The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-08-16
NUMBER 4S.
From The Cincinnati Enquirer.
BfgOWNSON. REViEW-NATlV

IN u M DLh 40.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
BROWNSON'S S REViEW-NATlVE
AMERI( ANISM.
Everybody knaws that Ores,es A Brownsol
is, ore "t The siaunch+st st and probably the mos
ultra Knmau Caihs!ses IN the United States II
il man If unqnesio- cd ability. and his Qiar
terly Review, published in Boston, may be con
sidercd one of tn" great organs of the CaIheli'
Church in tins C, uniry tie is an American b,
birth, and E,r many y, ars was as strong a Pro-
tes,ant as Re is now a Catholic. The July mum
ber Of his &c ,arl-rly c'.n,a,ns an article upor
Native Americanism vf the most extraofdinar,
character
/ The article is so remarkable, .manat,n from
him, that VIC will make liberal extracts frnn, i,
Mn. Brownson says that he is never pleased I,
find Catholic journals sneering at "Nativism,
'hat it is in bad taste and though II may pleas.
a certain class Of their readers, can hardly fai
tn be understood in a wider sense, and tn give
offence even b. tsb, ~ Of their Catholic friends
whose grandiaihers and grandmoihers were
American born. Natinnali'y is a thing whtc eli
foreigners are always required I" treat will
Guns de rari inn and it rs never p udpn it prnc,
and go"d will are desired, to t,eat It wi II lev
ty or contempt Mr.. Br"wDs n adds, thai
say what you will, the Americans have a ma
,ionality
II is true that the population OF The tinted
States is composed Of English. l-ish, German
French, Scotch, Dntch, WeIch, Nnrwcgians
Africans, ard Asaics, to say nn,Li-g the
ab rIgines but the population OF Eny'l h origin
and descent are the predomina,ing class, v ry
n arly much so as in England usrlf. tt ey
for The United States as nation first in
field, the original germ of the great American
people. and rhey constitute at least three iourths
OF the white population Of the country They
the original source IF American nationality,
the founders of American institutions, and il is
through their heart that flows the grand and
fertiIizing current IF American lite. II is idle
to deny it, or be angry with i
The speculation of German writer's, that il,
must ultimately become German, and " ssrne
Irish editors that it must ultimately become Gel
tic, are worthy of no attention. No nationality
here can stand a moment before the Anglo
American. 1t is the all absorbing power, and
cannot be absorbed or essentially m"dii-d by
any other. This, quarrel with il as you will, is
a "ffxed fact
Brownson after admonsh,ng the foreigners
that they have not the same right to interfere
in political matters as those that are native
and to the MINOR born, thus plainly talks To
them.
If these citizens form in some respects
party, as were q people, by the mselves, aid are
found Organizing and drilling military compa
nies Of their own wi h strong .oeigA sympa
,hies, and an'ipathes, and represented by PIE 50
discussing freely and with little moderation ali
questions Of internal policy, and circulating al
most exclusively among themselves, LpudIy
boasting their ability to throw out or throw in
of h., e,.y:n NJ
elect or defeat any candidate for the Presidency,
as he is or is not acceptable to them, an out
break of natrve Americanisin all over The coun.
try is the most natural thing in the world.
He assures his Catholic friends tina, the senti.
ment which underlies Native Americans, is as
strong in he bosoms Of American Catholics as
it is in the bosom OF American Prpiestants.
Our foreign born citizrns must permit US to
say that they have BET n impruient, and have
committed some serious mistakes. 1t il wrong
tn claim as a natural right what is only boon
No :,atinn is bound to admit inre gners tn all
the rights and immuniles of natural born citi.
zens.
But whatever the doctrine they axow, or the
real convictions Of their minds, r must be con.
ceded that the great body Of forei Iners, natur-
alzed or simply resident among us, not re-
publican in heir spirit, their interior habits and
their Interior life and discipline. The have not
that inward and abiding sense of the state of
law in the abstract, aud Of liberty with author
ily, which is so essential 10 practical as dis
,inguished from theorical repubicanism-
Hence their invariable tendency to confound
repUbIicanisn with democracy, aud democracy,
with radicalsm. They lack practical republican
training.
Will. we defend the sentinss~t Oh American
nationality, and aie so ar on tn. side Of Native
Americansnl, We must utterly repudiate tie
Native American party, SO called, for its real
leader are foreigners, mostly apostate Of rene
gade Catholics of the Padre Gavazzi stamp -
Those vile European vagabonds have seized
upon the honest native American and republi
can sentiment of the country, and have sought
to perver, ii to mere anti Popcry sentiment.
Still, as Catholics we are not disposed to offer
any opposition to N,tive AmeIicanism, If il
will only be impartial and not discrimlna,.
against us. II it choose b, nspeaI the naaurali- :
zaii"n laws, and enact that here 6er, no person
not born in the c,unapy OF Of American parents
temporarily resident abroad, shall have .he
right to vote in our elections, or be- eligible Ia
any Office but c''nceding the full right Of citi-
zens to all born in the country, without regard
to the nationality of their parcn's, We shall
ourselv offer no opposition. The true poll
cy for every republican country, we believe, il
to con6ne suffrage and elig,bly To natural born
citizens, although it should ordinary render ma
iuralz,tion, so far rs civil dis s'ingushed fr m
political citizenship is concerned. as easy at
possible II the trainers our government IlaC
contemplated such an influx Of foreigners, as we
have witnessed for the last f. years, we. think
they would have conf ed the political rights OF
/ l1,tt1
born citizens. There would have been no hard
ship to foreigners in this there would be nc
| hardship in dung 8" now TO those not already
naturaized, because 10 foreigners can claim
these rights as na'u'al right. The emigran
could MT Then, indeed, hope To be voter or az
| office holder himself but he C, uid acquire ant
transmit real estate enj y the protect on Of the
| laws, and ihe peace and prosperity OF the coun
try, and be cons led by knowing that his chill
dren would be Citizens, and placed politically
"n an equal foo'ins with hers