Address of the Louisiana Native American Association: To the Citizens of Louisiana and the Inhabitants of the United States

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D. Felt & Company, 1839 - 20 Seiten
 

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Seite 10 - ... are planted in every little town and district of the interior country, sway every thing in the former places by their own votes, and those of their dependants, in the latter, by their insinuations and the influence of their ledgers ; that they are advancing fast to a monopoly of our banks and public funds, and thereby placing our public...
Seite 9 - But 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.
Seite 10 - 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.
Seite 9 - 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. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
Seite 10 - ... that by all these bearings on the different branches of the government, they can force it to proceed in whatever direction they dictate, and bend the interests ' of this country entirely to the will of another...
Seite 10 - 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.
Seite 5 - Irishmen, to your posts or you will lose America ! By perseverance you may become its rulers ; by negligence you will become its slaves. Your own country was lost by submitting to ambitious men ; this beautiful country you gain by being firm and united. Vote the ticket — Alexander Stewart alderman ; Edward Flanagan for assessor — both true Irishmen.
Seite 10 - ... 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?
Seite 5 - ... native Americans, who, foreseeing the dangers which threaten their country, have availed themselves of a right guaranteed by the constitution to every American citizen, and have petitioned Congress on this subject; but the design has been openly avowed in the following handbill, which was liberally circulated in the city of New York at the late Charter election...
Seite 4 - ... offal of society, the pauper, the vagrant, and the convict— transported in myriads to our shores, reeking with the accumulated crimes of the whole civilized and savage world, and inducted by our laws into equal rights, immunities, and privileges with the noble native inhabitants of the United States, we can no longer contemplate it with supine indifference.

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