New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-05
Europe to our happy shores, they would be fy-
ing from us to no matter where

Durrs OF ADOPTED CrrizsSs-In admitting them
into the great fellowship Of our freedom we save &C
eepted no partnership In their former condition We
cannot follow back the wrongs from which they nave
ded we have adopted them but neither the,r os nr
heir hates They have but hafforsworn tner .orfen
aeaiapce IL thry still retain feay to Irish or French
Herman Italian psons that % ey were osno 10.
20 bring with them or TO pluck rom 'n onnos 4, s,U
things He must love country but his own he must
rate no country but that is at war with her. lcres-
cent.
t above ia an authoritative review Of the duties
adostsd ctsens, from which beg leave to dissent
The portion Of the paragraph which declares that
The United by adopting foreigners does not
sary adopt their preudicrs, is very obvious trusm
but conclusion ogically deduced from the fact viz
that a good citizen must hate country but
that is at war with hemn well-n the absurd
assertion that has been made since Faust invented type
When America adopts Foreigners, and receives them
into the brotherhood of freedom she does in the full
belief she is adopting She would be disappointed il
they were cods. without soul mind. passions or
intellect But love and hate nvarabls
Of true manhood and absolute value OF human BE-
ing socially ana politically may often be estimated by tho
presence absence of those passions The thing which
neither love hate would be appropriate enough
hsrem bnt would scarcely merit the privileges
If American citizenship. Aud yet the Crescent thinks
that all foreigners should be mentally emascuated
a they clothed with our nationality.
The foreign citizen must hate country but one that
is at with the United States He may have suffered
in Austrian Jail for years; he may have been shut
from the in French tortured In Eng
h prison hulk he may have old in the endurance
tyranny but the instant he touches the soil of the
United States his memory ncontinently desert him
become gentle sucking dove.n and all
hatred depart from his nature like demon cast out y
forever! Pshaw He would make poor citizen indeed
and fit only wr dista be Drained with his ladys
fan who capable of undergoing this emssculsng pro-
cess-this Bsptsmetic frebaptismn ito borrow sum
cently learned phrase from Thomas Caryle and from
all such miserable mksops may Heaven keep this gallant
country
Old Sam johnson liked good hater." This country
shares his sentiment in that particular She likes man
who give blow for blow well love for love and II
the European exile refugee does not hate the nation
whether peace with her which starved him out
hunted him out of its bounds, she despses him as
molly -codde shuns him q slave. IL is strange
censorship which seeks to decide our hkngs or dis
likings loves hatreds might reasonably in
terfere with political preudces and prescribe the
of oourtship well the laws of national presc
tions The Constitution does not Kossuths low
ing bis wife hating Nicholas Of Russia, though some
strive place it this forced interpreta
ton. 1t permits to direct our love hatred
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John Mitchell San Francisco, said he had commenced
his novtiate Of American citizenship and while declaring
his intention to be true American in heart and soul
his belief that this country would not blame him
he seized the first opportunity offered to wipe out the
stains and staunch the wounds Of the old motherand
He said further that he had been sustained in the
of Bermuda the Cape and Van Diemen's Land by
what By the " divine thirst Of vengeancen 1t il
evident that he will not subscribe to the despotc opinion
of the Crescent to the duties of adopted citizens
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