Christ with whom is all felicity

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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To Luke Chapter 19

2 Zaccheus the Publican.
13 Ten pieces of money delivered to servants
to occupy withal.

19 Jesus entereth into Jerusalem.
34 He foretelleth the destruction of the city
with tears.

45 He casteth the sellers out of the Temple.


1 Now (1) when Jesus entered and passed
through Jericho,

(1) Christ preventeth them with his grace
especially which seemed to be furthest from
it.

2 Behold, there was a man named Zaccheus,
which was the (a) chief receiver of the
tribute, and he was rich.

(a) The overseer and head of the Publicans
which were there together; for the Publicans
were divided into companies; as we may
gather by many places of Cicero his orations.

3 And he sought to see Jesus, who he should
be, and could not for the press, because he
was of a low stature.

4 Wherefore he ran before, and climbed up
into a wild fig tree, that he might see him, for
he should come that way.

5 And when Jesus came to the place, he
looked up, and saw him, and said unto him,
Zaccheus, come down at once, for today I
must abide at thy house.

6 Then he came down hastily, and received
him joyfully.

7 (2) And when all they saw it, they
murmured, saying, that he was gone in to
lodge with a (*) sinful man.

(2) The world forsaketh the grace of God,
and yet is unwilling that it should be
bestowed upon others.

(*) Or, a man of a wicked life.

8 (3) And Zaccheus stood forth, and said
unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my
goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken
from any man by (b) (*) forged
cavillation, I restore him fourfold.

(3) The example of true repentance, is
known by the effect.

(b) By falsely accusing any man; and this
agreeth most fitly to the master of the
customer's person, for commonly they have
this trade among them when they rob and
spoil the commonwealth, they have nothing in
their mouths, but the profit of the
commonwealth, and under that color they
play the thieves, insomuch that if men reprove
and go about to redress their robbery, and
spoiling, they cry out, the commonwealth is
hindered.

(*) Or, false accusation.

9 Then Jesus said to him, This day is
salvation come unto this (*) house,
forasmuch as he is also become the (c)
() son of Abraham.

(*) Zaccheus adoption was a sign that the
whole family was received to mercy.
Notwithstanding this promise, God reserveth
to himself free liberty either to choose or
forsake as in Abraham's house.

(c) Beloved of God, one that walketh in the
steps of Abraham's faith; and we gather that
salvation came to that house, because they
received the blessing as Abraham had, for all
the household were circumcised.

() To be the son of Abraham, is to be chosen
freely, Romans 9:8; to walk in the steps of
the faith of Abraham, Romans 4:12; to do the
works of Abraham, John 8:39; by the which
things we are most assured of life
everlasting, Romans 8:29 .

10 (*) For the Son of man is come to seek,
and to save that which was lost.

(*) Matthew 18:12 .

11 (4) And whiles they heard these things, he
continued and spake a parable, because he
was near to Jerusalem, and because also
they thought that the kingdom of God should
shortly appear.

(4) We must patiently wait for the judgment
of God, which shall be revealed in his time.

12 He said therefore, (*) A certain noble
man went into () a far country, to receive
for himself a kingdom, and so to come again.

(*) Matthew 25:14 .

() This was to declare to them that he must
yet take great pains before his kingdom
should be established.

13 (5) And he called his ten servants, and
delivered them ten (*) pieces of money, and
said unto them, () Occupy till I come.

(5) There are three sorts of men in the
Church; the one sort fall from Christ whom
they see not; the other, which according to
their vocation, bestow the gifts which they
have received of God, to his glory with great
pains and diligence; the third live idly, and do
no good. As for the first, the Lord when he
cometh will justly punish them in his time; the
other he will bless, according to the pains
which they have taken, and as for the slothful
and idle persons, he will punish them as the
first.

(*) This piece of money is called Mina, and
the wholesome mounteth about the value of
seventeen pounds, esteeming every piece,
about five nobles and seven pence.

() God will not that his graces remain idle
with us.

14 Now his citizens hated him, and sent an
ambassage after him, saying, We will not
have this man to reign over us.

15 And it came to pass, when he was come
(*) again, and had received his kingdom, that
he commanded the servants to be called to
him, to whom he gave his money, that he
might know what every man had gained.

(*) Whereby we learn that the second
coming of our Saviour Christ shall be more
glorious, and excellent, than it doeth now
appear.

16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, (d) thy
piece hath increased ten pieces.

(d) This was a piece of money which the
Grecians used, and was in value about a
hundred pence, which is about ten crowns.

17 And he said unto him, Well, good servant,
because thou hast been faithful in a very little
thing, take thou authority over ten cities.

18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy
piece hath increased five pieces.

19 And to the same he said, Be thou also
ruler over five cities.

20 (6) So the other came, and said, Lord,
behold thy piece, which I have laid up in a
napkin;

(6) Against them which spend their life idly in
deliberating, and otherwise, in contemplation.

21 For I feared thee, because thou art a strait
man; thou takest up that thou layedst not
down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

22 Then he said unto him, Of thine own (*)
mouth will I judge thee, O evil servant. Thou
knewest that I am a strait man, taking up that
I laid not down, and reaping that I did not
sow.

(*) They that suppress the gifts of God, and
live in idleness, are without all excuse.

23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my
money into the (e) bank, that at my coming I
might have required it with vantage?

(e) To the bankers and changers.

24 And he said to them that stood by, Take
from him that piece, and give it him that hath
ten pieces.

25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten
pieces.)

26 (*) For I say unto you, that unto all them
that have, it shall be () given, and from him
that hath not, even that he hath, shall be
taken from him.

(*) Luke 8:18; Matthew 13:12;
Matthew 25:29; Mark 4:25 .

() He that faithfully bestoweth the grace of
God, shall have them increased; but they
shall be taken away from him that is
unprofitable, and useth them not to God's
glory.

27 Moreover, those mine enemies, which
would not that I should reign over them,
bring hither, and slay them before me.

28 ¶ And when he had thus spoken, (f) he
went forth (*) before, ascending up to
Jerusalem.

(f) The disciples staggered and stayed at the
matter, but Christ goeth on boldly though
death were before his eyes.

(*) Hereby we perceive the excellent
constancy of Christ, who notwithstanding he
did now fight against the terror of death, and
God's judgment, yet went before his fearful
disciples and led the way to death.

29 (*) (7) And it came to pass, when he was
come near to Bethphage, and Bethany,
besides the mount which is called the mount
of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

(*) Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1 .

(7) Christ sheweth in his own person, that his
kingdom is not of this world.

30 Saying, Go ye to the town which is before
you, wherein as soon as ye are come, ye shall
find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose
him, and bring him hither.

31 (*) And if any man ask you, why ye loose
him, thus shall ye say unto him, Because the
Lord hath need of him.

(*) Christ presenteth such difficulties as
might have troubled his disciples.

32 So they that were sent, went their way,
and found it as he had said unto them.

33 And as they were loosing the colt, the
owners thereof said unto them, Why loose
ye the colt?

34 And they said, The Lord hath need of
him.

35 ¶ (*) So they brought him to Jesus, and
they cast their garments on the colt, and set
Jesus thereon.

(*) Matthew 21:7; John 12:14 .

36 And as he went, they spread their clothes
in the way.

37 And when he was now come near to the
going down of the mount of Olives, the whole
multitude of the disciples began to rejoice,
and to praise God with a loud voice, for all
the great works that they had seen,

38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh
in the Name of the Lord; (*) peace in
heaven, and glory in the highest places.

(*) They wish that God may be appeased
and reconciled with men; and so by this
means be glorified.

39 (8) Then some of the Pharisees of the
company said unto him, Master, rebuke thy
disciples.

(8) When they linger which ought to be the
chiefest preachers and setters forth of the
kingdom of God, he will raise up others
extraordinarily, in despite of them.

40 But he answered, and said unto them, I
tell you, that if these should hold their peace,
the stones would cry.

41 ¶ (*) (9) And when he was come near,
he beheld the City, and wept for it,

(*) Luke 21:6; Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1 .

(9) Christ is not simply delighted with the
destruction, no not of the wicked.

42 (g) Saying, (h) (*) O if thou hadst even
known (i) at the least in this (k) thy day
() those things, which belong unto thy
(l) peace! But now are they () hid from
thine eyes.

(g) Christ breaketh off his speech, which
sheweth partly how he was moved with
compassion for the destruction of the city,
that was like to ensue; and partly to upbraid
them for their treachery and stubbornness
against him, such as hath not lightly been
heard of.

(h) At least wise thou, O Jerusalem, to whom
the message was properly sent.

(*) Christ partly pitieth the City which was so
near her destruction, and partly upbraideth
their malice which would not embrace Christ
their Saviour, and therefore pronounceth
greater punishment to Jerusalem than to
other cities, which had not received like
graces.

(i) If after slaying so many Prophets, and so
oft refusing me the Lord of the Prophets,
now especially in this my last coming to thee,
thou hadst had any regard to thyself.

(k) The fit and commodious time is called the
day of this city.

() Meaning Christ, without whom there is no
salvation and with whom is all felicity.

(l) That is, those things wherein thy
happiness standeth.

() Through thine own malice thou are
blinded.

43 For the days shall come upon thee, that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee,
and compass thee round, and keep thee in on
every side,

44 And shall make thee even with the
ground, and thy children which are in thee,
and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon
a stone, because thou knewest not (m) the
time of thy (*) visitation.

(m) That is, this very instant wherein God
visited thee.

(*) And receivedst not the redeemer, which
was sent thee.

45 ¶ (*) (10) He went also into the Temple,
and began to cast out them that sold therein,
and them that bought,

(*) Matthew 21:13 .

(10) Christ sheweth after his entry into
Jerusalem by a visible sign, that it is his office
enjoined him of his Father to purge the
Temple.

46 Saying unto them, It is written, (*) My
house is the house of prayer, () but ye have
made it a den of thieves.

(*) Mark 11:17; Isaiah 56:7 .

() Jeremiah 7:11 .

47 And he taught (*) daily in the Temple.
And the high Priests and the Scribes, and the
chief of the people sought to destroy him.

(*) Or, in the daytime.

48 But they could not find what they might
do to him, for all the people (*) hanged upon
him when they heard him.

(*) That is, were most attent to hear.

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Stop the Subprime Bailout ;
Can you spare a few thousand dollars to pay
somebody else's mortgage?
Congress thinks you can, especially
senators Christopher Dodd and Hillary Clinton.
What's more, a lot of the people you're being
asked to bail out lied on their loan applications
or signed up for loans without reading the terms.
Here's what's going on, as explained
by Caroline Baum of Bloomberg.com:
During the housing boom of the last five years,
people with bad credit histories, many of whom
lied about their income and nature of employment,
got mortgage loans they weren't qualified for to
buy houses they couldn't afford.
Now that house prices have stopped rising, and
the house can't be refinanced or sold at a profit,
Congress wants the taxpayer to subsidize the
mortgages so these folks can remain in their
unaffordable houses.
The proposal to bail out subprime borrowers may
seem humane, but it's wrong.
The argument is that borrowers who signed up
for subprime loans had no idea what they were
doing.
They didn't understand the loan documents, or
didn't read them.
Some borrowers may have been victims of
predatory lenders
(whose stocks have already surged on talk of
a bailout).
But many more borrowers simply gambled on
risky loans in hopes of flipping property for big
profits, or knowingly lied about their income just
to get a bigger house.
Don't reward these irresponsible people with
property, paid for by you and me!
Politicians will exploit your emotions by saying
they want to help people "keep their homes".
But remember that the people in financial trouble
already had houses.
They got into this mess by trying to buy bigger
and fancier houses than they could afford.
If we do help them, it should involve them moving
back into houses they can afford.
No one will be out on the street.
Anyone who could pay a mortgage can pay rent,
which is much less.
How about requiring bailout participants to prove
that they did not lie on their loan applications?
We could start by reporting undocumented
"stated income" from loan applications to the IRS.
Will the special aid package be indefinite?
Can I go tomorrow and get a loan for a house I
can't afford, and then in two years when the
rates reset, will I also be eligible for free
mortgage payments?
Should speculators get preference above citizens
who have been saving rather than borrowing?
What message does that send about responsibility?
The proposed bailout is a moral hazard.
It encourages the bad behavior that got us into
this mess, because the punishment for foolish
borrowing is applied to you and not to the people
who made the bad decisions.
Bailing out borrowers also means bailing out their
lenders.
If lenders have to foreclose, then they have to
sell the house for less than the loan amount, and
this means an actual loss to the lenders.
That threat of loss gives lenders a motive to help
borrowers by restructuring the loans, maybe
extending the time to repay.
On the other hand, using our tax dollars to keep
people in houses they cannot afford would be
"socializing" lenders' losses, meaning taxpayers
like you and me would be paying the bill and
guaranteeing the profits of predatory lenders.
Under proposed bailouts, responsible people lose
and have to give their money to gamblers, liars,
and sleazy lenders.
This is privatizing profits and socializing losses.
It doesn't matter if you have been dutifully paying
your monthly fixed-rate mortgage.
It doesn't matter if you bought a smaller house
based on what you could truly afford.
And it doesn't matter if you're a renter who chose
not to jump into the housing mania.
Congress is proposing to make it your job to pay
up for others' irresponsibility.
Why don't they just tax you to cover Las Vegas
gamblers' losses as well?
That's pretty much what they're proposing.
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"Homeschooling and Parental Rights Under Attack in California" ;
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further evidenced by the arguments it used to
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as a means of protecting the public welfare."
As someone who has lived and suffered under a
communist regime (I grew up in Romania), the
"good citizenship," "patriotism," and
"loyalty to the state" justifications have struck a
little too close to home.
These were precisely the kinds of arguments the
communist party used to broaden the power of
the state, increase the leadership's iron grip on
the people, and justify just about every
conceivable violation of human rights, restrictions
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Leaders Urge Abandoning Public Schools;
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had to fight the culture to raise godly children.
Only a few times did the culture work with the
parents.
America has been in one of those rare times up
until the latter 20th century.
Until then, parents were able to send their children
to the public schools with reasonable confidence
that they would receive a good education and not
be taught the devil's lies.
Now, that is all changed. ;
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Evolution Under Attack In Europe;
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a threat to human rights which are a key concern
of the Council of Europe."
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basic spirit of rebellion against a God that might
be displeased with some of their "human rights,"
such as same-sex marriage, abortion, and
genetic engineering that the Western European
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WHAT HAS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
SYSTEM TO DO WITH POLITICS?

Let me show the connexion.

I have said that we are compelled to examine
the nature of the Roman Catholic system.

We cannot avoide it.

It is forced upon our notice, by the fact that
foreign governments, hostile to our institutions,
are combined together expressly to spread
it through this country.

If the people are satisfied of this single truth,
OF THE EXISTENCE OF
THE ST. LEOPOLD FOUNDATION, let
me ask, how ought they to view its object?

Here is an extensive combination of
ARBITRARY SOVEREIGNS, with
AUSTRIA at their head, organized in a
Society; levying contributions, by means of
all the ecclesiastical and civil officers of a
territory of an extent containing more than
23,000,000 of inhabitants, and employing as its
agents the famous order of Jesuits, and for
the purpose of spreading the Roman Catholic
religion through the United States.

Nay, more ; this society is but one of THREE,
at least.

There is one in Italy, and another in France,
organized for the same purpose.

There is no mistake here.

No one, not even the Jesuits, have pretended
to deny this fact.

And is it really of no consequence to know
what this system is, to spread which, over this
whole country, the most deadly enemies of
Democracy abroad are employing such
extensive and powerful associations?

Is it in character with a true sentinel of
freedom, when he knows such a fact as this,
instead of giving the alarm, to cry
NO DANGER; ALL'S WELL ?

Or is he a guardian of the public safety who,
when the sentinel challenges the suspicious
looking intruders, cries out against him,
PERSECUTION; and clears the way for
their free entrance into the city?

What is the system that Austria and the other
despots of Europe are so vigorously
promoting in these United States?

It is POPERY.
What is the character of Popery?

" You must not ask that question," says one.
"You have no right to ask it ."

"It is persecuting the Catholics to make so
rude an inquiry."

"Every man has a right to his religion," says
another .

"No Separation of Church and State,"
cries a third.

"The Catholics are as good as the
Presbyterians any day," says a fourth.

"It is the oldest religion,
and therefore is the best," says a fifth.

"It is PERSECUTION,
and INTOLERANCE,
and ILLIBERALITY,
and BIGOTRY," cries a sixth,
"for the Roman Catholic religion is changed;
it is not that bloody persecuting religion that it
was in by-gone times, when John Huss and
others were burnt as heretics.

Roman Catholics have grown tolerant and
liberal; they are now favorable to liberty;
they advocate all the rights of man, such as,
right of private judgment; the liberty of the
press.

They have imbibed the spirit of the age."

These and such as these, are the popular and
set answers when the question is asked,
what is the character of Popery ?

This last is the only answer worth a moments
attention.

For it seems to have more of the
ANODYNE in it than any of the others.

If the Roman Catholic religion is essentially
changed in its objectionable features; if it has
got rid of its arbitrary principles, and become
democratic; if it has become tolerant and
liberal; if it now inculcates truth and integrity,
instead of falsehood and fraud, I admit that
much of its objectionable character, at least
politically speaking, is removed.

Yet who says it is changed ?

Will any Roman Catholic Bishop say it has
changed any of its principles one iota ?

No, they have never said it officially,
and never will.

But even if it were true, the fact that
European despots are forcing it upon us,
would, in spite of all, throw a suspicious
complexion over it.

But now, suppose that this Roman Catholic
religion, instead of being changed in its
objectionable features, STILL avowedly
RIGIDLY ADHERES TO ITS MOST
OBNOXIOUS AND ARBITRARY
PRINCIPLES; that, instead of being
democratic in character, it is the perfect
opposite of democracy; that, instead of being
tolerant and liberal and conciliating, it is
INTOLERANT and ILLIBERAL and
DENUNCIATORY; that instead of being IN
FAVOR of the liberty of the press, and
ALLOWING the right of private judgment,
it DENOUNCES these rights; that, instead
of inculcating truth and strict integrity,
IT TEACHES THE PRACTICE OF
FALSEHOOD AND FRAUD.

Ah! you will say, that is a different affair.

If such a character could be fixed upon the
Roman Catholic system, and this system is
that which is now patronized by the monarchs
of Europe to be propagated by Jesuits through
this country, it becomes truly a serious matter
and we must inquire into it. --

And is there any Roman Catholic ecclesiastic
who, AUTHORIZED BY HIS SUPERIOR,
will dare to deny, under his own proper name,

1st. That the Roman Catholic priesthood are
taught at this day, (A.D. 1835.) to account
PROTESTANTS WORSE than PAGANS.

2d. That they are taught to consider all who
are BAPTIZED, EVEN BY THOSE THEY
TERM HERETICS, as lawfully under the
POWER OF THE CHURCH OF ROME,
over whom the POPE HAS RIGHTFUL
DOMINATION.

3d. That they are taught, that they cannot
tolerate the RITES OF ANY who are not in
the church of Rome, and that whenever it is
good for the church, THEY MUST
EXTERMINATE THEM.

4th. That they are taught, that they may
compel, by CORPOREAL PUNISHMENTS,
all who are baptized; and consequently nearly
all, if not all of every Protestant religious
denomination to SUBMIT TO THE ROMAN
CHURCH.

5th. That they are taught, that these
punishments may be CONFISCATION OF
PROPERTY, EXILE, IMPRISONMENT,
AND DEATH ! <<<

6th. That they are taught, that EXPEDIENCY
ALONE may restrain them from the
exercise of any of these rights of compulsion
against heretics; and that consequently,
whenever they have the POWER, and it will
be thought EXPEDIENT, it is their DUTY to
exercise them.


IMMINENT DANGERS TO THE
Free Institutions Of The United States
THROUGH FOREIGN IMMIGRATION,
AND THE PRESENT STATE OF
THE NATURALIZATION LAWS.

A SERIES OF NUMBERS,
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NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
IN 1835.

BY AN AMERICAN.

NEWLY REVISED AND CORRECTED,
WITH ADDITIONS, BY THE AUTHOR.

" To [the principles of our government,]
nothing can be more opposed than the maxims
of ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES.

Yet from such we are to expect the greatest
number of EMIGRANTS.

They will bring with them THE PRINCIPLES
of the governments they leave, IMBIBED IN
THEIR EARLY YOUTH;

* * * *

In proportion to their numbers THEY
WILL SHARE WITH US THE
LEGISLATION.

They will infuse into it THEIR SPIRIT,
WARP and BIAS ITS DIRECTIONS,
and render it a HETEROGENEOUS,
INCOHERENT, DISTRACTED MASS.

* * * *

I DOUBT THE EXPEDIENCY OF
INVITING THEM by extraordinary
encouragements." --
JEFFERSON. NOTES ON VIRGINIA.

NEW YORK:
JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER,
49 ANN STREET.
1854.

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(2., 3.)

PREFACE TO THE FIRST ADDITION

It is but too common a remark of late, that the
American character has within a short time
been sadly degraded by numerous instances
of riot and lawless violence in action, and a
dangerous spirit of licentiousness in discussion.

While these facts are universally
acknowledged, the surprise is as universal that
this degeneracy should exist, and the attempts
to explain the mystery are various and
contradictory.

There are some who rashly attribute it to the
natural tendency of Democracy, which they
say is essentially turbulent.

This is the most dangerous opinion of any that
is advanced, as it must of necessity weaken
the attachment of those who advance it, to our
form of government and must produce in them
a criminal indifference to its policy,
or traitorous desires for its overthrow. --
Despotism often displays to shallow
observers the exterior of justice on the part
of the ruler, and the outside show of order
and contentment on the part of the ruled.

Yet look beneath the surface, and injustice,
it will be seen, usually usurps the throne, and
covers its oppressive decrees in mystery and
darkness; while the oppressed people,
restrained from complaint by physical force,
are compelled to endure in silence, and smile
while they suffer.

DESPOTISM IS RANK HYPOCRISY. --
Democracy is, at least no hypocrite, --
it is honest and frank; and if there are occasions
when its waywardness and folly offend, yet its
whole character is open to view, and its
irregularities can be checked and radically
cured by enlightened opinion .

How much better, to be occasionally pained at
the unsightly eruptions which often in the
highest health of the body deform the surface,
than to glory in that beautiful and lustrous
complexion and hectic glow, the symptoms of
organic disease, and the sure precursors of a
sudden dissolution.

I cannot adopt the opinion, either, that
Democracies are naturally turbulent, or that
the American character has suddenly
undergone a radical change from good to bad;
from that of habitual reverence for the laws, to
that of riot and excess.

It is not in the ordinary course of things, that
the character of nations, any more than of
individuals, change suddenly.

When the activity of benevolence, in every
shape, which has been so long at work,
through the length and breadth of our land, is
considered, we naturally look for a
corresponding result upon our society, in a
more elevated moral character, and greater
intellectual improvement, more love of moral
truth, and regard for social order.

To a slight observer, however, a result the
very reverse seems to have been the
consequence.

I say it SEEMS thus to a SLIGHT
OBSERVER: to one who looks more deeply,
a solid substratum of sound moral principle
will appear to be evidently laid, while the
surface alone presents to our view this moral
paradox.

How can it be explained?

If there is nothing INTRINSIC in our society
which is likely to produce so sudden and
mysterious an effect, the inquiry is natural, are
there not EXTRINSIC causes at work which
have operated to disturb the harmonious
movements of our system?

Here is a field which we have not explored.

We have not taken into an account all, or even
the principal adverse causes which affect our
government from without.

One great opposing cause that embarrasses the
benevolent operations of the country has
apparently been wholly left out of the
calculation, and yet it is a cause, which, more
than all others, one would think, ought first to
have attracted attention.

This cause is FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.

It is impossible, in the nature of things, that the
moral character and condition of this
population, and its immense and alarming
increase within a few years, should not have
produced a counteracting effect on the
benevolent operations of the day.

How is it possible that foreign turbulence
imported by ship-loads, that riot and ignorance
in hundreds of thousands of human
priest-controlled machines, should suddenly be
thrown into our society, and not produce here
turbulence and excess?

Can one throw mud into pure water and not
disturb its clearness?

There are other causes of a deeply serious
nature, giving SUPPORT, and STRENGTH,
and SYSTEMATIC OPERATION, to all of
these ADVERSE effects of FOREIGN
IMMIGRATION, and to which it is high time
every American should seriously turn his
thoughts.

Some of these causes are exposed in the
following numbers.

AN AMERICAN .

New-York, August, 1835

(4.)

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

It is nearly twenty years ago, that the numbers
here collected were published in a New York
Journal, and afterwards in a pamphlet form, and
widely circulated.

The author, then a resident of New York, had,
as early as the beginning of the year 1834,
published his views of a danger to the
Democratic Institutions of the country, in a
work entitled,

"Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the
United States."

He deemed it his duty as a patriot, a duty to
which he was impelled by the advice given him
in personal interviews with the illustrious
Lafayette, to warn his countrymen of this
among other dangers to the country.

These publications created, at the time, much
attention throughout the land, North, South and
West, and the numbers here collected were
immediately followed by organizations in
New York, New Orleans, and St. Louis,
whose object was to watch and abate the evil
exposed.

THE NATIVE AMERICAN movement was
the result of the conviction in a portion of the
people, comparatively small in number, of the
substantial truth of the reality of the danger,
although the people at large were not then fully
awake; and therefore, as might have been
expected from the hastiness of the
organizations, the startling and almost incredible
character of the cause of alarm, the partial
diffusion through the great mass of the people
of the proofs of CONSPIRACY, and the
prevailing doubt of the best or proper mode of
meeting the exigencies of the crisis; the
movement was arrested, or had become so
entangled with other issues which pressed
more immediately upon the public mind for
solution, that nothing effectual or practicable in
a way of legislative remedy has, as yet, been
the result.

Twenty years of experience, however, have
established the substantial reality of dangers to
our Institutions from foreign immigration, and the
constant recurrence of outrage and antagonism
to the spirit of Americanism, manifested by a
certain class of immigrants, together with the
active, systematic, simultaneous onslaught upon
the laws and customs of our country in various
parts of the land, led openly by ecclesiastics of
a particular creed, by men alien to our soil, alien
to the genius of our government, and owing
political fealty, and express allegiance to a
foreign monarch, above any and all obligations
to our Constitution or laws, --

these and similar
acts have at length opened the eyes of the
people, from one extremity of the land to the
other, and "wide-awake" has become a
significant, an appropriate, a cheering watch
word of the hitherto sleeping masses, at length
awakened to a rally for the protection of the
Constitution.

The facts here given, and the speculations
based upon them, are not less applicable to the
present crisis, than to the aspect of the times
twenty years ago.

Indeed, they derive force and confirmation from
the experience of years, and if they will lead to a
more thorough appreciation of the dangers that
threaten the country, and to a wise remedy for
the evil, the object of the author in publishing a
new edition of his essays will be fully
accomplished.

One word in respect to the new organization of
the "Know-nothings" so called.

The objects of this organization, so far as they
are at present publicly known,
(and, of course, comment upon them can only be
made so far as they are publicly known,)
commend themselves to all citizens, no less to the
NATURALIZED than to the NATIVE-BORN.

The former, as well as the latter, are deeply
interested in the preservation of our Constitution
and the unrivalled institutions based upon it; and if
no attempt is made to deprive any now on our soil
of any right or privilege they now possess, or may
possess, surely no just jealousy, or opposition, or
ill-will, can be excited in any citizen by the
proposed change in our naturalization laws.

Indeed, there is no apprehension that any
right-minded citizen, of foreign birth, can mistake
the movement as hostile to him or to any of his
interests.

POUGHKEEPSIE, November, 1854

(5.)

IMMINENT DANGERS
TO THE FREE INSTITUTIONS OF
THE UNITED STATES THROUGH
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION,
AND THE PRESENT STATE
OF THE NATURALIZATION LAWS.

NO. I.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

The great question regarding Foreigners, and a
change in our Naturalization Laws, is a
NATIONAL QUESTION, and at this time a
very serious one.

It is therefore with deep regret that I perceive
an attempt made by both parties,
(however to be expected,) to turn the just
National excitement on this subject each to the
account of their own party.

The question, WHETHER FOREIGNERS
WILL BE SUBJECTED TO A NEW LAW
OF NATURALIZATION? which grave
circumstances have recently made it necessary
to examine, is one entirely separate at present
from PARTY politics, as parties are now
constituted, and is capable of being decided
solely on its own merits.

The organs of the two parties, however, are
noticing the subject, and both engaged in their
usual style of recrimination.

Neither of them can see the other, nor any
measure however separated from party principle,
if proposed or discussed by its opponent, except
through the distorted medium of prejudice.

So degraded in this particular has the party press
become, in view of the intelligent portion of the
community, that no one seems to expect
impartiality or independence, when any question
is debated that effects, or even but seems to
effect, the slightest change in the aspect of the
party, or in the standing of the individual, whose
cause it advocates.

The exclusive party character of a great
portion of the daily press, its distortion of the
facts, its gross vituperative tone and spirit, its
defense of dangerous practices and abuses, if
any of these but temporarily favor mere party
designs, is a serious cause of alarm to the
American people.

To increase the evil, each party adopts the
unlawful weapons of warfare of its antagonist,
thinking it an ample justification of its conduct, if
it can but show that they have been used by its
opponent.

I cannot but advert to this crying evil at a
moment when a great and pressing danger to the
country demands the attention of Americans of
all parties, and their cool and dispassionate
examination of the evidence in the case.

The danger to which I would call attention is not
imaginary.

It is a danger arising from A NEW POSITION
OF THE SOCIAL ELEMENTS IN THE
ONWARD MARCH OF THE WORLD TO
LIBERTY.

The great struggle for some years has till now
been principally confined to Europe.

But we cannot exclude, if we would, the
influence of foreign movements upon our own
political institutions, in the great contest between
liberty and despotism.

It is an ignorance unaccountable in the
conductors of the press at this moment, not to
know, and a neglect of duty unpardonable, not to
guard the people against the dangers resulting
from this source.

To deny the danger, is to shut one's eyes.
It stares us in the face.

And to seek to allay the salutary alarm arising
from a demonstration of its actual presence
among us, by attributing this alarm to any but the
right cause, is worse than folly, it is madness, it is
a flinging away our liberties, not only without a
struggle, but without the slightest concern, at the
first appearance of the enemy.

(6.)

Before entering upon this subject, I would
premise that the course of the Courier and
Enquirer, and the Star, on the one side, and that
of the Evening Post, the Times, and their
coadjutors, on the other, are equally hostile to the
safety of the country.

I am for an American party, but not that
American party advocated by the Evening Star,
which Journal, while announcing its formation
upon principles "DISTINCT FROM PARTY,"
in the same breath gives it an
ANTI-ADMINISTRATION character, and
attempts to wield it against the principles of
Mr.Van Buren.

Neither on the other hand will the stanch
supporters of the Democratic principles which
have governed the present Administration, and
who still mean to support Mr.Van Buren, as the
representative of their sentiments, be turned
from their course of determined and persevering
resistance to FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, by
the unfounded charge that the American party
which they support is exclusively, or even at all,
of Whig origin.

The writer of this will give his own political
views, solely for the purpose of silencing the
unfounded charges made against a cause in its
commencement, which he feels assured is to
connect in its support all true Patriots, whatever
may be their party predilections.

His own political principles have been the same
for more than 20 years, and they are those now
so ably represented by Mr.Van Buren and the
present Administration.

They are the Democratic principles of the
Jefferson school, as they stand opposed to
ARISTOCRACY in all its shapes, to ruinous
MONOPOLIES, to a union of CHURCH AND
STATE, and to all kindred evils; they are, in
short, the principles which are distinctive of
American institutions, principles opposed most
thoroughly to absolute or priestly power.

And the stand he know takes, results from the
firm conviction, that these very principles are all
endangered by THE PRESENT STATE OF
OUR NATURALIZATION LAWS, which have
assumed a NEW ASPECT IN
CONSEQUENCE OF POLITICAL
MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE, and the undue
influence which naturalized citizens in their
foreign capacity have been made to exert in the
political contests of the country.

The POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE; THE
PARTICULAR MOVEMENTS WHICH
HAVE CAUSED THIS STAND TO BE
TAKEN; THE DANGERS OF THE STATE IN
CONSEQUENCE OF THESE FOREIGN
MOVEMENTS; AND THE REMEDY
PROPOSED, will be briefly discussed in future
numbers; and it is believed that the necessity of a
true American party, uniting Americans of every
party, will be found necessary to ward off a blow
aimed at the very foundations of our government;
and before either party commits itself on a
question, which in spite of all they can do will
agitate this whole land, let them examine carefully
its merits.

Let those who have been so hasty to condemn
before the cause is tried, suspend their judgment
awhile, nor rashly take a course which will oblige
them either to incur the humiliation of defeat, or
the almost equally unpleasant task of retraction.

NO. II.

The difference of condition of the alien in Europe
and in America. --

Brief glance at the great steps of political
advancement in Europe. --

ACTION of American principles on Europe. --

RE-ACTION, perfectly natural. --

Proofs of its actual existence. --

The Combination in Europe to re-act on
America. --

The St. Leopold Foundation. --

Our country, in the position it has given to
foreigners who have made it their home, has
pursued a course in relation to them, totally
different from that of any other country in the
world.

This course, while it is liberal without example,
subjects our institutions to peculiar dangers.

In all other countries the foreigner, to whatever
privileges he may be entitled by becoming a
subject, can never be placed in a situation to be
politically dangerous, for he has no share in the
government of the country; even in England, he
has no political influence, for even AFTER
NATURALIZATION an alien cannot become a
member of the House of Commons, or of the
Privy Council, or hold offices or grants under the
Crown.

In the other countries of Europe, the right of
naturalization in each particular case, belongs to
the Executive branch of government.

(7.)

It is so in France, in Bavaria and all the German
States.

In France, indeed, a residence of 10 years gives
to the alien all the rights of a citizen, even that of
becoming a member of the Chamber of Deputies,
but the limited SUFFRAGE in that country
operates as a check on any abuse of this
privilege.

This country on the contrary opens to the
foreigner, without other check than an oath, that
he has resided five years in the country, a direct
influence on its political affairs.

This country, therefore, stands alone, without
guide from the example of any other; and I am to
show in the sequel some of the peculiar dangers
to which our situation in this respect exposes us.

But the better to comprehend these dangers, let
me briefly trace the prominent steps in European
politics which connect the past with the present.

Europe has been generally at rest from war for
some 20 years past.

The activity of mind which had so long been
engaged in war, in military schemes of offence
and defense in the field, was, at the general
pacification of the world, to be transferred to the
Cabinet, and turned to the cultivation of the arts
of peace.

It was at this period of a General Peace, that a
Holy Alliance of the Monarchs of Europe was
formed.

The Sovereigns professed to be guided by the
maxims of religion, and with holy motives
seemed solicitous only for the peace of the
world.

But they have long since betrayed that their plans
of tranquility were to be intimately connected
with the preservation of their own arbitrary
power, and the destruction of popular liberty
every where.

Whatever militated against this power,
or favored this liberty, was to be crushed.

To this single end has been directed all the
diplomatic talent of Europe for years.

The "General Peace" was, and still is, the ever
ready plea in excuse for every new act of
oppression at home, or of interference abroad.

The mental elements, however,
set in motion remotely by the
PROTESTANT REFORMATION,
but more strongly agitated by
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
are yet working among the people of these
governments to give the Tyrants of the earth
uneasiness.

Conspiracies and Revolutions in the more
absolute governments,
(as in Austria, Russia, and the smaller States,
Italy, Holland, Belgium, &c.,) and the alternate
changes from more to less arbitrary
components in the Cabinets of the more popular
governments, (as in England, France, and
Switzerland,) indicate to us at various times the
vicissitudes of the great contest, and the sharpness
of the struggle.

This being the political condition of Europe, easily
shown to have grown out of the great divisions of
FREE and DESPOTIC principles, made at the
Reformation, is it at all likely that the happy fruits
of this Reformation, more completely developed
in this land of liberty, and exhibited perpetually to
the gaze of all the world, can have had no
influence upon the despotisms of Europe?

Can the example of Democratic Liberty which
this country shows, produce no uneasiness to
monarchs?

Does not every day bring fresh intelligence
of the influence of American Democracy
DIRECTLY in England, France, Spain,
Portugal, and Belgium, and INDIRECTLY
in all the other European countries?

And is there no danger of a RE-ACTION from
Europe?

Have we no interest in these changing aspects
of European politics?

The writer believes, that since the time
of the American Revolution, which gave the
principles of Democratic liberty a home, those
principles have never been in greater jeopardy
than at the present moment.

To his reasons for thus believing, he invites the
unimpassioned investigation of every American
citizen.

If there is danger, let it arouse to defense.
If it is a false alarm, let such explanations be
given of most suspicious appearances as will
safely allay it.

It is no PARTY question, and the attempt to
make it one, should be at once suspected.
It concerns all of every party.

THERE IS A DANGER OF RE-ACTION
FROM EUROPE; and it is the part of
common prudence to look for it and to provide
against it.

The great political truth has recently been
promulgated at the capital of one of the principal
courts of Europe, at Vienna, and by one of the
profoundest scholars of Germany,
(Frederick Schlegel, a devoted Roman Catholic,
and one of the Austrian Cabinet,) the great truth,
clearly and unanswerably proved, that the
POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS TO WHICH
EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS HAVE
BEEN SO LONG SUBJECTED, FROM THE
POPULAR DESIRES OF LIBERTY, ARE
THE NATURAL EFFECTS OF THE
PROTESTANT REFORMATION.

(8.)

That PROTESTANTISM favors
REPUBLICANISM, While POPERY as
naturally supports MONARCHICAL power.

In these lectures, delivered by Schlegel for the
purpose of strengthening the cause of absolute
power, at the time that he was Counselor of
Legation in the Austrian Cabinet, and the
confidential friend of Prince Metternich, there
is a MOST IMPORTANT allusion to this
country; and as it demonstrates one of the
principle connecting points between European
and American politics, and is the key to many
of the mysterious doings that are in operation
against American institutions under our own
eyes, let Americans treasure it well in their
memories. --

This is the passage:
"THE GREAT NURSERY OF THESE
DESTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLES,
(the principles of Democracy,) THE GREAT
REVOLUTIONARY SCHOOL FOR
FRANCE AND THE REST OF EUROPE,
IS NORTH AMERICA!"

Yes, (I address Democratic Americans,)
the influence of this Republican government,
of your democratic system, is vitally felt by
Austria.

She confesses it.
It is proscribed by the Austrian Cabinet.

This country is designated directly to all her
people, and to her allied despots, as the great
PLAGUE SPOT of the world, the poisoned
fountain whence flow all the deadly evils which
threaten their own existence.

Is there nothing intended by this language of
Austria?

The words of Despots are few, but they are
full of meaning.

If action, indeed, did not follow their speeches,
they might be safely indulged in their harmless
proscriptions.

But this is not the case. --
Austria has followed out her words into
actions.

Is it wonderful after such an avowal in regard
to America, that she should do something to rid
herself and the world of such a tremendous
evil?

Does not her own existence in truth depend
upon destroying our example?

Would it not be worth all the treasures of
wealth that she could collect, if they could
not purchase this great good?

But how will she attack us?
She cannot send her armies, they would be
useless.

She has told us by the mouth of her Councilor
of Legation, that Popery, while it is the natural
antagonist to Protestantism, is opposed in its
whole character to Republican liberty, and is
the promoter and supporter of arbitrary power.

How fitted then is Popery for her purpose!

This she can send without alarming our
fears, or, at least, only the fears of
those "MISERABLE," "INTOLERANT
FANATICS," and "PIOUS BIGOTS," who
affect to see danger to the liberties of the
country in the mere introduction of a
RELIGIOUS SYSTEM opposed to their own,
and whose cry of danger, be it ever so loud,
will only be regarded as the result of
"SECTARIAN FEAR," and the plot ridiculed
as a "QUIXOTIC DREAM."

But is there anything so irrational in such a
scheme?

Is it not the most natural and obvious act for
Austria to do, with her views of the influence
of Popery upon the form of government, its
influence to pull down Republicanism, and build
up monarchy; I say, is it not her most obvious
act TO SEND POPERY TO THIS
COUNTRY IF IT IS NOT HERE, OR GIVE
IT A FRESH AND VIGOROUS IMPULSE
IF IT IS ALREADY HERE?

At any rate SHE IS DOING IT.

She has set herself to work with all her
activity to disseminate throughout the
country the POPISH RELIGION.

Immediately after the delivery of Schlegel's
lectures, which was in the year 1828, a great
society was formed in the Austrian capital, in
Vienna, in 1829.

The late Emperor, and Prince Metternich, and
the Crown Prince, (now Emperor,) and all the
civil and ecclesiastical officers of the empire,
with the Princes of Savoy and Piedmont uniting
it, and calling it after the name of a canonized
King, ST. LEOPOLD.

This society is formed for a great and express
purpose.

It has all the officers of government interested
in it, from the Emperor down to the humblest
in the Empire; and what is this purpose?

Why, that
"OF PROMOTING THE GREATER
ACTIVITY OF CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN
AMERICA;" these are the words of their own
reports.

Yes; these Foreign despots are suddenly stirred
up to combine and promote the greater activity
of Popery in this country; and this, too, just after
they had been convinced of the truth, or, more
properly speaking, had their memories
quickened with it, that POPERY IS UTTERLY
OPPOSED TO REPUBLICAN LIBERTY.

(9.)

These are the facts in the case.
Americans, explain them in your own
way.

If any choose to stretch their charity so far as
to believe that these crowned gentlemen have
combined in this Society solely for
RELIGIOUS purposes; that they have
organized a Society to collect moneys to be
spent in this country, and have sent Jesuits as
their almoners, and ship-loads of Roman
Catholic emigrants, and for the sole purpose of
converting us to the RELIGION of Popery, and
without any POLITICAL design,
credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.

NO. III.

The extent of the St. Leopold foundation. --

Its agents in this country. --
Jesuits. --

Their Character. --

Their tricks already visible, in the riotous
ULTRAISM of the day. --

I Have shown that a Society
(the "ST. LEOPOLD FOUNDATION") is
organized in a Foreign Absolute government,
having its central direction in the capital of
that government at Vienna, under the
patronage of the Emperor of Austria, and the
other Despotic Rulers, --
a Society for the purpose of spreading
Popery in this country.

Of this fact there is no doubt.

This "ST. LEOPOLD FOUNDATION"
has its ramifications through the whole of
the Austrian empire.

It is not a small private association, but
A GREAT AND EXTENSIVE
COMBINATION.

It embraces in its extent, as shown by their
own documents, not merely a wide Austrian
Empire, Hungary, and Italy, but it includes
Piedmont, Savoy, and Catholic France; it
embodies the civil and ecclesiastical
authorities of all these countries.

And is such an extensive combination in foreign
countries for the avowed purpose of operating
in this country, (no matter for what purpose,)
so trivial an affair, that we may safely dismiss
it with a sneer?

Have these foreign Rulers so much sympathy
with our system of government, that we may
trust them safely to meddle with it, in
ANY WAY?

Are they so impotent a combination as to
excite in us no alarm?

May they send money, and agents, and a
system of government wholly at variance with
our own, and spread it through all our borders
with impunity from our search, because it is
nicknamed RELIGION?

There was a time when American
sensibilities were quick on the subject
of FOREIGN INTERFERENCE.

What has recently deadened them?

Let us examine the operations of this
Austrian Society, for it is hard at work all
around us; yes, here in this country, from one
end to the other, at our very doors, in this city.

From a machinery of such a character and
power, we will doubtless be able to see
already some effect.

With its head-quarters at Vienna, under
the immediate direction and inspection
of Metternich, the well-known GREAT
MANAGING GENERAL OF THE
DIPLOMACY of Europe, it makes
itself already felt through the republic.

Its emissaries are here.
And who are these emissaries?
They are JESUITS.

This society of men, after exerting their tyranny
for upwards of 200 years, at length became so
formidable to the world, threatening the entire
subversion of all social order, that even the
Pope, whose DEVOTED SUBJECTS they
are, and must be, by the vow of their society
was compelled to dissolve them.

They had not been suppressed, however,
for 50 years, before the waning influence of
Popery and Despotism required their useful
labors, to resist the spreading light of
Democratic liberty, and the Pope, (Pius VII.)
simultaneously with the formation of the
Holy Alliance, revived the order of the
Jesuits in all their power.

From their vow of
"UNQUALIFIED SUBMISSION TO THE
SOVEREIGN PONTIFF," they have been
appropriately called the POPE'S BODY
GUARD.

It should be known, that
AUSTRIAN INFLUENCE ELECTED THE
PRESENT POPE; his body guard are
therefore at the service of Austria, and these
are the soldiers that the Leopold Society has
sent to this country, and they are agents of
this society, to execute its designs, whatever
these designs may be.

And do Americans need to be told what
JESUITS are?

(10.)

If any are ignorant, let them inform themselves
of their history without delay; no time is to be
lost: their workings are before you in every
day's events: they are a SECRET society, a
sort of Masonic order, with superadded
features of most revolting odiousness, and a
thousand times more dangerous.

They are not confined to one class in society;
they are not merely priests, or priests of one
religious creed, they are merchants, and
lawyers, and editors, and men of any profession,
and no profession, having no outward badge,
(in this country,) by which to be recognized;
they are about in all your society.

They can assume any character, that of angels
of light, or ministers of darkness, to accomplish
their one great end, the SERVICE upon which
they are sent, whatever that service may be.

"They are all educated men, prepared, and
sworn to START AT ANY MOMENT,
IN ANY DIRECTION, and for any service,
commanded by the general of their order, bound
to no family, community, or country, by the
ordinary ties which bind men; and
SOLD FOR LIFE to the cause of
the Roman Pontiff."

These are the men at this moment ordered to
America.

And can they do nothing, Americans,
to derange the free workings of your
Democratic institutions?

Can they not, and do they not fan the
slightest embers of discontent into a flame,
those thousand little differences which must
perpetually occur in any society, into riot,
AND QUELL ITS EXCESS AMONG
THEIR OWN PEOPLE AS IT SUITS
THEIR POLICY AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR
OWN CONTROL?

Yes, they can be the aggressors, and contrive
to be the aggrieved.

They can do the mischief, and manage to be
publicly lauded for their praiseworthy
forbearance and their suffering patience.

They can persecute, and turn away the
popular indignation, ever roused by the cry of
persecution from themselves, and make it fall
upon their victim.

They can CONTROL THE PRESS in a
thousand secret ways.

They can write under the signature of "Whig,"
to-day, and if it suits their turn, "Tory,"
to-morrow.

They can be Democrat to-day, and
Aristocrat to-morrow.

They can out-American Americans in
admiration of American institutions to-day,
and "condemn them as unfit for any people"
to-morrow.

These are the men that Austria has sent here,
that she supplies with money, with whom she
keeps up an active correspondence, and whose
officers (the Bishops) are passing back and
forth between Europe and America, doubtless
to impart that information ORALLY which
would not be so safe committed to writing.

Is there no danger to the Democracy of the
country from such formidable foes arrayed
against it?

Is Metternich its friend?
Is the POPE its friend?

Are his official documents, now daily
put forth, DEMOCRATIC in their character?

O there is no danger to the Democracy;
for those most devoted to the Pope,
the Roman Catholics, especially the
Irish Catholics, are all on the side of
Democracy.

Yes, to be sure they are on the side of
Democracy.

They are just where I should look for them.
Judas Iscariot joined with the true disciples.
Jesuits are not fools.

They would not startle our slumbering fears,
by bolting out their monarchical designs directly
in our teeth, and by joining the opposing ranks,
EXCEPT SO FAR AS TO COVER THEIR
DESIGNS.

This is a Democratic country, and the
Democratic party is and ever must be the
strongest party, unless ruined by traitors and
Jesuits in the camp.

Yes; it is in the ranks of Democracy I should
expect to find them, and for no good purpose
be assured.

Every measure of Democratic policy in the
least exciting will be pushed to ULTRAISM,
so soon as it is introduced for discussion.

Let every real Democrat guard against this
common Jesuitical artifice of tyrants, an
artifice which there is much evidence to
believe is practicing against them at this
moment, an artifice
WHICH IF NOT HEEDED WILL
SURELY BE THE RUIN OF
DEMOCRACY: it is founded on the
well-known principle that
"EXTREMES MEET."

The writer has seen it pass under his own
eyes in Europe, in more than one instance.

When the despotic governments popular
discontent, arising from the intolerable
oppressions of the tyrants of the people, has
manifested itself by popular outbreakings, to
such a degree as to endanger the throne, and
the people seemed prepared to shove their
masters from their horses, and are likely to
mount, and seize their reins themselves; then,
the popular movement, unmanageable any
longer by resistance, is pushed to the extreme.

The passions of the ignorant and vicious are
excited to outrage by pretended friends of the
people.

(11.)

Anarchy ensues; and then the mass of the
people, who are always lovers of order and
quiet, unite at once in support of the strong
arm of force for protection; and despotism,
perhaps, in another, but PRECONCERTED
shape, resumes its iron reign.

Italy and Germany, are furnishing examples
every day.

If an illustration is wanted on
a larger scale, look at France in her late
Republican revolution, and in her present
relapse into despotism.

He who would prevent you from mounting
his horse, has two ways of thwarting your
designs.
If he finds your efforts to rise to strong for
his resistance, he has but to add a little more
impulse to them, and he shoves you over on
the other side.
In either case you are on the ground.

NO. IV.

The Despotism inherent in Jesuitism exposed. --

The folly of the outcry of Persecution,
Intolerance, &c. raised against this discussion. --

The character of the foreign materials, with
which Jesuits can work injury to the Republic. --

That Jesuits are at work upon the passions of
the American community, managing in various
ways to gain control, must be evident to all.

They who have learned from history the
general mode of proceeding of this crafty set
of men, could easily infer that they were here,
even were it not otherwise confirmed by
unquestionable evidence in their
correspondence with their foreign masters in
Austria.

There are some, perhaps, who are under the
impression that the order of Jesuits is a purely
religious Society, for the dissemination of the
Roman Catholic religion; and therefore comes
within the protection of our laws, and must be
tolerated.

There cannot be a greater mistake.

It was from the beginning a POLITICAL
organization, an absolute Monarchy masked
by religion.

It has been aptly styled
"TYRANNY BY RELIGION."

If any doubt on this subject is entertained, let
the following from their own documents
dispel it.

In an authorized work of theirs, they say:
"The members of the Society of Jesuits are
dispersed through all the nations of the world,
and DIVIDED ONLY BY DISTANCE OF
PLACE, NOT IN SENTIMENT; by
difference in language, not in affection; by
variety of color, not in manner.

In this fraternity, the Latin, Greek,
Portuguese, Brazilian, Irish, Sumatran,
Spanish, French, English, and Belgic Jesuits,
ALL THINK, FEEL, SPEAK, AND ACT
ALIKE; for among them there is neither
debate nor contention.
[Imago. Soc. Jes. Proleg. p. 33.]

The SAME DESIGN,
and COURSE OF ACTION,
and ONE VOW ONLY, LIKE THE
CONJUGAL BOND, UNITE THE
ORDER TOGETHER."
[Ibid. lib. 5, p. 662.]

We are then clearly authorized by themselves,
to impute to the Jesuits, in this country, the
same SENTIMENTS and DESIGN
and CAUSE OF ACTION, as are
avowed by their brethren abroad.

Let us see what these are; and I ask
American Democrats especially to look
at this.

There was an address presented to the
King of Spain, not in the dark ages, not by a
former Society of Jesuits, but to
Ferdinand VII., whose character we all know,
and who died but a short time ago; an address
by one of this order of Jesuits,
since their revival in 1814.

Vallestigny, a deputy of Alva, a Jesuit, in this
address to his Majesty, says,
"THE MASS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY
ARE BORN, NOT TO GOVERN, BUT TO
BE GOVERNED.

This sublime employment of government
HAS BEEN CONFIDED by Providence
TO THE PRIVILEGED CLASS, whom he
has placed upon an eminence to
WHICH THE MULTITUDE CANNOT
RISE without being lost in the labyrinth and
snares which are therein found."
[Archbishop de Pradt.]

Is this Democracy?
Look at this seriously.

The Jesuits in this country must by their own
confession have the same sentiments; and yet,
with the cunning and duplicity of their craft,
they have allied themselves to our party.

Why is this?
It is easily explained.

Everybody knows how readily, in moments of
strong party feeling, we imbibe the opinions,
even without examination, of those who
sympathize with us.

Do not Jesuits know this, and are they not
taking advantage of our vary love to our own
institutions, to quiet our fears and to obtain
our protection and aid while they organize
themselves, and extend their influence more
thoroughly in the country, preparatory to
compassing their future designs?

(12.)

And will these designs be in favor of
Democracy?

Let them speak for themselves in the
sentiments I have quoted.

It becomes important to inquire, then,
What are the PRINCIPAL MATERIALS
in our society with which Jesuits can
accomplish the political designs of the
Foreign Despots embodied in the
Leopold Foundation?

And here let me make the passing remark,
that there has been a great deal of mawkish
sensitiveness on the subject of introducing any
thing concerning religion into political
discussions.

This sensitiveness, as it is not merely foolish,
arising from ignorance of the true line which
separates political and theological matters,
but also exposes the political interests of the
country to manifest danger, I am glad to see
is giving way to a proper feeling on the
subject.

Church and State must be for ever separated,
but it is the height of folly to suppose, that in
political discussions, RELIGION especially,
the POLITICAL character OF ANY AND
EVERY RELIGIOUS CREED may not be
publicly discussed.

The absurdity of such a position is too
manifest to dwell a moment upon it.

And in considering the materials in our society
adapted to the purposes of hostile attack upon
our Institutions, we must of necessity notice
the Roman Catholic religion.

IT IS THIS FORM OF RELIGION that is
most implicated in the conspiracy against our
liberties.

It is in this sect that the Jesuits are organized.

It is this sect that is proclaimed by one of its
own most brilliant and profound literary men
to be HOSTILE IN ITS VERY NATURE
TO REPUBLICAN LIBERTY; and it is the
active extension of this sect that Austria is
endeavoring to promote throughout this
Republic.

And Americans will not be cowed into silence
by the cries of PERSECUTION,
INTOLERANCE, BIGOTRY,
FANATICISM, and such puerile catchwords,
perpetually uttered against those who speak or
write ever so calmly against the dangers of
Popery.

I can say, once for all, that no such outcry
weighs a feather with me, nor does it weigh a
feather with the mass of the American
people.

They have good sense enough to discriminate,
especially in a subject of such vital importance
to their safety, between
WORDS and THINGS.

I am not tenacious of WORDS except for
convenience sake, the better to be
understood, but if detestation of Jesuitism and
tyranny, whether in a civil or ecclesiastical
shape, is in the future to be called
INTOLERANCE, be it so; only let it be
generally understood, and I will then glory in
INTOLERANCE.

When that which is now esteemed VIRTUE,
is to be known by general consent only by the
name VICE, why I will not be singular, but
glory in VICE, since the word is used to
embody the ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF
VIRTUE.

I will just add, that those who are so fond of
employing these epithets, forget that by so
constantly, loosely, and indiscriminately using
them, they cease to convey any meaning, or
to excite any emotions but those of disgust
towards those who use them.

To return to the subject;
it is in the Roman Catholic ranks that we are
principally to look for the materials to be
employed by the Jesuits, and in what
condition do we find this sect at present in our
country?

We find it spreading itself into every nook
and corner of the land; churches, chapels,
colleges, nunneries and convents, are
springing up as if by magic every where;
an activity hitherto unknown among the
Roman Catholics pervades all their ranks,
and yet whence the means for all these
efforts?

Except here and there funds or favors
collected from an inconsistent
PROTESTANT, (SO CALLED probably
because born in a Protestant country, who is
flattered or weedled by some Jesuit artiface
to give his aid to their cause,) the greatest part
of the pecuniary means for all these works are
from abroad.

They are the contributions of his
Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
of Prince Metternich,
of the late Charles X.,
and the other Despots
combined in the Leopold Society.

And who are the members of the
Roman Catholic communion?

What proportion are natives of this land,
nurtured under our own institutions, and well
versed in the nature of American liberty?

Is it not notorious that the greater part are
FOREIGNERS from the various Catholic
countries of Europe?

Emigration has of late years been specially
promoted among this class of Foreigners, and
they have been in the proportion of three to
one of all other Emigrants arriving on our
shores; they are from Ireland, Germany,
Poland, and Belgium.

(13.)

From about the period of the formation of
the Leopold Society, Catholic emigration
increased in an amazing degree.*

* NOTE :

A check at this moment,
APPARENTLY UNACCOUNTABLE,
has suddenly occurred in Emigration.

This I think is capable of an easy solution.

It may be that foreign fears were excited lest
Americans might become alarmed at so great
an increase of foreigners.

There may be other causes, but I must
suspect all the doings of Jesuits.

N.B. Since the publication of this number,
EMIGRATION has taken a fresh start.

From 1st July to 1st of August, 1835,
a single month, there arrived in the port
of New-York alone, SIX THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO
Emigrants, which is at the annual rate of
upwards of 80,000; and this, be it remembered,
is only at ONE point in the country!

Colonies of Emigrants, selected, perhaps,
with a view to occupy particular places,
(for, be it remembered, every portion of this
country is as perfectly known at Vienna and
Rome as in any part of our own country,)
have been constantly arriving.

The principal emigrants are from Ireland and
Germany.

We have lately been told by the captain
of a lately arrived AUSTRIAN VESSEL,
which, by the by, brought 70 emigrants
from ANTWERP! that a desire is suddenly
manifested among the poor class of the
Belgian population, to emigrate to America.

They are mostly, if not all Roman Catholics,
be it remarked, for Belgium is a Catholic
country, and AUSTRIAN VESSELS ARE
BRINGING THEM HERE.

Whatever THE CAUSE of all this
movement abroad to send to this country
their poorer classes, the fact is certain, the
class of emigrants is known, and the
instrument, Austria, is seen in it --
the same power that directs
the Leopold Foundation.

NO. V.

The great mass of Emigrants necessarily under
the control of Catholic priests. --

Mr. Jefferson's warning against the dangers
of Foreign Emigration. --

The evils he predicted now occurring. --

O'Connell interfering in the AMERICAN
Slavery question. --

I HAVE shown what were the
FOREIGN MATERIALS imported into the
country, with which the Jesuits can work to
accomplish their designs.

Let us examine this point a little more
minutely.

These materials are the
VERITIES OF FOREIGNERS of the
same Creed, the Roman Catholic, over all of
whom the Bishops or Vicars General hold,
as a matter of course, ecclesiastical rule;
and we well know what is the nature of
Roman Catholic ecclesiastical rule, --

it is the double refined spirit of
despotism, which, after arrogating to itself the
prerogatives of Deity, and so claiming to bind
or loose the SOUL eternally, makes it, in the
comparison, but a mere trifle to exercise
absolute sway in all that relates to the body.

The notorious ignorance in which the great
mass of these emigrants have been all their
lives sunk, until their minds are dead, makes
them but senseless machines; they obey
orders mechanically, for it is the habit of their
education, in the despotic countries of their
birth.

And can it be for a moment supposed by any
one that by the act of coming to this country,
and being naturalized, their darkened intellects
can suddenly be illuminated to discern the nice
boundary where their
ECCLESIASTICAL OBEDIENCE to their
priests ENDS, and their CIVIL
INDEPENDENCE of them BEGINS?

The very supposition is absurd.

They obey their priests as demigods, from the
habit of their whole lives; they have been
taught from infancy that their priests are
infallible in the greatest matters, and can they,
by mere importation to this country, be
suddenly imbued with the knowledge that in
civil matters their priests may err, and that
they are not in these also their infallible
guides?

Who will teach them this?
Will their priests?
Let common sense answer this question.

Must not the priests, as a matter almost of
CERTAINTY, control the opinions of their
ignorant flock in civil as well as religious
matters?

And do they not do it?

* * *

Mr. Jefferson, with deep sagacity and
foresight which distinguished him as a
politician, foresaw, predicted, and issued
his warning, on the great danger to the
country of this introduction of foreigners.

He says,
"The present desire of America,
(in 1781,) is to produce rapid population by as
great IMPORTATIONS OF FOREIGNERS
as possible.

BUT IS THIS FOUNDED IN POLICY?"

"Are there no INCONVENIENCES to be
thrown into the scale against the advantage
expected from a multiplication of numbers
by the importation of foreigners?

It is for the happiness of those united in
society to harmonize as much as
possible in matters which they must of
necessity transact together.

(14.)

"Civil government being the sole object of
forming societies, its administration must be
conducted by common consent.

Every species of government has its specific
principles.

Ours, perhaps, are more peculiar than those
of any other in the universe.

It is a composition of the freest principles of
the English constitution, with others derived
from natural right, and natural reason.

To these nothing can be more opposed than
the maxims of absolute monarchies.

Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest
number of emigrants.

THEY WILL BRING WITH THEM THE
PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENTS
THEY LEAVE, IMBIBED IN THEIR
EARLY YOUTH; OR, IF ABLE TO
THROW THEM OFF, IT WILL BE IN
EXCHANGE FOR AN UNBOUNDED
LICENTIOUSNESS, passing, as is usual,
from one extreme to another.

It would be a miracle were they to stop
precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

These principles, with their language,
they will transmit to their children.

IN PROPORTION TO THEIR
NUMBERS, THEY WILL SHARE
WITH US THE LEGISLATION.

THEY WILL INFUSE INTO IT
THEIR SPIRIT, WARP AND BIAS
ITS DIRECTIONS, AND RENDER
IT A HETEROGENEOUS,
INCOHERENT,
DISTRACTED MASS"

"I may appeal to experience, for a
verification of these conjectures.

But if they be not
CERTAIN IN EVENT, are they not
POSSIBLE, ARE THEY NOT
PROBABLE?

Is it not safer to wait with patience --

for the attainment of any degree of
population desired or expected?

May not our government be more
homogeneous, more peaceable, more
durable?"

He asks what would be the condition
of France if 20 millions of Americans
were suddenly imported into that kingdom?

And adds --
"If it would be MORE TURBULENT,
less happy, less strong, we may believe
that the addition of HALF A MILLION
FOREIGNERS would produce a
SIMILAR EFFECT HERE."

So long an extract in point from
Mr. Jefferson, needs no apology.

The fears of that great statesman were
prophetic, and we of these days are
experiencing the fruits partly of our own
folly, partly of Foreign Conspiracy taking
advantage of this folly.

What was dimly seen by the prophetic eye
of Jefferson, is actually passing under our
own eyes.

Already have foreigners increased in the
country to such a degree, that they justly
give us alarm.

They feel themselves so strong, as to
organize themselves even as FOREIGNERS
into FOREIGN BANDS, and this for the
purpose of influencing our elections.

But a bolder step has been hazarded within
a few weeks.

A PORTION OF FOREIGNERS have
had the audacity to attempt the formation
of themselves into a separate MILITARY
CORPS, and at this moment to take the
name of a foreigner who, whatever qualities
he may posses to make him admired in his
own country and among his own religious
sect, has very few points, if any, in common
with Americans, and has lately denounced a
vengeance on this whole nation, to which
Americans when they are inclined to cry
peace to themselves, would do well to turn
their thoughts, especially when they connect
the facts, that he who has denounced the
South especially, and thrown a firebrand
into the SLAVERY question, is the GREAT
AGITATOR, so called, that he is an Irishman
and a Roman Catholic, that the great mass
of the foreigners in this country of the
same sect are from Ireland.

That they are men who having
PROFESSED to become Americans,
by accepting our terms of naturalization, do
yet, in direct contradiction to their professions,
clan together as a separate interest, and retain
their foreign appellation; that it is with such a
separate foreign interest, organizing in the
midst of us, that Jesuits in the pay of foreign
powers are tampering; that it is this foreign
corps of religionists that Americans of both
parties have been for years in the habit of
basely and traitorously encouraging to erect
into an umpire of our political divisions, thus
virtually surrendering the government into the
hands of Despotic powers.

(15.)

In view of these facts, which every day's
experience proves to be facts, is it not time,
high time, that a true American spirit were
roused to resist this alarming inroad of
foreign influence upon our institutions, to
avert dangers to which we have hitherto
shut our eyes, and which if not remedied,
and that immediately, will inevitably change
the whole character of our government.

I repeat what I first said, this is no party
question, it concerns native Americans of all
parties.

NO. VI

Recapitulation of Facts. --

The necessity and propriety of discussing the
political nature of the Roman Catholic System. --

I HAVE set forth in a very brief and
imperfect manner the evil, the great and
increasing evil, that threatens our free
institutions from FOREIGN
INTERFERENCE.

Have I not shown that there is a real cause
for alarm?

Let me recapitulate the facts in the case,
and see if any one of them can be denied;
and if not, I submit it to the calm decision
of every American, whether he can still
sleep in fancied security, while incendiaries
are at work; and whether he is ready quietly
to surrender his liberty, civil and religious, into
the hands of foreign powers.

1. It is a fact, that in this age the subject of
civil and religious liberty agitates in the most
intense manner the various European
governments.

2. It is a fact, that the influence of
American free institutions in subverting
European despotic institutions is greater
now than it has ever been, from the from
the fact of the greater maturity, and
long-tried character, of the American
form of government

3. It is a fact, that Popery is opposed in its
very nature to Democratic Republicanism;
and it is, therefore, as a political system, as
well as religious, opposed to civil and
religious liberty, and consequently to
our form of government.

4. It is a fact, that this truth, respecting the
intrinsic character of Popery, has lately been
clearly and demonstratively proved in public
lectures, by one of the Austrian Cabinet,
a devoted Roman Catholic, and with the
evident design (as subsequent events show)
of exciting the Austrian government to a
great enterprise in support of absolute power.

5. It is a fact, that this Member of the
Austrian Cabinet, in his lectures,
designated and proscribed this country
by name, as the "GREAT NURSERY
OF DESTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLES;
AS THE REVOLUTIONARY
SCHOOL FOR FRANCE AND
THE REST OF EUROPE," whose
contagious example of Democratic liberty
had given, and would still give, trouble to
the rest of the world, unless the evil were
abated.

6. It is a fact, that very shortly after the
delivery of these lectures, a Society was
organized in the Austrian capital, called the
St. Leopold Foundation, for the purpose
"of promoting the greater activity of
Catholic Missions in America."

7. It is a fact, that this Society is under the
patronage of the Emperor of Austria, --
has its central direction at Vienna, --
is under the supervision of
Prince Metternich, --
that it is an extensive combination,
embodying the civil, as well as ecclesiastical
OFFICERS, not only of the WHOLE
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE, but of the
neighboring Despotic States, --
that it is actively at work, collecting
moneys, and sending agents to this
country, to carry into effect
its designs. --

8. It is a fact, that the agents of these
foreign despots are, for the most part,
Jesuits.

9. It is a fact, that the effects of this society
are already apparent in the otherwise
unaccountable increase of Roman Catholic
cathedrals, churches, colleges, convents,
nunneries, &c., in every part of the country;
in the sudden increase of Catholic emigration;
in the increased clannishness of the
Roman Catholics, and the boldness with
which their leaders are experimenting on
the character of the American people.

10. It is a fact, that an unaccountable
disposition to riotous conduct has manifested
itself within a few years, when exciting
topics are publicly discussed, wholly at
variance with the former peaceful,
deliberative character of our people.

11. It is a fact, that a species of police,
unknown to our laws, has repeatedly been
put in requisition to keep the peace among
a certain class of foreigners, who are
Roman Catholics, viz., Priest-police.

12. It is a fact, that Roman Catholic Priests
have interfered to influence our elections.

13. It is a fact, that politicians on both sides
have propitiated these priests, to obtain the
votes of their people.

14. It is a fact, that numerous Societies of
Roman Catholics, particularly among the Irish
foreigners, are organized in various parts of
the country, under various names, and
ostensibly for certain benevolent objects;
that these societies are united together by
correspondence, all which may be innocent
and praiseworthy, but, viewed in connection
with the recent aspect of affairs, are at least
suspicious.*

* NOTE :

This organization of foreigners, to act upon
our institutions, not only formed in foreign
countries, but even within our own borders,
is indeed a very serious matter.

Why are the people so blind to the danger
which threatens them from this source?

What reason can be assigned, why they
who profess to have become Americans,
should organize themselves into
Foreign National Societies all over the
country; and under their foreign appellation,
hold correspondence with each other to
promote their foreign interests ?

Can any good reason be given why such
FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS should be
allowed to exist in this country ?

The Irish have been thus organized for many
years .

The objects of ONE of these Irish societies
will serve to illustrate the objects generally
of all these associations in the midst of us,
"THE BOSTEN HYBERNIAN LYCEUM,"
says the Catholic Diary of March 14, 1835,
"organized about TWO YEARS ago, is
composed of IRISH YOUNG MEN, for
the diffusion among each other --
of what ? --
of MUTUAL SYMPATHY and MUTUAL
CO-OPERATION, in whatever may aid to
qualify them to MEET AND DISCHARGE
THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES as THE
REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR
NATIVE, as well as citizens of their adopted,
COUNTRY, as IRISHMEN and Americans."

Here we have an avowal directly of an
organization to promote a foreign interest in
this country!

Similar organizations, in correspondence
with each other, have been made for years
without attracting attention until within a
few months.

They have now become a subject of very
serious consideration.

The Jesuits have taken the alarm, and are
casting about for a plausible excuse to offer
for these organizations.

What excuse can they offer?
Was it for defense?
Against whom?
Was it for attack?
Whom were they going to fight?
Whom had they reason to fear?

A Jesuit, in the Baltimore American, is
preparing the way to bring forth a grand
excuse, presuming on the slumbering fears,
or the indifference, or ignorance of the
community.

I will therefore endeavor to anticipate him.

Hear what he says:
"HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of
Roman Catholics are ANNUALLY
pouring into our country."

Take notice, in passing, of the numbers
pouring into the country.

"HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
ANNUALLY!"

They are spread over the fertile valley; --
leave them unmolested, and they are merged
in the great mass of the community, --
but persecute them, RECEIVE THEM
WITH JEALOUSY AND AVOWED
DISTRUST --
insult them --
drive them to the wall --
PUT THEM UPON THEIR DEFENSE,
and we may indeed fear an
'ORGANIZATION' --
they MUST AND WILL ORGANIZE --
THEY WILL ORGANIZE, for all that life
is dear --
THEY WILL ORGANIZE, for all that
eternity has to offer," &c. --

Now here are the threats thrown out that
these foreigners,
(by hundreds and thousands too,)
WILL ORGANIZE; that they MUST AND
WILL ORGANIZE .

And why ?

Because jealousy and distrust has been
excited in the minds of Americans, not for
fear that they should organize, but on
account of their having ALREADY
ORGANIZED; they are going to organize,
because they are put on their defense for
having organized, and are asked why have
you already organized ?

As well might they say that the determination
to destroy the Convent at Charlestown on the
11th of August by a mob was the cause of
the MYSTERIOUS PROVOCATIVES TO
THAT MOB which occurred in the Convent
a WEEK OR TWO BEFORE, or that its
final destruction was the cause of the threat
made THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT by
the Lady Superior that 10,000 Irishmen under
the influence of the Bishop might tear down
the houses in Charlestown if the Convent
were injured.

All these will be true when EFFECTS
precede their CAUSE .

To question their principles, civil or
religious, it seems is
"TO PERSECUTE THEM;"

to doubt their fitness to manage the
political concerns of the republic, is
"TO INSULT THEM;"

to prefer managing our domestic affairs
ourselves is
"TO DRIVE THEM TO THE WALL."

And so these foreigners threaten an
organization by hundreds of thousands, to
seize by force those privileges of which we
may find it necessary to deprive them, and
they mean to fight
"FOR ALL THAT LIFE IS DEAR , --
FOR ALL THAT ETERNITY HAS TO
OFFER."

Are Americans prepared to yield to these
arrogant airs?

It is notorious that the excitement respecting
the Roman Catholic emigrants, has existed
scarcely a year.

The exposure of foreign designs through the
Roman Catholic religion, and the discussions
arising out of it, all the riotous conduct of
Catholics and others, and among other things
the public notices of these very
ORGANIZATIONS, have all occurred
WITHIN THE LAST YEAR. --

But the organizations of the Catholics, and
particularly of the Irish, are of MANY
YEARS standing.

The Society at Boston above quoted, and
one of the most recent, was formed long
before any excitement on the subject
"TWO YEARS AGO,"
says the Catholic Diary.

It was discovering these organizations,
ALREADY FORMED on the part of
foreigners, that excited the JEALOUSLY
AND DISTRUST on the part of the
American people, and when the people now
"PUT THESE FOREIGNERS ON THEIR
DEFENSE" for these outrages, and ask
them what they mean by these suspicious
doings; why they conduct in a way to excite
jealousy and distrust!

They are to be gravely told,
we organized ourselves for our protection
YESTERDAY, in consequence of your
JEALOUSY AND DISTRUST
of that organization manifested TO-DAY;
and your "putting us on our defense, asking
us THIS DAY the meaning of our conduct,
is the cause of our forming,
TWO YEARS AGO, an association to
protect ourselves against you!!"

This is in truth the argument that is preparing,
and unless the people are on their guard, too,
and fix in their minds the ORDER AND
TIME OF THESE EVENTS, the Jesuits will
succeed in making them believe that all the
suspicious organizations of foreigners
throughout the land, which have
ALREADY EXISTED FOR SEVERAL
YEARS, are but of recent origin, forced
upon them by what they call persecution,
and are lately formed, purely from
necessity, for self-defense; and thus they
can continue their traitorous associations,
under the plea of necessity, and at the same
time can show up the American character
as persecuting and intolerant.

Americans, you have Jesuits among you.

Of this fact you know there is no doubt;
and Jesuits are not idle.

Open your eyes, and you will see their
workings in almost every day's transactions.

You can perceive their dallyings with the
press; for by means of facilities which its
freedom presents, especially in
ANONYMOUS writing, and by their
organized concert throughout the country,
they can easily give a DISTORTED
APPEARANCE TO PUBLIC OPINION.

Of this you should be constantly aware.

They will of course write under the guise
of Protestants and republicans.

The wolf does not come as a wolf, but as
one of the fold.

Watch them.

You cannot mistake, in receiving the
Jesuits with
" JEALOUSY AND DISTRUST."

They will give you trouble.

15. It is a fact, that an attempt has been
made to organize a military corps of Irishman
in New-York, to be called the O'Connell
Guards; thus commencing a military
organization of foreigners.

16. It is a fact, that the greater part of the
foreigners in our population is composed of
Roman Catholics.

(16.)

Facts like these I have enumerated might be
multiplied, but these are the most important,
and quite sufficient to make every American
settle the question with himself, whether
there is, or is not, danger to the country
from the present state of our
Naturalization Laws.

I have stated what I believe to be the facts.

If they are NOT facts, they will be easily
disproved, and I most sincerely hope they
will be disproved.

If they are facts, and my inferences from
them are wrong, I can be shown where I
have erred, and an inference more rational,
and more probable, involving less, or
perhaps no, danger to the country, can be
deduced from them, which deduction, when
I see it, I will most cheerfully accept, as a
full explanation of these most suspicious
doings of Foreign Powers.

I have spoken in these numbers freely of a
particular religious sect, the Roman Catholics,
because from the nature of the case it was
unavoidable; because the foreign political
conspiracy is identified with that creed.

With the RELIGIOUS TENETS properly so
called, of the Roman Catholic, I have not
meddled.

If foreign powers, hostile to the principles of
this government, have combined to spread
any religious creed, no matter of what
denomination, that creed does by that very
act become a subject of political interest to
all citizens, and must and will be thoroughly
scrutinized.

We are compelled to examine it.
We have no choice about it.

If instead of combining to spread with the
greatest activity the Catholic Religion
throughout our country, the
Monarchs of Europe had united to spread
Presbyterianism, or Methodism, I presume,
there are few who would not see at once
the propriety and the necessity of looking
most narrowly at the political bearings of the
peculiar principles of these Sects, or of any
other Protestant Sects; and members of any
Protestant Sects too, would be the last to
complain of the examination.

I know not why the Roman Catholics in this
land of scrutiny are to plead exclusive
exemption from the same trial.

(17.)

NO. VII.

The various plans for a change in the
Naturalization Laws examined.

-- The ridiculous claim set up for the
Foreigner to SUPERIOR rights, exposed.

-- American birthright vindicated.

I HAD completed that part of my original
plan, in which I exposed the dangers to our
institutions from a FOREIGN REACTION,
naturally to be expected from the present
political condition of Europe, as well as of
our own country.

I have shown undeniably,
(for none of my FACTS have been denied,
and, let it be noticed, they are of the most
serious character,) that the danger from an
insidious foreign interference, already in
active operation under cover of the
professedly RELIGIOUS society of
combined despots, called the
St. Leopold Foundation, was imminent, and
that this danger was enhanced by the great
increase of the most degraded class of
foreign emigrants; by their natural unfitness
for citizenship, more particularly from their
want of mental Independence.

(17.)

To this danger, the facility afforded by our
Naturalization Laws for bestowing on them
the rights of citizenship, gives a character
of tenfold seriousness.

That a change of some kind in the
Naturalization Laws is required, seems to
be conceded on all sides, but the nature and
extent of this change are strangely opposite in
character.

While some, and doubtless the greater part of
the American population, would have them
changed with the view of DISCOURAGING
immigration, and of guarding our institutions
from foreign interference; at the point where
they are not only assailable, but where they
are at this moment actually assailed and
greatly endangered; others would have them
changed so as to throw all the barriers which
protect us as an independent nation, and
extend the right of suffrage, strange as it may
seem, with such an unheard of universality of
application, as no advocate of the proper and
just principles of universal suffrage ever
before ventured to dream of; to the extent, in
fact, virtually of giving the administration of
our government to any and all nations of the
world, no matter how barbarous, who chose to
take the trouble to exercise it.

Instead of guarding with greater vigilance and
care our institutions, when attacked, by new
defenses; these patriots would not only make
no resistance, but would actually invite the
enemy, by demolishing the fortresses already
existing and yield up the country into his
uncontrolled possession.

Lest I should be accused of exaggeration, I
quote the following from the Evening Post:

"We are not opposed to a change in the
Naturalization Laws; but are opposed to any
change that would lengthen the probation.

In our view of the subject, no good reason can
be urged against foreigners being admitted to
citizenship THE MOMENT THEY SET
FOOT IN THE COUNTRY, provided they
make suitable declaration of their intention of
residence.

We would make the necessity of such a
declaration the only distinction between an
emigrant from a foreign country and one
from another state of our own country.

In both cases the right of suffrage could be
exercised only after the term of residence
prescribed for all citizens, viz:

twelve months in the state, and six months
in the particular township or ward."

That those Foreign Jesuits in the country, the
traveling and corresponding and editorial
agents in the pay and service of the
St. Leopold Society, should suggest and
advocate such a doctrine as this, so
favorable to the accomplishment of their
schemes, would not be in the least surprising,
for it is completely in character; but I
confess, it is truly astonishing that any real
true-hearted American, such as I believe the
editor of the Post to be, should be so
absorbed, in I know not what sort of notions
of universal philanthropy, as to forget entirely
the claims of his own country, in an exclusive
fondness for foreigners, and should put
forward at this moment so revolting a
proposition.

I can scarcely believe him serious; yet, if he
is, he certainly depends on other means for
enforcing a conviction of its soundness or the
propriety of its adoption, than either an appeal
to American love of country, to American
intelligence, or to reason and common sense.

If I understand him, he would put the
Foreigner, the moment of his landing, on the
same footing with native American citizens,
no matter from what country he may come,
no matter what his early habits, his character
or condition, whether Hottentott or Turk, or
Russian serf, or New Zealand cannibal; the
moment he sets foot on our shores, and
simply signifies a wish to become a citizen,
he is to be a citizen.

He would in fact give foreigners of all kinds,
not merely the protection, and instruction and
other advantages of citizenship, but the
privilege also of electing our rulers; yes, and
of being themselves preferred and elected
over native Americans.

He seems to consider that being born in
America is not only no privilege, but an actual
demerit, (compared with being born in Ireland
for example,) an unfortunate accident to be
ashamed of, rather than boasted of.

(18.)

This I am compelled to believe to be his
meaning, for the whole tendency of his
journal when treating of this topic, and much
am I surprised and chagrined at the fact, is to
throw ridicule* and contempt upon sacred
love of country, the country of one's birth, to
repudiate those universally hallowed
affections for native land that cling around the
heart of man, whatever his condition, and
wherever the place of his birth. --

* NOTE :

The following from the Evening Post, is an
example of the kind of ridicule thrown upon
attachment to NATIVE COUNTRY:

"An estimable gentleman who formerly
resided in this city for many years, but who
like a great many other citizens, had had the
misfortune of being first landed in Ireland on
his entrance into the world, being once
reproached by a rude fellow, during a political
contest, with his foreign birth, and the
indigence of his circumstances when he first
came to this country, good naturedly replied,
that there his antagonist was clean at fault,
for, said he,

'When I came to America I wore a good
coat and a stout pair of leather breeches;
whereas, when you came here, you hadn't
even a shirt on your back.' --

This answer naturally occurs to mind at a
time when earnest and daily attempts are
making to excite those WHO ARE
AMERICANS BY THE MERE
ACCIDENT OF BIRTH against those who
are AMERICANS BY CHOICE, and who
left their father-land, braved the dangers of
the ocean, and VOLUNTARILY
INCURRED all the hardships and vicissitudes
incident to the emigrant in a strange country
IN ORDER TO BECOME CITIZENS under
a government of equal laws, and partakers
of the blessings of civil and religious freedom."

I cannot believe that sentiments so revolting,
sentiments outraging the warmest feelings of
every American bosom, can have been the
spontaneous suggestions of his own honest
heart.

Other journals in the
FOREIGN INTEREST,
and EDITED BY FOREIGNERS,
(and such journals are actually thrust into our
hands,) hold the same anti-American tone.

Reluctant then as I am to consider this
revolting proposal as serious, I must
consider it, for it appears but too evidently
supported by the Evening Post whenever
foreigners, or the Naturalization Laws are
alluded to in that journal.

Agreeing as I do in other great political points
with the party whose cause the able editor of
the Post so creditably advocates, I yet on this
separate point can never approve the course
pursued of late by more than one journal of
the Democratic party.

If by their course I am to understand that it is
a cardinal party point, then on this I hesitate
not to avow my open persevering hostility.

I will not allow for one moment that
AMERICAN BIRTHRIGHT is to be
humbled and annihilated at the feet of a
foreign interest; that it is to be trampled on,
and mocked by any and all whom foreign
despots choose to ship to this country,
whether their more knowing stipendiaries,
or the ignorant refuse of their poor houses
and prisons. --

I will never again, on any considerations
whatever, knowingly assent to confide, to
any man of FOREIGN BIRTH,
(I care not how well fitted for office, or how
infallibly honest,) those civil and political
trusts to the management of which EVERY
AMERICAN BY HIS RIGHT OF BIRTH,
I repeat it, EVERY AMERICAN BY HIS
RIGHT OF BIRTH, has a previous, a
paramount claim; and is it possible that we
have men among us who would persuade us
that American birthright is nothing?

We are told, and told seriously too, that the
most abject and degraded slave of foreign
superstition, set adrift on our shores, has a
merit SUPERIOR to native Americans,
because, forsooth, the former has made this
THE COUNTRY OF HIS CHOICE, while
natives, having no choice in the matter, are
compelled to be Americans whether they
will or not.

This is the veritable argument, this is the
miserable insulting sophistry cast into the
faces of Americans. --

In what country do I dwell?
Is it indeed a delusion that I have a country?

I have resided many years in foreign lands
under different forms of government, and
often when pity and indignation were roused
at the sight of the misery and slavery around
me, at the sight of the wretched victims of
despotism, I have loved to seek relief in the
recollection of my own beloved though
distant America, to exult in the happiness of
her children, to boast of their political and
religious freedom.

I rejoiced with feelings of gratitude, of an
intensity that none but an American exile can
fully appreciate, that Providence had allowed
me to call this happy country my own
NATIVE land.

And am I now to be told that my birthright is
a delusion?

Are my countrymen ready to yield theirs to
the arrogant demand of those whom they
have hitherto supposed the grateful recipients
of their hospitality, but who now, strangely
and imprudently emboldened, demand the
keys of the house and the right of
possession?

Has it come to this, that an American is
compelled to argue such a point with
Americans?

(19.)

NO. VIII.

Claim of the Foreigner to equal rights
with Native Citizens, on the ground of the
declared principles of the Government,
shown to be groundless.

I Exposed, in my last, the ridiculous and
presumptuous demand made in behalf of
foreigners, to privileges SUPERIOR to
native Americans, on the ground of a
newly discovered species of merit, to wit:
that BIRTH PLACE BEING AN
ACCIDENT, FOREIGNERS WHO
COME TO THIS COUNTRY HAVE
MADE FREEDOM THEIR CHOICE,
WHILE NATIVE AMERICANS, by being
born in a free country, HAD NO CHOICE
IN THE MATTER, and consequently the
former were entitled to privileges
SUPERIOR TO NATIVES.

Truly I have bestowed TOO MUCH,
in bestowing ANY notice on such a
preposterous argument; were it not for the
fact that it appears seriously to be advanced,
and seems actually made the foundation of
those efforts of foreigners in their various
mysterious organizations among us, and
which now admit of an easy explanation.

They really act on the principle that it is their
RIGHT not merely to receive hospitality at
our hands, not merely to be promoted to
EQUAL rights, but in very deed to seize
those SUPERIOR PRIVILEGES of ruling
this land, because they have made freedom
their choice, and come so far to enjoy it.

They have doubtless chosen a mode
of MAKING FREE, quite original
in this country, which only needs the
ACQUIESCENCE of Americans, and a
little further encouragement, to make it a
very grand and successful experiment.

I have my doubts, however, whether
Americans can be persuaded to allow that
any foreigners in this country have better
claims to rule than they themselves.

At any rate, they are not in the habit
generally of acknowledging SUPERIOR
claims.

A claim on the part of foreigners to the
privileges of our institutions on EQUAL
terms, is however set up, with more show
of plausibility, based as is pretended on the
NATURAL RIGHTS of man, as declared
in the PRINCIPLES OF OUR
GOVERNMENT.

That such a claim is utterly without
foundation, I believe I can satisfactorily
show.

The Foreigner, when he arrives on these
shores, finds a great insulated community;
a large family, separated from all others;
independent; each individual of which is
bound to the general mass, and the general
mass to each individual, in certain mutual
and well settled relations.

The foreigner presents himself at the door,
and claims to be admitted into this community,
and to EQUAL rights with the rest of the
family.

On what ground?

Why, on that of his NATURAL RIGHTS,
as set forth in our
Declaration of Independence.

He quotes it, and says,
"all men are created equal,"

"they are endowed with certain unalienable
rights, among these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."

"I am a man, and therefore am entitled,
according to your own showing, to equality,
and my unalienable rights."

Thus the question seems to him
unanswerably settled.

Let us examine the matter.

The first inquiry respects the meaning of
these phrases.

If there should be any diversity of opinion as
to WHAT THEY DO MEAN, there can at
least be no difficulty in ascertaining what they
DO NOT MEAN, which is sufficient to meet
the exigencies of this question.

It is very clear then that congress, in the
Declaration of Independence, did not mean
to allow of ANY SUCH CONSTRUCTION
OF THAT INSTRUMENT IN REGARD
TO ABSTRACT EQUALITY, AS
SHOULD IN EFFECT BE DIRECTLY
SUBVERSIVE OF INDEPENDENCE.

They did not mean to allow of ANY
CONSTRUCTION THAT MUST OF
NECESSITY DESTROY THE COMMON
RIGHTS OF SOCIETY.

They certainly did not mean by equality
THAT THE MINORITY SHOULD BE
SUPERIOR OR EQUAL TO THE
MAJORITY.

They did not mean to sanction such a use of
life, liberty, and means of happiness in a single
individual, or a SMALLER PART of the
community, as should destroy or endanger the
lives, liberties, or means of happiness of the
WHOLE community.

These points are clear, and they at once
settle the question as to the right of foreigners
who come to our shores and demand to be
admitted into the community on EQUAL
terms, and plead as their warrant, the
DECLARED ABSTRACT PRINCIPLES
OF THE GOVERNMENT.

If we are indeed an independent nation, we
surely have a right to regulate all
ADMISSION INTO the nation.

What is the meaning of INDEPENDENCE
as applied to a State, or community?

It is an existence separate from all others,
a disallowance of all foreign interference
or control in its affairs.

(20.)

By independence, a State or community wins
a right to arrange its own affairs, in its own
way; not only to regulate its internal polity,
among its own members, but to determine
whether it will or will not admit others from
foreign communities into the family; and if it
chooses to admit them, on what terms they
may come.

Independence includes more; it includes the
right to expel from the State or community,
any and all whom it may think uncongenial to
its system, or who disturb, or are even likely
to disturb its peace.

These are the broad and common sense
principles included in independence, principles
on which not only the general government
uniformly acts, but which are recognized in
the daily practice of every State, and every
municipal government, in every public and
private association, nay, even in every family
throughout the country.

They are principles of liberty to consult each
its own happiness independently; liberty to
admit or expel from its own body those whom
it will, restricted alone in all, by the paramount
regulations of the whole body of which each
of these communities large or small are but a
part.

The Naturalization Laws themselves rest on
this basis of independence, --

on this admitted right of an independent
community to expel from, or to admit or
refuse admission into its boundaries.

Again, if a foreigner can come into the
country, and claim equal privileges by virtue
of the right which he says is granted him in
the declaration, that
"all men are created equal,"
then there is no hindrance to his claiming a
right on the same ground to obtrude himself
into a private association or club, yes, even
into our family circles!

What principle prevents !

Such a construction then, not only
annihilates independence, but is subversive
of the commonest rights of society, and was
therefore manifestly never intended by the
organizers of our government.

The foreigner, then, has no claim, grounded
on the principles of independence, to any
participation whatever in any of the
privileges of the country.

And now, what is the position of a foreigner
who prefers such a claim?

Precisely the position in which a stranger to
your family would be placed, who comes to
your door and insists on entering, and making
as free with your house and family, and all it
contains, as yourself; and on the ground that
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

And what would be a foreigner's chance of
obtaining from the American people a claim
thus presumptuously preferred?

He would have an equal chance with the
stranger in the supposed case of your private
family.

He would probably be delt with in both cases
very much alike.

What a sense of justice to your family, and
self-respect, would prompt you to do as
master of your own house in the latter case,
it is fair to infer would be done, and would be
right to do in the former.

NO. IX.

Claims of the Foreigner to equal rights with
Native Citizens, on the ground of abstract
natural rights, shown to be groundless.

If the foreigner's claim to SUPERIOR
privileges!! over native citizens, is rejected as
ridiculous and presumptuous; if his claims to
EQUAL privileges, by virtue of the principles
of our government, which declare
"all men are created equal," are also proved
groundless, he has no claim on the ground of
his NATURAL RIGHTS abstractly
considered, which being rights by nature are
therefore supposed TO TAKE
PRECEDENCE of any acts of government.

This is the only remaining ground on which
the slightest shadow of claim can be set up.

If I can, therefore, dispose of this, I shall
put the foreigner, so far as the argument is
concerned, where public opinion will probably
ere long, if it has not already, put him, AT
THE MERCY OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE TO DISPOSE OF AS THEY IN
THEIR GOOD PLEASURE SHALL SEE
FIT; to admit him into the country on just such
condition as they will be pleased to prescribe,
or to refuse him admittance, or to send him out
of the country if the safety of the community
shall seem to them to require the measure.

(21.)

I would suggest to
the memories of my readers the truth that the
AMERICAN PEOPLE posses ABSOLUTE
SOVEREIGNTY, a truth which seems to be
quite forgotten, not alone by the foreigner,
but by some who call themselves Americans.

Much is said and written just now of
NATURAL RIGHTS.

What is meant by NATURAL RIGHTS?

Strictly they mean the rights belonging to man
in a state of nature; that is, in his insulated
state, unconnected with any other human
being.

They are called also ABSOLUTE rights.

They are privileges properly belonging to
him while ALONE.

I find in Chancellor Kent's 24th lecture, this
passage, "the absolute rights of individuals
may be resolved into the right of personal
security, the right of personal liberty, and
the right to acquire and enjoy property."

This proposition I cannot help thinking is
demonstratively illogical, and indefinite.

Absolute rights had just been defined, by the
same distinguished jurist, to be "such as
belong to individuals in a SINGLE
UNCONNECTED STATE."

Let us imagine such an insulated individual;
Adam, for example, before another human
being was created. --

What were his absolute or natural rights?

Can they not be condensed into the SINGLE
RIGHT TO MAKE HIMSELF AS HAPPY
AS HE CAN, CONSISTENT WITH THE
LAWS OF HIS CREATION; and if so,
what grounds are there for the distinctions,
as applied to an INSULATED human being,
RIGHT OF PERSONAL SECURITY, since
there is no one to threaten his life; RIGHT
OF PERSONAL LIBERTY, since there is no
one to take it away; or RIGHT TO
ACQUIRE AND ENJOY PROPERTY, since
there is no one to dispute his claim to every
thing, and any thing in the world ?

It is clear that these distinctions cannot be
logically predicated of man in his
INSULATED state.

The natural rights of man then are properly
summed up in a SINGLE RIGHT; that of
making himself as happy as he can,
consistently with the laws of his creation.

This same original natural right to make
himself happy belongs to every man
individually, but only on the supposition that
each individual is entirely separate from all
others, that each and every man is a hermit,
absolutely cut off from all communication
with any other of his species, and shut up in
a world of his own.

For the moment two or more men are
brought on to the same domain, and into
society with each other, it is perfectly
manifest that every thing in relation to
right is completely changed.

A SOCIAL STATE has commenced,
SOCIAL DUTIES are introduced, the
SELFISH PRINCIPLE inherent in
NATURAL RIGHT is, as a governing
principle, banished, the natural right of
each to make himself happy, is restricted,
as a matter of course, by the equal and
similar right of his neighbor; and a new
principle must now be introduced as the
governing principle, to prevent the
conflicting rights of those thus brought
together into society from producing
litigation, and the final annihilation, or
subjugation of all but one.

Now, what is this principle?
It is that of SOCIAL COMPROMISE.

Each one in society, in order to constitute
society, must of necessity surrender his
PROPER INDEPENDENCE, each one
must consent to YIELD SO MUCH OF
HIS NATURAL RIGHT TO BE HAPPY
EXCLUSIVELY; must consent to such an
EXPANSION of the right to happiness as
shall embrace all in that society, whether it
be composed of but two individuals, or
hundreds or millions; as many, in short, as
can consult together, and maintain their
united independence.

And here, true Democratic government,
the government of the people begins,
founded on the basis of
SOCIAL COMPROMISE;
a compromise by which the NATURAL
right of each individual has been mutually
restricted to produce the greater blessings
of SOCIAL right.

If NATURAL RIGHTS then are now
insisted upon, it is evident that they can no
longer be demanded in their original
UNLIMITED sense; they must ever be
limited by the restrictions which society by
power and authority conceded to it, in its
formation, for the purpose of promoting the
"greatest happiness of the greatest number
for the longest time," has imposed on the
original right.

In short, NATURAL RIGHT,
which is the right of THE ONE,
has yielded to SOCIAL RIGHT,
which is the right of THE MANY.

Social right is consequently SUPERIOR to
natural right, inasmuch as it can justly
abridge natural right.

This I think is clear; and it is the democratic
principle of the right of the MAJORITY
over the MINORITY.

Let us follow out this principle.

As members of society increase, growing up
from families, they form into smaller, and then
into larger communities, until the whole earth
is filled.

(22.)

Now if two or more of these smaller
communities combine into a larger
community, and can maintain a social
existence independent of others, the
SOCIAL RIGHT of the larger body
is superior to, and controls the social right
of the smaller bodies within its boundaries.

This surrender of a portion of social right
on the part of the smaller communities is
a necessary to form a larger state, as the
surrender of natural right in the first
instance, in order to form society at all.

So that, as the NATURAL RIGHT
of individuals was yielded in the first
instance to social right, so the social right
of the smaller communities is in their turn
yielded to the superior right of the larger.

Thus nations, when justly and naturally
formed, have their root in the right of the
people to consult their own happiness even
on the broadest and most extended scale of
society, the majority always controlling, by
conceded right, the minority.

Among those larger states into which
the world is formed, our Republic, these
United States, alone acknowledges this
basis of society.

It has its distinct, separate place as an
independent community, possessing exclusive
control within its boundaries of all the interests
of the lesser communities of which the whole
Republic is composed.

It fought and won its battle of independence,
and maintains as yet its independent
existence.

If this reasoning is correct, what becomes
of the claim set up by foreigners, and their
advocates, to EQUAL privileges with native
citizens IN THIS COUNTRY?

On what principle do they mean to defend it?

What are the differences in the
circumstances of the native citizen and the
foreigner?

The NATIVE CITIZEN is, BY HIS
BIRTH, a member of this independent
community.

He was born under its laws, and in the
enjoyment of the liberty left by those who
won it as a legacy to their children.

It is the peculiar birthright of Americans, to
have a greater share in the management of
their own government than any other people
whatever possess in theirs.

The FOREIGNER, on the contrary,
BY HIS BIRTH belongs to another country,
to a separate, independent community.

He never has belonged to this Republic in
any way.

The very question in debate is, how can he
become a member of this Republic?

He has never had the same rights bestowed
upon him in any country, as he acquires in
being a citizen in this.

What right of admission can he claim?
Is it by NATURAL RIGHT?

But natural right is in this country controlled
by SOCIAL RIGHT.

No man here resists successfully the rights
of the majority by his individual claim of
natural right.

And the social rights of the smaller
communities are controlled by the superior
rights of the larger, and these again by the
paramount right of the great state which
includes all the others.

There is here no place for the claim of the
foreigner to admission on any terms into the
Republic.

Thus we come at last, by the deductions of
sound reason, to a conclusion coinciding with
the uniform practice of the government from
its foundation; the conclusion that the people
by the voice of their government may grant
permission to enter the country, or withhold
permission, and may prescribe their own
conditions as they may think EXPEDIENT,
and without violating the rights natural or
acquired of any human being.

To show that these are the principles of the
government, I need only quote some other
phrases of the preamble to the Constitution
of the United States.

"WE, THE PEOPLE
of the United States, in order to form
a more perfect union, establish justice,
insure DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY,
provide for the COMMON DEFENSE,
promote the GENERAL WELFARE, and
secure THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY,
DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH," &c.

The Declaration of Independence
also proclaims kindred sentiments,
"To secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, DERIVING THEIR
JUST POWER FROM THE CONSENT OF
THE GOVERNED.

Whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, IT IS THE RIGHT
OF THE PEOPLE to alter or to abolish it,
and to substitute a new government, laying
the foundation on such principles, and
organizing its power IN SUCH FORM, AS
TO THEM WILL SEEM MOST LIKELY
TO EFFECT THEIR SAFETY AND
HAPPINESS."

The sophistry therefore that would deduce a
claim for the foreigner from natural rights, is
exposed.

Neither natural rights,
nor social right, nor any other right, nor any
legitimate deductions from the principles or
practice of the government give him the
slightest claim, even personally to enter upon
the territory of the United States, much less
to prefer a claim to share in the administration
of its affairs.

(23.)

If he comes at all, it is BY PERMISSION; if
he stays, it is BY PERMISSION; if he has
any privileges in this country, they are
granted him BY PERMISSION of the people
speaking through their official organs; and this
people CAN REFUSE HIM PERMISSION
TO COME, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE,
CAN DENY HIM LEAVE TO STAY, CAN
TEMPORARILY WITHHOLD, or
ENTIRELY ABOLISH ALL PRIVILEGES
GRANTED HIM, AND SEND HIM OUT
OF THE COUNTRY, CAN TAKE AWAY
HIS LIBERTY, YES, AND EVEN HIS
LIFE, if they shall judge any of these
measures necessary "TO INSURE
DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY," to provide
for the COMMON DEFENSE, "to promote
the GENERAL WELFARE, OR TO
SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
TO OURSELVES AND OUR
POSTERITY."

What sound reason sanctions, and the
principles of our government sanction, is
sanctioned also by common sense.

Let me illustrate it by a recurrence to the
case of the stranger and your own family.

If a stranger should present himself at your
door, and request ever so civilly to become
one of the family, you would scarcely be
persuaded by any sophistry that you violated
any of his RIGHTS NATURAL or SOCIAL,
or of any other character, if you refused his
request altogether, at your pleasure; or
prescribed to him on what terms he might
come, if you acceded to his request; or
turned him out of doors, if he behaved
himself disorderly, and endangered the
comfort or happiness of your family.

NO. X.

The injury done to Foreigners by the
introduction of Jesuits into the country. --

The censures upon Foreigners collectively,
qualified --

Suspicion must nevertheless rest on all. --

Foreign conspiracy is at work, and its designs
must be inquired into, and arrested. --

The danger is real and imminent. --

The entrance of Foreigners into the country
should be guarded with strong barriers. --

It will doubtless appear to most intelligent
Americans, especially those of them who have
not been much in contact with the population
of our great cities, that I might have spared
myself, and my readers, some time in seriously
combating the claim of STRANGERS, of
FOREIGNERS in the country, to any rights or
privileges in it, except such as are granted by
the GRACIOUS PERMISSION, (to borrow
from abroad an appropriate phrase,) of the
SOVEREIGN of these United States, namely
THE PEOPLE.

Few, out of the great cities, are aware what
sophistry has of late been spread among the
more ignorant class of foreigners, to induce
them to clan together, and to assert what
they are pleased to call their rights.

The ridiculous claim to superior privileges
over native citizens, which I have noticed, is
a specimen; one of many, in which Jesuit
sophistry is at work to keep the slaves of
superstition and ignorance still bound in their
chains.

A witty sophism, like the one to which
I have alluded, operates on the minds of this
degraded multitude with the weight that the
most substantial truth possesses upon the
intelligent mind.

It is proper
therefore to draw attention to it for
many reasons; one of the most important
of which, is to show to the American
community, to what dangers they would be
exposed, were that general intelligence
among the people to become extinct, which
is necessary to detect and expose the subtle
machinations of Jesuit conspirators.

Jesuitism is full of expedients of the kind
I have alluded to, and as we have Jesuits
avowedly, and systematically, and diligently at
work in our society, in the pay and interest of
foreign powers, we ought to be watchful of
all their movements.

There are no greater enemies of
the emigrant population than these
Holy Alliance emissaries.

Already have they done them irreparable
injury.

Already are witnessed the fruits of their
disorganizing efforts.

Already has the influence of bad councils led
the deluded emigrant, particularly, the Irish
emigrant, to adopt such a course as to
alienate from him the American people.

(24.)

Emigrants have been induced
to prefer such arrogant claims, they have
nurtured their foreign feelings and their
foreign nationality to such a degree, and
manifested such a determination to create
and strengthen a separate and a foreign
interest, that the American people can
endure it no longer, and a direct hostile
interest is now in array against them.

This is an effect natural from such a cause;
it is one long ago predicted in the hope of
averting the evil.

If evil is the consequence, the writer at least
washes his hands of the guilt.

The name and character of foreigner
has, by this conduct of emigrants and their
advocates, become odious, and the public
voice is becoming louder and louder, and it
will increase to unanimity, or at least so far as
real American feeling pervades the hearts of
Americans, until its language will be intelligible
and audible even to those deaf ears, who now
affect neither to hear, nor to heed it.

When I say that the name of foreigner has
become odious, I speak of a fact, not in
approval of a fact.

No one more than the writer can
lament the apparent, (for it is only apparent,)
indiscriminate censure of innocent and guilty
together, which is unavoidable in combating
an evil of this magnitude and character; he
has no fears that the severity of any strictures
which truth compels him to make upon
FOREIGNERS COLLECTIVELY, will give
umbrage to a single intelligent and really
naturalized citizen.

For such a citizen,
if he has been long a citizen,
must be fully as conscious as
the writer, that the habitual and
almost TIME-SANCTIONED abuses
of naturalization, have now reached an
important and most dangerous crisis.

The naturalized citizen who conducts
consistently, who has become an American
in reality, and not merely by profession, is not
touched by any censure of mine.

Neither is the foreigner who is temporarily or
officially here; he is professedly an alien, and
meddles not (at least legally,) with our politics.

It is that anomalous, nondescript,
hermaphrodite, Jesuit thing, neither
foreigner nor native, yet a moiety of each,
now one, now the other, both or neither, as
circumstances suit, against whom I war; a
naturalized FOREIGNER, not a naturalized
CITIZEN; a man who from Ireland or
France, or Germany or other foreign lands,
renounces his native country and adopts
America, professes to become an American,
and still, being received and sworn to be a
citizen, talks, (for example,) of Ireland as
"his home," as "his beloved country," resents
any thing said against the Irish as said against
him, glories in being Irish, forms and
cherishes an Irish interest, brings hither Irish
local feuds, and forgets, in short, all his new
obligations as an American, and retains both
a name and a feeling and a practice in regard
to his adopted country at war with propriety,
with decency, with gratitude, and with true
patriotism.

I hold no parlay with such contradictions as
Irish fellow-citizens, French fellow-citizens,
or German fellow-citizens.

With as much consistency might we say
FOREIGN NATIVES, or
HOSTILE FRIENDS.

But the present is no time either for
compliment or nice discrimination.

When the country is invaded by an army, it is
not the moment to indulge in pity toward the
deluded soldiers of the various hostile corps,
who act as they are commanded by their
superior officers.

It is then no time to make distinctions
among the officers, lest we injure those who
are involuntarily fighting against us, or who
may be friends in the enemy's camp.

The first thing is to bring the whole army to
unconditional surrender, and when they have
laid down their arms in a body, and
acknowledged our sovereignty, then good
fellowship, and courtesy, and pity will have
leisure to indulge in discriminating friends
from foes, and in showing to each their
respective and appropriate sympathies.

We have now to resist the MOMENTOUS
evil that threatens us from FOREIGN
CONSPIRACY.

The CONSPIRATORS are in the FOREIGN
IMPORTATIONS.

Innocent
and guilty are brought over together.
We must of necessity suspect them all.

That we are most seriously endangered,
admits not of the slightest doubt; we are
experiencing the natural reaction of European
upon American principles, and it is infatuation,
it is madness not to see it, not to guard against
it.

A subtle attack is making upon us by foreign
powers.

The proofs are as strong as the nature of the
case allows.

They have been adduced again and again,
and they have not only been uncontradicted,
but silently acquiesced in, and have acquired
fresh confirmation by every day's
observation.

(25.)

The arbitrary governments of Europe, --
those governments who keep the people
in the most abject obedience at the point of
the bayonet, with Austria at their head, have
combined to attack us in every vulnerable
point that the nation exposes to their assault.

They are impelled by self-preservation to
attempt our destruction, --
they must destroy democracy.

It is with them a case of life and death, --
they must succeed or perish.

If they do not overthrow American liberty,
American liberty will overthrow their
despotism.

They know this fact well.
They have declared it.

They are acting in accordance with their
convictions, and declarations, and they are
acting wisely.

They have already sent their chains, and oh!
to our shame be it be spoken, are fastening
them upon a SLEEPING victim.

Americans, you are marked for their
prey, not by foreign bayonets, but BY
WEAPONS SURER OF EFFECTING
THE CONQUEST OF LIBERTY than
all the munitions of physical combat in the
military or navel storehouses of Europe.

Will you not awake to the apprehension of the
reality and extent of your danger?

Will you be longer deceived by the pensioned
Jesuits, who having surrounded your press,
are now using it all over the country to stifle
the cries of danger, and lull your fears by
attributing your alarm to a false cause?

Up! Up!
I beseech you.
Awake!
To your posts!
Let the tocsin sound from Maine to Louisiana.

Fly to protect the vulnerable places of your
Constitution and Laws.

Place your guards; you will need them and
quickly too.--
And first, shut your gates.

Shut the open gates.
The very first step of safety is here.
It is the beginning of defense.

Your enemies, in the guise of friends, by
thousands, are at this moment rushing in to
your ruin through the open portals of
NATURALIZATION.

Stop them, or you are lost, irrevocably lost.
The first battle is here at the gates.
Concentrate here.

And be sure your enemy will here show his
strength; you here can test his force or his
existence, if you indeed doubt his existence.

He will dispute this entrance inch by inch.

Already is he alarmed, already has he set in
motion his troops to resist.

Will you despise the cry of danger?
Well, be it so.

Believe the foreign Jesuit rather than your
own countrymen.

Open wide your doors.
Yes, throw down your walls.
Invite, nay allure, your enemies.

Enlarge your alms houses and your prisons;
be not sparing of your money; complain not of
the outrages in your streets, nor the burden of
your taxes.

You will be repaid in praises of your
toleration and liberality.

What though European despots have
compelled you to be the nurses of their halt,
and blind, and naked, and the keepers of their
criminals; what though they have compelled
you to the necessity of employing your lives
in toiling and providing for their outcast poor,
and have caused you to be vexed, and your
habits outraged by the expatriated turbulence
of their cities, instead of allowing you to
rejoice in the prosperity, and happiness,
and peaceful neighborhood of your own
well-provided, well-instructed children.

Have you no reward?

Oh, yes; your country is filling with a noble
foreign population, all friends of liberty, all
undoubted Democrats, taught in the school
of Democratic Europe, accustomed to
huzza with one voice for liberty, and under
the guidance of Jesuit leaders well trained;
far-famed, long tried friends of Democracy;
and to make assurance doubly sure, selected
with the greatest care by Austria's
Democratic Emperor, and Rome's
Democratic Pope, who will watch them with
jealous eyes, and if not faithful in
UPHOLDING DEMOCRACY, will deprive
them of their stipulated wages, and recall
them home, to receive their merited
punishment --
an Archbishop's see, or a Cardinal's hat.

Democracy is safe with such keepers.
The country is in no danger.
Sleep on.

(26.)

NO. XI.

The imperious necessity of a change in the
Naturalization Laws. --

The dangers from the alarming increase and
present character of foreign immigration. --

The political changes in Europe double the
dangers to the country from foreign immigration. --

The test of the existence and strength of the
conspiracy in the country, and the first step in
the defense against it. --

The propriety, nay, the imperious necessity of
a change in the Naturalization Laws, is the
point to which it is indispensable to the safety
of the country, that the attention of
Americans, as a whole people, should at this
moment be concentrated.

It is a national question, not only separate
from, but SUPERIOR to all others.

All other questions which divide the nation,
are peculiarly of a domestic character; they
relate to matters between American and
American.

Whether the BANK SYSTEM is, or is not,
adverse to our democratic institutions;
whether INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT is
constitutionally entrusted to the management
of the general government, or reserved to the
states respectively; whether MONOPOLIES
of any kind are just or unjust; whether the
RIGHT OF INSTRUCTING representatives
is to be allowed or resisted; whether THE
HIGH OFFICES of the nation are safest
administered by these or by those citizens;
all these, and many kindred questions, are
entirely of a domestic character, to be
settled between ourselves, in the just
democratic mode, by majority, by the
prevailing voice of the American people
declared through the BALLOT BOX.

But the question of NATURALIZATION,
the question whether FOREIGNERS, NOT
YET ARRIVED, shall or shall not be
admitted to the American right of balloting, is
a matter in which the American people are, in
a certain sense, on one side, as the original
and exclusive possessors of the privilege, and
foreigners of the other, as petitioners for a
participation in that privilege; for the privilege
of expressing their opinion upon, and assisting
to decide all the other questions I have
enumerated.

It is, therefore, a question separate and
SUPERIOR to all these.

It is a fundamental question; it effects the
very foundation of our institutions, it bears
directly and vitally on the PRINCIPLE OF
THE BALLOT itself, that principle which
decides the gravest questions of policy
among Americans, nay, which can decide the
very existence of the government, or can
change its form at any moment.

And surely this vital principle is amply
protected from injury?

To secure this point, every means which a
people jealous of their liberties could devise
was doubtless gathered about it for its
preservation?

It is not guarded.
Be astonished, Americans, at the oversight!

The mere statement of the provisions of the
Naturalization Law, is sufficient, one would
think, to startle any American who reflects at
all.

FIVE YEARS' RESIDENCE GIVES THE
FOREIGNER, WHATEVER BE HIS
CONDITION OR CHARACTER THIS
MOST SACRED PRIVILEGE OF
ASSISTING TO CONTROL, AND
ACTUALLY OF CONTROLLING
(THERE IS NOT A GUARD TO
PREVENT,) ALL THE DOMESTIC
INTERESTS OF AMERICA.

A simple
FIVE YEARS' RESIDENCE,
allows any foreigner, (no matter what his
character, whether friend or enemy of
freedom, whether an exile from proscription,
or a pensioned Jesuit, commissioned to serve
the interests of Imperial Despots,) to handle
this "LOCK OF OUR STRENGTH."

How came it to pass?

How is it possible that so vital a point as
the ballot box was not constitutionally
surrounded with double, ay, with treble
guards?

How is it that this HEART of
DEMOCRACY was left so exposed; yes;
this very HEART of the body politic, in which,
in periodical pulsations, the opinions of the
people meet, to go forth again as law to the
extremities of the nation; this HEART left so
absolutely without protection, that the
murderous eye of Imperial Despots across the
deep, can, not only watch it in all its
movements, but they are invited from its very
nakedness, to reach out their hands to stab it.

The figure is not too strong; their blow is
aimed, now, whilst I write, at the very heart
of our institutions.

How is it that none of our sagacious
statesmen foresaw this danger to the republic
through the unprotected ballot box?

It was foreseen.

It did not escape the prophetic eye of
Jefferson.

He foresaw, and from the beginning foretold
the evil, and uttered his warning voice.

MR. JEFFERSON DENOUNCED THE
ENCOURAGEMENT OF EMIGRATION.

(27.)

And, oh ! consistency, where is your blush?
he who is now urging Jefferson's own
recommendation on this vital point, is
condemned by some who call themselves
Jeffersonian democrats; by some journalists
who in one column profess Jeffersonian
principles, while in the next they denounce
both the principles and policy of Jefferson,
and (with what semblance of consistency let
them show if they can) defend a great
political evil, against which Jefferson left his
written protest.

It may be convenient, for purposes best
known to themselves, for such journalists to
desert their democratic principles, while
loudly professing still to hold them; but the
people, who are neither blind nor deaf, will
soon perceive whose cause is most
consistent with that great apostle of
democratic liberty.

Do they ask, would you defend
Mr. Jefferson's opinions when they are
wrong? --

I answer, prove them to be wrong, and I will
desert them.

Truth and justice are superior to all men.

I advocate Jefferson's opinions, but not
because they are Jefferson's but because his
opinions are in accordance with truth and
sound policy. --

Let me show that Mr. Jefferson's opinions in
relation to emigration are proved by
experience to be sound.

What were the circumstances of the country
when laws so favorable to the foreigner were
passed to induce him to emigrate and settle in
this country?

The answer is obvious.
Our early history explains it.

In our national infancy we needed the
strength of NUMBERS.

Powerful nations, to whom we were
accessible by fleets, and consequently also by
armies, threatened us.

Our land had been the theater of contests
between French, and English, and Spanish
armies for more than a century.

Our numbers were so few and so scattered,
that as a people we could not unite to repel
aggression.

The war of Independence, too, had wasted
us.

We wanted NUMERICAL STRENGTH;
we felt our weakness in numbers.

SAFETY, then, national SAFETY, was the
motive which urged us to use every effort to
increase our population, and to induce a
foreign emigration.

The foreigners seemed all important, and the
policy of alluring them hither, too palpable to
be opposed successfully even by
remonstrance's of Jefferson.

We could be benefited by the emigrants, and
we in return could bestow on them a gift
beyond price, by simply making them citizens.

Manifest as this advantage seemed in the
increase of our numerical strength,
Mr. Jefferson looked beyond the advantage
of the moment, and saw the distant evil.

His reasoning already quoted in a former
number, will bear to be repeated.

"I beg leave," says Mr. Jefferson,
"to propose a doubt.

The present desire of America is to produce
rapid population by as great importations of
foreigners as possible.

But is this founded in good policy?

THE ADVANTAGE PROPOSED, IS THE
MULTIPLICATION OF NUMBERS.

But are their no inconveniences to be thrown
into the scale against the advantage expected
from a multiplication of numbers by the
importation of foreigners?

Is it not for the happiness of those united in
society to harmonize as much as possible in
matters which they must of necessity transact
together?

"Civil government being the sole object of
forming societies, its administration must be
conducted by common consent.

Every species of government has its specific
principles.

Ours, perhaps, are more peculiar than those
of any other in the universe.

It is a composition of the freest principles of
the English constitution, with others derived
from natural right and natural reason.

To these nothing can be more opposed that
the maxims of absolute monarchies.

Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest
number of emigrants.

THEY WILL BRING WITH THEM THE
PRINCIPLES OF THE GOVERNMENTS
THEY LEAVE, IMBIBED IN THEIR
EARLY YOUTH; OR, IF ABLE TO
THROW THEM OFF, IT WILL BE IN
EXCHANGE FOR AN UNBOUNDED
LICENTIOUSNESS, passing, as is usual,
from one extreme to another.

It would be a miracle were they to stop
precisely at the point of temperate liberty.

These principles, with their language, they will
transmit to their children.

IN PROPORTION TO THEIR NUMBERS,
THEY WILL SHARE WITH US THE
LEGISLATION.

THEY WILL INFUSE INTO IT THEIR
SPIRIT, WARP AND BIAS ITS
DIRECTIONS, AND RENDER IT A
HETEROGENEOUS, INCOHERENT
MASS."

"I may appeal to experience, for a verification
of these conjectures.

But if they be not CERTAIN IN EVENT,
are they not POSSIBLE, ARE THEY NOT
PROBABLE?

(28.)

Is it not safer to wait with patience --
for the attainment of any degree of population
desired or expected?

May not our government be more
homogeneous, more peaceable, more
durable?"

He asks, what would be the condition of
France if twenty millions of Americans were
suddenly imported into that kingdom ?

And adds --
"If it would be MORE TURBULENT, less
happy, less strong, we may believe that the
addition of HALF A MILLION OF
FOREIGNERS would produce a SIMILAR
EFFECT HERE.

If they come of themselves, they are entitled
to all the rights of citizenship; BUT I
DOUBT THE EXPEDIENCY OF
INVITING THEM BY
EXTRAORDINARY
ENCOURAGEMENTS."

Now, if under the most favorable
circumstances for the country, when it could
be most benefited, when numbers were most
urgently needed, Mr. Jefferson could discover
the evil afar off, and protest against
encouraging foreign immigration, how much
more is the measure now to be deprecated,
when circumstances have so entirely changed,
that instead of ADDING STRENGTH to the
country, immigration ADDS WEAKNESS,
weakness physical and moral!

And what overwhelming force does
Mr. Jefferson's reasoning acquire, by the
vast change of circumstances which has
taken place both in Europe and in this
country, in our earlier and in our later
condition.--

THEN we were few, feeble, and scattered.

NOW we are numerous, strong, and
concentrated.

THEN our accessions by immigration were
real accessions of strength from the ranks of
the learned and the good, from the
enlightened mechanic and artisan, and
intelligent husbandmen.

NOW immigration is the accession of
weakness, from the ignorant and the vicious,
or priest-ridden slaves of Ireland and
Germany, or the outcast tenants of the
poorhouses and prisons of Europe.

And again.

THEN our beautiful system of government
had not been unfolded to the world to the
terror of tyrants; the rising brightness of
American Democracy was not yet so far
above the horizon as to wake their slumbering
anxieties, or more than to gleam faintly, in
hope, upon their enslaved subjects.

THEN Emigration was natural, it was an
attraction of affinities, it was an attraction of
liberty to liberty.

Emigrants were the proscribed for
conscience' sake, and for opinion's sake, the
real lovers of liberty, Europe's loss and our
gain.

NOW American Democracy is denounced by
name by foreign despots, waked with its
increasing brilliancy.

Its splendor dazzles them.

It alarms them, for it shows their slaves their
chains.

And it must be extinguished.

NOW emigration is changed ; naturalization
has become the door of entrance not alone to
the ever welcome lovers of liberty, but also
for the priest-ridden troops of the
Holy Alliance, with their Jesuit officers well
skilled in all the arts of darkness.

Now emigrants are selected for a service to
their tyrants, and by their tyrants; not for their
affinity to liberty, but for their mental
servitude, and their docility in obeying the
orders of their priests.

They are transported in thousands, nay, in
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, to our
shores, to our loss and Europe's gain.

It may be, Americans, that you still doubt the
EXISTENCE of a conspiracy, and the reality
of the danger from Foreign Combination; or,
if the attempt is made, you yet doubt the
POWER of any such secret intrigue in your
society.

Do you wish to test its existence and its
power?

It is easy to apply the test.

TEST IT BY ATTEMPTING A CHANGE
IN THE NATURALIZATION LAW.

Take the ground that such a change must be
made, that NO FOREIGNER WHO COMES
INTO THE COUNTRY AFTER THE LAW
IS PASSED SHALL EVER BE ALLOWED
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.

Stand firmly to this single point, and you will
soon discover where the enemy is, and the
tactics he employs.

This is the spear of Ithurial.
Apply its point.

You will find your enemy, though now squat
like a toad fast by the ear of our confidence,
suddenly roused to show his infernal origin.

Look a moment at the proposition.

You will perceive that in its very nature there
is nothing to excite the opposition of a single
citizen, native or naturalized, in the whole
country, PROVIDED, be it distinctly born in
mind, THAT HE IS NOT IMPLICATED IN
THE CONSPIRACY.

(29.)

This prohibition, in the proposed change of the
law, it is evident, touches not in any way the
NATIVE AMERICAN, nor does it touch in
the slightest degree the already granted
privileges of the NATURALIZED CITIZEN,
nor the FOREIGNER NOW IN THE
COUNTRY, who is waiting to be naturalized,
nor even THE FOREIGNER ON HIS WAY
HITHER; no, NOT AN INDIVIDUAL in the
whole country is unfavorably affected by the
provisions of such a law, not an individual
EXCEPT ALONE THE FOREIGN JESUIT,
THE AUSTRIAN STIPENDIARY WITH
HIS INTRIGUING MYRMIDONS.

And how is he affected by it!

He is deprived of his PASSIVE
OBEDIENCE forces; he can no longer use
his power over his slaves, TO INTERFERE
IN OUR POLITICAL CONCERNS; he can
no longer use in his Austrian master's service;
and he therefore, be assured, will resist with
all the desperation of a detected brigand.

He will raise an outcry.

He will fill the public ear with cries of
INTOLERANCE.

He will call the measure religious bigotry, and
illiberality, and religious persecution, and other
popular catchwords, to deceive the
unreflecting ear.

But, be not deceived; when you hear him, set
your mark upon him.

That is the man.
Try then this test.

Again, I say, let the proposition be that the
law of the land be so changed, that NO
FOREIGNER WHO COMES INTO THE
COUNTRY AFTER THE LAW IS
PASSED WILL EVER BE ENTITLED TO
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.

This is just ground ; it is practicable ground; it
is defensible ground, and it is safe and prudent
ground; and I cannot better close than the
words of Mr. Jefferson :
"The time to guard against corruption and
tyranny is BEFORE they will have gotten
hold on us; IT IS BETTER TO KEEP THE
WOLF OUT OF THE FOLD, THAN TO
TRUST TO DRAWING HIS TEETH AND
TALONS AFTER HE HAS ENTERED."

(30.)

APPENDIX :

SEE *NOTE : Page (15.)

(31. and 32.)

PRESENTED AS : PROLOG

PDF LINK :
Imminent dangers to the free institutions of the
United States through foreign immigration, and
the present state of the naturalization laws:
a series of numbers originally published in the
New York journal of commerce in 1835.
New York : [s.n.],1854.;
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
32pg PDF;
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/outsidelink.html/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:892166
ANOTHER PDF LINK TO TRY :
Washington in the lap of Rome (1888)
Justin Dewey, Fulton 1828-1901
http://www.archive.org/details/washingtoninthel00fultuoft