The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-29


Of foreign smigrsnts, German or Irish, for III
purpose of gaining their votes, cannot reprcs
: my doubts of their patriotism, or my contemp
for their motives. We have already enough q
these sectional divisions and distinctions innat
aud inseparable from so widely extended cor
poration, and If to these are added the perpetua
ton of national antipathies, and national attach
ments, fostered by national organizations of for
eigners daily increasing in numbers, the people
ofthe u States can never become homogeneous
They will forever remain heterogeneous far
rago of disc0rdant elements, representing all thu
nations of the earth, nurtured in their old habits
prejudices, and attachments, without any cement
to keep them together, and Invested of all patti
otism, except towards old fatherlAnd"
1t is with regret, feel myself obliged, as a
duty owe my country, to express the opinion
that the Hungarian exile has lately placed him.
self in position little less exceptionable than
that of Thompson, or any other foreign incen.
diary, intruding among us, formenting internal
divisions, appealing to sectional party feelings,
and arraying the different races of mankind in
one incessant, eternal struggle. In proof Of
this, appeal to the following extract from a
German paper of the l4th instant published in
New York
| From the .Ns,o York Stats Zeitung, June IA.
| "About ten o'clock on Saturday morning,
about twelve German citizens visited Kossuth
They were presented to the governor by Col
lhazi, when Mr.. Jacket made a short address,
referring to the sacredness Of their cause, and
their vaor in unfolding the same.
kossuth replied as follows German Citi-
zens-YOu are strong enough to effect the cleo
ton Of that candidate for the Presidency who
gives the most at ssltion to the European cause.
find that quite natural, because between both
parties there is no difference as regards the in.
ternal policy, and because, only by the inanity
of the German citizens of this country, the cleo
ton will be such that, by and bye, the admins
| trati0n will turn tks,r attention to other coun-
tries, and give every nation free scope No
tree, my German friends, falls with the first
| stroke; it is therefore necessary that, inasmuch
as you are citizens, and can command your votes,
you support the candidate who will pursue the
external policy in our sense, and endeavor to
effect that all nations become free and indepen-
dent, such as is the case in happy America"
If the sentiments of M. Kossuth are correctly
reported, as we are to presume from their not
having been disavowed, it will be seen that he
is attempting to incite the German emigrant
population to a combination for the purpose of
eecting President, not with view to the
great interests of this country, but with direct
and exclusive application to those of his own
1t does not appear that he has any intention Of
becoming citizen of the United States, and at
all events is not so at present His interference
in their internal concerns is therefore, to say the
least, unwarrantable,. if not impertinent. 1t is,
moreover, think, highly impolitic, for it is cal.
culated to weaken, if not destroy all sympathy
for his own situation or that of his country, by
rendering it's indulgence dangerous to the peace
of our own, both internally and externally. He
has, fear, fallen into bad company and is under
the influence of dangerous counselors, who are
leading him into course that will ALLEVIATE his
best friends, and 60 far to justify the imputations
of his greatest enemies.
| Further News by the Steamer Atlantic.
IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION BY THE QUEEN OF
| ENGLAND.
VICTORIA r. Whereas, by the act of ParI..l
ment passed in the tenth year of the reign Of
his late Majesty, King George w, for the relief
of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, it is
enacted that no Roman Catholic ecclesialic, nor
any number Of any of the religious orders, com
munties, or societies of the church of Rome,
! bound by monastic or religious vows, should ex-
ercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the
Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits of
his order, save within the usual places of wor.
ship of the Roman Catholic religion, or in private
houses and whereas, it has been represented
| to us that RomanCatholic ecclesiastcs, wearing
the habits of their orders, have exercised the
rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic re-,
igon in the highways and places of public
resort, with many persons in ceremonial dresses
bearing banners and objects, or symbols of wor
ship, in procession, to the great scandal and
annoyance of large numbers of our people, and
to the manifest danger of the public peace; md
whereas. it has been represented to us that
such violation of the law has been committed
near places of public worship during the time +
| divine service, and in such manner as to di :
turb the congregations assembled therein, we
have, therefore, thought it our bouuden duty,
by and with the advice of our privy council, 10
issue this our royal proclamation, solemn'Y
warning all those whom it may concern, tha$
whilst we are resolved to protect our Roman
Catholic subjects in the undisturbed enjoyment
of their legal rights aud religious freedom, we
are determined to repress the commission of all
such offences as aforesaid, whereby the offenders
may draw upon themselves the punishment at
tending the violation of the laws and the peace
ond security of our dominions may be endauger-
| ed Given at our court, Ut Buckingham Palace,
this 18th day of June, in the year of our Lord
| 1852, in the 18th year of our reign.
! Con SAVE THE QUEEN
MR.. FEARGUs o'coNNoR.
| In the. House. of Commons. on the l4th inst
Mr.. J. Bell presented a petition from Hannah
Barnard Brown O'Connor, praying that Mr..
Feargus O'Connor may be liberated, by order of
the House, from the custody of the Sergeant at
Arms, with view to his being placed in luna.
tic asylum. move (said the honorable gentle
man, amid cheerng) that the petition be read
by the clerk at the table.
Mr. Walpole said (when the petition had been
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