Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-22


and exposed condition trained them to |
hardy habits and cultivated in them every
sterner virtue. They knew privation, ia
tigue, endurance, self-denial, fortitude,
and were made men at arms-cautious,
courageous, generous, just and trusting
in God. They had to fight Indians, from
Phillip, on Massachusetts, Bay, to Powha-
tan. on the river Of Swans And they
had an unexplored continent to subdue,
with its tcemng soil, its majestic forests,
lite lowering mountains, and its unequal,
led rivers. Above all things, they need.
population, more fellow settIers-more
foreigners TO immigrale, and to aid them
IN the task of founders of Empire set be-
fore them, TO open the forests, to level the
bills, and to raise up the valleys of gi-
ant new country. Well, these foreigners
did their task like men. Such work
who can cxaggerate it? They did it
against all odds and in spite of European
oppression. They grew and thrived, un-
I'll they were rich enough to be taxed
They were told taxation was no tyranny.
But these foreigners gave the world new
truth Of freedom. Taxation without rep
resenLatlon, WAS tyranny. The attempt
to impose it upon them the last mite OF it,
made them resolve: "thRt they would
give millions.lor defence but not cent
for tribute" That resolve drove them
10 the necessity of war. and they, For.
eigners, Protestants, Catholics and ALL took
the dire alternative, united as a band Of
brothers, and declared their Independence
upon God alone. And they entered TO
the world a complaint Of gricvauces,-a
Declaration of independence ! This WAS
pretty well TO show Whether foreigners, Of
any and all religions, just fresh from Eu-
rope, could be trusted on the side of Anne
RIGA and liberty. One OF the first of their
complaints was:
He George III. has endeavored to
prevent the population Of these St ties, for
that purpose obstruciing the laws for ma
turalization Of foreigners, refusing to pass
Others to encourage their emigration hi
Their, and raising the conditions of new
appropriations OF land"
There is q proof that they valued the ma
turalization Of foreigners and the innli
grafton of foreigners hither, aud they de-
sired appropriations, new appropriations
Of land for immigrants.
Another complaint was that they had
appealed in vain to " British brethren. -
They said:
1--WE have appealed to their Native
justice and m0Ynanimity and we have
conjured them, by the ties of our com
mon kindred. to disavow these usurYa a.
tons, &c. They, too, have been deaf 10
the voice Of justice and consanguinty.-
We must, therefore, acquicsce in the ne
eessity which denounccs our separation.
onA hold tl,nVo hO,l ~ r
kind, enemies in war, in peace, friends. -
There is proof, that Natiyism can't I'll.
ways be relied on to hel p ones own coun.
Erymen. and that brethren, and kindred,
and consanguinity, will fail whole peo-
pie in trouble, just as kindship too often
fails families and individuals in the trials
Of life.
And" lastly " for the support of this
Declaration, with firm reliance on the
protection Of Divine Providence, We nu
tually plodge to each other our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honor"
There was tolerance, there was a firm
reliance on the same one God there Was
mutually of pledge, each to the other, at
one altar, and there was common stak"
Of sacrifice olives, fortunes and hon pr.'
And who were they? There were Han.
cock the Puritan, Penn the Quaker, Rat
ledge the IIuguenot, Carroll the Catholic
Lee the Cavalier, Jefferson the Free Thin
ker. These, representatives, of all the
signers, representatives Of all the people
Of all the colonies.
Oh my coun'rymen, did not that
"pledge" bind them and us, their heirs,
forever to Faith and hope in God and to
Charity for each other--to Tolerance in
Religion, and to " mutually" in Political
Freedom? Down. down with any or
ganization, then, which "dcnounces" a
Preparation" between the Protestant Vir-
ginia and Catholic MaryIand-between
the children. of Catholic Carroll and
Of Protestant George Wythe. Their
lures and l will redeem their "mutu-
al' pledges with my " life," my fortune. B"
and my /" sacred honor, " so far as in me
lies-So help me Almighty God y
I think that here is proof enough that
" foreigners" and Catholics both entered
rs material elements into our American
ism. But before the 4;h day Of July
there were laws passed Of the highest au-
thority. to which this secret organization
is opposed.
On the 18TH Of June, '7G. the Convention
of Virginia passed a " Declaration Of
Rights" Its 4th section declares "h"t
no man, or set OF men, are entitled to ex
elusive or separate omounenta or privi-
leges from the community. but in consil
GRAFTON Of public services; which not be-
ing decendib!e. neither ought the offices
of Magistrate, Legislator or Judge to be
hereditary"
Now. does the Know Nothing organi
zation not claim for the " Native born"
"set of men" to be entitled to exclusive
privileges from the community as against
Naturalized and Catholic citizens and
thus, by virtue of birth, to inherit the
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