The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-11-24
From the New YOIb Tribune
"Ameriea for Americ cansT n

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restorer Of an enfeebled aud docsyr0 nay
tiSnality, but in doing 80 it ataly nis.
takes the basis and character u .ha A.
merican people. II seizes hol5 IA nsg.
row and sectional patriotism Il ma a.
tains primogeAiiure Of first SO l,s, Il,
arrogates the prerOgatives Of certain
dominant race, end calls all th. Ameris
canism. Young America, acc giag 90
the prevailing ideal type, is b,aray and
bruggadocio youth, with Colts revolven
n his belt and bowie.knfe in his bo.
som,ready, at amomen,'s warning, TO shoot
Mexican, mob an IriShman, or Iarrup
niger.
Now the truth is that the American
nationality, which this new school Of
statemen have undertaken 10 reinatate, is
a thing Of ideas solely and not thing of
races. 1t is neither English, nor Irish,
nor Dutch, nor French; il is not Puritan
nor Cavalier; il is not North nor South;
our nationality is our PelEgovernment,
our system Of popular liberty and equal
law. The man who is imbued with q
genuine democracy, who believes that
rational liberty has no other restrain: or
limit than that imposed by righteous aud
self,enac.ed laws, is in bis very hearts
core American, though he first landed
from an emigrant ship this morning;
while the aristocrat, the tyrant, the 6lli.
clustering stakeholder, the demsgogue
plotter asains. the liberties of the people
an alien and a foreigner, though native
American blood has flowed in his veins
since the frs! Pilgrim child was born iu
the colony Of Plymouth. The noble cid
Philosopher and patriot Paul, had a just
conception Of what constituted true az
tionality, as it regarded his own people
when he wrote: "He is not Jew which
is one outwardly; neither is that circum>
cision which is outward in the Aesh. But
ne is a Jew which is one inwsrdly, and
circumcision is that OF the heart, 10 the
spirit and not in tho letter." Principles
and not nalivities constitute an AmeEi~
can. Hugo and Mozzini are better A.
mericans than Douglas and Petit, be-
cause they are better democrats.
Applying terms in any other senses
than This, nothing is more untrue TO the
whole spirit and meaning Of our history
than the maxim, "America for the A.
3 mericanS." Aside from the identity oI
. our national principles we have no ne
,ional identity, nor shall we have for cen,
turies. A single race, the Spanish, col
, onized the greater par! Of South Amsri'
ca and Mexico, but to form the Amer
T can nation England contributed lie Pu.
r.ans and lis Cavaliers, Holland the col.
onies OF Eew-Amsterdam, and France
the Hugueno!s Of Carolina and the I'D
J venturers of Louisiana while almost ever,
t people of Europe added some minor eis'
! mens to the compound, whose fusion il
: yet going on. All the extremes Of re
: ligiouE faith in Chrislendcm were repre-
:, sented, from the Methodsts who settle,
}, Georgia 10 the Roman Catholics who
: founded tho State of Maryland. Up Il
the Revolution il was The policy o
our country 10 encourage European ea
grafton, and the first settlers were hu
: emigrsnts Of on caller day. The ReVo
luton was war Of opinion end not wa
0 of hostile peoples. Almost moiety o
0 the colonisls sided with the Mother Coun
= try, aud either actively or passively join
: ed in its attempt TO coeEce the rebellion
Z The character Of the revolutionary strug
f gle attracted foreign aid. just as the char
e acter Of the American civilization ant
3 government, attracted European sympathy
8 and cooperation both before and al,e
: the National independence. 90 the spec
tacle was presented OF German ant
: French counts, and Polish noblemeI
leading our revolutionary armies, while
, some Of our most popular generals wer'
native-born subjec's Of the very king wh'
was trying 10 conquer u'.
When tho achievement Of Nations
independence threw upon our fathers
the responsibility Of sharing a permanen
, policy for State, shey wisely adopted
the principle Of free tolerance Of oil Feli'
| eious creeds, and equal privileges 10
! men Of whatever nativity. They saw tha
the magnificent country, which bad fallsI
, to them for heritage, nseded the myria'
bands Of labor to develop ito wealth, an'