New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-14

~ohs us no prejudice and only tends to carry ou,
svp views. accept il and hna no fault fault with ah
S and ia. they abuse
hospitality although they may have violated the letter OF
We are divided and likely to be divided, into
great political parties very nearly equal in strength IT,
IN the contests between these parties re defeated party
nds or imagnes that is defeat TO the votes Of
nauralzed citizens who had been induced by the dema
rorues of the other side 10 90 in body against IT, IL very
naturally feels sentiment Of nationality offended and
tr resetrnent kinded ssnst these naturazed citizens
II these czens form in respect party were
peope by themselves ard found organizing and drill
ing military companies If their own with strong foreign
mpaihes and aniipathies and represented by press
discussing freely and with little moderation all Questions
Of internal and external policy and circulating almost
su.vely among themselves, loudly boastng their ability
10 throw out or throw in either of the great parties at
will and 20 elect defeat eny candidate for the Presiden
cy. ss he is not acceptable them outbreak Of
Native Amercansm all the country is the most na.u
80 further, and declam against Native Amercanism vitu
Iers;e or ridcuo, under the Of "Na'yvsm,' the
strong feeling Of nationality which possessed BY every
American, denounce il snti-repubican anti-dem
ocra,ic, claim all that noble comnendabei in past
history, whether in literature or science art or industry
the accumulated wrath Of ages upon the AngioSaxon
from which tho majority Of us have sprung repre-
fruitful only in works of darkness nothing more likely
20 result than storm Of Native American ndig ignaon
that pcwsS ia the country will be able TO Withstand
l! s in human nature, and must be expected however
much we may lament II.
We speak not here in the interest Of navos Of An
co-imericsEs, but in that Of the foreign population
whether Baaralzed simply residen. in the country
The ADgoAmercans abundsntly able take of
themselves, and i provoked to extreme measures the
population Of foreign birth would find Themselves wholly
a. thsir mercy. We speak to warn our foreign-born
ropr,a;ion against provoking contest with Native
hmeiic,hism which most assuredly viii not result to Their
SGvanfsse ltey must beware of confoundng the proper
Native American feeling with the anti-Ca,holc feeling
We oTTsoives, when frat Catholic committed thai mas
take, but We now convinced that however The two
ieeDg, have been combined 10y the craft OF NoPopety
ucn and our imprudence, they are at bottom essen
hay distinct and is most assuredly for our interest TO
Go al in power 20 keep them separate. The Native
Amercen feeling, which s Tie sentiment OF nationality
TO some extent allied with the anti Cathoic feeling we
grant, but only because those who have most offended it
lGe times are presumed 10 be- attached to the
Catholic religion. But this Is mere accident. The
native American party commenced against the foreigner
long before there Catholics enough here to alarm the
Proesansm of the country, and the frs paper started
the special organ Of that party was condu tied BY Cath
Oics descended on side at least from an old Amer
Catholic family. We Catholic friends
that the sentiment which underlies native Amercanis is
strong in the bosom Of American Catholics ii is in the
bosom Of American Pro:estants If the party assumes
anti Catholic character, the il 10 be found in
iho cIaf Of the NoPopey leaders, and in the opposition
eigntrs.
Our fcreien-born citizens mus. permit to ssy that
they have been imprudent and have committed some
rions mistakes. 1t is wrong to claim as natural right
What is really only boon. No nation il bound 20 al nit
foreigners TO all the rights and nuntes Of natural born
citizens Men naturally attached to their native SOIL
and that soil have etain natural and naenable rights
which the Government bound recognize and protect
tut they do not and cannot carry their rights with them
70 another country. II they choose to eigra,e and
their residence elsewhere they must accept il subject 10
suoh conditions not repugnant 70 the getuoa "a the
nation which comedies sees proper to annex Inc ma
ton has the natural right to preserve ITSELF and that which
Constitutes it what it is-its national spirit, genius,
usages aud customsand therefore has natural
right guard ageinst any influx of foreigners, which, in
ts judgment incompatible with the maintenance of its
Identity For foreigners to claim as natural right to be
placed equal footing with natural born citizens Is
entirely misnterpret American Rtpublicanim, and to
assert that abomnabe doctrine Of the solidarity Of peo
ples maintained by the infamous revOutionists of Eu
rope. ard which ncom pstble only with all regular
government, but with all national independence.
Naturalization being poon not natural and ndefea-
sible right they who receive should always be careful
10 Push the political rights comedies to their
hints The country does, and with the best intentions in
The word always will draw ne of distinction between
them and her naturaborn citizens. Ii is not in na-
that should be otherwise. She vii. put up without
yros cfese in the latter, with what che would toer
ate a moment in the former. We, although a Catholic,
may say herd things against the AngloSaxon race and
still he tolerated though not readily if Pro-
tetanf because it is well known that belong to that
race selves and do not hesitate TO it in the face
cf Celtic friends but let naturazed citizen OF
o'her do it, and American blood would
boil with indignation. man may scold his wife, for
she is his and il is all in the family but lei stranger at
tempt the thing and the husband If halt man, will
kuock him down. least turn him out of doors with
significant kick behind not likely soon to be forgotten
An Ishman may what he peases against his country
men, provided he does not separate himself from them,
and s retain his standing with them but let English
man or an Anglo American say tithe much and he
will have the whole Irish nationality about bls ears All
this human nature and to be expected we love the
rshman all the better for it, and heart Is drawn out
TO him when find him, in the aror OF his nationality
and the tenderness of his patriotic affection Addressing his
country his mistress laying his heart at her eet or
pressing her TO his boeon But SINCE tsnstura shcu
leach nauraxed citizens 10 be on their guard against
wounding American national sensbily, which perhaps
as delicate and intense their and that there are
certain liberties which in common prudence stranger
bonn may not take. They may vote at elections freely,
according 10 their honest convictions but they may
not make themselves violent partsans and enter with ar
dor the heated action and envenomed contests OF po
htical parties They may be voters bat not canvasses
certain moderation, prudent reserve III the exercise
f their franchises is expected OF them, and they cannot
60 the lengths they might If naturalborn citzen With
cut giving serious ofense
We tel our foreign Journalists ana pohticlahs ano we
do 60 the mere readily because they know that we are the
friend the enemy Of the foreign population oil our
country iha they push the pretensions OF Their ccs'u-
ents 70 an extreme which American nationality VIII not
even for their defense the controversy excited by
:he Native American party. They cannot 40 IL wtnou'
making matters much for their countrymen Iheir
words when well meant and true enough al oo'o
lrcduced eject which they do not intend because they
do fully know ana because their owl hearts 90 nol
beat with the pulses of Amerlcan lfc lhey SPEAK
not our language with the national accent Never irisa
uasliot made greater blander than did Thomas Mooney
Esquire when he recommended his couutment to make
presents Of his History Of freoad 10 their AMERICAN
fends Nothing would more prejudice the lrsh enarac
tor In the American mind than the general study OF 'ha
hook Most of the books pamphlets discourses ani Jour-
mails designed to vindcaie the IRISH in
tended or expected What the Irish should ann az is hoI
M excite pity for the misfor,unes OF their country OF
teasr for the wrongs they have for so many ages ehu"e
The restoration of nation is hopeless when can ohS
hos.t that he's passed away or chant th'ugn
rey,r So sweet and musical wall OF sorrow INC "vu
lives in the prescn it cares little Tor s.o! WIZ. M s
90, snd Though il may be momenariiy affected by pa
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