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48 THE KNOW NOTHING ALMANAC 5 |
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Meee te a et er eternity mig
Tue Kxow Notuincs or 1787.—There is
an old document, not reverenced so much
now as formerly, which, nevertheless, em-
bodics.a system of Government the best
that man has yet devised. We mean the
Constitution of the United States. When it
was adopted, and signed by one Groran
WASHINGTON, who presided over the body of
‘delegates that framed it, it was regarded as
liberal in its provisions as it was wise and
comprehensive in its general scope.
The Constitution exacts and prescribes
such conditions as the following:
- No person except a natural born
citizen or «w citizen of the United States
(in 1787) shall be eligible to the office of
President—That he must have. been four-
teen years a resident within the United
States. (Art. 2, Sec. 5.)
2d. The Vice-President of the United
States must have the same qualifications as
the President, » (Art. 12, Sec. 8.)
3d. No person shall be a Representative
in Congress not 25 years of age, “and been
seven years citizen of the United States.”
Art. 1, Sec. 2. (A man may have been 4
years in the country, but if he has not been
an citizen 7 years, he cannot be in Con-
gress.)
4th. ‘“*No person shall be a Senator who
shall not have attained the age of thirty
years, and been nine years a citizen of the
United States.”
Sth, The Commander-in-Chief of the Army
and Navy of the United States, and of the
Militia of the several States, must be a na-
tive-born American citizen. (Art. 2, Sec. 2.)
6th. This native-born citizen of the United
States, the President, can alone make Trea-
ties—by and with the advice of Senators,
who must have been citizens nine years.
(Art. 2, Sec. 2.)
Thus, in 1787, our constitutional fathers
reserved to an American-born citizen the
Executive power of the United States, and
proscribed from its halls of Congress all
Senators’ not citizens nine years, and all
Representatives not citizens seven years,
Thus,’ too, it reserved the Army and Navy
of the United States—the sword of author-
ity—and the high treaty-making power,
that is, all its intercourse with foreign na-
tions, to a native-born citizen, to the utter
exclusion of foreigners.
It is well the Fathers of the Republic do
not live in these “latter days.” Their de-
scendants who are actuated by their senti-
ments, and governed by a spirit kindred to
tnat which actuated them, are stigmatized
as ‘‘ Hindoos,”’ and are in danger of being
butchered at elections !
Tnz ReEoorp.—BiLoce.ey ALMsnouss,
PHILADELPHIA.—Total population of the
House, August 4th, amounted to 1908, and
to the Ist of July :—
Americans, . e . e 6
Colored Persons, 7 6 . tie
FOREIGNERS, . . . - 18021
HEAR LEWIS CASS ON
ROMANISM.
Trr Hon, Lewis Cass made a speech in
the Senate of the United States in May 1854,
and which can now be found in the Con-
gressional Globe, 33d Congress, 1st Session,
pages 681 to 690, wherein he takes strong
ground against Romanism. General Cass,
after giving the barbarous treatment of Pro-
testants in many Roman Catholic countries,
on this and the other side of the Atlantic,
concludes as follows:
“And does Archbishop Ifughes believe
that all these abuses are destined to con-
tinue, untouched and unchanged? / That.
they will much longer resist the mighty tide
of public opinion, which has already done
so much in these our latter days, and is
fated to do so much more? And are the
representatives of the American people to
lay their hands on their mouths, and mouths
in the dust, to look on and see the persecu-
tions and oppressions to which their country-
men are exposed abroad, and not even
express their displeasure and their demands?
And all from an affectation of national
decorum, national squeamishness, it should
be called, which is so tender to the pre-
sumption of others as to sacrifice our own
true rights and honor,
Ofgicers of the Grand National Council
of the Patrivie Order known as “ Know
Nothings.”
Hon. E. B. Bartiett, of Kentucky,
President.
C. D. Desuten, of New Jersey,
Corresponding Secretary.
James M. StepuEns, of Maryland,
Recording Secretary.
0. U. A.
Oficers of the Arch Chancery, U.S.
J. Broom,. . . . ALG.S.
J.B. CLEAVELAND,. <A. G. Ist 0.
R. CuanneL, . . . A. G, 2d
BE. B. Dearrorn, . A. G. O. of the 0.
H. 8, Bancker, . . A.G.C. 0.
W. Hunt, . . 2.0. AGE. O.
J.H. Purpy,. . . G.G.C. of EL
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Tuz Hoy. J. T. Hrapiey received the
nomination for Secretary of State at the
hands of the American party in September
last. His independent course while in the
N. Y. State Legislature, has subjected him
to the resentment of the Roman Catholics
and their Seward associates, whose opposi-
tion will be manifested at the ballot box.
Mr. Headley is the talented author of * The
Sacred Mountains,” ‘ Washington and his:
Generals,” “* Napoleon and bis Generals,”
&c., &e.
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