Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-08-23

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Certain restraints or restrictions are essential;
but the great principle at the base Of all pol
icy in politics is to govern no more than is
absolutely necessary, and to grant to all the
largest liberty that does not interfere with
the rights of others-here is boundary that
cannot in safety be passed--the voice Of x-
perience speaks from the very erypts and
cacatombs Of time, and exelaims 'sthus far
shalt thou 90 and no father" II man has
right granted to him BY the laws under
which he lives, and another person under
the same laws in the exercise Of other immu-
mites circumseribes or retarls the action Of
the first person, Immediately tho freedom Of
the first person is gone, or b eeomes SO cur
tailed that, be cannot be SAID to enjoy the
fullest freedom-and it is in the exercise Of
these rights and privileges that parties in this
country become obnoxious to each other
Now it becomes a question Of scaioas import
if a man or set Of men may properly exer-
else any privileges which may prove 50 often
siye as to irritate and excite others to a breach
Of the peace-in brief, whether such actions
should not be suppressed or prohibited upon
considerations Of public safety-in a word,
| if any persons should be permitted to leopard
Toe peace and tranquility Of tic community,
/ BY provoking an infcaotion of the general har-
nony Of society. Perhaps nothing has con-
tributed 50 much to the perqetuity Of this
Union Of States as the glorious privilege
| granted to man go worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience but
even in this, there should DO that principle
Of non-intorferenoe with tie rights Of others
which IS essential to be observed in order
that all parties may materially give up GER
tain special immunities III consideration of
tho general benefit bestowed BY its observa-
ton.
It may be reasonably advanced, that he
who comes TO this country and adopts it from
choice, preferring its laws to that Of his ma
| tive land, has shown the highest devotional
| proof Of his Arbitration Of the form Of this
| government by rolinquishina the ties which
| bind him to the spot Of his birth. But the
/ question on the other hand may be urged!
that such is seldom tic motive for coming to
Il this eountry-it being rather prospect Of
the increase ct fortune, and an escapement
from taxes and the tyranny Of church and
state, in other lands, than any abstract love
Of the principles Of freedom in our govern
ment, Interest is often more powerful le-
yer than love Of liberty, in transplantinq
Europeans to this Western Continent, and
the ardor with which such immigrants enter
the political arena not only jastiGes the
proyerbal enthusiasm Of the neophytc, but
pays poor compliment to the understand
ing Of the native citizen, to say that in his
whole lifetime he has acquired no better I'M
Outstanding Of the principles Of the laws I'M
der which he has lived, than one who comes
hither fresh as itwere, transplanted from the
hot bed of tyranny. But the great error Of
most, or at least part Of thos1 who come to
this country is, that they do not leave their
partialities behind, but bring their prcjadiees
with them. 1t is but justice to praise the
bridge that one safely crosses, and so far
from sowing seeds Of discomfort and discord,
persons who enter the gates of the New
| World should shake the dust Of the Old from
their shoes
Some credit should be given in tho way Of
preference to those who served the United
States in the time Of her need--in the I'M
certain hour of her struggle for Independence
and there is certainly more credit due to
the honest Irish and Dutch farmers and me-
clanics living in this country then, who left
the awl sticking in the log, the sledgo upon
the anvil, and the plough rasting in the fur
row, to stand by the starry folds Of the flag
Of freedom. Those who staksd honor, for
tune family aud life upon the fearful issue
with the nation upon whose domain the Jun
never sets, assuredly deserve more Of the
rich results Of blessings which flowed from
that revolution than those troops Of hired
Hessiaus and others who were fain to siran-
| gle the infant Liberty in It's cradle. It's to
\ be hoped that our foreign Ge!low-ehizens will
take into consideration the propHeig and adj
Instability Of appearing if they must be 10
the military line--as -imerieang. Nothing
has exasperatod certain body Of people in
this country more, and caused 50 much
prejudice against foreigners, and increased
Native Americanism, than this very thing Of
certain Societies celebrating the days and
feasts Of their patron saints with martial pa
rados and foreign omBlemalieal Banners
With every respect, We say chat 81. George,
St. David, and Sc Patrick ere all humbug5.
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