The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-03-11
From the Washington Union.
NATIVISM REVIVED.

In ordinary times whlg principles play
conspicuous part in public affairs, but
The approach ofan election is the sure sig
nal for their sudden exit from the political
arena-just as the first CLEAN Of dawning
light sends Grant ghosts back to theii
sepuchral hiding places; or rather as the
summons of inqnisition causes conscious
malefactors to vanish beyond the baili-
wick. But il does not argue any want
offdeliiy TO their principles that the whig
party are thus ready TO renounce them ;
on the contrary, it is sulicitude for their
safety that wiihdraws them from irlbu-
nal by which they will certainly condem.
ned In the heat Of The race the wings
throw aside burden which encumbers
their speed, hui they do no, mean it sfnal
abandonment. They are never martyrs TO
their faith, and the fantest Portent of de-
feat will wiring from them the recantallnn
Of their most cherished principle; but
when the danger is past they return again
TO their idols.
The Washington Republic furnish a
noble instance of the craven policy Of its
party, and therein, if in nothing elsa,
vindicales lis fidelity as an "organ."-
During the presidential canvass no paper
was more vehement in its denunciaton OF
Ndtipe- -AmericaniSm-now no paper is
more vehement in its denuncialion Of
foreigners. The occasion for the hypo-
critical abiuraiion Of hs faith being past,
the Republic boldly rroclaims Its mean
and odious bigoiry, and repeats The illi-
deral Language Of ndtiUism with the fero
,cious zeal lis most proscrp,iye disciple.
In its issue of yesterday, with a stone Of
affected alarm, the Republic asks ",chat
is to become Of Americans," and attempts
tojuslify this startling question by feigning
all apprehension oft the speedy dissolution
of American society by Irish GoIhs and
Partisan Vanduls. But few days before
it had assailed Senator Soule with We
nom and mean-spirited maligni'y unsur'
passed in the phiippcs ofthe Five-Poinls,
and all because he is by the accident Of
birth Frenchman. Ii is true that the
Republic undertakes TO make Senator
Soule's oratory the occasion and object
of its scurrllity; but an analysis Of its
invec,ive exposes the hypocrisy Of its
pretence, and reveals the cause Of w,ath
lis snarling criticism on Senator Sonle's
speech is Of no consequence, bat as il
betrays its intense haired Of the French
man who could sla,ter the administration
with the lightning Of his eloquenco,-
From the language of the Republic we
see the source Of it's anger:
"We submit that it is not modest for
an importation from Paris-for a gentle.
man waited to our shores by the same
wind which brings US Stewards silks and
AIexandre's gloves, TO assail an Amer-
can administration for the alleged want
of American spirit. !. does not become
an exotic democrat to appeal TO ''soathcra
Senator's" with the lnsnuaiion that a
whig administration is Indifferent 10 south
ern rights, or insidiousy hostile to south
ern institutions. II does not become
any such gentlemen 10 insult men ind
patriots like those who now fill the high
places of our government, with the impli.
cation that SPAIN can no,r 'trample'
with impunity 'oa American rights and
privi!eges-individual or national.'"
San importation from Psris"--"an ex-
o,ic democrat this is the offence for
which Senator Soule is arraigned by the
organ of Fiulore's cabinet-he is foreign
born. 1t matters not that the first i'm
pulse of his early youth was an ambition
to iuaugurate the reign of liberty in his
native land-that he braved the wrath OF
monarchy, and uttered the eloquent in
disnaiion Of an oppressed freeman in the
face of tho Bourbons themselyes-tha, he
presisted in pleading the cause of popular
rights until driven from his country by
the dcspotism which lie sought to subvert
that he came to America an unknown
and friendless exile, and has gradually
won his way by the force Of genius to
the highest station to which he may attain
that he has manifested his devotions 10
line country of his adoption and vindiealed
his claim TO its confidence by the upright
conduct Of the patriot and good citizen;
all this avails no,hig to conciliate for
Senate: Soule the esteem Of this whg
administration and its obedient organ -
With them the longest life Of honor and
public service cannot atone for the cline
Of foreign birth. 1t is enough for whig
prejudice that Senator Soule is an
"exo,ic" and sn ''importaion." The en-
ergy and fidelity of his patriotism may
put to shame the treacherous indifference
TO the rights and honor of the country
ever manifested by the present adminis-
tration, but this only inAames their hatred
of the foreign>born citizen.
The election is past, and there may be
no need for the abjuration Of Natise-
Americanism by the vhig party at the
present time. They may fancy that they
can safely indulge in conlenptuous denun-
ciation Of our "exotic" fellow citizens,
thinking by the expiration Of another
presidential term TO revive their ancient
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