New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-07

who founded the State Of Maryland. Up 70 the
Revolution il was the policy Of our country 70
encourage European emigration, and the first ses
tiers were but emigrants Of IN earlier day. Ing
Revolution was war Of opinions and not war
of hostile peoples. Almost a moiety OF the COLO
nists sided with the Mother Country, and either
actively or passivey joined in its attempt 10 CO.
cree the rebellion. The character OF the reVoiu'
tionsry struggle attracted foreign aid JUST as the
character of the American civilization ana gov
eminent attracted European sympathy ana CO.
operation both before and after the National In
dependence. So the spectacle was presented OF
German and French counts, and Polish noblemen
Leading our revolutionary armies, while some OF
our NJ ost popular generals were native-born sub
jects of the very king who was trying to con-
quer US. :.
When the achievement of National lndepend-
ence threw upon our fathers the responsibility OF
shaping permanent policy for new State, they
wisely adopted the principle of free tolerance OF
all religious creeds, and equal privileges for men
ofwhatever nativity. They saw that the magni-
fcent country which had fallen to them for
heritage needed the myriad hands OF labor to
develop its wealth and they dared otventure upon
the experiment of collecting among themselves
an alien and dependent race, shut out of the pale
of their sympathies and the responsibilities OF
their political duties. They had seen the fatal
consequences Of such system of Helotage in the
perils of African Slavery, which it now became
their chief study to restrict and discourage.
The proscri ption of foreigners is token OF
barbarian. Only the ignorant national pride of
such people as the Turks, the Chinese and the
japanese, ia jealous of the influence of strangers,
and thinks its own country the paradise of happi-
ness and intelligence-while wise and thrifty
aud powerful people like the Romans, the Ital-
isns of the middle ages, and the English, encour-
age the subjects of other States to reside among
them, confer privileges aud employments upon
them, and thus abstract from other nations their
best arts, their most cunning inventions and
their highest ideas In fact no nation is received
into the comfy of good society until it outgrows
its snobbish exclusiveness, its vulgar arrogance
Of superiority, and is able to appreciate the vr-
tue, the herOism, and culture of other nations.
to be the theater Of great and magnanimous ma
ton, that should have a controlling influence in
history and upon human destiny. Those intense
ly American statesmen, that feel too small to
enact the prescribed part, had better betake
themselves to Bermuda, or Newfoundland, or
some other small island, where they can defend
and cOnfne their narrow bigotries and barbarian
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Continent for less ignobe people.
In the earlier periods of our history, Europe,
to the American cOlonists, was home; it was the
vanguard of civilization, the center of the worlds
thought, the theater of the activity of tie race.
The more refined and cultivated spirits among
them if they felt in the wilderness of a newly
discovered continent fresh animal activity and
wilder impulses of freedom, found their rough
life suggestive of rude manners, and missed the
refining influences imprinted BY successive races
Of men upon the face of the Old World, where
every hill showed its ruin, every plain told it's
tradition of battle, and every stream murmured in
unison with a great poets song. Accordingly,
the emigrant was welcomed as coming from
favored land, and regarded as by his superior ed
ucatiOn qualified to fill the highest and most re-
sponsible position in the social and political
sphere. At no time, however, has the immigra-
ton from Europe furnished more valuable ele-
ments than since the revolutions of lS48. Art
lists and poets, patriots and pbanthropists, find
ing their aspirations for just and equal social
state, and paternal government repressed by
the lesgued standing armies Of despotism, have
brought us their hopes, their heroism, their en-
thusiasm, to shame our mercenary statesmanship,
the inpostures Of our electiOneering politics, by
contrast with their earnest devotion to profound
and benefcent political ideas. Shall we rejec.
and repel them by narrow and mistaken pro-
scriptOn, worthy of China and Japan