Weekly national intelligencer

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end of all national independence and social safety if the peo

ple invested with the property of a 8tate?the Nation?were

to be restrained in adopting order according to its own views

of policy, as regarded the parties who should he admitted to

the participation of its sovereignty. Under such a principle,

hordes of Hindostanese, or Chinese, or Haytiena, might forri

themselves without limit, as without fitness, on our sover

eignty, become preponderant in the population, asaert mas

tery in the government, and change or overturn it under ita

own forms. A proposition cannot be more stupid than that

because I admit a man into my family, find him employment

and secure him the fruits of hi. labor, I am also obliged to

admit him to a full participation in the regulation of my

household and ita inmates.

I have thus, as hastily as I could put words on paper, given

the answer to your request for my opinion on the question

you proposed. A* far as I am advised, no nation, save our

own, admits, except in individual case. a. .pecial favor, other

than its indigenous population to the full enjoyment of politi

cal as well aa civil rights. The pos^ss.on and guaranty of

this last class of rights satisfying in my judgment all juat and

reasonable pretensions on the part of the immigrant popula

tion, it is my opinion that our nation would ?k> right and well

to conform to the universal principle of action of other na

tions, conceding no superior advantages in this important re- I

spect beyond those they concede to us. The Father of our

liberty, had he been obKged by defeat to retire to a foreign

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Weekly national intelligencer. (1845). Washington [D.C.], 1845-09-27. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1845-09-27/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1845-09-27.