The Greensborough patriot [September 7, 1855]

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VOL. XVII. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 7, mb. NO. 847.
LETTER FROM
IIOX. JCRE CLEMMCSS,
OF ALABAMA.
liberty, peace, independence- All these were
voluntary gifts. It was philanthropy in its
broadest sense. Nor is there one of the mil-
'ions who flood the country who would not
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY M. S. SHERWOOD.
Term*: *-2 st year, i» advance:
$c#5 | .... o rr mou/Aa. o«rf93.00fl/?«rrwe/w '" """""'"'•< V«« Prssu-ipha ■■' <•''• -" a*"'- have exchanged his own land for ours even
monlhs.from dale of subscription. '"" '"■':]■ ;r ,],,_. Constitution had denied him the privi-
As much as has been written in support of lege of voting. The other advantages he
Rates ol Advertising. the principles of the American party, there obtains would have been sufficient, and more
ir :'•■■ . i ■'' • !, '-■•■• i lines) for the htj has not been published a more eloquent and than somcient to have made him anxious for
..-■ •■ ij-ave cents for every week-.here brilliant defence than that contained in the a shelter beneath the wings of the Eagle.
.- ndJe in tavor ol standim: attver i- n ...;.. . i .. r .: .. » ... ,,., , . ■ • • ..,,, ■?,
,,.. following letter from the Hon. Jcre. Clem- Where then is the injustice? He has all he
3 MONTIH. 6 xnsTii*. I TEAS "Jens, lately a Democratic United States asked, more, much tbore than he would hare
Senator from the .Siatc of Alabama. been willing to take.
n EAD, PONDER, CIR JULATE ! : ! W* simply folio* the spirit of the Constitution.
IIuSTSVILLE, July 12, 1855. But it H argued that exclusion from oilice
Dear Sit:—I have not before had time to fixes an odious brand upon him. Without
! answer your letter in relation to the new or- stopping to remark upon the absurdity of
der of Know Nothings, nor have 1 now at such a position, it is sufficient to say that
hand nil the statistics which are necessary the brand is already fixed by the Constitu-te
a full elucidation of the subject. Very tion. It is upon him now, and will remain
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BY CI.AKIE.
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not to be named in the same breath are has-tening
in Ins footsteps. Even the veteran
. soldier whose life had been passed among
, bullets—whose strong nerves had never been
shaken in the deadliest conflict, when ho
was a candidate, quailed before tho vast in-ilucnce
these Strangers oad acquired, and
I the •' foreign accent" became as music to
his car. Two public acts in the recent his-tory
of the country exhibit si ill more strong-ly
the dangers of foreign influence, and ad-monished
us to check it while we have yet
the power.
Servility of ;he Senate to Father Matthew and
the rause of it.
In the Senate of 1849 Father Matthew,
an Irish Priest, who had acquired a great
celebrity at a Temperance lecturer, paid a
•• isit to the United States. He came to
Washingw and a resolution was at once in-to
gather in the days (hat tried men's soul-,
gazing in sorrow and silence upon the dis-graceful
spectacle. There is Warren,
Greene, Sumpter, Marion, Lee, Shelby.
Williams, Wayne, and a hundred others of
the mighty dead. They remember that i:
Was German cannon which thinned their
ranks at Mud Fort, and lied Hank. They
' remember that German shou's rang over
the field of Brandywine. They remember
that German bayonets were dimmed with
patriot blood at Monmouth. They retnom-i
ber Chadsford, and Chewshouse, and many
■ another field, where they met the hired
; mercenaries that England's gold had brought
j across the Atlantic to fasten manacles upon
a people who had never injured them, and
{ remembering this they turn to each other
i with the mournful inquiry " are these our
sous ? are the traditions "f the re
• that tin PWS a charm,
(I.i .. >' . - once lot •- I well ;
tin ;■ l./jii 1 the bean again,
M.1I1V .1 J■',• ■-■-'' ryoU.
',: .,..;.! us as a dream,
On ■ nd bright j
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) light
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possibly in the opinions I am about to ad- upon him until that instrument is torn out
; vance, I shall find myself in antagonism to from the archives of the nation. The sec
yourself and some of those old friends to ond Section of the first article prescribes
whom you allude. At all events there is no "that no one shall be a Representative in
impropriety in asking you to read carefully, Congress who has not been seven years a eit-not
for the purpose of contradicting or find- 'z'-'n of the United States." lie may have
ing fault, nor yet for the purpose of implicit- been twenty or more years a resilient of the
! ly believing, but to reason, to consider, to country before his naturalization papers
'. reflect. If there is truth in what I write let were taken out, and yet he must remain
j nn previous prejudice dim its brightness—if. seven years longer before he can occupy the
there is error let no per.- mil partiality pre- |icst ll1 Representative. Here is a distinc-v
nt its detection an i exposure. tion, and a broad one. It is idle to talk a-
The violence which has heretofore char- bout degrees ol infamy. If exclusion for
actcrized the discussion on this subject is :iu- life ren lore a man infamous, exclusion for a
i becoming at all times, and particularly so term ot years must have the same elect.
upon a question involving so much about Both alike presupposes a difference between
which men may reasonably differ. I know tho native and foreigner. Both have the
not n hy I - ..■ il i think h .,.; -A any one fon same operation, and Loth whether justly, or
dill'e. ing wiih me lip-iii Know N'otbirigisni,' unjustly, give a preference to native born
than upuii Democracy: lie has the light to citizens.
the in dutch nice of his opiui us, and if lie | The third section of the same article pre-u
honest no just Uiau will denounce. ' scribes that no person shall be a Senator who
: -,-• i .-„•./ ,■<■■:■. fjr I has not " been nine years a citizen af the
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It is proper for my ! ) ■ iy ;'i.... - - r.ev'-v
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ir. As the ofjco rises i'i impo"ti»ncc—as
th"o danger aiising from ignorance or pre-convinced
opt-uous becomes greater—the
I-M: L do not iw a •:• • c ru or pass , ,• •* . . ■• . ",. .-, „ „
I more careful the Iramcraol the Constitutiop
were ; i secure the service of uathecitizens,
until at last in the highest of all offices, for-eigners
aie excluded entirely. 'J he first
-eeti.'ii ol :!-•• 2nd article of the Constitution
•leclaros that " no person except a natural
b irri ciiizi n" "•:...". be "eligible to the oflice
of 1' .-.-ident," and t.'ic twelfth amendment
de-dares that nn foreigner shall be eligible
r . ilieoff.ee of Vice President. It thus ap-pears
that foreigners are absolutely prohibi-ted
'•;/ ''••' Count'ttitii'ti from filling the onh
. vl" andei- •: I'orimh, two ol!ice-« which emanate directly from the
■ i -• '■•-■',■■■ i- ••!■■■■■ ; ip- whole people, whoso incumbents are elected
lit- ■■■-■■■ I ■• I bat in by the whole people, and who aro in an cs-
;- '■ : .: ii mile" Jhe guardians of the righfs ol
to :ui\ Council .1 the SMlie, II I--'. It W:l ■
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ui.idt: it in the b.ginnii.g i!.e nas: oftli.ir timt bow po-.r and how weak is the mere
'l ' .'• ' in} prubabh resolution ■•fa political party that they will
an ill-of the fage ii.isiiet l.e!-;iie.i... • „ot rotr for foreigners ? If the declaration
ber.-d, but reason, reilection, and an earinsl ■■('such a purpose hy those who are called
''••.' : I them to the same resuli. A, |v'„ w N'othings is odious, unjust, infamous,
' I'dir.-h we li ..1 • ■: ( ten nn mber is in- ;m,| ivrasiic.il, what "ill y,.u do with that
;• ' ■•: ■• i ■ • ■ '" ■ - "-• •'•• i'oi.-ii- uti . we all profess to be revere".
• ■ : . •■ • ■ '■ .'. i thatgr. en and living root they extract-
• -; -.:.• d t;.e e.-senee of tb^ir creed. Wbateverof
cited a.i >l ry, and :■■■,;■:■■ p.iiri-jtism—«li:uever of wisdom—whatever
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urn) I'liv role '.■■ em is drawn from the same
Ite! i - urce. Si .i.e them down and
oil :.: ; .: bl • ■'•' ..: the .-Ulileuie law of the
. .. I. S rike them down, and you prepare
. . ■ anien.l lents 11 the Constitution
w ii '. Ail! s HI have you vassals in fact, if
■■ ■ . ■■ . 'j'i.e :..:...'. .. ■ ■ nf th.' platform " • • ""-:- ::: name, to th *e who grow by
■ ._, L. "ii.-i -i-i i.i 1.1 ... . i ..: - . y>ur b -pitality, ai.d fatten upon your char-
. . >il :; not as l«. 11V.
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'':"'■.' lam not aware that it is customary to
j ii ... uie ....• idi : id danger from foreign in-i
..s 1 icnee. He are exultin^ly poiii'ed to the
• . or . . cjijioia ..u; that liure are i.ul three miliions'of for-
_;. .-, uinle there are twenty millions of
;,.. a millions of foreigners a very 1 irge pro-portion
are voters. It is the unvarying law
of cmigrali n that much the greater number
ui evei • bodv -i emigrants are males. 'I his
lion, i.u • . . ii.nei ........ : .
ml. leu en ...•: ■_ in- Natives. 'Jliesu figures are not accurate.
i y. 'i'• on ■, - iriim which »\ but we \.iil take them as they are given to
-: tin net .i.i ....■ |. •. : ■ iude toieigner-, and this u.-. It must be remembered that of this
... . • :. ■ I., i. is lite position I am pre] ared to maintain.
i ill'. •._ j ; i" in i»i» ; it is nol denied thai we have enough, a ml
• • • ■ • ■ I' luorc than en ig.i eoiiipeli-itt Americans to
■ ' • • • "•" ...... ; re we have • low. ii... it in
'"■ ..._.■: i a u.siiiicihiu is o.iioii anu j was ll.o case even in California when the
uiijii . .• . . •■• i. [ :.....::. I., is it l emigration was only from one portion of our
, . . !..-.: I. : li i-l ■ ■ i. . , 11 • . I-. I. .l..:iu i o-;.. 1. iri. >l V So am i.er. Ail of us can call
• •■• :' ■ ■ : ■ ... ' I. s enn ■ i..ii.n. liere. i.. Ins uiin landI ii. . te. mind, cases in whi■ chI thI e h■ e a dI oll-.tlhe It-aint- ,.1'- llil H li.'. * .. I i • I i "i 1
( , ri l)( . .i ii it cn .. have Lhe riglii . ; -u.lia^; •. Hi- . |\ alone is a loreigiier, while t.ie wne uiitl
in a, . l- . .x " :~ '■ 'er foi ail hour .- .... Ilia ilrcu arc natives. These go to swell the
n ij . . j . •••■ . '.- was c isiau ; . duiij: •■ uuuiuer oi Nativeson the census books, while
- ui i ;• He coiii'i in rile or speal ids seniiiueiiis the voter—the efficient and controlling pow-
.. ii j II my. in '•■- .: O.I.MI ttitb ir. U set down as one foreigner.
. . . .. j i ■ - ...i. .: :.... at III\ moil Now lei us i .> at the other Bide. Ol
. .;.. ■ .II li . ..■■•. ..-: i. ..._.....• .... the twenty mil.ions of Americans about one
ppi .• ... i. .o i .1 a : ..i. ■..!...._, iuiii-e- bsilf arc females. This disposes ot ten nul-
. -- ui II ll. • ■■ ..... Ail this i- changed. |j, ; -. Ofihe remainder at least two thirds
.. e i... • •-■ .. lhe riglii !■. iv'.e. In ' arc children, an I boys too young to vote.
1 n is near ihe ih..r, :..n v-.. ...i ...... |-... . \\ c have gucn him fhat disp -es of near seven millions more,
"' ■•■ -- secuiuy. '• ■• ;....•-.•■:: ,i. pel ici.ee, and ■..■ [ brings the number of voters down much
■■ : ;........ • i\e ...i. i. . :..-. i I.mi lhe rigln ncarei to an equality than is at all agrees-to
make me laws by win .. • ai _. •- |,|c ,.i- than our opponents arc willing toai-
...... . he i ■•_ is in ...- ..: ii j: ttuu n .._,;_ These ! t..-;s have not been unknown
in.- i-i..i-1. ■ i .■.-•-- .i..- •> ■•....•-■ ■ i up- to, or unmarked by politicians. I'nere is
:. I ind repays the sab f "I the v.- .. ,, .:..■. •. -;..: .::_• 1 Mn;i_ igUC ill all the tail !
. _. i., ii igu .i.i i. -,•.-.■•:.- •■! uie .....i ,-:.•!■ :• ttj. ha.-, not uiue and agaiu made himselt
i.ii ...i :.■ ■..•■•- i. - [i iicc! i. i h ii ilcin , iiiciiotis as the advocate of foreigners,
sion to taiK aoout the lights loreigneis. Win. 11. Seward. with his cold, calculating,
1'iivncge is tiie piopei '••■: i. Vie are : I heartlc--8-ellishn ss. ;- the baler in this
t.i.iii.l in exteini iv in in tl ii ■_-.•..:-.:.-. j • . ;i I.; ition To « batever is of foreign
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: efforts arc beiiiu
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nii.i II .- -.,..! that there
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troduccd to allow him the privilege of the
floor of the Senate, This was opposed by
Mr. Calhoun on the ground that it was low-ering
the dignity of tiie Senate and cheap-ening
ils honors. By myself and others,
upon the further ground that he bad, while
in Ireland, indulged in denunciations ol
slavery and taken part with lhe abolitionists
against the South, which I considered an
unwarrantable intermeddling with matters
I that in no way concerned him. Notwith-standing
these objections, the resolution
i passed by a decided majority, and Father
I Matthew u.ok Ins seat upon the floor of the
: Senate. Not long afterwards, Gen. Pillowy
who bore upon his person marks of honor-able
wounds, recently received in the ser-vice
of tho Republic, visited Washington,
and found, to his mortification no doubt,
I that the place which had been occupied by
a Catholic Priest, was inaccessible lo him,
[a native born American, and lato Major
I General in the wars of his country. No:-
was iic alone a sufferer, livery oiheor who
served in tho Mexican war, not n member
of Congress, or an existing State Legisla-j
lure, was in like manner exclude-1, with
perhaps, the single exception ot General
j Scott, who bail received a special vote of
j that.ks during the War of lolii, winch of
• itself entitled him to admission, it wdl not
, do to tell me thai respect for the cause ot
j temperance produced this astonishing result.
Tue Congress tf the United States aie not
remarkable as disciples of temperance, and
that \i--ry day, there was, peihaps, not six
members of the Senate who did not drink
. wine :.t dinner, or brandy before.
Tho Irish vote was the controlling cause—
the desire to conciliate that large body of
naturalized citizens who looked up to lath-er
Maiilew as a superior being. It was
■ this which gave lo the b'oreigni i- and the
Catholic an importance u nvu and beyond
, that of the soldiery whose blood had been
: poured out like water ou the plums of Mexi-co.
It was this which induced the Senate
to forget what it had been—to throw aside
lhe severe 'dignity which bad elevated them
: in the minds of men. and to exchange the
character of Roman sages for that of ser-vile
sycophants. There was a time when
that high body was composed of sterner
stuff. There was a time when such a pro-position
would have been ifeated with the
.-eon. it deserved. But thai •• .- bed re tin
Irish Exodus. Now ii wo venture 10 ques-
! tion foreign merit, it must he done with
"bated breath." If we vmturo lo deny
any foreign demand, however imperious we
iiio threatened wilh political annihilation.
and yet I am told we are in ti > danger from
foreign influence. When the Sciiatt of the
United States has bent before the storm,
where are we to look \'A- that public virtue
which is sturdy enough to resist it .'
' The oration to .).'. A'..-.-.//«—whatourlit eolation-ury
t'orijutliirs «-../.' Anre thought of it
The other case to which I allude was still
more outrageous. M. Kossuth had been
actively engaged in exciting a revolution in
Hungary, but when the hour of trial came
he shrunk fioiu the danger he had evoked,
and flying across the frontier, took refuge
beneath the Cresent of the lurk. An im-mense
amount of sympathy was at once
manufactured for him, and our Government,
not to be behind the public expectation, dis-patched
a vessel of war to bring him to our
shores. Of course tiiis was done under the
1 specious name of sympathy for struggling
freedom. But if there had been no German
votes in the United States 1 am very much
inclined to the opinion that sympathy w ihl
have expended itself in some less costly
manner. Bui not satisfied with bringing
iiini here both branches of Congress passm
a resolution inviting him t.> Washington.
He came in all the pomp which ■...• -
the Monarchs of the Old - .i'i -•• .. I
Guards paraded before his door i • '•• p ■-.i
the vulgar populace. And we w.m would
not have tolerated such coiniuc: .-. • •
hour in the I'residenl of the V-\ ■ ... u i
only -ui.i.iiiied io it on the par; ..•; il.i- ':■■■'■
eigu mendicant, but actually nulled i.::u
within the bar of the Crciate. Hi ■'/■"■ ■
with all his guard about him. 'i •■ ■-'■>...
foreign sabres awaked the echoei . "••
vestibule of the Senate, and an • ■ ■ -I
of li' public-inn lo ike i :. with •■ .'.•-:
admiration at the pageant. If tin
are permitted to witui ss eienta uj ou
what u,:-: have beeu t:.i' teeliugs
stern fathers of the Republic wucii tue\
saw the veh-et uniforms ot a foreign bo.ij
guard within the sacred preemts • i the Sen-ate"'
Lei us Buppi >e taeiu gathered a iout
the in •: rfil Wasbi igtw, •■- Uicy wi •• « .:-.•
revolution
already forgotten V Ah !(*shade of depai t-
I ed Patriots, there is an engine of power in
i our land of which in your day you did not
I dream. There are a few hundred thousand
i German voters among us. and every Dciua
j gogue who aspires to the* Presidency, and
i all lhe satclitea that climmer about him are
[ vicing with each other in the conces-
! sions to German pride and German i^'.-
j ing. But the picture is a sickening one, and
I I turn from it. • God knows it was bitter
j enough at the time, and I have no wish to
i dwell upon it anew.
The roi.-..,- (./" /.'.,'..- adulation or' Kottu'h—.'/■ -:
Jackson, llovtiw, and Seott icert treuti'i.
_ Not satisfied with tho honors heaped upon
Kossuth, Congress determined to extend to
' him more " material ail." Mr. Steward
discovered that ho was tho Nation's guest.
I and introduced a bill assuming his expenses
as a National debt. The account turned
I out to fa : so.nuwhat L-xtravasant. Tl '
repi.:>.-. an siirtyr Lo ill
the ■.-a".o of $500 per d-i
tho tweiity-foar iiours Chun
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plain
.il at
C'■■• -•: r.i ■ in
.ip"? sod ljur
gusi.iy which cost more than it won''! <: ."a
to feed a rcsp-jctablo family in N*>rtb A'-v
banvi for a twelvemonths. At that very
j mement there were bills opon th.) I ilcndar
of Uio (iousu for the relief of destitu'o «:■
[ dowa and orphans, whose husbands had died
I in defence of the country, wliich {'■•':;:■.■■
; has not had time 'o attend to evi n to this
I day. Not so with Kossut.']—he drank his
I wine, cut his pates de froit ^r.tc :•■■ 1 Con-gress
inslantly footed the !,:.!. Bo yju ask
I the reason 1 I answer, widows and cliil-di-.-
n had no votes. The foreigners wi...
were to be coacilinted by a iulation oi Kos-
; suth had many. Others will say it was not
. Kossuth, bu: his pause—that ho had been
battling for freedom and ihey wish'! ;•.
ma:!, their appreciation of his efforts, A-a
tribute to tne spirit ••: liberty ii might
j have been w.-ll enough if we had not been
I so lamentably deficient in paying that tu-bute
to our own citizen*.
When General Jackson ha I driven lhe
| British army from New Orleans and rescued
; the ci . ntry from ona of the most terrible
I dangers with which it was over threatened.
i be was arrested in tho very hour of bis tri-iimpli
and heavily fined for ih« rigorom di«-
i charge of his duty; and yet l-ongriss per-mill.
I more t:..in a on :::,•;- of ;, ;. ntui l i
. roll ..M iy without acknowledpinp tiie wrong,
i on:'; n.-pting to repair ir. lie wasa nativi
: Amen .'an—there was no fon . u sympathy
. in li - behalf-—no foroj" i vote to t-orniliate.
, Whet. Ui neral !!■•'! -:..n r.-tiirn ■ i l . i:..- I
i nit. il States with tl ■ laurels of S .-. Jacir.to
;: upon i:i- brow bi '■:• rin : ■ '■ emi re in
;,;- : and* : i !.r. ;it ijiir fi el, :. i • 'ol jrnv -• mill
invilaiions cell braled his arrii il. >., bills -i
; were passed lo pay his expeni-ei. lie wasa
• Native American iin.i notbi i. "am-ed
by lauikitions of his cbivaliy i::- (-.■-
■• .. ■ I
or
i lotism. When G •!.!•:;.! ;'•■• ii ha ! nun 111-
ded one of the most wonderful campaigns
ever recorded in history, he was rcftilii il al-most
in disgrace, ami his army, »lii '. be ii i I
found untrained militia, and converted into
vetei i .ii bei • - was transfi i re ! to oi ■ ,.
his subordinates. Vet Congress offered i, ■
word of sympathy, applied no lain. t. the
wouii'leil feelings of ibe matchle-s >o!.ii r.
1!..- was :i native American and the voi • i I
condolence was mute. Iliid General Shield -
received similar treatment, a howl would
ha^e been raised from one end of the conti-nent
to the oilier, and half the tongues in
Coi /ie;s won! lhavegr >wnweary lamentin
in- wrongs.
Who : icse fa its before me, an 1 :.!! know
them to be facts, f mo l be j nrdom I I'.-i
maintaining that there is danger from :' .-
. in....'lice, and the i'.'oner i: is boldlv
ru ; li..: better.
ii /.-.,
shirt-
H-
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Th' ■ ■ ■ -i that Ki'Oir Auf/i ngi, in '■!
f ■ .'- i". "n irrrf'laiiil *j'nlai.t*tl l,u
ling fn '• a -I ft.j >,.
ft is gravely urged us an objection to the
.. Ici ol Know Nothings; that it originati
in i N'oi lb, and oiigln thei i I ire to be :•:
, : . . :i.i suspicion bv ti -; South, and this
i-La.-on ! have seen advanced by such men
in i ibs and Stephens ol Gorgia, and
i'-..--. of Kentucky—gentlemen wli m
,. . [•••rsonally, and foi whose talents, at
l.i :. i. its, and moral worth I have I -rvTeal
i pect. 'lo my mind ii i- an ei. leu • • • ■
il ■ ■ ikm -- of any e .!:-•■ ■.-: .01 men I '
■ib.lilies resort to such flimsy rocaiii r.
p .it it. 1 .!.■ nol kn ■•• li it :' ■■ :,■■■- i.. i .r
l snail coacc le th: t il did oi;.■!. He in New
\ :. an i then i sb .11 ; r Ci ed : . -r. w that
there is no spot upon the continent when
tne people have - iffei I m ire from foreign
■ inigrati u. -■■■•'■■-. '. •;- n ' • in ." imj
j riotia reas.-iii' for arraying themselves against
' it. Ry reference to the annual report of
the Governors of the Alms B»ue, I find
{there were in the New York Aims Holts'!
during the year 1853, 2198 inmates—of
liies.- only 585 Vere Natives, and 16G3 for-eigners
supported at the expense of thecity.
; And now 1 propose to use on one side the
I argument of our opponents that there aro
only 3,000,000 foreigners to 20.000.000 N»-
UVPP. According to that ratio there oujrht
to bo about seven natives to one foreigner in
the Alms Uouse. Whereas we find more
'. than three foreigners to one native. No
wonder that a people who arc taxed to gup-iport
such a body of paupers should be th««
! first to set about devising means to get rid
ol thorn. Let us pursue the record—in the
Bellevue Hospital, in the same city, 'hero
. were 702 Americans— 4134 Foreigners; now
the pDportion rises to nearly six to one.
There weft of out door poor—that is persons
who had sonn*Jii..iv to .-hep, but nothing to
eat, and nothing lo make a fire—957 Na-tive
adults, and I044children-3131 Foreign
adults, and 52'2'J foreign children, or chil-dren,
born oi foreign parents. This number
were relieved ..luring lhe year with money.
Of .those relieved with fuel, there were 1248
| adult Americans and 1610 children—103o.f'
adult foreigners and 18,857 children. But
the record is not yel complete—let us torn
to the statistics of crime. In the city pris-
. ins there were -iuriiig ihoyenr, 0,102" AIM-rienns—
22,220 foreigners.* I pat* on t«> an
, abode even more gloomy than that of the
prison cell, and call your attention to those
whom God in his wisdom, has seen fit to de-prive
of the lijd.t of reason, in the Lunatic
Aeylum—there were admitted from the year
1*47 * . is", t. 770 American.-—23*<1 For-eigners.
For the year H.,:!, there were I>4
\n.«-ricans -31'3 Foreigners. These tables
might h.< rflaila ne re c;;.»pleti by adding Orf
:...■ ..;...-■;.. M..; .■:J,:-.?i,!Kji»r:i.
f; fhv.t\ E',;--.!-', but of these I hare nore-jliallodita,
and ibcreforo pass them with tbp
. aing'o rr-mark •'-■: I have never seen -i Na-
| U1 ■ American ^ '.•■• [■ lonped to cither c'r.ps.
Hi1 3 liguvs are far more cr>nclu?ivo than
H- y ' i" "i -. ...nil { lm '.•> prove the r.-ce;si-
,,..,- arresting the tide of cmigratien. Let
eyery Amei can impress them deeply upon
jli : mnrnory. 42.30!) Foreign naapera and
ji'ivirlih; :■:':', Unatise. and 22.229 crimi-
'nal 'a- ng .'.,- indn try, and blighting tho
prosp. rity of a single city. In that list of
evimi i is i mbrac ■ 1 murder, rape, arson, rob-
: bery, peijury, everything which is damning
to the ehai-iieteroftheiiidividua), and every-thing
whi.'h is dangerous to society.
.'.'-.•- th > i ■'. /•• aim endangered by Foreign h\
fiiune* ~-h Mjuent (Comment nn Washnsfj
■ " In to put noni-Iml.Americans on
Guard.
In our section we see but little ofthe evils
' of emigration—comparatively few come a
mong u-, an] those are generally of the best
classes of their countrymen. It is not as a
State that wo sufier most but as an integral
part of the Republic. Tho crime, vice, dis-i-
ao-. destitution and beggary, which flow in
with every ti'i.: of emigration afflicts us but
ii::;.-: it is through iheir political action;
i i their capacity nf voters, that the cure-j
extend.-, itself lo u». When tbon^ands upon
thousands are ciriied lo iho polls and inadu
to voi • ill favor of any man, or any party
. •: hilling, corrupting the bnlJot-boT, anil
cinlcriiig liberty insecure, then we suffer—
then !■■•■ law ol iclf-prrservatioii gives us a
right, and make? il a <'.■',•%■ to interpose.
.' !i i-ueh.danger ibickoning Hround us tho
.•ii.il onler of General Washington
mid be upon in ry man'.- lips. "Put none
but Americans on juard t.u-iiight." In time
I' peace, your public officers nre your s.-n-
::...!-. I'm Hon.-on guard wliusf b'-somsdo
:.■•■ - • i. will ■ tiling pridi. ui the mention
.' : .■ • Hill, of .Moniil.iUlh, of Saratoga,
or ol \ i'. I'.iwn. I'u t none ou guard whoso
nation il ti adili >ns . • n.-t • o d:::-- i to oar
.'.rn c.itnmonwi •':. But hone on guard
in il -.: bj :he hour upon the e!o-
.i' I bill i ; I'Conuc!, but h&VC never
..■; the i ui. • iif Patrick Henry. Put
none oi •■.. i •• .. turn wilh Cold indiffer-
■: icc froi i the »l >ry of Ni igara, or New Or-lean-,
to boast of Marengo, or Leipsic, or
| Waterloo. They do not lovo your land as
you do—they will not watch over it with tho
same absorbing interest. Oppression, not
is I ;ht him here, and though he
li ., fcl a certain amount of gratitude for
In has found, he still looks back
; i the ..'..''•■! fiel i: of his childhood—be ro-inembcrs
■ very stom Upon the highways
—he read; the history of his native land, and
,...: ■ .': - in !i • li- m of hearts be feell thir,
• i •. | s bjine, and there his iiolicst af-
•" ion; a.'C red up. Fear, necessity,
- -•• miv keep him here, but ho
loves no! the bind of the stranger—carea
nothii ' f >r il ■ former (jloi ies -sheds no tear
.,■•:• it3 | . i.i-l di - i-ti-l'-.
With t reverence can th* German re-neml
-r- i
-tn wn
••■■ ii:-' •'
f el in *"•
I j card tl name of Washington whin bo re-it
his pathway to freedom was
.1,' .lea i bodies of German tner-
V i.ii . ■. illation .-an the Briton
. .i.ii k-'-n when he remem-
,.-i-- :i:.it it was won by trampling the lion
• i . the dust? i- :- not in human nt-
... that tl uy »hi dd feel as we do, and wo
arc false to ourselves when we pal then «in
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