The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-23

United States Of North America. Nowhere is the si,I
binding nowhere Is there ,ooethe love
Of home which Is the surest foundation Of the love Of
coun'ry-nowhere is any countrys romance OF history
felt now here the social relations better
moral foundation nowhere there a. clear identity OF
parcnsgt and offspring, nowhere are sons and daughters
educated TO liberty" nowhere have any people such
nowhere have they such freedom OF self government no
where Is there such trained hatred Of kings lords and
arst0craces nowhere Is there selfdependence or
more independence Of the Old World its tradtons-in
. word nowhere is there country whose people have
item love that land which is their country, and that
spot which is their home. j am an American--a Viz
ginan. Prouder than ever 10 have said, 81 am 4 10
man ciisenl" So far from Brother Jonathan wanting
national feeling, he IL justly suspected abroad OF
little too much pride and bigotry Of country. The
Revolution and the last with Great Britain tried u.s.
and the late conquest of Mexico found not wanting
In the sentmentality Of naonalism. Though young
we have already dialect and a mannerisu, and our
customs and costume A city dandy may have his
coat cut in Paris but he would fight Frcnchman in the
cloth of his country as quick to-day, as Marion
coat Engishman in Ito. And peace has tried our pa
triotism more than What people have more rea-
to love country from the labor they have bestowed
upon its developement by the arts Of industry MOI
long a. the memory OF George Washington ves-as long
there shah be 22d Of February and 4th of July
"a long the everlasting mountains of this continent
stand, and our Father Of Waters flows there viii be
fathers to hand down the stories which make hearts
to glow, and mothers to sing Hail Columbia to their
TO revive sinking patriotism in the hearts of our
people. And who would have them be selfish In their
freedom Frecdoml Iibertyl selfish and exclusivei
Never for it consumeth not in its use, but like fro in
magnifyng; by mFarting its sparks and its rays OF
light and Of heat Is there any necessity from abroad
and against what is it levelled? Against foreigners by
birth.
When we were as weak as three Millions we relied
largely foreigners by birth to defend and aid
in securing independence. Now that We are twenty
two millions strong, how is It We have become SO
inn fnara In m Ia
Of liberties BY foreigners Verify, this seemeth
Know Nothngs were reversing the order of things
that there is another and different feeling from that
Of the fear arising from Of weakness. II comes
rather from q proud consciousness of overweenng
strength They wax strong rather and would kick like
croc feeling in the true sense which would say to the
friends Of freedom born abroad
We had need of you, and were glad your aid when
we were weak; but we are now SO Independent Of you
that we are not compelled to allow you to enjoy
human rights though to deprive YOU Of their common
enjoyment viii not enrich us the more and will make
you poor indeed pn
But not only is II leyeled against foreigners by birth
but against the Pope of Rome.
There was once time when the very name of Pope
frightened the children Of the nursery But now,
now who can be frightened by the temporal eccle
siastical authority Of Plus IX Has he got back to
Rome from his late excursons Who are hi bodyguard
thcreS Have the lips of crowned head kissed his big
toe for centuryf Are any POOR to do his Italian
crown any reverence? DO not two Catholic powers,
France and Austria hold all his dominion in deests
BILE dependency What army, what revenue, what
diplomacy, what church domination, in the Catho
lie countries Of the Old the New World, has hes Why,
the idea Of the Popes influence at this day is prepos
terous "a that of gunpowder plot. would as soon
think of dreadng the ghost of Guy Fawkes.
No, there is no necessity from either oppression
weakness Of Protestants natives They both free
and strong and do they now, because they rich in
civil and religious freedom, WISH in turn to persecute
and exclude the fallen and the down trodden Of the
earth: God Forbid
second.-But there is not only no necessity for this
secre. political organization but It is against the spirit
in this republic render themselves ridiculous and often
sye too by the vain pretenslons to the exciting acct
dents of birth. We in Virginia not seldom pointed
at for double f. VS. of ancestral arrogance But
whoever thought that pretenson of this sort
to be set By exclusives for the republic ITSELF Some
OF the ancient European people may boast of their pro
topass, and of their being themselves antochtoncs"
that they had fathers and mothers from near Adam,
whom they can name as their first formers and that
they are Of the same unnixed blood, original inhat-
tanis Of their country But who were protoplastsr
English Irish. Scotch Germans Dutch, Swedes french
Swiss Spanish, Italian Ethiopian-a people Of all
tons, tribes complications languages and religions And
who alone ''antochtones' here in North American
Why, the Indians They the only true natives. One
thing We have, and that moro distinctly than any
other nation: we have our "eponymas." We can name
reeur to fable Of wolf TO whep us into existence
Ii may be hard to fix niundi the year of
Noah, food, or the building q Rome Rome may
Of The Abyssines, the ArabaIs theirs OF the flight u
Gsbom.t, the Persians theirs of the coronation of
Iesdegerdis but dates from the declaration of
Independence among the nations Of the earth-tho 4th
dry Of July A. d. l776. As nation we arc but seven
tyeght years of age Many person now living who
alive before this nation born. And the anccs
tors OF this people about two centuries only ago.
foreigners every of them coming TO this country to
take away from the aborgines the sntochtones -
ond to take possession of ii by authority either directly
derivatvey of Papal power His Holiness the Pope
the great grantor OF all the countries oG North
America. This fiction was fact OF the history of ell
first discoveries and settlements Foreigners in the
name Of The Pope and Mother Church a took possession
heirs, and against the heather forever And al
ready their descendants for excluding foreigners and
the fores followers from equal enjoyment Of the pri
yileses % this same possession So strange il human
history. Christopher Columbus Ferdinand and Isabel
Ia What would they have thought of this, had;they
it when they touched continent and called Il
theirs in the name of the Holy Trinity By authority Of
the keeper Of the keys Of heaven and of the great gntor
become OF national titles 70 the northeastern and
norhw stern boundaries but for the plea Of this authc
Following the discovery AMI the possession OF the
country by foreigners, in virtue Of Catholic majesty
came the settlements of the country by force and
traint Of religious intolerance and pcrsc cuton Pur
tans, Huguenots, Cavaliers, Catholics, Quakersll came
to Western ws each in turs prosecuted and pcrsecu-
most odpu OF tho Of the BID
po.isTnts only glory and grace is that IL made thou
sands OF martyrs 1t delayed every country and tainted
Of every sect with blood-wih the blood Of
every human sacrifice Which honest ana earnest in
its faththc hypocrites and kinds of profession alone
escaping the swords the flames of persecution. The
COLONIES backened by the burnings of the stake.
and were dyed red with the blood OF intolerance. The
American Revolution made era OF liberty 10
dawnthe Of the liberty Of conscience If there 10
any essence in America nisi the very salt vherewh it
is sayored is the freedom Of opinion and the liberty Of
conscience Is il proposed that shall go back TO
the deeds Of The dark ages OF despom;that this broad
land still unoccupicd in than half OF its virgin
soil shall lor ger be asylum for the oppressed
that here, elsewhere, and again. of lid, shall
be buTd cncd by their births and chained for their opn-
ions trus. that design of that intent will remain .
secret buried forever.
have said this organization was against the spirit Of
laws. Ger laws sprang from the necessity of the
condition Of carly settlers. They brought with
them from England their Penaes the household gods OF
Anglo Saxon race, the liberties Of Magma Chara the
trial by jury the judgment Of the peers and the other
nunimcnts Of human dignity aud human rights secured
by tie FIRST English charter These, foreigners brought
with them from Europe. Hero they found the virtues
to extend these rights and their Inuniments. The
neglect of the mother country left them Scldcrens ent
and self reliant until they thoroughly taught the
lessons Of self-goyernment-that they coald be their
soyercgns, and tho very experience OF desrotis
they bad tasted made them hate tyratt@, either
elective hereditary Their destitute aud exposed
dillon trained them to hardy habits, aud cultivated IN