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Lewis Charles Levin was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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Lewis Charles Levin was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
About 1828 Levin removed to Woodville, Mississippi, where Levin taught school and read law. After being wounded in a duel he left Woodville, became a "peripatetic law practitioner" in Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana, and in 1838 settled in Philadelphia where he was admitted to the bar. There he was first conspicuous as a temperance speaker and as editor of the Temperance Advocate. Next attracted to the Native-American movement, he took a prominent part in the formation of that party in Philadelphia (1843) and edited and published the Sun, a penny daily and Native-American organ.
In the Philadelphia riots of 1844 he counseled moderation and respect for the property rights of Catholics, in order to maintain the honor of the party. In both the state convention at Harrisburg (February 22, 1845) and the first Native-American national convention at Philadelphia (1845) he was untiring in his efforts to extend the party organization. The high feeling against Catholics and the foreign-born crystallized by the riots of 1844 carried Levin into Congress where for three terms (1845 - 1851) he preached nativism with almost fanatical zeal. Envisaging the country "on the very verge of overthrow by the impetuous force of invading foreigners" (Dec. 18, 1845), he pleaded for restricted immigration and stricter naturalization laws (Congressional Globe, 29 Cong. , 1 Sess. , App. , pp. 46-50). Nativism seems to have been an obsession which colored his views on every question before the House. The Oregon struggle represented an attempt by England to implant feudalism on American soil. The sending of a chargé to Rome was "a proposition to unite this free Republic with absolute Rome" (Ibid. , 30 Cong. , 1 Sess. , App. , p. 438). He would have none but native Americans serve in a proposed regiment of riflemen, and he opposed discontinuing the recruiting service because of the nation's internal enemies. He was a high-tariff advocate, a rabid expansionist, and as chairman of the committee on naval affairs labored indefatigably for the dry dock at Philadelphia. Although he was popular in his congressional district and supported by the Whigs for Congress in 1848, the disgruntled Native Americans took enough votes from the combined Whig-Native-American ticket in 1850 to defeat him.
After leaving Congress he continued his law practice. Always loyal to nativism, in a broadside, To the Americans of Pennsylvania (1856), he urged the electorate to vote "a pure, unadulterated American Fillmore ticket, " and to wash its hands of Black Republicanism, the instrument of the Pope. Before the next presidential campaign he was in his grave, a victim of insanity. A contemporary, not overly sympathetic, regarded Levin as "one of the most brilliant and unscrupulous orators" he had ever heard and doubted "whether during his day any person in either party of the State surpassed him on the hustings".
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Levin was married twice: first, to Anne Hays of Kentucky, and after her death to Julia Gist, a widow, of Philadelphia.
