The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-12-01
NATURALIzFD CITIZENS AND LIBERALISM.

Some of the Democratic prints in New York
complain that many naturalized citizens voted
with the Wings in the recent election in that
State. They think such conduct unnatural
especially when it is rccollected that the Dem
ocratic Party is specially friendly to foreigners
and that the Administration Of General Pierce
has distinguished Itself by its sympathy with
the cause of Liberty abroad
The truth is, naturalzed citizens are under
no peculiar obligation to any Party The
settled policy OF the country--a policy heartily
sustained by public sentiments, to keep
wide open the door to immigration to ia
cilitate the process of naturalization, and to
make the stranger ut home among VS. For
this policy the alien is not indebted to any
Party, but to the American People.
AS to sympathy with the muses. of Europe,
troddcn down under the heel of Despotsm, that
belongs to no Party in particular. 1t is felt by
nine tenths of the People Of the free States, and
by majority of the citizens of the South if we
except the Shareholders as a class. But, the
Scandinavian and German people domclia-
ted among us ask something more than sym.
pathy. They say that this Government, stand
ing ut the head of free Governments, ought
to intervene 80 far in the affairs Of Europe,
as to protest against fragrant acts of oppres-
sion, as to assert on all proper occasions the
doctrines of Human Liberty, on which itself is
founded, AS to make its diplomacy bear against
Despotism and in favor Of Popular Rights, and
that it should hold Itself perfectly free to inter
fere for the support of revolutionary move
ments leaving the practical question, whether
such interference would be expedient to be de-
termined by circumstances The mistake they
make is, in surprising that the Democratic
Party is favorable to this policy of Interven-
ton; and they are led into it by overlooking
the fact that that Party like the Wing Party,
is itself governed by Despotic Interest,
which il as intolerant of Intervention as Aus
TRAN Dcspotism itself Who arrayed them
selves, in the House of Representatives, against
resolutions welcoming Kossuth to our shores ?
The supporters of the Slave Interest Who in
the Senate The members from the Slave
States. What journals sneered at the popular
sympathy manifested with the Hungarian ex-
lies Those pledged to Slavery and Compro-
mise. Shareholders, a. GLASS, look with no
favor on revolutionary movements abroad.
They and their special allies are tho apologsts
Of Louis Napoleon and Nicholas, and openly
a IL L.. A \ Lo. h., oT no an
the capacity for sefgovernment. As to the
doctrine of Intervention, explained above, they
regard it az inimcal to the safety Of the
South" They cherish system which divests
three millions of people of every right but the
right to life and that depends for protection
more upon the interest or humanity of the
master than the safeguards of Law. How can
they commiscrate tho condition of people in
Europe, who suffer mainly from the privation
of political rights Men who inAlct personal
slavery on others may repel the attempt Ia
subject themselves to political bondage; but
their natural language, when their aeighbors
are oppressed, ia "Am my brothers keeper -
Besides, the assumption Of the right of inter.
vention abroad guarded rs it may be, involves
the rightIulness Of Intervention at home. lf it
be right to place our Government on the side
of Freedom, in the affairs Of Europe, it is in
consistent and shameful to refuse to place it on
the side of Freedom in the United States
How long asks a slave State paper, does
any one suppose Intervention among the several
States of the Union would take to follow hard
on the heels Of Intervention in the affairs OF
foreign State,i' Opposition to Intervention is
confined to no Party in the South-it is the
fixed principle Of the Slaveholdng Class and
this Class, be it remembered by our naturaliaed
citizens, controls both the Wing and Demo-
cratic Parties We care not what may he the
feelings of Mr.. Cass or MIR. Seward, they must
content themselves wi,h-"noble sentiments
Their respective parties will sustain no policy
which implies actual Intervention for Liberty
anywhere. Look a. our diplomatic corps and
say, where is he that has been appointed with