The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-08-04
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
BROWNSON'S REVIEW. NATIVE
AMERICANISM.

DfOWnSOn is one Oi lUe b'uUnCUeSl dHu
probably the most ultra Roman Catholic
in tie United States. Although but a
recent convert TO that denomination, in
the zeal and warmth with which he sup.
ports the tene,s Of IFS creed he has no su-
perior. He is man Of unqueslionoble
ability, and his Quarterly Rerietc, pub
lshed in Boston, may be considered one
OF the grea; organs Of the Catholic Church
in this country, He is an American by
birth, and for many yeOrs was as strong
Protestant as he is now Catholic. 'Ehe
July number Of his Quarterly contains IN
article upon Native Americanism Of the
most extraordinary character From his
religion and position, we supposed he
would denounce il in the strongest terms.
But, so far from doing So, he expresses a
willingness to hare the naturalization ld,rs
repealed, and. no one alloUed TO rote but
those born upon he soil We are conf
dent tia, the American people, in COM
mon WIN US, will peruse this declaration
Of the great gun oil Catholicism with sur
prise.
The article is so remarkable, emanaN
ling from him, thar we will make libersl
extracts from il. Mr.. Brownson says that
heis never pleased 10 find Catholic Jour
nails sneering at "Naivism," "ihnt i; is
uIbad taste; and though it may please
certain class of their readers, can hardly
faf 10 be understood in q wider sense,
mud TO give offrnse even TO those THEIR
Catholic friends, whose grand fathers and
gvand>meihers were American born. Ma.
ipnality is a Thing which foreigners are
required to treat with consideration, and
it Is never prudent if peace and good will
are desired, to treat i, with levity or con-
lemp,.' Mr.. Brownson adds, that say
what you will, the Americans have o ma
iionality. e,-s.;..ts .s..
II is true tha, the population Of the U.
States is composed of English, Irisb, Ger.
man. French, Scotch. Dutch, Welch, Nor
weeians, Africans, md Asia,ics, to say
nothing OF the AhQrglnes; but the popu>
Iation Of English origin and descent are
the predomipa,ing class, very nearly as
much So as in England itself. They were
for the United States as o nation first in
the field the original germ Of the great
American people, and they constitute at
least three-fourlhs OF the white popula,
lion of the coontrY. They are The origi-
/ nal source Of American nationality, the
founders Of American institutions, and il,
is through their heart that flows the grand
and fcriilizing current of American lie.
1t is idle to deny n. or he angry with ii.
| aea II 4
The speculation of some German wri>
| ters, thai i, mus, ultimately become Ger
man, and Of some Irish editors, that il
mus, ultimately become Celtic, are wor-
,hy of no attention. No nationality here
can stand a moment before the Anglo
. American. Il is the all-absorbing pow
sr, and canrot be absorbed or essential.
modified By any other This, quarrel will
i, as you will, is '.ixed fact"
Brownson dfter admonisl'iOg the FOR
eigners that they have rot the same righ
, to mieffero in political matters as those
that sre.natives TO The "mauor born" thu:
! plainly talks TO tic m: ....
If these citizens form. in some respects
a party,as it were a people,hy the mselves
and are found organizing and drilling mil
i,ary companies Of their own, with stronI
, foreign sympa,hies and antipa'hies, an'
; represented by press discussing freel
Q and with little moderation all question
il Of internal and external policy, and cir
' cuIating amos, exclusively among them
0 selves, loudly boasling their ability II
, throw out or throw in either Of the tw
n grcat pariies n, will, and 10 elect OF de
il ieai any candidate for the Presidency, a
S he is or is not acceptable TO lhem,an onl
! break of fnalivs Americanism all over lh'
country is the must natural llihg iii III
world. fst'f a'A
He assufes his Catholic friends tha
c the sentiment which underlies naiv
+ Americans, is as strong in the bos6ms o
/. American Catholics as il is in the bosom
!. Of American Prolestants: ~
Il Our Foreign-born citizens must PERM
: us 10 say ihatthey have been impruden
and haye committed some serious mis-
4 takes. I, is wrong TO claim as a nainr'
fl right what is really only boon. No ma
$ ton is bound TO admit foreigners to a
the rights end immunilics Of fnatural bor
d citizens.
i Bu, whatever The doctrines they avov
G or the real convictions Of their minds,
n must be conceded that ihe great body {
e foreigners, na,uralIzed or simply resider
among us, are not republican in their sp
y rit, their interior habi,s, and ,heii in'eri,
a life and discipline. They have not tht
!, inward and abiding sense Of lhe state,
,s law in the abslract, and Of liberty wit
d authority, which is so essential to praci
ID cal as distinguished from theoretical ie
publicanism. Hence their inysriable Zen
dency 10 confound republicanism with d.
>, mocracy, and democracy with radcalisn
n They lack practical republican iraininI
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