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BY CEO. W. BOWIIA\.

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HOME, DEAR HOME.Where burns the loved hearth brightest,

Cheering the social breast ?

Where beats the loud heart lightest,Its humble hope possessed;

Where is the smile of darkness,Of meek-eyed patience born,

Worth more than those of gladness,Which mirth's bright cheek adorn ?

Pleasure is marked by fleetness,To those whoever roam;

While grief itself has sweetness

At home I dear home !

There I end the ties that strengthenOur hearts in hours of grief;

The silver links that lengthenJoy's visits when most brief;

There eyes in all their splendor,Are vocal to the heart,

And glances, gay or tender,Fre-h eloquence impart;

Then, dost thou sigh tor pleasure,O ! do not widely roam,

Tut seek that hidden treasure

At home ! dear home !

Does pure religion charm theeFar more than aught below f

Wotdd'st thou that she should arm theeAgainst the hour of woe !

Think not she dvvelleth onlyIn temple- of prayer;

For home itself is lonely,Unless her smile- be there;

The devotee may falter,The bigot blindly roam,

Ifworship less her altarAt home ! dear home !

Love over it presideth,With rr.eek and watchful awe,

Its daily service guideth.And shows it- perfect law !

If,there thy faith shall fail thee,Ifthere no shrine he found.

What ran thy prayers avail theeWith kneeling crowds around f

Go ! leave thy gift ntiofferedBeneath religion's dome,

Arid be thy first fruits profler'dAt home! dear home!

OF

Tin: STATE CENTRA!. COMMITTEE.

To THE FEon.r. OF PHVXSYLVANIA :

Fdliiiv Citizens: ?The State Central Com-mittee appointed by the Democratic.conventionwhich assembled i.i Harrisburg, in March last,have thought it their duty to address you onthe present aspect of politioa! affairs.

The opponents of the Democratic party and?of Democratic policy (we scarcely know at thismoment by what name to call them) have, forpurposes connected with the approaching elec-tion, made another of those sudden changes of?altitude which have so often heretofore tarnish-ed the political character of their leaders, anddissatisfied the people. They have run through?tln-ir VvFTole list of public measures. One alter

the other their principles have been condemnedby the public voice and abandoned by them-selves. A National Dank, ahout which they

\u25a0once threatened revolution, is an "obsolete?idea." The Independent Treasury, whichthey denounced so fiercely, is no longer deniedto he the safest and best mode ofkeeping anddisbursing the public revenues. Their Bank-rtipt Law is delivered over, with their full con-sent, to the infamy it deserves. We hear nomore from them ahout expunging the veto pow-er from the constitution. The thunders o!

alarm against the annexation of Texas are si-lent. Their execrations of the Mexican Warand the barren State ofCalifornia, are no longerheard. "The tariff of IS4-2" is erased fromtheir banners and omitted in their speeches.?They seem to he ashamed (as certainly theyought to be) of their predictions thai the coun-trv would be ruined and the treasury madebankrupt by the tariffof IS-tfi. Even theGal-phins of the last administration have retired to

the quiet shades ofobscutity, content to gorge

rtheir plunder in silence, without defending themeans bv which it was acquired.

It might naturally be supposed, from such un-toward circumstances, that these politicianswould cease their war upon the party of thepeople, when their formerly avowed principlesand measures were thus abandoned. Alterkeeping the country in a commotion for somany years, by contending for measures and

views which they now tacitly admit to be eith-er false or hopeless, it would seem that dissolu-tion was the only thing left for them. But thenatural enemies of republicanism and equalitycan never be idle. The interested and ambitiousdemagogue never quit his trade. Theycan at least get local offices by stirring up strifeamong the people, and this they seem ready to

do, as passing events abundantly verify.We do not deny that the masses of the party

opposed to us are honest, sound and true heart-ed citizens, who desire nothing but that thehonor and interests of their Country may bepromoted and perpetuated. It is their sincereprejudices against the Democracy, or their longhabits ofobedience to party discipline whichkeeps them where they are: but we confidentlytrust that the time has now come, when theywill break the trammels which have heretoforebound them, and join thg Democratic party in

a cordial support of the laws and the Constitu-tion.

Previous to the last presidential election, theorgans, orators and leaders of the party, then cal-ling itself Whig, had exhausted their list ofparty doctrines. Every issue had been settledagainst them. But they are seldom at a loss forsome temporary subterfuge, and on that occasionihey betook themselves to a most uisreputable

expedient. They exerted all their power and iinfluence to excite the anger, hatred and jeal-ousy of the Catholics and naturalized voters a-gainst the Democratic party and its candidates.Immediately upon (Jen. Pierce's nomination,they denounced him as a bigoted Protestant,who, if elected, would use his power to preventCatholics from having their just rights. A re-striction in the Constitution of New Hampshireagainst this sect of people, was charged on himas a high political offence. Certificates fromCatholics in his own neighborhood, declaringthat he was hostile to them flooded the country?and the sanctity of the Post office was violatedfor the purpose of circulating these documentsalong with the religious papers read by personsofthat faith. On the other hand, Gen. Scottwas held upas a man for whom Catholics, a-bove all others, ought to vote. Ifhe was nota member ofthat church himself, it was urgedthat his family were, and his daughter had,with his consent, gone into a convent. Neverbefore was so hold and shameless an effort madeto rouse religious prejudices for political purpo-ses. Sensible men of all parties, sects andclasses, were deeply offended at this unblushingsystem of endeavoring to carry an election bysectarian appeals.

Still more humiliating than this, if possible,was the flattery bestowed upon their adoptedfellow citizens. From the aged and distinguish-ed soldier who was their candidate for President,down to the most obscure and inefficient of theirspeakers and writers, all professed a becomingzeal for the rights of foreigners. According totheir statements made then, all persons of for-eign birth had been or were about to be greatlymisus.ed by the Democracy and they wereurged, exhorted and warned to trust ri 'bodyhut their true friends, the Whigs. Even thedialect spoken by foreigners was referred to asbeing superior to the vernacular languagewhich the native born citizen used. The "richIrish brogue" was music to their ears, and the"sweet German accent" was the subject of ex-travant eulogy."

These facts, fellow citizens, are fresh in y< orrecollection. But would you believe it, that thesame politicians who were preaching this sectar-ian crusade against the Democracy, less than

two years ago, and who did all that in them lay,to excite the jealousy of adopted citizens againstnative born Americans, have recently espousedthe doctrine of prescript ion against all citizensnot native horn ofwhatever religious faith, andare said to he in close alliance with a secretand oath hoiind association which projioses topunish men for conscience sake. In Philadel-phia the newly elected Mayor has boldly declar-

ed this doctrine of proscription. That this is amere political manouivr 1 on the pait ol the \\ bigleaders may he confidently affirmed. That it is

a heartless attempt to make a political use of re-ligions prejudices, in which they themselves do

not participate, no one can doubt. Ascertainedfacts, past and present, make it perfectly appar-ent, that these same politicians, if they couldsecure votes by it, would again flatter the Cath-

olics and be the champions of the rights ol ouradopted fellow citizens.

It may he asked, how shall the Democracy-meet the issues thus presented ? We answer,just as the they have met all the other false andanti-republican doctrines oi the enemies of pop-ular rights, bv the power of truth, by the force

of reason and argument appealing to th" con-science of the people. This mingling of reli- 1gious and political elements cannot be appro- jved or endorsed by a free and libemf people inthis age and in this country. They who thinkso, must be credulous and .shoit sighted indeed.

In IS")", the Democracy asked no more thanequal justice for Protestants, and now \Vhtn theWhigs have changed their ground, we will de-mand but common and constitutional right foradopted citizens of whatever religious beliefthey may happen to be. This has ever been

the creed of tile Democratic party, as it has

ever been the policy oJ this government. Theyrecognize no peculiar rights in any sect or class,but have only sought to maintain the just rightsof all, and to bestow distinction and honor asthe reward of individual merit. The constitu-tion and the law?the great principles ofequali-ty which the people of this country, native horn

and those of foreign birth, fought and hied for?-freedom of conscience, which no Americanchristian would take from his fellow man?jus-tice to all and special favors to none?this is'the platform of the Democracy. From thishigh elevation, let us look down calmly uponthe inqxirtant struggle of those who come in con-flict with these principles. Ours is the cause of

our country, of liberty and true religion, whichcan only flourish in its purity where ail are per-mitted to worship as they think right.

We are fully persuaded that the people ofthis State are true ami will remain true to the

principles of civil and religious liberty, whichwere established by the revolution. Their wholehistory from The first settlement of this provincedown to the vote at the last Presidential elec-tion, is calculated to inspire every reflectingman with confidence in their good sense and pa-triotism. How much and why the principles

I of universal toleration are and ought to he valu-ed, need not he enforced by argument on thispoint. The history ofthe world for two cen-turies is replete with incidents demonstratingthe wisdom of tiiis doctrine.

Religions toleration may he looked upon asthe fruitful parent of the infant colonies?andthe rights of conscience and of worshiping Godaccording to its dictates, may he considered thestone of oiir republican institutions. The Puri-tans and Catholics ofEngland and the Hngonotsof France fled from the persecutions of religiousintolerance at home, to the wrldsofthis West-ern world, in order that they might enjoy t hatliberty here which was denied them in the landof their birth. This land lias been the land a-bove all others of religious and political toleia-tion?a toleration of nil sects and creeds somuch in harmony with our republican institu-tions. It is true that here and there at the ear-ly settlement of the colonies, a contrary spirit

Freedom of Thought and Opinion. TERIttS, S2 PER YEAR.

BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1834. VOL. XXII, NO. 51.

more dangerous and unjust ground is assumed.Its practical workings are to be retrospective.?It proposes to take from citizens the civil rightswhich they have already acquired under theconstitution, by organizing a power to subvertthat instrument. It is an attempt to settio apolicy not recognized in any law of this coun-try, that hereafter no man born crutofthe coun-try shall hold a civil office under the govern-ment?no matter that he has come here uponthe faith of the laws of the land?llo matterhow good his character: how effective his abili-ties: how thorough his education: or how num-erous his virtues?no matter how devoted hisattachments to the constitution; nor how ortho-dox his religion?no matter though he has suf-fered and bled for his adopted country. Withsuch we are to have no political communion?-we must not listen to their advice nor employthem in the public service. The standard ofhonesty and capacity is to be overlooked?andthe circumstance of birth, and birth alone mustdecide who shall fill the offices of the govern-ment.

Here is a disfranchisement ofthe most obnoxi-ous character. The alien and sedition lawswere passed under the administration of the el-der Adams in tile height of the insolence of fed-eral domination. But they were laws, whilehere is a similar policy without the sanction oflaw, secret in its operations, tyrannical, un-just and cruel in its results. It is in effect, anadministration of the alien law of black cockadefederalism, without the courage to place it onthe statute book. Its spirit, essence and designare the same.

The Constitution of the Fnited States autho-

rises Congress to pass uniform laws of naturali-zation. It also provides that Congress shallmake no law respecting an establishment of re-ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof:and that no religious test shall ever he requiredas a qualification for'any office or public trustunder the United States.

The constitution of Pennsylvania is evenmore emphatic. It declares that all men havea natural and indefeasible right to worship Al-mighty God according to the dictates of theirown consciences?that 110 man can, of right, becorbelled to attend, erect, or support any placeof worship, or to maintain any ministry, againsthis consent ?that 110 human authority can, inany case whatever, control or interfere with therights of conscience?that no preference shallever be given by law, to any religious establish-ments or modes of worship?and that no personwho acknowledges the being of a God and afuture state ofrewards and punishments, shall,on account of his religious sentiments, he dis-qualified to hold any office or place of trust orprofit under this Common wealth.

thv fabric of bythe patriots ofthe revolution, rv ' lo understoodwhat liberty, true liberty, meant, and who pe-rilled "their lives, their fortunes, and their sa-cred honor," in its maintenance. Are we todo away with this noble feature of our govern-ment by indirection, and establish a test notknown to our constitution and laws, hut antag-onistical to both, and which ran only lead to

political and religious intolerance ?

But treating the question as one merely ofpolicy, without regard to constitutional right,has not this liberal feature ot our governmentthus early commenced and sanctioned by time,been attended with the happiest results in thedevelopment of the resources and strengtheningthe arm of the nation'! Why should this liber-al policy be now rudely and harshly broken upand abandoned ??or why should we be h-ssgenerous now when liberal and progressive ideasin all other respects are warmly cherished as

peculiarly American '? We are aware that we

tnav be pointed to the vices and excesses of anignorant and destitute population, who comeinto our country unprepared in some respectsfor the proper enjoyment of its institutions. Weare free to admit that individuals abuse theblessings of our government, but this is true ofall native as well as foreign?and surely is noreason for changing the policy of the govern-ment, lor imposing new conditions upon adopt-ed citizens, or for punishing the just equallywith the unjust.

Indeed it is difficult, when examining thissubject to say who are the most benefitted bv aninflux of foreign population. Our own historywould show that much of our prosperity andrapid advance to national greatness, has beenaccelerated by the talents, energy and produc-tive industry of those of foreign birth. Thedebt of gratitde is at least not all on their side.Have we forgotten the distinguished aid ofadopted citizens and foreigners, in our revolu-tionary struggle ? Have we forgotten the chiv-alrous" services of La Fayette, Montgomery,DeKalb, Kosciusco and others like them but of

less renown, who perilled life and property inour behalf, and in behalf of the cause of libertyand sound republican ideas? Did they not risk

their lives and s~hed their blood for that cause

and for this people ? Have not the labors andthe toils of the adopted citizens, who havepoured into this country in a steady and con-stant stream, made much of our previously un-

cultivated lands bloom and blossom as the rose?Have they not felled the forest, subdued therude and unbroken soil, constructed our rail-roads and canals, and largely extended our in-ternal commerce and the bounds of culture andcivilization 1 Are there not to be found amongthem as well as among native born citizens,men of exalted worth, brilliant talents, tow-

erm<r genius, who have given us their valuable

services, in all the useful and ennobling pur-suits and profes>ions of life, and from amongwhom the ranks of our artists, statesmen and or-ators have been adorned. Is it wis.-, that all

these and such as these, shall he disfranchised,proscribed on account oftheir foreign birth, aiui

persecuted for their religious opinions? Havewe nothing to lose by such a policy f

But how is this policy to be administered .how is this new test to be applied ? and bywhom ? Secretlv and without warning, bysecret, midnight political associations, bound to-

gether by extrajudicial oaths, to do that which

cnu4>£ nothing else in effect, morally, than con-structive treason to the government. Theythus attempt to do, under the clouds of thenight, and by secret political combinations whatthey would be ashamed to propose in the lightofday and before the world.

Secret political societies, fellow citizens,however commendable in design at the outsfart,must soon degenerate into engines of tyrannyanient rage. The Jacobin clubs of the Frenchrevolution, headed bv Danfon, Murat andbespierre, made the nation tremble for its exist-ence, while France became drunken with hor-rid crimes, assassination and murder. What pro-tection can the mass of peaceable citizens haveagatnst their secret councils and insidious attacks?Conspiracies and secret combinations againstthe body politic, or the political rights of largeclasses of citizens, are as odious in the eye of themoralist, as conspiracies against the privaterights of the citizen are odious in the eye of thelaw. One offence is political and the other pen-al, but there is little if any difference in the?fr-ad* 1 of criminality. Roth are founded in sel-fishness and disregard of the rights ofothers.

We have heard much tn days gone by inPennsylvania, from large bodies of our people,in opposition to Secret societies of a purely char-itable and benevolent character, having no po-litical policy or purpose in view. How muchmore should that opposition extend to secret as-sociations formed for political purposes alone,and for political purposes having for their objectthe disfranchisement on account of the religiousviews of a portion of our citizens.

Secret societies fornwd for political purposes,the great and good Washington warned us

against it in his farewell address to his country-men. How well he portrays their evils in thefollowing paragraph.

"However combinations or associations of the*above description may now and then answerpopular ends, they are likely, in the course oftime and things, to become potent engines bywhich cunning, ambitious and unprincipledmen will he enabled to subvert the power of thepeople, and tn usurp for themselves the reignsof government, destroying afterwards the veryengines which lifted them to the unjust domin-ion."

The secret political societies of Washington'sflay, were formed to promote liberty, not toabridge and destroy it: and yet even these hereprobated and condemned. How much morewould he dread those of recent organization,which seem intended to destroy the rights of alarge portion of our citizens, and to estab-lish an arbitrary, partial and unjust ruleof polit-ical and governmental action ?

How totally must associations of this con-tracted and illiberal character fail of accom-plishing any of the desirable objects of govern-ment. The policy of the nation must be aban-doned to its fate, to carry out a bigoted and po-litico-religions frenzy. Forgetting all the great

issues involved necessarily in the administrationofthe affairs of this widely extended country,with diversified interests and wants, in mattersof revenue, finance, trade, commerce, peace,and war, t xternal or foreign relations and in-ternal police, tbev are endeavoring to bring theexalted science of political economy down toan unnecessary and unprofitable scramble aboutcreeds in religion, with which this governmentlias and can have nothing whatever to do,except to let them alone and protect each onein its constitutional rights, and to see that mi-norities as well as majorities have the free and

full exercise of their religious opinions. It isan attempt to introduce a test in political affairswhich must be as uncertain as it is unsatisfacto-ry to all sensible and enlightened men, no mat-ter to which of the two great political partiesthey may belong. It is an effort to stultify thecountry, and make it forget the history of thepast, and render it unmindful of its glorious des-tiny in the future.

With such allies as these secret associationsafford our Whig friends, many of that partywill he unwilling to co-operate, and they willturn their faces towards the just, equitable anduniform principles of the Democratic creed aslaid down by the wise and philosophic Jeffer-son. The principles of the Democratic paityare benignant, and meets the wants of man in

all the diversified interests of life. They teachman's equality with his fellow man, and at thesame time they give him humbler views of him-self, they dignify, ennoble, exalt him. Theyapply fitly to him as a rational, intelligent crea-

ture, who should be the object and care of allgovernment, and not made to be governed orcreated for the government. All just govern-

ment is intended for his good, not to oppresshim, but to treat iom equally with the subjectsor people of the same government. It sheds itsblessings alike upon all classes of the communi-ty, the high and the low, the rich and the poor.Jt knows no distinctions and will tolerate none.Like the sun in the heavens, or the dews of thenight, <>r the atmosphere which we breathe,and which constantly surrounds and sustains us,it isalike benignant and Imuntifulto all.

Such fellow citizens are some of the allies ofthe whig party. We may have occasion to

refer to others during the progress of the presentpolitical campaign, little less prescriptive andintoleiant in their views: or we may perhapsleave the various fanatical isms of the day to hemet and refuted by our Democratic friends, intheir own way, in their various localities. Butwj- mav venture the general remark, that allcollateral organizations outside of the Democrat-ic party, got up as either moral or politicalmovements, are soon thrown by the force ofcircumstances, by tlie laws and political afliini-ties of minorities, in opposition to that party,and have for their main object in the end theprostration of its power and its principles. Letno Democrat he led away from his political as-sociations, with tli. vain hope of accomplishinggreater good by other organizations. Let noDemocrat desert the standard of the Democrat-ic party?that party which has long guided thedestinies of Pennsylvania and ofthe nation?that

party whose .principles have been tried in theore ofpersecution in the new and old world un-

?frii they have become comparatively purifiedfrom all dross and imperfections?that partyon which the government of this country must

ever lean, and in which it must ever confide tomeet the just expectations of the people.

The miserable mushroom associations whichspring up in a night and perish in a day, can-not withstand the public sentiment of the peo-ple of Pennsylvania, or we much mistake their

and have looked into their history invain. The people of Pennsylvania are loyalto the principles of the constitution and to theconstitution itself, and they will show theirloyalty at the approaching election, as they didin ISSI and 1852, by sustaining the Democrat-ic nominees presented for their considerationand approval. It is idlp to disguise the fact,that the Whig party of the North has become

swallowed up and absorbed by its amalgamationwith discordant and anti-republican elements.It is for the people in their sovereign capacity,to decide between such materials and the everconstant and truly liberal Democratic party and

\u25a0 policy of the country. It Cannot be doubtfulhow that decision will be made by intelligentfreemen.

J. ELLIS BON HAM, Chairman.

George C. Welker, Secretary.

Destruction of Vermin.Mr. Gordon, the superintendent of the orna-

mental department of the London horticulturalsociety's garden, has ascertained, it seems, thatwater heated to a temperature of J4-0 degreesFahrenheit, will >stroy the "scale insect,"with all its young ones, including the eggs: andthis too, without the slightest injury to the harkof the tree on which the insect feeds. Themethod ofapplying it, is to wet a sponge in thewater, and apply it to the parts of the tree onwhich the scab s appear; or with a common sy-ringe.

The following recipe for destroying eater-pi Hers and other similar insects inlesting fruittrees, was originally announced by Mr. Tatan,who was rewarded for bis- discovery, nearlyone hundred years ago, by the society of Paris.Take of common black, or "bar soap," of thevery best quality, 1£ lbs.: flour of suipher, 1Jlbs.; rnushroons of any kind, 2 lbs.; and rain orriver water, 15 gallons. Pour one-half of thewater into a barrel of convenient siz>*, and stir

in tiie soap till it becomes dissolved, and thenadd the rnushroons', after tbev have been crush-ed. Next tie up the suipher in a coarsecloth, with a stone of sufficient weight to causeit to sink*, and boil it in the other half of thewater, for the space of twenty minutes. Whileboiiing, stir the liquid freely, and squrt-ze thebag of suipher thoroughly, before you take itout. As soon as the water is taken off the fire,pour it ir.to tile barrel with the other ingredi-ents, with which it must be well mixed. Stirthe compound at least once a dav till it becomesfetid in the highest degree, for expei ience hasdemonstrated that the older and more offensivethe liquid is, the more rapid and effectual willbe its action. The barrel should be closelycovered at ail times, except when stirring theliquid, or applying it to the trees. W'hen it is re-quired to use the mixture, it is only necessaryto sprinkle it over the plants or trees, whichmay be done very effectually with a garden en-gine or a syringe.

The Suicide in East Abington-In addition to the particulars published in the

Journal of yesterday, says the Boston Journal,relative to the suicide of Mr. Nash and MissSampson, in East Abington yesterday morning,we learn that the deceased were seen walkingtogether, apparently in a contemplative mood,between the hours of one and two yesterdaymorning, on the margin of the pond in whichthey were subsequently found drowned. Thefollowing is a copy of the letter left by MissSampson in her chamber in Stoughton :

My Dear Friend :?lt is with my right mindthat I write these lines and also that which Iam going to do. lam tired of this world, andso is my own dear friend, so I must say that to-morrow morning I shall be in another world,but, dear friend, I thank you for your kindnesstoward me which has been very great: call onmy spirit.

Our bodies will be found in the East Abing-ton pond, where my own clear companion willaccompany me to another world ; life may besweet to you, but I must go v. here my own lovegoes. Tell Mr. Morton I thank him also forhis kindness. My best wishes I leave to ail thechildren. I did not dream of this, this morning;but please send this to aunt Chloe which Ileave, and some of them will conie here andget what money I left to get them here. It iswith pain that I start from here, but I must saygood bye.

My Aunt Chloe and sisters I now leave thisworld to yourselves, which 1 hope you will en-joy. Don't think of me only that 1 have gonewith my companion to rest and to meet my Fa-ther, I hope. Here pre mv rings and his in mytrunk, hut all of you need not think you haveled uie to this :it is my own self. Mother, Ihope you will think of Father and me ; so goodbye. Aunt Chloe, T have not forgotten yourkindness, which I guess none of us will doubt.Don't think of ipe. Good bye Maddy and Jen-ny. We sign our names,

ADRTANNA B. SAMPSON,

ISAAC r. NASH.

At a hotel, a short time since, a girl en-quired of a gentleman at the table if his cupwas out. "No," sifc he, "but my coffee is."The poor girl was considerably confused, butdetermined to pay him in his own coin. Whileat dinner, the stage drove up, and several com-

ing in, the gentleman asked, "Does the stagedine here?" "No, sir," exclaimed the giri,"but the passengers do."

was sometimes manifested, but it gradually sub-sided and the heaven born principles promulga-ted by Lord Baltimore in Maryland, RogerWilliams in Rhode Island, and William Penriin Pennsylvania, have had their healthful swayin the policy of this country. being engrafted inthe constitution of the several States. TheQuakers and Baptists were once persecuted inNew England, and the Puritan preachers andDissenters from the Established English Church,in Virginia?but who would dare now to avowpublicly, sympathy with such intolerance??Who would .have the hardihood now to proposean amendment to the constitution of the I nionor of any of the States, that a person born in aforeign land, or professing any particular reli-gious faith, shall be excluded from the rights,privileges and immunities of an American citi-zen ! Thanks to the spirit of the age and anover-ruling and ever wise Providence, the ideaof rights of conscience has eventually prevailedand been permanently established, and peacelias been introduced among men under the sanc-tion of our government and laws, 011 subjectswhich had long led to cruel and bloody wars.

We are not defending the tenets ot any par-ticular sect, but the rights of all to enjoy theirown peculiar views without molestation, with-out proscription and persecution. In this liesthe safety of all, for the powerful of to-daymay be the weak of to-morrow. The same op-pressions and cruelties, visited by a dominantreligious sect upon their weaker brethren ofopposite religious views, may be returned uponthemselves with a ten fold Inry 111 the ebbs andflowsof party arid political feeling, if such ques-tions ate to be tolerated at all in political dis-cussions. The poisoned chalice may be return-

ed to tile lips of those who would force othersto drir.k the liemlocji. We feel right sure, thatthe adversities of the past in the history of man-kind, will not be lost upon the good sense of theAmerican people, and that all religious persua-sions may be permitted to carry* out the pureand holy mission of propagating the gospel anddiffusing a sound morality among men.

Let not then, lei low citizens, the sealed foun-tains of religious controversy he opened to de-luge with bitter waters this happy country. Letnot then the unmitigated evjlsof religious leudsbescattered broad cast over the land, to he moreloathsome than the lice and frogs of Egypt.?Let us not he divided in political matters, byreason of a diversity ofsentiment 011 religionssubjects, where no differences can exist in the

eye of the law on such subjects, and where allsects and creeds are alike protected. Let uslive together 111 amity and love, with no sectar-ian, bigoted or intolerant views upon subjectsabout which men never could and never willthink alike: each conceding to the other the:right to consult his own cruises nee inof religion, because such concession secures Lisown ngnt to do likewise.

Let us also avoid the contracted view of hu-man rights, wiiich denies the privileges of citi-zens to those who have been born on foreignsoTL How few of us, hut can trace ancestors,not remote, who first saw the light of day be-

yond the blue waters ofthe Atlantic. And how-it grates upon the American ear to hear it an-nounced as has recently been done by the new

Mayor of Philadelphia, that a distinction mark-ed and manifest is to be made among the peo-ple ofthat city, not by reason of inequality inintelligence or true worth, but by reason of theaccident of birth. The adopted citizen is no lon-ger to be considered an equal, hut an inferior.?He can pay his taxes, enrich by his labor hisadopted country, and ifneed be defend her flag,her honor, Iter interests, on the field of battle,but he must not enjoy the emoluments of office,must not occupy positions ofpublic trust, orevenexercise the right of suffrage except throughprotracted years and much tribulation. He lias

cast tiis lot among us, made his home in ourmidst, is identified with us in feeling anil inter-est, and by all the ties which love of countrycan entwine around the human heart, but vet,according to this modern doctrine, he belongs toa proscribed, degraded caste.

We have for long, long years invited the op-pressed of every ctime to our shores, extendedtothem the hand of fellowship,offered them theprotection of the broad shield of our constitu-tion, to secure them in the rights and immunitiesof American citizens: but all this is now to beerected outside of and beyond the constitution,and stronger and higher than the fundamentallaw of the land. The great charter is to be trea-ted as a dead letter, so far as it recognizes the

equality before the law of adopted with nativeborn citizens, ami a power ali'-n to liie consti-tution and laws of the land is to be hereafterthe rule of action.

It was assigned as among the reasons of de-claring our independence, and breaking offourallegiance to the British crown that George 111.had endeavored to prevent the population ofthese States, that he had obstructed the lawsfor the naturalization of foreigners, anil that liehad refused to pass laws to encourage their mi-gration hither.

Ifsuch were considered among the reasonssufficient to risk a doubtful ami bloody war, "f

how much greater magnitude are those nowpresented for the consideration of all liberalminded men. The offence of (ieo. 111. was atleast at) open one. lie bad refused to pass lawsto encourage the emigration of foreigners. Hutthe new policy is a species of deception un-

worthy of the American character. We leaveour constitution as it is, we make no alterationin our naturalization laws, we invite on thefaith of these guarantees, to be seen and read ofall men, that they should leave their homes,renounce allegiance to their native land, andswear allegiance to our own government, whenwe mean that the inducements thus held outare mere cunning devices intended to deceive.For it is not proposed by those who adhere toIhe strange dogma, enuncinated by the newMayor ofPhiladelphia, to change the settledpolicy of this nation, by altering the conditionon which the people of other countries are to bereceived and adopted as citizens, but a much