The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-31

DC my iutents WlChou or chaIitablet
Thou com in such questionable shape
That will speak TO thee
o. answer me
Let me not burst in ignorance but tell,
Why thy cononiEed boaes, hearsed in DEATH
Have burst their cerementsi why the sopulcbre.
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned,
Hath Cpd his ponderous and marble jaws
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel
Revistst thus the ghmpses of the moon,
Making night hideous and we fools of nature,
so horribly to shake our disposition,
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our sousY
Say, why Is this Wherefore 7 What should we dop
Mr. EDlroR: Through the. kind indulgence already a,
tended to me, propose TO make few remarks only on
subject that appears TO excite curiosity even in an
age of wonders that causes OF correct principles and
honest hearts to apprehend approaching eyiu te
signs OF the times that exctes apprehension in th
minds OF the patriot statesman and philanhrop lest The
unkind aspersions heaped upon the institutions of this
country BY the enemies Of freedom may be realized IN
the downfall and premature destruction Of the nobes M
rio the world has bebeldthe only monument of uni
yersal liberty that has honored and blessed manknd.
vast temple whose broad portals open wide receive into
its bosom the oppressed of every country of every CLINE
where they sit down in quiet and reposc offering no
reward because none asked but devotion and allegiance
to constitutions and laws Of the country and to the cons
tuition, the sacred charter of their and our liberes
ly, and magnanimously gives--gives because he feels
and acknowledges the obligations devote and dedicate
his life to the country of his choice the home where he m
established himself and children who when the exotic
character viii have passed away leaves them American
not merely in name, but in heart and hand
The advantages conferred and received recprocaly ara
incalculabe to EACH The wealth brought here even m M
poor immense and the benefit thus derived to the in
ternal as well foreign Of the nation is fv
Mt ed nv The Stats Of ar,, A..
political economy alone should induce and cita,.
immigration by afordng every inducemcnt to the humble
and honest aborer to amongst us subdue the for
est and reclaim the wilderness and prairie rank in the luz
uriance of Nature immigration has been the lot Of man
IRON the day of the first and greatest and
fixed principle in the memorable destiny of our race
which all yield an obedience and from which no one can
absolve himself We are all immigrants; and it is i'm
migration that has made us what we arc-that ba
given us an existence and name and although thai
name is the legacy of perfdy and fraud still Low
tAnnerica the home Of the frcel The asylum of hun,s
and painting liberty throughout the world Four cenuus
ago. and America was not yetan impenerable gloom cover
ed the vast sea- which fable and creduy pictured as thu
abode of monsters Scya and CAa,yJdis atested mytho
ogy and the Old World looked with Aeredarv terro, On
The wide and illimtable seal The Saxon pirates mir
hang upon the shores Of Britain and Of Gaul and the P
tu2uese mariner and the Italian seaman could not y
Vi hnu F0r nIty-lpe
turtles the worf stood thus and to Catholic emgrant We
indebted for the gandest discovery the noblcs achieve
ment the world has will witness He broh
down the barriers, and opened the way to our father
and they csme-yes the FOREIGNERS came and tbs
brought with them everything in embryo that we now
hayelaws, literature, and religion. They planted then
upon virgin soil, where they grew apace and ICE nov
enjoy the fruit of their planting, their and culture
under adverse and most distressing circumstances Th
NJ A.. H.. AL. Al n
and doubtful voyage debarked their cargoes of adventu
emigrants upon the shores Of New World Puritan
Episcopal and Catholic together or nearly 90 and
established Themselves in different and then remote parts
the country To the stern yoares Of Cromwell the steIra
cebound coast Of Plymouth presented its inhospitabe
nauspcious bosom-whe the sunny sky and the colder
sands of James river fattered the more elegant and M
austerc churchman; and the beautiful Pamxent affords
at once shelter and home to Calvert and the Jespi
Fathers Thus America settled by foregnrs Tbs
found laws here constitutions and no liberty The
found only savage beasts and scarcely less savage mn
joint occupants of dense forest whose awful gloom bun
in sable night the future homes Of those adventure
and their descendants who should after them The
brought liberty with them for the constitutions and By
laws which they made and enacted and by which tbg
were be governed evidence of that and ALTHOUGH
they far from being what they might have been I'd
of the present day could learn wisdom and modea
ton from theml
1t cannot be denied but may be parloned that the Pu
tans prosecuted disseners. They hung banshed, whip
ped and imprisoned Catholic Quaker and Baptist acco
ing 10 their preudioes Roger Williams Baptist prea
err was banished the colony, and led by Providsn
through the wilderness toe pleasant spot where har
rested the night he called Providence, which is
capital Of Rhode Island and OF the elegant dn
in New England II must not be omitted here TO say IN
while the other colonies manifested the cruel and unc
tan disposition 70 persecute the Catholic colony son
afforded asylum to all, and extended free federation
every one thus giving the first example in the New wor
that il is mans right TO worship God he honestly
conscieniously thinks, without fear molestaion.
Other immigrants came, and the colonies increased
number and importance; and after lapse OF nearly
hundred and fifty years there thirteen Of them
about three millions OF soulsCathocs and Protesisn
Jews and Psgans-perhaps all together There
know-nothingsn then thank God The revolution s1
that tried mems souls and ALL except the torie, enters
poor and feeble against England the proud and cruel
prcssor Of her children altecys while with lying
pocrsy she offers freedom TO all the world besidei
The Catholic and Protestant fathers OF the revolution
In Congress together and the Catholic hand and heart
operated to achieve common victory; they signed
Declaration and when the amisble and pious Carroll
Csrroton put his to IT. pledgiug his life orts'
and sacred honor John Adams said il was worth Gah
million II rcproach for jefferson Made'
Adams, Hancock, and Henry, with Washington aih
head 10 sit in solemn consultation about the Liberties
the colonies and the world with Carroll Thornton wills
and Smith No; the discovery Of Catholic influence
ing dangerous TO freedom not then suspected BY
wisdom of those men, whose sagacty and justice viii
stand the mperisheble monument Of true greatness