Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-08-30
DAILY IIRGINIAN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. ~, Is5l.

ton OF the Democratic press are actuated by the
hostility they exhibit towards the Know Nothings
In doing stated that most of the emigrani
population. attracted by the of Democracy
associate themselves with that party, and thai
this influence of mere name, one too which ha.
acquired sense different from that il originally
imported. to be accounted for by the fact,
that the emigrants chiefly come from 1.-THE lewe1
walks oflife,' and are consequently not prepared
by education and habits of thought, intelligently
to take sides upon the great questions which di-
vide parties. These remarks. it appears. have
greatly outraged rhe sensbilites Of cur ghboar
of the Republican, who thus dscourses thereon
We quote his language to show, not only that II
Is irrelevant to any thing said Gu thc subject.
but to endorse it as expressing and well express
ing what are ear views in regard to The pa
tretisn,and many brilliant light, Of intellectual
splendor which have doomed up from the mental
night of''the lever classes particularly Of Eng
land
I'VE above the paltry demagog.m that
would seek to array the poor against the rich, or
spit up society into political classes. And tits
because we are above this demagngUsm aud
against tins organization of our people into class
es. that NE deprecate all such unjust rctecton
upon any walk If life. That either patriotism,
or intelieotls tho peculiar characteristic of the
rieh Is an assertion refutod on every page OF
history Many "A starving and INDECENT son of
genius has shown that ignorance i not the doom
Of the lower WALKS OF life aud common soldiers
have endured hardships and brayed dangers as
great as any ever suffered or dared by cphulctt-
ed heroes. How ridiculous then such sneersl
Surely he cannot know n great deal of our inst
itnsons who could indulge in them Or party
prejudices must have blinded him 10 the precep
ton of them. Even in monarchial Governments
where hereditary xcaltb-where obstacle natur-
al aud Legislative oppose--where attachment 10
nobility II the impnlse of natural feeling and
hostility to the rise Of new men equally so-cvc-
~ page Of their history Is dotted with the record
I'd glory If some scholar, poet, orator, philo>oph
er hero sprung from the lower walks of life
Nobility itself has long since, even with its own
dependents, surrendered and given up this
elusive claim 10 intellect. courage, OF my other
high trait Whether thu clam is 10 be revived
here in America Is a question we leave fHtuTe
developments to solve
We admit then. every syllable of onr ncighbor'-
fine writing nbout the patriotism of the 'miEraut
Population-the frequency Of high intellectual
endowfnents in lowly stations-the struggles Of
poverty stricken genius but it il nothing 70 the
purpose when the question is whether this pop
nlation does not become democratic because the
name OF democracy suggests ideas Of the snPre-
macy Of the masses aud whether tbs circum-
stance does not furnish an explanation Of the
viralence With which the Know Nothings are MS
sailed in certain quarters.
cur proposition Wa. that the hundreds Of thou.
sands annually landed from the smegrant ships
are, for The most part, from tie lower walks of
life This being matter Of fact could not lie
gainsaid, but furnished text for paragraph
about "arrayiue the poor against the rich, and
the organization OF our people INTO political.
classes" 1t passes our ingenuity Il imagine
what lawof suggestion could associate these iden-
with our article, to which theY are rs iueonsc-
quential as any other top.o could be.
But since our neighbor is % Jealous in hi
championship Of the forc-n population and
4f4uh discard a. sueer what Sc -lHtfdns ninct.
"a would AK him grayey whether hc considers
ne questions which disid, parties among Us, ms
Of such shallow import, or our -ystem one Of
such simplicity, that they may be- coupgehendcd
at a glance by persons Of any cla.-. and Of any
degree of enlightenment. l. h competent to
enter upon the duties Of citaep - =. Arsen-
tine Republic OF 10 pronounce apon the quallil-
cations of the members Of the heT Spansn eahj-
net Yet il l. ii. business to deal with pc IL
cal matters. Nothing Is more common than to
detect in English journals, conducted lay men of
the lsrge-t acquaintance with the affairs OF tho
world the most utter ignorance Of our domestic
politics. But the omigrant population have en-
joyed none of the advantages possessed by our
friend Of the Republican and the editors Of the
a. L.. e Ia t,,lttt
cal education which even the most ilIiterato of
our own people possess. The very pressure
which they obey in coming hther, is the want
not only of the means of mental cultivation, but
even of sabsst stance.
The following melancholy iaets in confederation
Of this view find copied in the Clifton, by
Jno. Mitchell, from the letters of Mr.. {. L.
Bruce written from England. 1t would be I'M
reasonable to suppose that these beings were pre-
pared TO enter upon the duties of American citi-
gems. And it is from such,representing the lowest
order in 1.-THE lower walks of life" that comes II
vast majority of the hordes of emigrants who are
annually landed at New York The writer says
'.lt is not merely, that you pass through
filthy streets and meet with wTetchcd and aban-
doned men and women, and see old rookcries of
murder and of crime. Such things are 10 be
met with in some degree, even il the new streets
Of our newest cities in America. But it is the
amount, the mass of these evils, which astounds.
To 90 through school after school, refuge after
refuge, aud see in every new place-not merely
ragged and dirty and criminal children-but
children absolutely homeless, and cast out, with
all the marks on face and body Of being the wild
animals of the street; to hear that those in the
private institutions are but smnll part Of thj-
refuse rnnnlatinr IN the CITY and tint still be-