The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-08-14

United States ready to assist them in any
| way and every way, in their efforts to secure
| independence
| Under these circumstances Cuba must soon be
| independent of Spain; and however much you
| or /, or others, may attempt to frown down in
tervention in her behalf, by American citizens,
l am willing to stake my reputation for fore
! sight upon the opinion / now express-which
| is, that Cuba viii soon have two Senators in
Washington. She may be beaten IN this attempt;
! but that matters not. Natural causes will force
| her into the Union before many years.
! Beside, those Americans who are opposed to
the annexation of Cuba merely negatiOe in
/ their opposition; while those in favor of it, are
positive and dctiUe in their efforts to bring it
/ about. / endeavor to be non-committal, you
see; and think generally succeed pretty well,
| although in looking over what have written,
L see that my statement of what l consider to
/ be the facts of the case, would be thought, by
politicians, indicative of my favoring the Cuban
! movement The pleasure of an intimate asso-
| citation for some months with Martin Van Buren,
! may have had the effect of making me somewhat
guarded in my expressions.
During the commencement at Hamilton Col
lege few days since, on the conclusion of
address by Mr.. G.. z. r. James, the eminent
! Historian and Novelist, an individual Il believe
it was Hon. j. a. Spencer,) called on the Band
to strike up ffRule Britannia" " as a compliment
L presume, to Mr. James. Whereupon one
W. E. Robinson, gaseous Hibernian genius,
who is occasionally permitted to perpetrate
bombastic expressions in the Tribune, under the
signature of 'tRichelieu," for some reason or
other that 1 cannot conceive, except it be that
he is Its 6oTe--no newspaper establishment is
complete, you know, without its tolerated con-
tributor, or 6Ore-mounts the high horse, ex-
presses his hatred of britannia, and fumes and
frets in the Tribune at such ''treason to the
State Now, although L can well understand
that Mr. RIchelleu Robinson must have expert
milo mt
Grafton to prove America not to be Anglo-Saxon,
but Celtic, did not ''take," and that Mr.. James
discourse was received with incomparably more
favor; still, do protest against the injustice of
arraigning Mr.. James a perjurer, because,
forsOOth it is stated that he has, in NIilesian
dialect, declared his intintions'' and that
therefore, for him to feel any qualification at
the sound of an English national air is nothing
short of the rankest treason, and the basest
perjury.
New converts arc always the most fanatical,
and superlatively sickening in their protesta-
tions of devOtions and, as Mr. Richelieu is only
a half-fedged citizen of country it must be
to his newborn zeal for our honor, that we must
attribute his lack of charity and justice; for |
cannot imagine by what rule of equity or COM
mon (Anglo-SaXOn) sense Mr.. James can be held
responsible for the acts of others, whose only
| crime it appears to me, was a rather ardent
admiration Of Mr.. James genius, and perhaps
indiscreet mode of evincing it.
Now, our wlseSt statesmen do not imagine.
like Mr.. Richelieu Robinson, that any being
worthy of the dignity of American citizenship,
can be, by any possibility, SO void of love of
country, to be able to excoriate, in moment
its every trace from his breast, neither are they
inclined to place any reliance on the loyalty of
such men, if, indeed, another beside Mr.. Richie
lieu Robinson can be found; so they have wisely
prescribed five years, as the probationary term
which an alien shall pass before entering on the
rights and duties of citizenship; in order that
his sympathies and attachments may be gradu- |
ally weaned, not Immediately and violently !
then, Mr.. James really did feel gratifed. it
would be no very heinous offence, as he IS rn1v
in the first year of his pupilage.
But the attack on Mr.. James sarS,o ooorso
ungentlemanly, and ridiculeds as n is affords
food for serious reflection. For if il once COOS
forth, that an alien, OF becoming n citizen of
our country, is h0und to extirpate as noxious
weeds in the ga2ien of his soul. all pride in the
heroic deeds of his forefathers, and in the elo
rleS WItlch are revealed in the pages of the his
Oory 81 the land of his birth, together with all
sympathy in its future destiny, or else be bran
ded as perjurer and traitor, we shall deter
many an honest noble-hearted man from Joining
our ranks, and shall have to depend for recruits
upon the mere serfs Of Europe-a faction-riven
race, whose country is CALLED by foreign yoke,
rlveted on its neck by the arts and treachery of
native demagogues-a race whose history is so
stained by the crimson flood of intestine VIC
lence, that it does not furnish one instance of
united effort to raise their distracted country to
the dignity of nation. Yours truly,
FITZROY.
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