American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-12-29

conform to their feudal establishments. The
conflict is the same. But the weapons used
are new ones--the ballot-box, the naturalIza-
ton law, and class alien vote-all of which
can achieve greater destruction than their ar
mics or their naviCs. Am asked, how is this
manifested! | answer, IN the moral impression
made on the minds of the people who are hour
ly brought to sympathize with foreign monar-
chies and to esteem the royalist, hot from the
atmosphere of thrones as equal to-nay, rs SUI
peror-to the native-born American, nursed IN
the lap, and nourished from the bosom OF de-
mocratic institutions Yes, super1or--lor that
is the term made use of to tie native; because,
as the gentleman from Maryland has asserted,
''the alien is citizen from choice" and choice
implies preference Of republic, which implies
superior virtue and patriotism. Now, Sir, are
aliens citizens by choice: To make aliens ''ci-
items by CHOICE" they must have no motives
Of compulsory character to drive them from
their native homes to seek a foreign, strange,
and remote land. Every circumstance OF mo-
raj enjoyment and physical comfort must bo
equal to what they expect to find in this coun-
try, to constitute choice. What nation of Eu-
rope presents an equality with the U. States, in
any of the rational blessings of life? | know
of none The epicure of London, or gourmand
of Paris may prefer them for the deiIcacies OF
the table; and | am ready to confess that cpl
cures do not swell the tide Of foreign cmgra-
ton at the present era of our history. The
philosophers, antiquarans, and literatl OF Eu-
rope, may cling to their moss-covered Museums
to Eton, Cambridge, and Oxford-with re-
verential tondness; and, perhaps, in ancient
lore and modern cookery, we may rank even
inferior TO France and Britain. But in all that
ennobles the human mind-in all that sheds
the halo of true glory around the brow of man,
standing erect in all the god-hke dignity OF
freedom, challenge any country upon earth TO
show her claim to an equality with the United
States of North America. But this is the fee
blest point in the whole argument Man must
cat first, and think afterwards. Show me
nation on the face of the earth where mankind
can obtain so abundantly all the comforts of
lfe at so little cost Of labor in the U. States?
Show me any nation Of Europe where the mass
of population do not suffer for want of subsist-
encc? Here is the grand necessity which drives
the swarms of Europe to our shores. Is not
this necessity? The worst of all necessities
the physical force Of famine. Can such men
say they come here from "choicc"-from love
of freedom, or from love of bread? We may
pity their restitution, but Heaven save us from
iatio's , Us 49,
otaa IT, thn i;,ao ~ NJ Iofiarsan,
;s,rat;o, What was tha General ;mnnIse that
drana c'ro;rrors 10 oroirroto from Fnro,o 70
,his oonn,rv2 II wosnnt .tchoico ;, bnt noliti-
al r,orsoc,t;on Tho French revolntion had
LindIod hl,7o of liberty oronnd every Euro
nom throne The einigrant came to our
rr,,ros tbon oe = ,or,on rr'7n, tho fnrv nersacu-
lin, nf kiors whose crowns had been made 10
trnn,hlc nn iheir brovs. II was not "choice, y
Lo,,ovor hut nocessitv If they remained
tho;r heaJs wonId have been hronoht to the
Nal, uhorn Tho bloody ave of tho eyecutioncr
ros c,gor for the work Of death, Could moro
d;rn or cruei case or npcessitv exist; Yet thew
r,,a}o ,Loir own, ,yeIco,on ~, the;r love or re-
mmhlican nrinc,nlcs tbey Ind ventnrcd all their
dearest hines nj home. 10 establish free Govern
ron,,t an = snhiima b,sis and thev came amgop
ne tIl,r mat IN intact 70 distn,h or undermine
,,yr i,s.itnif,,s hn} +, cr,nonr roncr. and
n,.a,',,t,,,, tLn', A,d ,,o,,u = ria,, trras,,ra
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h., hr;,r ,,;,h u,.,, Tba naturalization
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