New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-21
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ia it tit that populous and a strong nation
should on iii own soil, egoverned BY com
pasative handful u foreigners. ignorant of ii
laws yet claiming to administer them, ana
seising upon its Offices while yet hardly speak
ing iii language Can this DO just / Ought i
10 10 borne Should ii be asked
NOT unless the being born abroad eonfers
some right over us not unless We and our
country belong to every body but ourselves not
unless Americans are altogether inferior 70 those
born elsewhere, unworthy Of freedom and inca
pablo Of self government
Are Nj inferior to even THE most unedueated
class Of tho two nations that chiefly lord it over
ins-.she Irish ina Germans # We are, al this
il but right
Il But iii What respect areBWe inferior 70 these
i peoples Arc Ke barbarians, and do they come
ii eniighaan Is Are We rude. and do they
como Is polish us Are We pagan, and do they
mean % christianize us
Suppose ever ell this, and that the most I'M
fortunate and ssdown -droddens Of European pop
niations. who tell us they were slaves At home,
ought still, when they come among Us. to be
our masters, because they stand Az high above
ID as we do ADORE the red skins of our forests
and prairies. Suppose Ill Thu: still, We do not
treatsthe Indians as these people are treating
u.s. We leave them to govern themselves by
their own laws and their own men We only
exercise oyer them some general powers. chiefly
for the sake of keeping them at peace with each
sotherand Of preventing greg shops among them
We paw them annnities. send the Bible and the
schooIsmaster among them, furnish them the
implements of regular husbandry, and endeavor
to teach them their use. We protect and We
try 70 improve them,
Ii But what do our foreign masters do for lis |
10 they protect us from foreign nations Quite
the contrary they are always wanting to drag
Us into aimless quarrels with everybody. DO
they keep Us ut peace among ourselves BY no
manner of means They are always auarreling
with iii and even with each other, about Heaven
knows what about White Boys and Orange
men, Gorkonians md landowners immemorial
feuds and fights, that nobody ever understood,
md which are only the fercer for peoples not
knowing what they mean. The Germans and
Italians are quieter, md only raise riot now
and then but the Irish are forever kicking up
rows and breaking heads getting up mobs, max
ing our elections scenes Of violence and fraud,
ana turning the highest and what should he the
soberest Of our Institutions, the right Of suffrage
into an outrage md mockery q hell's holiday
OF drunkenness and perjury and hludgeons.
% they prevent grog-shops Lol in this
city, the worst densof debanch are. to please
them and 70 keep away decent men from voting,
made almost the sole places for holding the
polls Shall we ask suadt they do, as eur lords
and masters. to raise us up from our inferiority,
To ciyilize, to moralize, to christianize, to In
atruct u.s. Nothing We repeat that they
treat ns even less hnmanely than We do the bar
barous and generally irreclaimable Indian.
Those Indians are . conquered people But
when did these foreigners conquer u.s. Long
since, as q young and weak but high spirited
nation, We threw Of the light letters Of British
dominion And have We dome 80. ia the non.
ageof our strength, only to become, ii its bold
and stalwart manhood, the Yassals Of all Europe,
vile bondsmen to all the world, slaves that have
not even the poor privilege Of belonging to amy
one Id particular, but are a common property
# which anybody abroad has only to come over
here and take possession Did we shake on
Kings and Lords only that we might be HINGED
over and lorded over BY those who say they
were slaves to kings and yassals to lords Bet
ter bow our neeks once more to the British yoke,
For that servitnde was less low, less gallngs
Il was q tyranny softened By old benefits and
natural affections . tyranny Of our own race
for
Cur masters than
We're still at least our eounsrymen
We speak warmly How can we forbear
Who does not know that the abuses we are now
Of have become intolerablea Who