The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-08-11
Our New York Correspondence.
INV Yohk. August 3, 1851.

York, at Tremendous rate. During "a
hours ofthis week. 5000 Immigrants arrived
from England, 636 from Germany, 578 from
France, 342 from Belgium, 255 from Ireland,
and l9 from Wales making total of ,Sll.
live were to do business at the above
rate every day, we should be receiving L.
725, 900 embryo citizens year, which would
soon run our population up to 50,0O0,000.
The last English steamers have brought
us the usual humber of newspapers and let
|ters; butsthey contain nothing Of interest
to the general reader, but what has been all
ready sent by lightning to the four quarters
of the Union, and which you have, of course,
received.
We are completely inundated with tele-
graphic dispatches, from Charleston, New
Orleans, and other seaboard cities, contain
ing various versions of the Cuban Insurrec-
tion. The Cuban Declaration Of InIe PEN
dence has been published in nearly all OF our
city papers, some Of which praise it highly
The Eventng Post calls it ga, firm and able
document" lfthis Instruction were mere
outburst Of popular indignation, caused by a
simple arbitrary and unpopular-act of the
Spanish Government, should be inclined
70 treat the matter lightly. but tberesis no
disgusting the fact that the Cubans wish TO
pc emancipated from Spanish control and
that thousands and hundreds Of thousands Of
persons in The United States are ready to as.
slst them, in any way and every way, in
lhelf efforts to secure independence. IN
Under these circumstances, Cuba must
soon be independent Of Spain; and howe We,
much you,or l, or Others, may attempt to
frown down Intervention in her behalf. by
American citizens, ! am willing to sta ke my
reputation Tor foresight, upon the opinion
now express-which is, that Cuba will soon
have two Senators in Washington. She NAV
be beaten in this attempt; but that matter:
not: Mutual causes will force her into the
Union, before many years.
Beside, those Americans who are opnosed
TO the annexation Of Cuba are merely ,,spa.
ttuc In their opposition; while those in fayo,
OF u, are positfoc, and active, in their efforts
to bring il about, i endeavor to be non
comml,lal, you see; and think generally
succeed pretty well, although, in lookins
over what have written, / see that m,
statement, OF what consider to be the fact,
rot the case, would be thought, by politicians
indicative OF my favoling the Cuban move
ment. The pleasure of an association. fo
several months, with Martin Van Buren
may nave mad the effect of making me some
what guarded in my expressions.
During the CONNIE ncement at Hamilton
college, few days since, on the conclusor
oi an address by Mr.. G. P. R. James. the
emlnent Hlstorion and Novelist, an indiyid
lual, believe it was Hon. ]. A. Spencer.
called on the band to strike up Rule Brit
annia," as compliment, presume, 10 Mr.
James. Thereupon, one H. E. Robinson.
gaseous Hibernian genius, who is occasion
ally permitted TO perpetrate bombastic effu
sions in the Tribune, under the signature O
Rlcheheu, for some reason or other that
cannot conceive, except it be that he is ii
oore,--no newspaper establishment is com
ptele, you know, without its tolerated con
trlbutor, or bore-mounts the highorse, ex
presses his hatred Of" Britannia and f,ime
and frets, in the Tribune, at such "Treaso,
to the State" Now, although | can wei
understand, that Mr.. RicheTieu Robinson
must have experienced unpleasant sensa
tlons, on finding that his ton, to prov
America not 10 be Anglo-Saxon, but Celtic
dld not take, and that MIR. James disconrs
was received with incomparahly more favor
still, i 10 not protes: against the Injustice q
arrlgnlng Mr.. James as perjurer, because
iorsoOth, il is stated that he has In Milesiar
dialect, declared his intintions," and that
therefore, for him 10 feel any Qualification a
the sound of an English national air is moth
ing short OF the Iankest treason, and tn,
basest perjury. af
New converts are always the most fanat
lcai, and superlatively sickning, in their pro
testallons oi devotion; and as Mr.. Richie
lieu is only hall fledged citizen of ou
country, II must be 10 his newborn zeal lo
our honor, that we must attribute his lack O
charity and justice for cannot imagine b.
what trule OF equity, Or common (Anglo
Saxon) sense, Mr.. James can be held respon
sible for the acts ofothers, whose only crime
II appears TO me, was rather ardent admi
ration oil Mr.. James genius, and, perhap
lndlscreet mode OF evincing it.
Now, our wisest statesmen do not i'm
agire, like Mr.. Richelieu Robinson. that an
being worthy OF the dignity of America
ilule nship, can be, by any possibility, s
VOID oil love OF country, as to be able TO ex
corlate' IN moment, its every trace fror
his breast; neitherare they inclined 10 olac
any reliance on the loyalty Of such men, h
indeed, another beside MIR. Richelieu Rot
lnson can be found SO they have wiseI
: prescribed five years, as the probationar
term which an alien shall pass, before entel
Ing on :he rights and duties Of citizenship
IN order that his sympathies and attachment
may be gradually weaned, not imnltdiatcl
ana vlotently lprTnched, from Home an
fatherland." II, then, Mr.. James really di
feel gratilied, it would be no heinous offenc,
as he is only in the first year of his privilege
But the attack on Mr.. James, savage
coarse, ungentlemanly and ridiculous, as
ls, affords food for serious reflection. Fo
: if it once goes forth, that an alien, on b,
coming citizen Of our county, is bound {
!, exterpate, as noxious weeds in the garden
his soul, all pride in the heroic deeds Of b
] forefathers, and in the glories which are r,
I vealed in the pages of the history of the lar
/, Tof his birth, together with all sympathy
its future destiny, or else be branded as
! perjuror and traitor we shall deter many O
honest, noble-hearted man from joining OF
: franks, and shall have to depend for recruit
i upon the mere serfs of E1rope-a factiol
risen race, whose country is CALLED by 70
eign yoke, riveted on its neck BY the arts an
: treachery OF native demagogues-a rae
I whose history is SO stained by the crimso
: food Of intestine violence, that it does n,