The Morning Star. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 703, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1844 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MORNING STAR.
France on account of theassassintion of Sentmanat and
Houston, Thursday, Sept. 5, I *4 1.
nish their several quotas:
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30,000
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awakening
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MR. Editor,—
rr latesto foreigners beirg permuted by the < onstitution to
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urging the importance of extending the time of admission i
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and mice it in future for
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These few plain facis and suggestions are made, with
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ral strength” &c.
on our coasts, on
revolutionary labors, let us barter away our country and
it
21«
8,200
4,000
3 800
Mexico,
Jalisco,
Puebla,
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of th
to the rights of suffrage from 5 to 10, 15 or 21 years.—
And yet a public journal here thinks it would not be con-
be in possession of all civil and political power
have •
eftce.”
Oajaca,
Michoaean,
Vera Cruz,
Durango,
‘Chihuahua,
Sinaloa.
ion
ult
which doubt pushing on this people to the war with
Texas; although I believe that Santa Anna goes into the
(For the Star)
MATAGORDA, August 20. 1814
to perceive that th- subject altracted
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Can any one point out to me any other country except
this, where S foreigner, even without a dollars worth of
caused the greatest disturbances in the l;nm d Siate.s, and
juasuchus are now coming and being seut intoqurooun-
You have been plased to publish that part of my burr
aldresse ; to theHon R J Walk, r of Misissippi, which
general interest to the country, we shall always be glad
to hear from a writer whose essavs bear such marks of
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intelligence, and whose opinions may illustrate some of
the most important subjects of our future fegislation.f
in connectibn with the Naturalization law ofthiscoun.
,o gland has openly declared by h
jn Affairs (Aberdehn) that she is
NATVRALIZATION. — We publish to day ah article up-
on the propriety of extending the time required for admit-
ting foreigners to the polls We have already made some
reflections upon this subject, and ate glad to see that it is
er Mister of For
i drier,mm* d to use
pi and its tributarie bas bee rstimat l at 5000 00 ba * ,
and yet the Picayune - iys there is a prorpre i that ti> ag
1/1 A corre spondent of the N O. Republican says that n
J serious difficulty is likely to arise between Mexico and
jectsome reflection, it surely is an important one in our
present condition, and if it requires altering it cannot be
too soon. Yours very respectfully.
their persons and property as thost who bav be i n born
and taised in the country
j form of government < ninety different fom this. for by
wealth, and speculation from the increase in the value of i
our lands, seems to exclude all regard to the security or I’
when we
munication seems to differ with "Publicola" in regard to
making a distinction I tween native citizens of the United
sistent with the “largest liberty” or the “freedom of
thought” to require more than 6 months. It is even con-
sidered "fettering the free dom of thought” to require, in
addition to the oath of allegiance, that foreigners shall
not overthrow our servile institutions. The same journal
says that this policy of the United States, in extending the
term of Natoralization will ‘turn in upon Texas this over*
flowing population of the old world, by thousands and
uns of thousands, to increase our physical power and mo-
g ene rally .so good, may lead many to suppose that the
naturalization clause is good also; but I am persunded, tamed to bestow f >r a bai> subsistance, in this country they
your attention,and elicited a few Ve ry appropriae remarks
I may possibly attach mote importance to this subject
than it deserves, but really it does appear to me to be one
of the first magnitude, if it be desirable to perpetuate the
institutions and form of Govetnment under which we live
and have been reared
it is very easy to account for so mistaken a policy in the 11 accordcome to better their pecuniary condition, and that
framers of the Constitution, and that instrument being indugement is amply sofficient to bring as many as wt
neg desire With halt the lalor they have been accts
country. Various petitions were presented to the last
permanency of our institutions. _ ______
ence are the legitimate fruits, and full compensation for II petitions have been sent toCongress for many years to
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he not prove it on Bishop Eangland (the Bishopot Charles-
ton) nd the B shopof Baltimore? and has not the same
fact been recently established against Biship Hugb s <
A strbog Democratic Resolution at a Barbecue in
many it is not deemed a want of patriotism to sell a vote
■ to the highest bidder. My r* marks a** of course ipt nd* d
Ho apply to the lower order of society, just suh as have
I crease the time. Such petitions were nu
J than the last session Ar that body, and probably -------
libertia in strangers and have to our descendants the I have been acted upo but for the want of time allen iheir
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$ to direct’he a ion of that holy. they bav only
dure into four S- natorinl Districts this vear enou m
a general interest. The writer of this com-
character We
iis revolutionary tendency be felt here ? The term of ad-
mission tothe rights of citizenship there, is ten times as
long as it is here ; and the evil in this country must be
greater in that proportion. Again, this foreign influence
must bear some proportion to the number of native and
Texas. If “the State, Church, Police and Judiciari/,1'
"Wep
er the ac
i I the same . lividunls into four or eve n thh <
other Districts, and they have a majority in th* Sinate
It thrse pt ople are brought hete and seule l at th* will ol
th ir superiorsopon whontih , ari dependent, the i
• be moved about from one Dutt ict to another with perfee t
facility Bit then it is not probable that this w II I
nerese ry, for it is a very easy matter to seed a number
s ifiiont to obtain thecontrob pg influ inice wh 1 • erad
wherever desired. ‘
ir subjerts to control th'- four « I ctione, and the u
reflect upon the history of other nations, the pe /would render themselves not only more comtoria le, but
towards the United/ in a very few years periectly,easy and inde pendent, each
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MEXIc—Sinta Anni see ms still to be urging on the
compose the army has been promulgated by the Secrets- but things go.on heuvily, and I feel persuaded that they
ry of War, and the respective governors of departments will get to blows among thethselves, before they do with
are urged by every consideration of honor and duty to fur- ! the I exits. I am satisfied in my own mind that Sinta '
CRQrs —We are informed that the crop of corn on the
Caney is “very goodand that cotton up to the 20th nl-
timo was as good ns"the present mode of cjillbre car
make it, and sufficiently for ward." 16 that region it has
been unusually healthy.
cy q Mississippi can give Polk and Dallas ten THoUs
AXD MAJORIY ; Resolved, That they ought to do it; '
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Grom clearly prove that the Catholic Bishops and Prirsts
controled their members (loreigners) inelectgns} Did
try, we give our readers some extracts from an essay in
the North American Review for January, 18.35. on,the (
influence of Immigration The remarks are strictly ap-
and hidesthe ir “ominished heads
The loss of cotton by the late overfow of the M
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publish is
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which an J
an agent
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his wish I
tionary to
to which!
Accor
gence, M
Joaquin N
tepreter,
dared in
ofthe Ua
ers on me
with that
before the,
deemed as
action on
relations c
lies; thad
tn this pr
gregale crop will be greul r by several thousand bule
this year, than-the last
in ast and West Fe liciuna e tton is sprouting in the
there are subject to be modified in character and admin is* Il,,g . c
J ‘ boils from the excess of rain-*.
tration by this foreign influence, how much more must ,------------
I have never heard it suggested, that thie t* rm of ns,
dence required lin the United Siutes had prevented a sin
>[ naturalized inhabitants. In the United Stales the popu-
lation is nearly two hundred fold more than ours; and
must present a portionably greater resistance to this revo-
lutionary power upon their domestic institutions. If then
the danger there, was so manifest nearly tin years ago,
as to require the interposition of legislation by State au-
• thority, and otherwise, for the preservation of "Stair,
Church, Police and Judiciary'' who will say that we
require no similar security when the same danger exists
with a magnitude more than a thousand fold greater?—
The immigration even to the city of New York in one
of whom foughhrough the Rt volution, ana some be came
permanent ciylzens; n ne of whomever conplainrd of
being deniyd the privilege of voting, (so far as history
relates ) /
ThefActis, that those who come here of their own
I is indispensible for our own safeyand happiness
The Constitution has made a very wide difference be- .
tween slaves brought from the United States and other
_______ ■ countries, and yet no one has complained or thought their
Th*- prospect of sudden power and i rights violated if we make this distinction in a black
11 population, it is difficult to perceive the impropriety in
making a distinction in the white, at least in the privi
-g r leges of citizenship The United States require five years
if great riches and afflu- residence before a foreigner is permitted to vote, and still,
, a new sectn Religion has been
plicable to our present situation. The acknowledged
danger in the United States has no comparison, to the
overwhelming power of this influx of population upon
• I* his followers (ineluding Frenchmen) at Tobasco, which he
thinks will result inevitably in blows. “Great efforts he
New York. The n if they are so easily influenced by
their clergymen, dot s it require any stretch of trie imag-
ination to suppose that lb* V c;m be as easily influenced by
those who may bring them here for that express pupos 2
See hoid’ easy a matter it would be to control our Si nate.
That body is compos< d of twelve individuals, (bt sides the
Vice Pr< sid in) four of whom a re, elect’d eac h year. La t
ts soppose i hat it is de sirable : it am Lo l- Dkisand
Guauahuato, 3,000
Sau Luis Potesi, 1,800
Zacatecas, 1,600
Queretafo, 600
Extract from the North American Reruy:
«We have been too keenly engrossed by the task of
counting our rapidly multiplying millions, properly and
adequately to appreciate the influence of those multitudes
which the old world is daily pouring u
our political institutions or our socia
have looked exclusively to the bright vision of future pow-
Uongress ror many years w in- . er and predominance; andlit is only when some overbur;
itionswere numerous no longer l! dened parish hass disgorged irour sen-porsits ocensional
»l body and ArObabIy would) cargo of vice and pauperism, that we have bern roused 10
ask ourselyes the question, whether every addition io oar
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full access to the ballot box- after six months resid- gl toreigner from imnygrating th re I. did not prever '
] such me n as L Fayylte, Koscit sko. De K tlb, Count Pu-
laski and numerou other highly distinguish’d individu-
als from joining ip the struggle for Indeprndener, many
proposed invasion. Gen. Ampudia is appoint d to the says, aremaking by Government to be furnishediby Con-
Command The following apportionment of soldiers to 1 gress with the funds demanded for the war with Texas,
That they ought to di, ■: ty,by the'thousands
- • \ nodland has nnen
Resolved, That th- y will do it.” " /eig
* Tey di jk gm to the amount of £20,000,000 annual- “every lawful means in her power to abolish Slavery
ly in England and Waite । throughout, the world” 'She considrred it a 'lawful.
' “Abolition or disunion” was the inscription upon one means '3 induce Mexico, to acknowledge our Inde prn-
Of the barn^s at .........., Mass . carried inthe Proces8 may deen it lawful means’ to send , n ough of hef smplus.
celebrating the West India Emancipation’on the 2nd wretch* d population here io accomplish the object through
* .-g ’ the ballot box It. is decidedly to the interest of England
L . ■ Fremonand cotponyarrivedon the 5th July' to abolish Slavery upon this coutinent. and whatever is to
•. ' . her interest to do she makes great efforts', to accomplish
at St Louis fromn Chihuahua, passing through Santa Ee and generally succeeds As to herphilan(bropy in this
on the 2d June. They bronght $80,000 in specie, be - mnatter we are not so pee feet ly green As to believe a word
aides a -few packsof robes and furs. olVtyetshebas induced many to enlist in it, bolp in Eng-
t ----------— . ----—— : land and the United States, whp have good intentions lol
States and others Thereas ' nessofsuchd • on i Tur CoTroX i nor - witsthe blacks..
mny be unqinestionable, and yet its policy doubtful— / ins.a v, . 10, d the. on pl nt in Alabamn, to run tovc dome may say that after these peop l. < ome hete they
Prompt nd immediate action is necessary; not adniuting wted and thrw offthe a yuares s uperndded to this the / lo act nnd rote, forihmseles I would
of the delay required for amending the onstitution. The worm in m mny places hns comneneed its accustomed ha v* equally as free. In the canvass forith. Presidency b/
remedial provisions suggested by Publicola - %,c The crop do, s not by any means promise lobe an t weenGen. Harrison and Mr. Van Buien.did n nGen. /
the most practicable, nnd best calculated to meet the emor- ‘ average go od one ”
gendy ; provided they are effectual. On this subject, Us . ' * ------——
well as Free Trade, and other matters of immediate and - In Covington, Conn
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form'd, called “The Living Dead." It was organized
by a young lady who, while under the influence of an
opiat . die *i apd w. utto H nven asshe said She re it
ed for adveires, and is believed. The Picayune says
"Mormovism and Millerism" might as well ‘snake it,"
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after five years residence, where too, there is no probabili. ,
ty that they can attain an ascendency in thecouncilsof the
bation. What may we not dread with our little pop la-
tion, where it would be so easy a matter from the short
residence required, to control not only our eltctiuis, but
subvert the very government we have been so long strug- i
gling to build up and sustain.
Why have the people in the Nogthern and Eastern
cities been induced to form "Native American socivties?
Look at the recent disgraceful scenes in the one* quiet
and peaceable city of Philadelphia. Similar occurrences
were high being acted out in th*- city of Ne w York, and:
such things upon a smaller scale have been occumg tor
years. *
year, would absolutely overwhelm this country; and a culiur position which we occupy _
very small portion of it once directed to our shores, would . States, England, France and Mexico; th* somewhat up- of them owning mote land andothri prop- ity then a score
settled state of affairs in our own organization, the unpre- of them would acquire in the satu time where they come
in -38 cedented effort now making, both in Europe and Amer ica, from; besides which they are just as much protected in
for the Abolition of Slavery, we cannot but prrcenve th*.
Congress of the United States from the North and South prodenceand propriety of managing our own affifs Let
■ me here remark,, that I do not design opposing the settle-
ment of the country, not even by Europeans I am glad'.
hear of industrious laboring people coming into it, property is granted th* ri.htol suftge nftet six monihs
they serve to increase the wealth of the nation and of indi- residence? If they can and that Gov rnme ut has pros-
viduals, nor am I oppos’d to granting the privileges of pered. let us set aside our foime r patte in (the U. States,)
citizenship after a short residence to such emigrant's
have been raised under a government and institutions
similar to our own. I mean the native born citizens from the hope, that some of our law makers may give the sub-
the United States; for in justice to ourselvis and to them
a difference is due and should be made, which distinction
can be made without infringing the rights of any one, end
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Washington, Mississippi.—“Resolved, That the Democra-
Now suppose this privilege of voting wasdenitd th< m
! altogether, are tiny any wots*- hE than befor they camel
| here? No indeed, for it is a pri ilege that but few of
them ever had or ever thought or t care d to have, B” ad.,
mit that they void in their country, they voted yoder a
Anna, will very shortly rise up and overthrow the Con
2,000 ’ gress". H " .
1.980 ! "The prospect of internal difficulties will no doubt be
1,000 a matter of disappointment to the British government,
690
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