The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-01
For me Union.
NATIVE-AMERIcANISM,

and Practice Of he Government from the First Settlement
I'LL this Tme--No. A.
Mn. EDITOR In the general review which proposed TO
take and reflections history and deductions drawn
hereirom and applied the modern system OF political
native mercanismD or "know-nothingism shall sim
ply glance the in North America between France
and England begun in lT44, and ended in 1903 by the
treaty of Paris February of that year. desire to do
this for first because they the wars that
prepared the colonies thirteen years afterwards TO declare
their independence and eternal separation from
that power support of which they made every and all
the sacrifices that loyal British subjects could for such they
were ana because most of the heroes of the revolutionary
struggle engaged in it and served under the British
flag and secondly because desire to show or, rather 1t
will appear that need not be born under the con-
stitution within the limits of the United States TO be
patriot and 10 hare all the essential qualifications o, good
eaizenan Anercan if you please that the principle of
limited patriotism is absudit reproach upon the hui
race and blasphemy against God, the common pa
rent Of mankind that it is false in history and false in
fac-afalsa in unuM, tasa in omnum," is maxim and
correct principle in law
The wars between France and England in North Ameri-
ca were long and obstinate, continuing nearly twenty
years. from 744 to 1903 The old French war, it is
usually called began in l44 and terminated by the treaty
of AK la Chapee in 74s After peace of only SIX years
it again renewed and prosecuted with every energy
and circumstance of destructive war; until 1883 when the
sovereignty France ended forever in the New World
In this bloody the colonies Of Ehgand afterwad
the thirteen States bore and distinguished part
part that proved their loyalty to the equal to their
transatlantic brethren In this began the military
of Washington colonel in the British army, who
reared in the shadow of the British power and edu
Gated in the maxms and under the influences of the Eng
lsh laws!
When only nineteen years of age find him made ad-
utangeneral of the Virginia militia by the British gov
ernor Dnwidde and invested with power, military and
civil, extraordinary indeed, for young and mex
perenced which shows concusvely that suspicion of
dsoyalty to the king monarchy could lie against him.
At the age of tweny-one find him sent enjoy to
the French to enforce the claims Of his royal master In
the depth of winter and through the painless wilderness
he performed the arduous undertakings which showed such
perseverance, ndomitable courage and Skill as marked
him be the future hero against the power he
then served, and the " Father Of his Country"
In this war, Also we find the gallant Mercer who in l777
fell honorably in the cause of freedom the field of
Princeton. Hugh Mercer Seotehman and pa
triot. So, also do find the noble and virtuous
Montgomery fighting for the King where sixteen years at
forwards he fought and fell for feedomthe Irish hero and
early martyr cause! Native Aneyicanism had
istence Men nongsm! BY the depressed standard
of patriotism and the code of moral action erected by those
conspraors against Freedom and murderers of the unver
sal sentiment ofdevoon to mans natural right these things
could have taken place. because they deny the god
like virtue all except themselves those who may hare been
born al certain time and IN certain latitude! Washing
much Englishman in the political sense as
though he had been born in the city of London and
Mercer and Montgomery; also Franklin Jefferson
and Madison and Henry and the two Adamses and
Hancock and every patriot Of that age In 1854
the colonies sent their deputies TO Albany TO enter into
terms of union and confederation" by which they could
eectuay and successfully prosecute the against
the French in order establish the sovereignty and general
jurisdiction Of England in Amerca and the 4th of July
Benjamin Franklin presented declaration which was
Inv MI and Nyhi
their allegiance British SUBJECTS 'Ts however, mem
orabe and most distinguished fact that the 4th of July
l76 Just twenty-five years afterwards, these
a9jured that allegiance and in the presence Of God and the
universal worid declared themselves longer tie subjects of
King George, but citizens Of Stree and independent States
and in pindcoon Of this declaration pieged their Hces
| tunes, and sacred honor.n
Now should like to know how this could possibly
have happened, if the doctrine of natveAmericansm
know-nohngism be 1t could not for their allegiance
and devotion to the King and Parliament of England dis
qualified Them and rendered them not only then, but for
ever incompetent to discharge any of the duties Of free
Tis true Great Britain holds The absurd doctrine,
that British subject always British subject This
the doctrine of the tories of the revolution This
the issue that led to the Of l8l2thc second of in
dependence in which reaserted the principles of the
revolution and indicated the divine right Of Nature and
man. and God against the arrogant assumption of the adj
vine right ofkings" The heroes of 76 and 1872 entered
their protest against the wicked and unhoy creed the
theory and practice Of this government from the begin
ming to this day, give unqualified hlsehood to this
pretenson despots who would feer and enslave free
and destroy every hope of the oppressed and defeat
every effort to dsenthral themselves The heroic ngra-
ham, in the bay of Smyrna pronounced it lie the mag
unanimous and gallant President Pierce indicated that
declarations and the representatives of twenty-five mil
lions of reemcn Gin Congress assembled" reasserted it,
and compmented the hero that ready upon refusal
to his demand to shake the cradle of oppression with
tempest Of freedom The "stars and the stripes waved
over the exile and tyrants were silent when liberty
spoke Yes, liberty spoke, and not despot, from
the Auocrat of Russia TO the meanest Ashanta chief
that did not hear, and that does understand
| the policy of government and the claims set
up for all mankind. Against these benevolent and
humane principles asserted by this government from its
origin, tyrants, both foreign and domestic have pro-
shall leave this of the here to be resumed in
another connection and return TO consider the subject
first commenced The burden of the between the
principal powers Of Europe in America largely borne
by the colonies though themselves very poor and just be-
ginning TO realize the advantages arising from the long
and doubtful contest with the unsubdued wilderness in
North America, whittier they had fed little more than
century and half before Having grown and prospered
by the neglect of their oppessors, STILL when the day of
trial came and with gratitude almost unnatural, they
| espoused their cause and glored in common triumph !
Their devotion to the sovereignty Of Britain is at
everlasting tribute TO them of principle, and monu
of eternal nfmy against the ungratefu yrant who
would accept the loyalty the treasure and the blood of his
aplr tall y of