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aecsioaa9. The amendment renounce*, not only la a disgraceful way, tbeapititof the founders of ibis republic, who hare destined the latter for an asylum of equality for ill lavcraof freedom, but it betrays alto a ridiculous misconception of the history of Ibis country. Neither Massachusetts aor any other State of this Union to auy thing tut creation of and it to absurd that enlightened men, fleeing, in 1659, from European oppression to America, should ba deemed less fitted for republican citizenship than bigoted Puritans of the dark seventeenth century.10. The amend meat to the product of a a pint utterly narrow, fiuntical and hostile to progress; for to stamp native birth into a decisive merit, an I foreign birth Into bleotob, to be kept at a distance, is to prescribe, together with foreign de* sccrdrncy, implicitly ell labor, intelligence, science and art, which emigration furnishes :o this country, and without which she wonld Icog ago have relapsed into barbarism.U. The amendment sins, la a word, against the principles of the Declaration of Independ er.ee, of the Constitution, Justice, liberty, wisdom and enlightened humanity, and eubserrcs no other purpose but that of bribing, a narrowminded, unjustified and pernicious prejudice of p.irty, Vtlb the ultimate end of a despicable party Lralfic-72. Takiug this amendment lor what It to, we mint make toe Republican party responsible for its pernicious consequences, If thii party anffera its platform to he thus stealthily infringed.Wc, emigrated cititons, baring neither provoked nor bring ref ponaible for this amendment, can not ukeanv position but which the violation of our rights, the abnac offered to onr intelligence and the blemish Intended for cur birthquin iimnnThe tial f since proddiedlast.,New‘■Ga?mom of a tain Ba; ihand grow son. per f retmwaaone i del it Care oacempauicl the I and lock
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Indianapolis Weekly Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 30, 1859
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