Washington telegraph., 1854-08-16

to say, that they have been impudeut, and
have committed some serious mistakes 1t
is wrong to claim as a natural right what is
really only boon. No nation is bound to
admit foreigners to all the rights and immu-
mites of natural-born citizens
But whatever the doctrines they avow or
the real convictions of their minds, it must
be conceded that the great body of foreign
ers, uaturalized or simply resident among
us, are not republican in their spirit, their
interior habits, and their interior life, and
discipline They have not the inward and
abiding sense of the state of law, in the ab-
stract, and of liberty with authority, which
is so essential to practical as distinguished
from theoretical republicanism Hence
their invariable tendency to confound re-
puhlicanism with democracy, and democracy
with radicalism. They lack practical re-
publican training.
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While we defend the sentiment of Amer
ican nationality, and are so far on the side
of Native Americanism, we must utterly re-
pudiate the Native American party, so call
ed, for its real leaders are foreigners. mostly
apostate or renegade Catholics of the Padre
Gavazzi stamp. These vile European vag-
abonds have seized upon the honest Native
American and republican sentiment of the
country, and have sought to peryert it to a
mere anti-Popery sentiment
Still, as Catholics. we are not disposed to
offer any opposition to Native Americanism,
if it will only be impartial, and not discrim-
mate against u.s. IF II chooses to repeal
the maturalisation laacS, and enact that,
hereafter, no person not born in this cam
try or Of american parents temporarily
resilient abroad, shall haze the right to
aote IN our elections, or be eligible to any
odice. but concedimg the full rights of cit
azens TO all born IN this country, aolthout
regard 10 the nationality OF their pa
rents ace shall ourselves ofer no opposi-
tion. The true policy of every republican
country, we believe, is to confne suffrage
and eligibility to natural-born citizens altho'
it should ordinarily render naturalization,
so far as civil is distinguished from political
citizenship is concerned, as easy as possible.
If the trainers Of our government had con-
templated such an influx of foreigners as we
have witnessed for the last four years, we
think they would have confined the political
rights of citizenship, suffrage and eligi-
bility, to natural born citizens There
would have been no hardship to foreigners
in this; there would be no hardship in do
ing so now to those already naturalized; be-
cause no foreigner can claim these rights as
natural right The immigrant could not
then, indeed, hope to be voter or an office
holder himself, but he could acquire and
transmit real estate, enjoy the protection of
the laws and the peace and prosperity of the
country, and be consoled by knowing that
his children would be citizens, and placed
politically on an equal footing with others.
The LITTLE FRENCHMAN.-We pick up
good deal of fun now and then, says the
n. Y. Dutchman, in omnibusses. In going
up Greenwich street the other day. we had
for fellow passenger Frenchman-a brisk
little fellow, elegantly studded with gim-
crackery and patent leather. In getting
out Of the stage, he requested the driver to
hand little mahogany box, filed with jew
elry. In complying with the request, the
driver handed the cabinet ard it came to the
ground with bump sufficient to knock its
brains out. The Frenchman was petrifed
For moment he could not find language
sufficient to give vent to his feelings. At
last he opened upon him:
BY dem never see such loafer =
Vot for you drop my box? Your fingers
slipped No saire. your fingers no slip
You dropped der box so it might fall-yes
saire, dat was der way it slipped. But
will loook to my watches and jewels-and
if anything is broke, will make der CON-
panies swet till dey will perspire.
AS good luck would have it, nothing was
broken, and consequently the company was
not called upon to pass through the fiery or
deal which the Frenchman had been con-
structing for them