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Political.
ADDRESS.
or THE
BeYiVbcratic State Committee.
Fellow-Citizens of Pennsylvania:
We now proceed to present to you, as brief
ly as circumstances will permit, the views en
tertained, as the State Committee believe,
by the Democracy of the State and of the
Nation, respecting the rights of our naturali
zed citizens, and those principles of natural
justice and freedom which we are prepared
to maintain in our intercourse with foreign
States, as a part of our eulightened American
Policy.- This subject has .been at all times
an interesting one to us us our history shows.
The first Article in the Constitution, authori
zing Congress to establish an uniform rule of
naturalization , and the several acts of Con
gress passed in pursuance of the power grant
ed, all indicate this fact. It so happens now
that the state of war in which several of the
leading nations of Europe have become in
volved, and which may possibly embrace in
its unhappy circle the whole of that Conti
nent before peace shall bo re-established, has
imparted, for oblivoua reasons, an immediate
and most important significance to all those
questions depeidiug on the principle of the
right of expatriation, as we understand it in
this couutry, aud which in connection with
our act of Naturalization, arc not only ex
tremely interesting to our citizens by adop
tion, but directly couceru the dignity, power
aud International consequence of our Gov
ernments of Europe has made provision, in
some mode or other, for the naturalization of
on this topic. It i fortunately, in our power
to lay beforeyou.au extract from a despatch
addressed to our Minister at Berlin, from the
Department of State, by order of President
Buchanan, and which, relating as it does to a
practical case, has been most carefully pre
pared. It presents the true American posi
tion in a manner at once so clear in statement
and satisfactory in argument, as to bo well
nigh beyond cavil:
Extract of a Despatch from, the Department
of State to the Minister of the United Stales
at Berlin, dated July 8, 1850.
The question then arises, what rights do
our laws confer upon a foreigner by granting
him naturalieation? I answer, all the rights,
privileges and immunities which belong to a
native-born citizen, in their full extent, with
the single qualification that, under the Con
stitution , "mo person exept a natural-born
citizen is eligible to the office of President."
With this exception, the naturalized citizen
from and after the date of his naturalization
both at home & abroad, is placed upon the very
same footing with the native citizen. lie is
neither in a better nor a worse condition. If
a native citizen cnooses to laue up nis resi
dence in a foreign country, for the purpose of
advancing his fortune or promoting his hap
piness, he is whilst thero bound to obey its
municipial law3 equally with those who have
lived in it all their lives. . He goes abroad
with bis eyes open; and if these laws be arbi
tary and unjust, he has chosen to abide by
the consequences. If they are administered
in an equal spirit towards himself and towards
native subjects,- this government havo no
right to interfere authoratively in his behalf.
To do this would be to violate the right of an
independant uationtp legislate within its own
territories. If this government were to un-
" III Sill M IS CUE
foreigners, by which they are invested with a
portion or all of the rights of native born sub J dertake such a task, we might soon bo involv-
iects. in the country ot their adoption; but, I ed in trouble with nearly the whole world.
nevertheless, these same Governments, al- To protect our citizens against the applica
most without exception, either openly affirm J tion of this principle of universal law, in its
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Jitiiguages.
OiSca m JlighStreetEbensburg, Penn'a.
I'tK ti,l85C. ly
JICKSOX & CLAKIi,
SV.10EON DENTISTS, JOHNS 1 OWN, PA.
A'K of the dm will be in Ebensburg during
V first ten davsf each month, rTS
c.iR!'!; wiiieh time" all persons dci- fff&sL
h:s professional services can JTT IT
him at the . fliee ,f T)r. Ij wis. near'v opdo-
or tacitly maintained the doctrine of perpet
ual allegiance, absolute or qu alined, on the part
of an alleged subject to the Government un
der which he happens to be born. In oppo
sition to this, the People and Government of
the United estates have alwavs denounced the
idea of perpetual allegiance a? unworthy, the
era in which we live, and as inccnsistant
with and inimical to the generous principles
of our Government, and it is well known that
on one occasion we successfully resisted its
application at the cannon's mouth. In the
same spirit, the Imperial or Monarchial Gov
eminent of Kurope, still more or less sub
servient to old Feudal itifiueucs, regard ex
patriation as a matter of grace from the Gov
ernment to the subject, not as a matter of
right in the subjpet, and of course as being
subordinate to their claim cf perpetual alle
giance. We, on the contrary, regard expa
triation as a natural and iudispensible right,
right to crjo' the sunshine or to breathe the
air; we believe it to be superior to allegiance
and that it cau ouly bo limited, or modified.
pocponded, or in any way impugned or affect
cd, by some actually existing debt, penalty or
obligation due to the law, civil or criminal, at
the period of eminigration.
The Goverements of Europe have all been
disposed to treat naturalization as being no
more than p muuiciriiai regulation, which
each nation might make for its own particu
lar mterests or convenience, operative within
its own jurisdiction, but which did not war
rant anything to be done for a naturalized
subject, in contravention of the international
code of Europe, perpetual allegiance being
part of that code. On the other band, with
a larger comprehension of civilization and lib-
crtv. we regard the act of naturalization as
placing the naturlized citizen in all respects.
excepting in the one Constitutional reserva
tion of intelligibility to the Presidency or
Vice Presidency, on the same footing, and in
the same degree of rights and honor, as that
necTiT.ied bv the native-born citizen as in
full extent, we have treaties with several na
tions securing exemption to American citi
zens when residing abroad from some of the
onorous duties requited from their own sub
jects. here no such treaty exists, ana an
American citizen has committed a crime or
incured a penalty for violating any municipal
law whatever of the country of his tempoary
residence, he is just as liable to be tried and
punished for his offence as though he had re
sided in it from the day of his birth. If this
has not been done before his departure, and
he should volutarily return under the same
jurisdiction, he may be tried and punished
for the offence upon principles of universal
law
Under such circumstances, no person
would think of contending that an interme
diate residence in his own country for years
would deprive the government whose laws he
had violated of the power to enforce their
execution. The very same principles and no
other, is applicable to the case of a naturaliz
ed citizen should he choose to return to his
native country. In that case, if he had com
mitted an offence agaiust the law betore his
departure, he is responsible for it in the same
manner as the native Americau citizen to
whom I have referred In the language of
I confirm the foreign jursdiction in regard to
our naturalized citizens to such of them as
"were in the army or actually called into it"
at the time they left Prussia. That is, to
the case of actual desertion or the refusal to
enter into the army after having been regu
larly drafted and called into- it by the govern
ment to which at the time they owed alle
giance. It is presumed that neither of these
cases presents any difficulty in point of prin
ciple. If a soldier or sailor were to desert from
army or navy, for which offence he is liable
to a severe punishment, and, after having
become a naturalized subject - of another
country, should return to the United States,
it would be a singular defence for him to
mako ktiiat.' " was absolved from crime be
cause, after its commission, he had become a
subject of another government It would
be still more strange were that government
to interpose it his behalf for any such rea
son. Again, during the last war with Great
Britain, in several of the States I might
mention Pennsylvania in particular the
militia man who was drafted and called into
the service was exposed to a severe penalty
if he did not obey the draft and muster him
self into the service, or, iu default thereof,
procure a substitute. Supposes such ao in
dividual, after having incurred this penalty,
had gone to a foreign country and become
naturalized there, and then return to Penn
sylvania, is it possible to imagine that for
this reascn the arm of the State authorities
be paralyzed, and that they could not exact
the penalty ? I state these examples to state
more clearly both the extent and limitation
of rightful Hanoverian jurisdiction in such
cases. It is impossible to foresee all the
varying circumstances which may attend
cases as they may arisfc ; but it is believed
that the principles laid down may generally
be sufficient to guide your conduct.
It is to be deeply regretted that the Ger
man governments ev'nce so much tenacity on
this subject. It would be better, far bolter,
for them, considering the comparatively
small number of their native subjects who
return to their dominions after being natur
alized in this country, not to attempt to exact
military service from them. They will prove
to be the most reluctant soldiers. If they
violate any law of their native country during
their visit, they arc, of course, amenable like
other American citizens. It would be a sad
misfortune if, for the sake of an advantage
so trifling to such governments, they should
involve themselves in serious difficulties with
a country so desirous as we are of maintain
ing with them the most friendly relations. It
is fortunate that serious difficulties of this
kind are mainly confined to the German
States and especially that the laws of Great
Lnta:n do not authorize any compulsory
military service whatever.
Tht.s perspicuous despatch is an official ex-
prassion uttered by tne government oi lue
United States, under the auspices of a Dem
ocratic Administration. It announces tue
law of the question as it is understood and
felt by our people, aud its tone is as temper
ate as its latguage is hrm. 1 am willing to i
admit that it is somewhat in advance of the j
discussion of a principle, as is quite plain
upon its face the factions of the Opposition,
whose oppressive, tyrannical and bigoted hos
tility to the naturalized citizens may be seen
in the ruins of churches destroyed by fire, and
in the mouldering remains of hundreds of
victims from New Orleans to St Louis, de
prived of life while endeavoring to fulfil their
duty as freemen at the ballot box, have en
deavored to patronize this despised and ill
treated class of our fellow citizens by pretend
ing a new-born zeal in their welfare. Well
may each adopted citizen exclaim in view of
this sudden manifestation of friendship, as
did the Trojan of old, "Timeo Danaos et
dona ferentcs" I fear the Greeks when they
bring us gifts
But as a further proof of the hollow-hearted
hypocrisy which has marked the meretri
cious display we have witnessed, you will
permit us to call your particular notice to the
rtcent amendment of the Constitution of the
State of Massachusetts, a State wholly and
hopelessly given to Black Republicanism, (as
distinguished from pure Amciicanism,) pro
viding that "No person of foreign birth shall
be entitled to vote, nor shall be eligible to
office, unless he shall have resided within the
jurisdiction of the United States for two years
subsequent to bis naturalization, and shall be
otherwise qualified according to the Constitu
tion and laws of the Commonwealth." The
language of this amendment speaks for itself,
and requires no explanation or comment.
Before it could be submitted to a vote of the
people of the State, the law required that it
should be acted on aud passed by two succes
sive Legislatures. Accordingly this was
done. It is an undisputed fact that four-fifths
of each Chamber of those two successive Leg
islatures, were neither Democrats, nor Amer
icans, but Black Iienuhlicans. The vote of
Massachusetts at the Presidential election in
1S5G was, in round numlers, one hun
la I an I five thousand votes for
Fremont (Black Republican,) twenty-nine
thousand lor Buchanan, (Democrat,) and
twenty thousand for Fillmore, (Know Noth
ing.) The proof is therefore incontestible
that this measure, originating with the Black
Republicans, was passed through two succes
sive legislatures in which that party was
overwhelmingly predominant, and that it was
finally consummated at the popular election
by the suffrages. The immoral, not to say
illegal, effect of this extraordinary amend
ment is two-fold. It first discriminates against
the naturalized citizens by settiug them apart
as a class among while men, unworthy to
participate in elections with them, or in the
active affairs of government, for the period
of two years after they have become, in com pliance
with all the forms of the naturaliza
tion lair, full citizens of the United Stales.
In the second place, it makes, in derogation
of the rights aud respectability of naturalized
citizens, an excessively insulting demonstra
tion in favor of ncjro equality with the native
born, and negro superiority to the foreign
born. For while the naturalized citizen is
prohibited from voting, although a perfect
January, 1854, to JUr Jackson, then our
Charge d AUairs to Vienna, when speaKing
of Tousig s case, 'every nation, whenever
its laws are violated by any one owing obe
dience to them, whether he be a citizen or a
stranger, has a right to inflict the penalties
incurred by the transgressor, if found within
its jusisdiction. This principle is too well
established to admit of serious controversy.
If one of our naturalized citizens were to
expose himself to punishment by the com
mission of an offence against any ot our laws
State or National, and afterwards become a
naturalized subject of a foreign country, ho
would not nave the hardinood to contend,
unon voluntarially returning: within our
.
i VII, tel.
may 25,1 850tf.
the late Mr. Marcy, in his letter of the 10th position held by proceeding administrations.
but we must remember such has been tne
wonderful progress of the United States in
noDulation. wealth and nower. that but a
r r . . . , ,
few years have intervened since, trom tne
character of a third, or at best, a second
rate nation, our great republican Confedera
cy has Epruug to the first place among the
sovereignties oi tne worm, ine innueace
of our country is now greater than ever be
fore its vast intellectual and physical capa
cities are well known abroad and it seems a
fit time and a fit occasion in the particular
case at issue, if ever, to make the declaration
which has now been sent to a European
Court.
Thus it is, fellow citizens, of Pennsylvania
and thus it has always been, that the true
spirit of our free American institutions has
been reflected in the noble history ot tne
Democratic party, acd thus it is that the
record of the Democracy is preserved in its
purity and strength. It was certainly appro
priate, too, that the party wuich reduced tne
probationary term of 'naturalization from
fourteen years, as it was during tne admin-
his responsibility to the United States, or
anv of the States. - This Government would
not for a moment listen to such an appeal.
Whilst thcseprinciples cannot be contested,
great care should be taken in their applica
Jotin
'factum and .Dealer In all Kindt ofCiBa
"wt, Chexing and Leaf Tobacco. Kontgom
ySt., Hollisdaysburg, Pa.
Qtatitly on hand, a fine and well selected
et t'V Sl)an'sh. an half Spanish cigars
to il? P0ssible prices. All articles sold at
'"ehUlmskaentare warranted to be what they
"e rcprwtma
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E-U0VA: Paul GRAFF, MANUFAC
kT'wi'l Wholesale Dealer in Bouts, Shoes,
Ttic.. and Caps, No. G8i North
i and CI
March C, 185Q.
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u' BUSINESS
INTRUSTED TO niS
"Wt n. P1"01 attended to. He will
tasm;! Auctioneer at Public Sales whenever
April 9? icVo Pacity are required.
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v. i l i n n cf v. i
on Tt- V I c-"insDu-S- Othcc in Drug
'igu Street, opposite Thompson's Ho-
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r.oiut of fact inducting aiuan, hitherto for the I jurisdiction, that his naturalization relieved
rteriod of prohibition required by the law an him from the puuishment due to his crime ;
inhabitant or resident in the land, into full much less could he appeal to toe government
and perfect citizenship under a Government of his adopted country to protect him against
which proclaims expatriation to be a natural
right, and which disaffirms the doctrine of per
petual alleeiance a3 conmctinz equally with
justice and reason.
It must be born in mind, however, that
independently of the tie or duty of allegiance
and really distinct from it, there is and al
ways must be in the necessity of the case
as the very cement of any organized political
society endured with sovereignty, a certain
contract between the Government and its sub
jects or citizens. Under this contract, the
Government engages, among other things, to
give protection to persona and property, to
preserve order, to guarantee civil and politi
cal rights, and to defend the nation against its
foreign enemies, and the subject or citizen
for his own part engages to obey the laws
and pay to the Government whatever debt or
penalty the judgment of the law may justly
demand of him. What may be an actual
subsisting debt or obligation in the law which
one may attempt to evade or escape by exp
riation may be hereafter the subject of diplo
matic controversy between the Government
of the Union and foreign States, but it is cer
tain, that while the United States, 60 long as
the Government remains in the hands of the
Democracy, will permit no iusulting visita
tion of the claim of perpetual allegiance on
our adopted citizens, or any political distinc
tions to be drawn n principle between native
and naturalized citizens at home or abroad,
no act of naturalization, whether of an Amer
ican eitizen by a foreign government, or a
foreigner by our laws, can release either from
actual not constructive existing debt, pen
alty, or obligation under the contract refercd
to between all governments and their citizens
or subjects, incurred and owing at the time
of expatriation, and unpaid at the moment of
a voluntary return to the jurisdiction of the
deserted country
But there is no need to occupy your atten
tion further with any obecrvatiou of our own
tion, especially to our naturalized citizens istration of the elder Adams, to five under
Tlio moment a foreiorner becomes naturalized. Jefferson which blotted from the statue
his aliendancc to his native country is served book the "alien law" indicating a settled
forever, lie experiences a new political purpose on the part of its friends to harass
birth. A broad and inseperable line sepa- and expcll ' from our shores the unfortunate
rates him from his native country. He is no persons who had fled hither for refugo
more responsible for anything bo may say or which acquired Lousiana and the mouth of
do, alter assuming nis new cnaracier, man u i me luississippi, uuoruuaiauuiu jc v.j u.
he had been borne in the United States. Opposition that there were foreigners on
Should ho return to his native country, he those fertile lands, who, by the terms of the
returns as an American citizen, and in no
other character. In order to entitle his
original government to punish him for an
offence, this inuat have been committed
whilst he was a subject and owed allegiance
to that government. The offence must have
been complete before his expatriation. It
must have been of such a character that he
might have been tried and punished for it at
the moment of bis departure. A future lia
bility to serve in the army will not be suffi
cient: because, before the time can arrive for
such service, he has changed hi allegieace,
and has become a citizen of the United States.
It would be quite absurd to contend that a
boy. brought to this country irom a ioreign
country with his father s family when but
treaty, would become citizens which has
always encouraged emigration ,and territorial
extension with the same hand which maue
the flag of the Union the protection of adopted
citizen? in 1812, in many a bloody and glori
ous victory by land and sea which quelled
thfi fanantical insurrection of 1S44. and
trampled the contemptible insignia of
know-nothing usurpation in the mire and
whose terrible wrath will yet teach the Black
Republican proscription ists of Massachusetts
how perlious a thing it is to dare to trifle
with legal equality or liberty in our country
no oue can deny, iu fine, how singularly
appropriate it is that this same Democratic
eartv should have assumed the imitation of a
new idea in the gradual and sure solution of
twelve years of age and naturalized here, the great problem of human rights
who should afterwards visit the eountry ot
his birth when he had become a man, might
then be seized and compelled to perform
military service, because if he had remained
there throughout the intervening years and
his life had been spared, he would have
bipn hnnnd to perform military service. To
HV"M " J
submit
an odious
Demagogufeisra is said to be the leading
vice of republican institutions. Always in
search of political capital, it never looks to
see whether it is even consistent with itself.
This disgraceful fact has been recently illus
trated by the shameless corso of the two Op
Not content with grossly
position tactions.
to such a principle would be to make misrepresenting the meaning of General
us distinction between odr naturalized Cass's letter to Mr. Le Clerc a mere semi-
and native citizens. For this reason, in my othcial business note ot a lew lines, stating a
despatch to vou of May 12, 1859, and again fact by way of cautioning his correspondent,
in my letter to Mr. Holer, or tne iia uu., ana noi luiea-igu as a. pmivw iu
citizen in the sense of the Constitution of the
United States, negroes in Massachusetts, are
not simply permitted to vote, but are eagerly
courted to assume the badga of electoral pow
er. Not only this, but more. While every
white man, no mater how long he may have
resided in this country no matter how im
mense his fortune or heavy amount of tax he
pays, or largo his lamily, who may be made
a full citizeu of the United. States to-day. or
who was even made so on the tenth of last
November or at any time since, cannot vote
before or at the next Presidential election in
tlie State of JJussacnusttts a negro who has
rua away or been stolen from Maryland or
any other slave holdiug State, aud who flees
iuto Massachusetts before the first day of next
November, and remains there, may proceed
to the polls and assert then and there his po
litical equality with thenative-born, and his
political superiority to every citizen, natural
ized within two years, who may happen by
fixed residence, or otherwise, to be within the
limits of that Commonwealth. And is it not
apparcut that if the Black Republican party
ot Massachusetts has altered the fundamental
law of the State, by the introduction of a
clause restraing naturalized citizeus from vo
ting for two years after naturalization, that
they may hereafter, on the" same principle,
extend the period of restriction to five, ten,
fifteen or twenty years. - Some other State,
unless this unconstitutional and oppressive
movement be at once resisted and subdued,
may next amend its Constitution witb a re
strictive provision in duration or time still
more offensive, until to all intents and purpo
ses, should the example bo followed by oth
ers, the old Native American doctrine of
twcntg-one year9 residence before naturaliza
tion, may be established in all or a majority
of the States ot the Union. It must De con
fessed that this is a grave question occurring
here in the United States, under the Ameri
can Flag itself, in which every naturalized
citizen is interested either in respect to Lis
honor or his franchise. There is consequent
ly no cause for surprise in the circumstance
that the newspapers and politicians of the !
Opposition have so strenuously endeavored
by their impudent and fcilly cfiusions regard
ing General Cass' brief note to Mr. Le Clerc,
to divert the popular attention from a case
like this, the dread responsibility of which
they cannot escape, in which, by a deliberate
and solemn act of Government, they have
placed the naturalized citizen, not merely in
a positiou of political inferiority to white men
but to negroes, aud by which they have in
augurated a policy that, if fully developed,"
would lead substantially to the disfranchise
ment of all futuro emigrants.
It does not admit of doubt that many wor
thy men among tho adopted citizens have
been seduced froia the protecting ranks of
the Democratic party by some of tho shallow
humanitarian theories broached by the Black
Republican wiog of the Opposition. Tbeyl
and rant concerning "freedom and human
rights," and the "irrepressible conflict be
tween the slave-holding and non-slavcbolding
States of the Union, untill all shall become
free or shall become slave," means the politi
cal inferiority to white native-born men and
to negroes, of other white men who are citi
zens of choice and law in this country.
. This is not the first occasion upon which
Black Republicanism has manifested its dis
position to insult and to outrage the foreign
born citizens. No doubt all remember that,
in the year 1S5G the Know Nothing or Amer
ican Republican party of that day, . met in
Philadelphia to nominate candidate) for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, and .that
their Convention,-or National Council, pro
ved a failure, because of . non-agreement
among its members from the North and
South, about what was called the 12th Sec
tion. It will not and cannot be denied that
what is now the Black Republican faction
throughout the North and West was largely
represented in that Convention. Many of
the present leaders in this faction were dele
gates. Their names can easily be found and
clearly identified. The platform submitted
contained the most cowardly and violent at
tacks on the patriotism and civil rights of tho
whole body of naturalized citizens. A largo
proportion of the members of the Convention
came directly from the secret midnight con
claves. And jet neither the attempt to vio
late the dearest interests of citizens on the
ground of religion in some cases, and of
birthplace in others, nor the companionship
of Know Nothing conspirators, then embar
rassed the now tender consciences of oilr
Black Republican philanthropists. But you
will remember that this American-Republican
Convention broke up in confusion on the 12th
Section of the platform, and that contained
the negro question, of course, and nothing
but the negro question. There was a German
.question, there was an Irish question, and
other questions of a kindred character, then,
as now, staring these freedom-mongers and
sensi'ive philanthropists in the face, but the
Black Republicans ouly had interests enough
in them to kick them under the table, while
all their best energies were excited, and all
their worst passions inflamed, by their des
perate contentions over the beloved negro
And. trom tuat aay 10 mis do iauonai
Convention of the Opposition party, under
whatever name it may have chosen to appear
for the nonce, has failed to adopt a resolution
sustaining, either directly or by fair implica
tion, this Kuow Nothing sentiment.
It is true some of the men aud some of tho
presses of the Opposition have pronounced
against thi3 Massachusetts abomination.- But
the epistolary declarations of a few partisans,
and the mouthing editorials of a few nierce
nary newspapers amount to nothing. Let
the proper political party organs &pcak out
their condemnation of this brutal wrong ?
You have seen that the Northwest, after an
exciting and lengthened contest in a State
Convention or two, the Native American cle
ment has been compelled to yield to the nat
uralized iufluence in the Black Republican
organization, and have repudiated it. But
how is it elsewhere, and esj-ecially how is it
in Pennsylvania 1 There is not a tingle
word of reprobation in any one of the sense
less resolutions of the Opposition Convention
of the Sth of June last, but in that profligate
caucus sat Black Republicans and Know
Nothings, "cheek by jowl," every Black Re
publican trying to fancy himself a Know
Nothing, and every Know Nothing trying to
fancy himself a Black Republican, deceiving
each other aud deceiving ' themselves, and
really agreeing in nothing except not to rc
pudiate the Massachusetts usurpation, and in
sinking what little principle they ever pos
sessed unto the unmeaning compromises of
an unprincipled coalition.
But wc have already, fellow citizens, more
than filled our allotted space. In fearlessly,
and so far successfully, supporting the prin
ciples of the Constitution, the Democratic
party has been and i.s bow the true fiiend
and support of the lights and interest of the
naturalized citizens. If they, or any portion
of them, no matter what their race or reli
gion, will persist in listening favorably to tho
high sounding phases and empty promises of
those who, as a party, so heartily despise
them, and who will, if trusted; assuredly
lead them to destruction, be it so. It may
be truthfully asserted that nothing has ever
been dona in this country moro insulting to
the patriotism and honor cf Laturalizcd citi
zens, or more dangerous to tueui, as a prece
dent, than this malevolent discrimination
against them by the restrictive amendment cf
the Constitution of Massachusetts; and it is
strange, with all their abundant professions,
that the "People's party" of Pennsylvania
should have maintained silence at the ' out
rage. In any event, it must be plain that,
not to meet such an act sternly and at ouce,
is to invite aggression and contempt.
ROBKRT TYLER, Chairman. ,
By instruction of Committee.
SS- Bayard Taylor goes out to Caliron ia
in the steamer of the 5th of August, under
enaement with the Sau Francisco Mercan
tile Library Society to deliver four lectures
in the metropolis of the Pari So. lie will bo
absent about three months, aud will probably
lecture in Sacrimento aud the principal towns
in the mining region.
SST The Etectiou in Tenuesee, North Car
olina, Kentucky and Texas, all tako place
early in August. '
A man to succeed well in life should
be like a raz-r he ought to have a strong
back, a high polish, keenness, aud au excel
lent temper.
3?" When you are whistling in a print
ing office, and they ear "louder" don't you
do it.
bhould now bo satisfied that ail this rigmaaolc J3?"Ilelievt the ncedj-jou'U ncr regrvt it.
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