The daily union., 1854-12-23
"FOREIGN LEADERS"

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ssFOREIGN LEADERS"
During the revolution and late wars some of the most
brilliant leaders of the American armies foreigners;
and so of the rank and the file of those armies long
list of these immortal adorns the pages of history
But it not only the field of battle that the learned
and patriotic spirits of the Old World contributed to the
of infant republic The first and highest nan-
cia officer under President Washington was foreigner by
BIRTH The Office after the great civil revolution OF
1900 again filled by aforegner And what still more
remarkable highly embarrassing stage of its financial
affairs and when the country was engaged in second war
with England President Madison called to the same i'm
portant trust another distinguished gentleman also by
birth foreigner These three illustrous men were Alex
ander Hamilton Albert Gallan, and Alexander j. Dallas
Of the same school the contemporary and friend Of
this riumyrate of patrots-the Engshman Robert Nor
rs of Pennsylvania. He another of the foreign
leaders of those trying days. General Washington Of
fered him place of Secretary of the Treasury, after
wards ably occupied by the foreigner Alexander Iam
ton Morris was the imbodiment of sesacrfcing devo-
ton to his adopted country. Although the conflict was
between his own native land and that he had chosen for
his home gave up his whole soul to the enterprise of
the colonies lie abandoned his private affairs, in order
to supply the means to feed and clohe starving and
suffering troops He sacrificed his fortune that the
cause of freedom might prosper and died almost in poverty
May we not appropriately unite these four illustrous
names with the of such leaders of armies
Lafayette Montgomery, Moutrie, Mercer, De Kalh Kos
ciusko Pulaski and Steuben?
These The foreigners Of the when true Amercans
as born These the men that stood by the cradle Of
our infant liberties These the heroes who followed
o,r x-heraver waved them Gynp with
in its defence others shedding their blood that might
float IN victory others oiing in the cabinet and there
conducting the no less perilous affairs Of State These
were the men whom Washington loved and counseled and
courted upon whom he leaned to whom he gave his
confidence and of whom he proud to speak ss COM
panons and brothers These the foreign leaders
of the revolutionary epoch and of the trying years which
followed it.
We have other "foreign leaders" now. The champions
just alluded to combined and suffered that the of
might lire But our new "foreign leaders" combine and
conspire that this may die, The one labored to
build up great temple dedicated to the oppressed of
whole world the others toll to pull that temple down. to
circumscrbe the atmosphere of liberty within certain de-
grees of latitude and to special classes Of The
contended against the English yrant that this land might
countries and that its door might always be open to the
oppressed and closed only upon the oppressos of
kind the others would close this door upon bre
foreign nations leaving them to die under the des
pots lash or to perish in the bloody conflicts between
ambitious and revengefai kings. Such the foreign
leaders Of revolutionary days are the "foreign lead
ers" of the present counterfeit Americanisrn.
The attempt to restore the obsolete doctrines estab-
l,,+n I,, I,A,,, :, JaJ
by Scotch renegade called Bennett pair of Italian
demagogues called Gavazz and Secchi de Casai, and
an insane English itineran called the Angel Gabriel
These the head the hands, the heart and the SOUL of
the American party There is an honest commxnre
of hatreds religious and political Bennett hates the
try which he with his perncious presence and his
pernicious doctrines Gavazz hates the American Caho
lies with intensity well BETTING the dangerous tactics
of the Italian bravado Casal is dealer in the posons of
the school, and filters the sinister sentiments of his
PARAGON the priest through the columns of the Cru
sader" To the outlaw Orr" called Angel Gabriel" is
allotted the pleasing duty of stirring up the population of
American cities and of defng the pare atmosphere
of the Christian Sabbath with ofumutand boodshed
that will delight the despois of other lands who fear
good example so much that they clutch every evidence
of internal dssension and degradation with fanatic de-
light
To show that do not speak without the book this
subject we copy the following from the New York True
American the first and the abest know nothing paper in
the country We copy from the number for this week
:" The GRAND CoUNcIL AND IT'S FOREIGN oRGAss.-The
Grand Council of the State of New York. somewhat alarmed
the unexpected opposition created by the reception of their
imperial mandate summary to eject those Americans in for
mer communion with ORDER from fellowship with their
brethren for having dared vote becomes and free
men, for refusing violate the anctty of the
ingenious invention of ancestors to protect citizen
against after consequences initiating against his free
preston of preference for candidateshave at length conde
scended special In this city, botb uck
y for the native American owned and edited by
EloNERsl Oh tell it not in Gath !hese red-hot fire and
birthstone PATRIOTS Pas Poa upon paper who cxpel the
sons OF revolutionary sres for indulgence in privileges be-
queahed to tbem sealed with the boodsta of martyred
parentswho prescribe of the so If his grandfather
tainted with emgrant blood-bave affiliated with James
Gordon Bennett and Scech de Casa and committed ram
pant know nothngsm to the tender of Scotch
Italian protectors There appears be found
Journal edited and owned by Americans sufficiently
ric oolhardy to endorse the bulls our
Pont and from this time forward let Daily Herald and
the Crusader Snbadke the burden the old man.
land The prec MOI in of which he ia