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OR, TRUE AMERICANS’ MANUAL. A7
manner, and kicking him and knocking out
one of his teeth. They detained a tally-ticket
for him in the liberal committee room; he
refused to take it into his hand, and it was
thrust into his breast. Ie was then brought
into the booth, but he objected to vote, on
the ground that he had been kept under
constraint; after sitting some time in the
court-house, he was enabled, with the aid of
a gentleman named Gaffney, to return to
his home.
‘“‘ Now let it be borne in mind, that these
outlaws are the electors of Ireland, and
claimed as the respectable, responsible, and
intelligent portion of the population.
they prostitute the ballot-box at home, what
iniy we expect from the less intelligent and
‘more reckless, who flock to our shores by
thousands? Americans, our only safety is
in a total repeal of the Naturalization
Tnx“ Berrer Crrizens” my 1814.—It seems
that the Irish were troublesome to our peo-
ple, as long ago as the year 1814, and were
not unfrequently denounced as such by thé
pres’ of those days. <A friend has handed
us a copy of the Herald of Liberty, pub-
lished at Augusta, Me., bearing date of
April 80, 1814. Speaking of the envoys sent
4o Gottenburg to negotiate peace with Great
Britain, it says, in a letter dated Washing-
ton, April 12:
“The Administration are sick of their in-
fatuated predilection for ALIENS. They find
that among the very first to denounce and
blackguard them are the United Irish, and
naturalized renegade vipers, to save whose
necks from halters they have involved the
American people in a bloody and unholy
war. Whenever any measure displeases
these licensed calumniators, they are as in-
solent and vituperous: against government
as they are mean and fawning when they
are pleased. It is known to Mr. Madison,
who has American feeling, that at a late
meeting of the Tammany savage Society in
New York, a motion was made to denounce
him, a la mode de Robespierre, for his
message to Congress for ‘the repeal of the
Etnbargo law; and that it was negatived
only by-a small majority. This society is
principally made up of the jawces of the
sewers of Ireland, &c. Iam confident the
President would consent to the introduction
of any article in a treaty of peace which
should interdict every species of naturaliza-
tion; for he knows it to be a fact, ‘that
these aliens have been the great cause of
our troubles and disgrace; and until the
country is rid of them, it will foster serpents
in its bosom.’ .
That’s what they said of them forty years
ago, and the experience of that time has
not improved them in the estimation of the
people.
ORDER OF
UNITED AMERICANS.
List of Officers for the year 1856.
N.Y. STATE CHANOERY.
Granp Sacnem.—F. 0. Wagner, of Jasper, +
No, 85.
Granp Finst Cumr.—J. 0. HWelme, of Con-
tinental, No. 12. .
Granp Srconp Ounr—E, J. Knight, of
Tronsides, No. 47.
Grand O. O.—-L. A. Oolin, of Wayne,
No. 52.
Grayp ©. or Tur 0.—H. 8. Bancker, of
Pavonia, No. 82...
Granp F. 0.—J. J. Shelly, of Nathan Mall,
No. 72.
Graxp O. or tur E.—J. J. Dickinson, of
Alpha, No. 1.
Granp 8. or A.—T. P, Healy, of Empire,
No. 55.
Graxp Exrcotive. Commitren.—D. D.
Conover, of American Flag, No. 84; F. M.
Butler, of Union, No. 4D; G. H. Raymond,
of Manhattan, No.4; A.O. Page of Warren,
No. 8. :
Graxp RrpresenTaTIVE TO THR Ancit
Cuancery or Tug Unitrp Sratrs.—W. W.
Osborn, of Washington, No. 2. .
—
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
4. AmpricA. AND AMmnicans before all.
- @, The Guardianship of American” Inter-
ests—Agricultural, Mechanical, Naval, Sci-
entific, Literary, Mining, &c. .
8. The Amplest Protection to the Indus-
trial Classes.
' 4, The establishment of a sound, healthy,
and. patriotic Nationality. — Distinctively
AMERICAN.
5. A pure system of Common School Edu-
cation.
G. America in the care of her children.
et
Tin Prriscirtn op Srir-Derexcr.— We
advocate the passage of laws imposing upon
all foreigners coming hither for purposes
of permanent residence, a capitation tax,
sufficiently large to prevent the excessive
influx of the vicious and pauper linmigrants,
and that-we do it‘as a matter of self-de-
fence. : !
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