Washington telegraph., 1852-11-03
Ole Bull.

The great Norwegian violinist has taken
the first step towards becoming citizen Of
the United States, by making a declaration
of his intentions to that effect in the u. S.
District Court at Philadelphia. The Phila-
delphia Bulletin says:
That this great privilege might be rem
dered more sacred and imposing, he desired
that the ceremony might take place in the
venerated Hall of Independence, surround
cd with all the glorious recollections which
the place presented to the mind, and with
the statue of the Father of his Country a
mute, impassive witness of the scene
George Pitt, Esq, the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court of the United States, with that
gentlemanly urbanity which is SO character
stic Of the man, Immediately sympathizod
with the deeply sensitive feelings of the
great Norwegian, and at once consented to
crafty the high-toned idea of the privilege
Ole Bull was about to enjoy, in taking the
intiatory step towards becoming citizen
John NJ. Read and John OBrien, Esqs.,
counsel for Ole Bull, accompanied him to
the Hail. and remained with him during
the ceremony.
When Mr. Pitt read to him that part of
the declaration of intention which required
him to swear allegiance to the United States
and abandon all fealty to the King of Nor
way and Sweden. the violonst put his hand
vn his own heart, and in the most impress
sive manner said, 81 desire to be deemed
worthy of So -grea. 4 privilage-- @ssei-I sAs,si
Iemt no efforts to merit it. / have never
sworn allegiance TO the King Of Norway
and Sweden, nor to any Other Potentate,
nor have | bowed the knee to any but my
G0d''=N( pointing upwards, and his face
beamng wijh all that he felt within him
Il shall value the privilege of citizenship
above every other earthly object, and | shall
endeavor to induce hundreds of thousands
of my countrymen to so great a boon, that
they may also feel the great difference be-
tween being citizen Of this glorious Re
public, in the full enjoyment of liberty, and
that state of existence in which they now
find themselves.
Already have thousand Norwegians
settled within the limits of this Common
wealth, in its northern part, and | hope that
before the year expires many thousands
more will taste the blessings of liberty in
the same locality. | shall not cease my eff
forts until my countrymen who wish to emf
crate, shall be in the fall possession of our
rights, and in the full enjoyment of a farm
in Pennsylvania.
He then took the oath prescribed by law,
and appended his signature to the instru-
ment He also affixed his name in the
book kept in the Hall of Independence in
which strangers usually write their names.
His desire is to induce as many of his
countrymen as possible to emigrate to the
northern part of this State. and it is his in
tention to purchase still larger tracts Of wild
land than he at present owns in that locali-
ty, for agricultural purposes. His country
men, he said, were the first to discover this
continent, and although they occupied it but
ayear or two, yet they left few rude mon
uments on the coast of New England to
show that in 1902 of the Christian era Nor
wegians had visited Vinland, and had there
erected habitations"