New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-29

the sanctuary of their fathers.
greatly fear that the American people do no. kn'w
how highly they are respected and veneraed BY the
downtrodden masses Of Europe. Some among US are
ambitious of the favorable judgment of the privileged
classes in the old world their respect and synpashies
are not 10 be expected We dsturbcrs ;nnovators
and the affection gain in Europe must proceed from
thoee to whom the progress of democratic principles
brings hope not terror To the oppressed masses In
France in Greece in Poland, in Italy in England and
Ireland the United States of America Is the Palestine
from which comes a revelation effcctual TO political sal
walton Thence therefore, pilgrims OF hope, ar
dent and enthusiastic in the faith they have received
from u.s. and they expect naturally and justly to be
reiyed and welcomed az brethren Strange that any
native American citizen should repe these pilgrims and
ed their DISAPPOINTMENT when repulsed Not even the
Christian knights who penetrated to the Holy City by
crusade were more greved when they discovered that
the Christians of jerusalem had reapsed into the super
stton of the Moslem faith and forgotten the place of
the tomb in which the Saviour had reposed.
SO too when revolution occurs in Europe, whether
tempeetuous and convulsiye like those in France
Greece and Poland or moral and pacific like that in
your own native land the uprising turn at
TO the United States of America for and for sup
port and such is the mysterious fellowship produced
by the love Of liberty TINT the sympahes ofthe Amer
lean people have always been found irrepressible.
Ought 1t TO be otherwise Who would not blush for
his country If ii not sol The sprit OF freedom
like that of Christianity is expansive aud comprehen-
svs The church that sends forth missionaries need
take heed for It's light is about 10 be darkened The
republic that desires proselyes must tase warning
for iss downfall is at hand
These sentiments derived trust from the teachings
of the American Revolution to wise they
are generous. If there be any petition which mankind
might wish added to the formula given by the Savior il
would be that the scourge Of might cease and that
peace and good will might prevail among But
peace and good will can never prevail until mankind
learn and feel the simple TRUTH that however birth,
language, climate may have made them differ how
ever mountains deserts, rivers and may divide
States the nations of the earth nevertheless one
family and all mankind brethren practically equal
in endowments equal in natural and political rights and
equal In the favor Of the common Creator.
Exclusion Of foreigners and hostility 10 foreign states
always were elements Of barbarsm. The ntermlnghng
of races always was and eways will be- the CHIEF eie-
ment Of civilization. Japan and China are exclusive
States Great Britain and the United States are social
nations so inconsistent il exclusiveness with pro-
vress that ator Providence wills the subju
cation of unsocal States thus securing the advance
ment Of civilization compulsively when nations obsti
patsly resist it, The conquest of Mexico in the West,
of India in the East and the present humiliation of
China, are illustrations Of this great truth
If at ~. Petersburgh you seek the Exchange where
the Russian merchants most do congregate, the ma
tive understands not your inquiry until you ask TOR the
@Dutch" Exchange Thus do the subjects OF the Gar
unwine perpetuate the memory OF the fact that they
owe their rising commerce to immigration from the
Netherlands i remember that in Clinton's time the
Erie Canal then in progress was stigmatized as the
sIrish ditch" Had we been generous az the natives
of St. Petersburgh should have persevered in that
designation and should confess for the instruc
ton of mankind that not only the Erie Canal, but its
and farreaching veins and arteries, and our
railroads harbors and fsrthcations, were chiefly con-
structcd by hardy joyous, ghthearted liberyloying
immigrants from Ireland
We emulate the sway of ancient Rome; but Rome
was wiser than those who affect exclusive monopoly
of American citizenship. Provinces and nations
ma subjugaed became parts of the Roman Empire and
although its eagles threatened conquest wherever they
advanced they nevertheless bore their wings char
ters Of Roman citizenship.
Love for their native land lie common to all men, but
exceeds it's just bounds when 1t leads men to despise
or hate their fellow This excess is the prejudice
of ignorance. The Native American cannot half 80
heartily despsc the Irshman the Chinese despises
the American. He who has left his native land to seek
an asylum here, has made sacrice TO liberty which
ought to commend him to our respect and affection
His children born here will be native Americans az we
gre the parent is foreigner only as our own parents
orancestors, near or remote also We're
Dow excel because the foreigner cannot speak our
languages We cannot speak his 1t were well If each
knew the language of the other, for it is stored with
treasures which would add mmeasurably to his knowl-
edge and the elements Of his happiness
The battlecry of liberty animating when sounded
in French in German OF in Spanish as in English and
the accents of love and affection tender in whsever
dialect they may have utterance Should differences OF
religious belief divide usf Washington invoked the di-
vine blessing on army in Protestant ritual-Laay-
cite employed the Roman formulsry Would the pray
ers of either have been answered If they had carried
into council quarres from the atari We ought never to
forget that various the expositions of our Holy
Faith they ali agree in this that without charity there
d no Christianity
Such, gentlemen, are my sentiments II indulge
more enthusiasm in regard to Daniel OConnell than
many of my countrymen il is because more truly than
any man in Europe he Apostle of these sentiments
In all their length and breath If cherish deeper SYM
psthies with the people of Ireland it is because they
ARE more imbued than any other European people with
the same sentiments and because lrishmen griev
ousy wronged here and ntolerably oppressed in their
native land.
Iask not how far such sympathies and affections are
popular My political faith is active one, and wocis
me preach 1t not when the welfare Of my ello men
demands the exposition Be assured then that in sum
mer and in winter at home and abroad IN the political
arena and in the domestic circle in the Church and in
The State in favor and REPRESENTATIONS receive
smiles or stripes for itving and dyng-l shall ever
remain the faithful friend Of Ireland and of rishmen
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
To jane. Maher EsG William Cooney. ESQ &c, Committee