Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-11-10


length. For upwards Of half century,
the flood gates of England, ireland, Scot
land, and Germany have been opened and
their dense population let loose upon US,
and as matter of course, those who are
we'll enough off at home having no induce
ment to leave, much of this emigration
has been of an exceedingly equivocal cha
racter. Of this however, no especial com
plaint has been made, because, for the
most part, the new recruits speak the same
language, and to some extent, are familiar
with the principles of our government, OF
at least have some considerable apprecia-
ton of the benefits of liberty and therefore
some sense ofthe responsibilities consequent
upon its enjoyment. The case, however, lis
rapidly changing. BY the conquest Of
Mexico aud the acquisition Of territory,
consequent thereon, thousands upon thou
sands of people we're, at one fell swoop,
encircled with the mantle of citizenship.
before they knew a word of our language,
or even felt the first pulsation towards ap-
preciating the genius of free govern
ment. Men without religious sentiment,
women with in6del propensities, reared
without moral sensibilities, speaking in a
foreign tongue, and, indeed, existing in q
semi -barbarous state, were at once, with
unwashed hands and unclean garments,
placed within the inner temple Of freedom,
dumb with the blindness of their igno-
rance, and callous to the new situation in
which they found themselves. The gene
rous heart Of the people, however, submits,
and the scarce civilized denizens of the
plains of Mexico are taken into fraternal
connection, with the impulsive hope that
ere long they will learn the blessings Of
liberty, and evince their capacity for citi-
zeuship in Republic Of civilized people.
But another cycle in the round of years
presents itself, and the golden hills and
valleys of California become peopled With
the sturdy sons of the Atlantic States, un-
til an empire in greatness breaks upon
the world on the Pacific. Hence the SWELL
ing trains from the bsrbarous nations of
the Pacific rush to the new State, and the
influx Of Cinnamon into California is 60
ing on at rate far, very far, surpassiug
the increase of population by our own
people, or from any other source.
A New York cotemporary, referring to
this subject, says:
at would not require very much argu-
ment to satisfy any American Of the mex
pediency of raising these Asiatics to the
rank of American citizens. In fact it would
be matter which his pride in the insti-
tutions of his country would hardly permit
him to entertain at all. To talk of divid-
ing his sovereignty as an American free.
man, and all the sacred responsibilities in-
volved therein, with Pagan idolatOr, 10
to insult him."
And yet the five years which are under
the naturalization laws of the country, only
necessary to pass around, before some par
ty can claim the votes Of these people,
will be upon them, and they, unwashed Of
their paganism or their barbarity, utterly
unable to understand the FIRST principles of
self-government, are to take the position
indicated, and become not only the Legis-
lators, but in effect, in the hands Of supple
instruments, the Governors Of the land.
We are neither political Native Ameri-
cans or Know No,hings, but the reflections
in which We have been indulging, forces
upon US the conviction, that the claim Of
true progress indicates the fact, that the
"value of American citizenship has quite
reached its minimum" and that it will
bear cheapening but very little longer.
The future then is the field for action,
and the theatre of that action must be the
halls Of the National Legislature at WASH
ington, where the principle must be
distinctly enunciated that no more barba-
rous territory is to be acquired, either for
slavery or freedom, and that mankind shall
all learn first to bear the honor of citizen.
snip before they shall be permitted to en-
Joy its benefts.-Rila. Daily News.
The Legislature at St. Johns, N. B.,
after having passed an act ad-
mitting foreign breadstuffs, salted meats,
molasses and Goals free Of duty, and rati-
flying the Reciprocity Treaty.
A few days ago, as the wife Of butch
er, of Cresley, Willis, England, was white
washing their cottage, she pulled away an
old board from the ceiling, when f370 in
gold fell to the floor.
Aristotle, on being censured for bestow-
ing aims on a bad man, made the follow
ing noble reply: II did no. give it to the
man; gave it to the humanity"
The Baltimore Clipper was compelled
yesterday to use colorcd paper, in conse-
quence of its inability to procure white.
1t is presumed the Emperor and EN-
pres, of France will visit Queen and Prince |