Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-18

In these days of progresss is observable that
there is one word in the mouth Of every body as
applied to every body else, to the almost absolute
exclusion of another word, once time-honoied
standard of the English language and the keystone
of principle and character, which nowadays appears
in the minds of most men
To hang
Quite out of fashion, like rusty mail
In monumental mockery,"
The first Of these words, the ubiquitous and ON
npresent word, is RIGHTS !" the second. the obso
lete and ostraciscd word, is "DUrIEs" The first we
meet at every turn, we hear in every sentence the
second is banished, offensive and Objectionable to
modern ears.
We have the rights of women, the rights of sons
and daughters, the rights of citizens, of sailors of
soldiers, and now of eriles not immigrants, who
come to live and die among u.s. to form in due time
citizens of our land but those who fly hither for re-
fuge, or for special temporary purpose But for
any mention of the duties of children toward parents
of citizens toward communities of sailors and sol
ders toward superors, of exiles toward protectors
and entertainers of men toward law, the day seems
passing away. The present generation is rapidly
becoming too fast to admit the existence of duties
unless it be duty for to obey his inclina-
TONS to the total derogation of the rights of Others
and in soorn of law and the public good
To these considerations we are impelled by OBJ
servation of the tendency of the times to erect
false standard of rights as possessed by political
exes and refugees by political religious reform
ers, who, in virtue of these various characters have
even larger license than the citizens of the land in
which they are temporary soourners, and entire i'm
munty from. the restrictions imposed on citizens by
the laws of their country.
We need not cite particular instances of the off,
cious and immodest, not to say impudent, conduct
of foreign soourners. 1t would be sufficient to re-
fer to the arrogant extravagancies of KossuTH and
his followers of lecturer of the name of LEAHY,
who, after exciting mobs through the country, has
been sent to the penitentiary for murder; or of
an Italian named GAvAzzI who, after a crusade
in our country, has just been the cause of an
appalling amount of bloodshed in Canada
There were in very early ages, according to the
inspired writers, many evils under the sun, and
g common among men" Whether those meddlers
who traverse the world to give their unasked advice
or dictation to people whose languages they can
neither speak read, existed as far back in the
recesses of time as the age of Solomon, we cannot
decide; but that they now exist and traverse sea
and land, and vex nations with their intrusive prose-
lytism, is evil of the present day. and one which
is becoming very mischevous in country. We
getting to be often favored with these exoics
who come to claim the interference of our power
And for what? Why, to trample our established
policy under our own feet and embrol us with
European nations; and, to cap the climax, to
join our own to the denunciations of itinerant
preachers, against, to them, offensive branch of
christianity, professed cherished with the deepest
devotion by hundreds of thousands Of our people
We name these examples as the most recent and
fragrant, and also most directly in derogation of our
hitherto maintained policy in regard both to religion
and national comfy. 1t becomes those who seek
shores as fugitves, exes visitors, soourners
to practise some modesty, and not abuse the hos
pitality freely extended to them and the people
should not encourage, but rather frown down, all
those haranguers who come among us to excite to
riots, confusion, and murder.
Among the visitors at present in the city is Mr.