The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-20

New Yoax, January 10. isis.

L tudt tue ttstputsc VI tu~S's'1t ~
before the New England Society, a, their 'aie
anniversary, has been repeated by han.
The Reverend gentleman possesses mind OF
high ORDER aud the discourse Is certainly iull
Of interest but one gross and Migrant error in-
TO which he has rum is, that one oil the great
evils against which the nation is now TO guard
| is the emigration of foreigners TO our SOIL
Amid so much that was good and sound in his
lecture, was deeply panied 10 hear this sen'i-
men, regretted it, because Mr.. Cheever is
an American and Christian Minister wish
to see the Ministers of our holy religion stand
fast by the altar of patriotism and oil liberty.
| The Bible and Republicanism are Intimately
connected and the true expounders aud adyo-
cafes of the Bible should be Republican in the
broad sense Of the term.
What would Mr.. c. have done? Would he
have the Tide of emigration stopped, and the
oppressed and down-trodden OF the kingdoms OF
Europe babe to remain a; home and endure po-
VERY, pine away under OPP. resson, and perish
under the cruel wrongs Of yranls2 Shall the
poor man Of Europe have no asylum ? Shall
his cries, from the dark dungeon of hi, suffer
iHSs Oc uhueCucuf oudil HuuuttuS tilou-
sands perish, aud suffer the accumulated wrong,
OF uni ist and lawless power, when the vast
West offers 10 them home and an asylum q
Did the patriots of the Revolution struggle for
freedom for themselves and their descendants,
or was the struggle still higher aud nober
benefit of the whole world The great Tree of
liberty has grown up in this land for the benefit
Of the nations, and beneath its widespread
branches let all the oppressed of the earth seek
| shelter and protection.
Who were some of our fathers? Did they not
come from Europe poor, pennyless and friend
less, and by their industry and virtue secure
reputation and wealth? Let men now ask who
were their sires; and how many will be found
among the poor Europeans, that landed on our
| shores, in search of freedom?
The Reverend gentleman spoke of slavery
What would he say, if, by embarking
for the colony at Liberia, every slave
in the United States could be made free,
and the colonists were TO forbid to them
their shores, deny them home, and claim that
the colony was for their exclusive benefit p
What would be thought Of colony that would
thus doom millions to slavery | presume we
should not differ from them, if our nation were
TO interdict or restrict the emigration of foreign
ers
What rule shall we establish? Who shall
be received2 The rich-the well born-the
we'll educa,ed-the well dressed You cannot
make distinction. A distinction will be pro-
hibilion. What glorious spectacle! A free
| nation-a great Republic--wilh millions OF
acres Of unculivated territory, extending from
| the Atlantic to the Poetic, wi soil as fertile
as its productions are vast and varied, with
! abundance Of bread stuff, to deny to the poor
man of Europe home; to turn him off from
our shores, when he tells us that he had fed
from the crushing grasp of tyranny in Europe,
and that he might be a man, a free man, he
had wended his tosome way to our coast.
When meet man, meet brother. He
has our common nature-our susceptibities of
pleasure and Of pain-our longings after happi-
ness-.io matter where | meet him, whether
miserable degraded serf in the everlasting and
dreary midnight Of the mines of England, or a
beggar in Italy, no matter how degraded, how
oppressed, how Gebased under the cruel inhu-
ence Of unrighteous power, no matter how ilIite-
rate, no matter how AFFECT his poverty, if starry
ing for crus, of bread, or p rishing for cup
of water, he is still my brother The meek
and Lowry Saviour Of the world did not forget
the debased and the degraded, and the rejected
and outcast OF men, that he might enjoy the
smiles of the rich but the poor-Me poor
were the subjects of his more than human love.
As follower Of the benevolent Jesus, Mr.. c.,
instead Of exciting and nfamng prejudice
against the emigrant, instead of denouncng
them as the inmates Of the jails and oor-houses
of Europe, and their emigration T. our shores
as constituting the United States the Botany |
Bay of all Europe, should join with all good |
men TO receive them, and improve Their cond- |
zion. If ignorant and poor, let them be advised |
and directed TO home in the Far Wesl-lei |
them be instructed-let the light and the benign
influences of the Christian Religion be made to
fall upon them, and then blessing and not |
curse will be our reward. The spirit of benevo-
lence and piety sends missionaries to distant
lands, to the most degraded nations Of Heather
ism, and do the emigrants offer subjects for
such sbors of love and charity Because they
come TO our very doors shall they be neglected.
and the heather more degraded than they be
provided for?
The European settlements in the Far West
present communities large communities of
thousands, order-loving, law-abiding, indus,ri-
Gus and thriving citizens. 1t is a remarkable
fac, that, in all these communities there is less
litigation, and the criminal law less frequently
violated than among native citizens
Never-nerer may the day come when our