjoy 'the right of suf.
frago, ho must forsake his calling; and
devote . two years of his life to military duty,
There is no other means provided for him.
This is his only alternative.
And what would 'be the effects of such
a law ?On the - one hand, our 'army, now'l
in time of peace, numbering some ten or
twelve thousand men, would then, probe:
bly,bo composed almost exclusively of for
eigners—for no matter how hard the ceix.
ditions, there is not much doubt but that a
large number of emigrants would 'be wil..
ling to undergo them in order to be.admit•
tad to the full immunities of citizenship:
And on the other hand, we would always
have some million or more able bodied cit.'
izens in our midst whom our laws discard-,
ed and prosclibed,.and who could not and
would not feel us if they were American:
citizens. In such case, what would be our
situation in case of invasion, or civil strife!,
Think of it Americans, both native and
foreign born. Your interests are identical:
Let your acts be in unison. •
The following is the law recommended
by Gen. Scott, referred to above ;
An act supplementary to the acts now in
force on the sulricct of a uniform rule of
naturalization.
SEC. 1. Bc it enacted 4-c., That any
alien, being a free white person, and who
shall come into . the United States 6 months
or later after the passage of this act, may I
be admitted to become a citizen thereof ,
after a residence therein of at least three 1
(1) years, and one year (2) at least after
declaring his bona fule intention of becOrn=
ing a citizen, in the manner and form, I
and upon the other conditions not herein
altered, as prescribed by the act entitled
"An act to establish a uniform rule of
naturalization, and to repeal the acts here. t . '
tofore passed on that subject," which was (
approved
. April 14, 1802: Provided, that I'.
no alien arriving in the United States after'
six months from the passage of this act 1'
shall ever acquire the right to vote, except 1 , .
in the manner hereinafter prescribed, foi n
any elector of President or Vice President ,
of the United States; for any member Of i;
the House of Representatives of the same; 4
for any governor, lieutenant governor,
member of the legislature, judge of any
court of record, or Sheriff, in any Stdeor ..:
Territory of the United States or for tali . '
mayor, intendant, president, alderman,
assistant alderman, or common counoil. ;`
man of any city, borough, or incorporated
town or village, in any of the said States; ;
or their Territories, or within the District
of Columbia; but all aliens admitted to ,
naturalization under the foregoing provi. '',
sions and limitations shall enjoy everj ,
other right and privilege 'of native.bora
citizens which is not .expressly litnited . 4t
withheld by the constitution of the United
States. i.
Sr c. 2. And be it farther enacted, Thal
every naturalized citizen, as aforesaid,
shall be wholly exempted or excused frotia
involuntary service in the militia,.aralYt
or navy of the United - StateS,
SEC. 3. And be it farther inacted, Titat
every free white alien, biiing an able•bOd.'
icd male of at least seventeen years of age,
who shall, in time of war, engage to serve
the United States against their enerrgeS,.
for at least two years, or during the war,
or who, in time of actual war, shall whit
the said States faithfully for two yearalor
to the end of the war, in any company dr
vessel of war, in the army. .or navyorriaid
States, shall., on obtaining the certificite
or certificates of faithful service, sigied
by the commanding officer or officericf
such company or companies, vesserer
vessAls of war, and countersigned bY , the
next .higher officer in the army or
, navy .
under whom, if any, such alien has served,.
shall be admitted, on presenting such evi•
dence to any court designated in the: act
hereinbeforo recitird, to all.the rights.ead
privileges of citizenship at any time. cos.
ferred by the act, on: simply taking. the
oath of allegiance• to the United -States,
and making the renunciation enjoineditt
the said act. . .
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, Tbat
this act shall take effect on and eller*
months from its passage, when all proV
sions of former acts, inconsistent with this
act, shall be taken and held to be repeiMi;
in respect only to all alienslirriving in Slit!'
United States after that date.
Virginia Whigs Repudiating Scott.
The Jefiersonian published at Charlotte.
ville Virginia, contains the proceedings of
a meeting of the Albermarle Central Deal;
ocratic Association, where Mr. N. H.lifas.
sie, a wing, who is represented to id': a
good speaker and a logical debater,i Was
introduced, and announced his intontide
to support Pierce and King. The Jeffer,
sonian adds that there are " numerouet4lll,
er persons in the county who have`*
many years 'voted with the whigs, %JO
now openly declare that they cannot sup ,
port Scott.''
Going to Mirk. '
o:7"Cletirfield -- Democratie Club, No;
will meet in , the court :house to•Fner ,, :
evening for the purpose of organizing.