New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-14

been manifested against Irish Catholics partly becaa-e
the popular feeling Of the country " sDCatboc partly
because they have less than others in common with the
American national character and parIy because they
come into more immediate contact with our couutrymen
and are represented by journals In the Eog-h language
but the question and Will not be- confined o them
IL will soon be that the dangerous class Of
grants the Catholics from the Continental states
Of Europe,-Germans, Hungarians, and Italians, mbued
with the infde and aDarohical principles of the mad E
rcpeen revoluoasts and carrying on among Us their
Vaccinations against legitimate authority and social order
in la guage which very few of countymen able
TO understand These likely to serious dan
ger and it may well be question with loyal Catholic. not
yet nsursized whether were not wiser and for
their interests 10 be themselves excluded from citizenship
fhen that these should he placed footing Of equality
with natursltorn Citizens.
The danger our country and Of course to US a. Cath
ocs, whose only reliance is the Of the
premacy Of law comes 70 pest from
radcasm, from pushing the democratic tendency Of the
country 10 an extreme incompatible with the maintenance
Of necessary and Wholesome authority; snd radicalsm
though coune ranced by large number of natural
born citizens not of American origin. The real Anglo
American people are stanch, incorporating republicans,
and prefer death slavery but they naturally sober
IN their views moderate in their demands, and oya IN
their hearts, They are naturally an orderly ana Jaw
abiding people They not loyal to men, bat they are
loyal to law and people better disposed 10 under
stand and respect the laws La declaring ana winning
their national independence they a',eapted no o.opa;
despotsm of authority and the license OF the subject In
all they did there wise moderation, sobrley, and
clements Of great free, and noble people In this
snec, here Is a mnk.d difference between .ham aad
every considerable class OF immigrants except those of
the old English stock The Irish owing to the fact of
their having been Cor ages in state Of hostility % their
Government 10 their having regarded the Govern
mont OF Ens land their country as legitimate, or her
laws binding upon them in Coincidence nave never ac-
qusd the American respect or law civi enactment;
and though loyal by nature they require the law 10 he
embodied 10 person, and represented by chie; We
see Tins IN their tendency 10 group around an aaivduai
eDd to follow bndy the leader who chances for the
mont TO possess their confidence They are republican N
Their conv ctons, no people more so but they retain N
their interior life many of the habits which belonged 10
them when Ireland ruled by chieans and each sept
clan followed to the death the banner OF lts chief The
Germans have been accustomed 70 regard their princes a.
the living law and when they escape from this authority
II not Catholics, they lose their respect for the laws be-
wild democrats ard favor either the de.potism OF
the State the unrestricted freedom Of the ind dvi9aa and
ere socialists anarchists But Whatever the doctrines
they avow the real convictions of their minds II must
be conceded that the body OF foreigners nanrszd
or simply resident among are not republican IN thelr
spirit ther ror habits and their inferior life and dis
cIne. They have not that inward and abiding sense oi
the state Of law in The abstract and OF liberty win au-
tority which essential to practical dstlntn-
guish from theoretical republicansm: Hence Their n
variable tendency 10 cenound reprtlicsnsm with de-
mocraey, and democracy with radicasIi. lhey !acH
practical republican training. You feel II TIE moment
you begin 10 with them and it is the want OF
this interior republican discipline in uneducated Catholic
immigrants that strengthens the suspicion that Caiho
Eciy is incompatible with repUblicGnsm-a suspicion
both unjust and ridiculous for the defect under repu-
hcan point Of view the result OF their previous political
not oftheir religious life.
Now whoever knows the history of onr country knows
that the rGdicaissn from which il has riuch 10 appre-
hcnd has been favored by the of foreigners poured
in upon 1t at very early day powerfully Sc
conded we may almost say Introduced by Protestant
Isfmen from the North Of Ireland. The editors who 10
dsgraced the Republicans in their contests at the close
Of the last century and the beginning of the present. with
the old Federal party honored by being the party oi
Washington and Adams for the most part lrshnen,
who had caught their inspiration from French jacobinsn
and not being able 10 fasen il upon their osn country
came hitler TO blast with its sirOcco breath the rich
promises Of young republic In later years eongre-
gated in our larger cities and spread along the lines of
public works the foreign coloniss have been the ready
of violent partlsan and unprincpled deha-
gogues whether native foreign born and have become
important element in political warfare tat we
had the modification i'll our last Presidential election TO
sec both parties make the question turn which hoad
the foreign vote. Here is tie real danger tn'
UP the native American spirit
We do not of course charge this dangerous ra ica ten
dcncy exclusively nor Chiefly TO Irish Cshocs but they
must permit TO say that they have uninen;onay con
rbutcd in former times and to some extent are st con
buting their share TO the danger The Catholic religion
conservative alike opposed TO desp ,tism and to license
and wellnsructed Catholics who governed by their
Catholic convictions and act from delbera,or, always
maintain noble independence and give couutenauce
direct indirect to radicalsm; but there has been poured
in upon Us impulsiye and uninstructed nass without
the first elements of political education mbuea with
aggeatcd notions Of liberty, aud incapable OF applying the
principles of their religion to then politics, who are
easily used by demagoguos OF their conntrymen as well Us
to the election OF candidates unit 10 be eie
waited, and to support fraught with imminent
danger TO The country. The great mass OF The twenty
ousand subscribers to that Ibad sheet called The IA
American if many has. nomnaly lrsh Catholics
and doubt nine tenths Of the foyfvo thousand who
are said have subscribed for The CR,-er TO be conduct
ed bv that Proe slant radical John Mitchell, were also
Irish Catholics who in lage numbers are ready to e low
any radca, if an Irish radical or one VINO can sSiuy
appeal their cherished feelings a. rishncn and Irish
Catholics presume the chief supporters of the So
called Cdtoc Standard published at San Francisco aud
which is utterly radical that we refuse TO take IL from
the postcte. AS long as these facts stare Us IN he sce
"a. IN
are contributing nothing TO strengthen the dangerous rad
cal tendency Of The country. They do 1t by the faculties
they afford 10 the Vaccinations aud lntrgues OF dema'
gogues-not readily admit, by their radical con'e-
tons or intentions.
The great body of the German Catholics rs fas as we
are informed are quiet peaceabe and industrious por
on Of our population ana are oy norsx mo voo Wbr
or Democrat know not and care not but we are as
sured that they in general conservative IN her views
and feelings But the nonC athohc Germans are among
tbe worst radicals in the country. Some OF their Journals
are the vlest that can be Imagined ana some o lne @
ocat;ons ayow doctrines the most horrible 1t mol from
a,boc buf from non Catholic foreigners, that comes ths
;sns DANGER 10 our institutions. Who got up the Be
riots in our principal cities which last winter dsraced
our country home and abroad, ana whch te secunr
,ss dared not oppose lest il should lose for is cAh
dates the foreign vote They were foregners prncpay
German nfdels and Italian patriots Now without .as
elements furnished by foreign iinmsraoh, we d
avsr bsve had A population of character which couid
bsys given occaon 10 the demagoglc and radca sp'rh"
rise TO its present alarming hight. When 'hs - ov
s;dered and also that country mss Decohe a. "oe
retgin eccaorvm Of all nations to which al ,ne ms
cresnts of Europe may flock aud carry on their ar
~ ,,aacs Of nations and social order minge toreiyn
mncs with our own and make the merits OF candidates
5epend on their views of o Connell kossutH, snan
N Rr;en Kink.I Mazzin Ledru-Rolhn, Louis Ngpoieon
" y r; Josenb Nicholas OF Russia or the Sul'an Oh
t Il can surprise no one that there should be IN oar
midst powerful Native American party hea WIN no,
t;v IN foreigners. 1t IL no more tnah "na' We s -
,ond herself with regard French Protestant reia
Gees in the time of Queen Anne. When we consider ia
foreign population the rate OF quarter ol ,'T
OF more is annually poured IN up "a a wiz" md h Gar the