Washington telegraph., 1854-08-16
BrOwnsOn's Review.
NATIVE A ERIC ANS

Every body knows, (says the Cincinnati
Enquirer that Orestes A Brownson is one
of the staunchest and most ultra Roman
Catholics in the United States Although
but recent convert to the denomination,
in the zeal and warmth with which he
supports the tenets of its creed. he has
no superior. He is man of unquestioned
ability, and his Quarterly Review, publish
ed in Boston, may be considered one of the
great organs of the Catholic Church in this
country. He is an American By birth, and
for many years was as strong Protestant as
he is now a Catholic. The July number of
his Quarterly y contains an article upon Ma
tive Americansm of the most extraordinary
character. From bis religion and position
we supposed he would denonnce it in the
strongest terms. But, so far from doing so,
he expresses aoilliugness to hare the
naturalization loaos repealed and mo
one aitoaced to cote but those born upon
the SOIL We are confident that the Amer
lean people, in common with US, will peruse
this declaration of the great gun of Catho-
Hcism with surprise.
The article is so remarkable emanating
from him, that we will make liberal extracts
from it, Mr. Brownson says. he is never
pleased to find Catholic journals sneering at
"Nativeism,' that it is in bad taste and
though it may please certain class of their
readers, can hardly fail to be understood in
wider sense, and to give offense even 10
those of their Catholic friends, whose grand
fathers and grand mothers were American
born. Nationality is thing which foreign
Grafton, and it is never prudent it, peace
and good will are desired. to treat it with
levity or contempt" Mr. Brownson adds,
that say what you will, the Americans have
nationality.
1t is true that the population of the Uni
ted States is composed of English. Irish,
German, French Scotch, Dutch, Welch,
Norwegians, Africans and Asiatics, to say
nothing of the aborigine but the popula-
ton of the English origin and descent are
the predominating class, very nearly as
much so as in England itself They were
for the United States as a nation first in the
held the original germ of the great Ameri-
can people, and they constitute at least three
fOurths of the white population of the coun-
try. They are the original source of Amer
lean nationality, the founders of American
Institutions and it is through their heart
that flows the grand fertilizing current of
American life. 1t is idle to deny it, or be
angry with it.
Y X
The speculation of some German writer's,
that it must ultimately become German, and
OF some Irish editors, that it must ultimate
ly become Celtic, are worthy of no attention.
No nationality here can stand moment b :
fore the Anglo American. 1t is the all-ab-
sorbing power, and cannot be absorbed or
essentially modified by any other. This,
quarrel with it as you WILL is fixed fact. ;
Brownson, after admonishing the for
elgners that they have not the same right to
interfere in political matters as those that
are natives to the manor born, thus plainly
talks to them -
If these citizens form in some respect a
party, as it were people. by themselves,
and are found organizing and drilling mill
tary companies of their own. with strong
foreign sympathies and antipahies. and rep
resented by press discussing freely and
with little moderation all questions of inter-
nal and external policy. and circulating al
most exclusively amongst themselves loudly
ooasting their ability to throw out or throw
IN either of The two great parties at H.,
and to elect and defeat any candidate for
'ne Presidency, as he is not acceptable to
Them, an outbreak of Native Americanism
all over the country is the most natural
thing in the world''
de assures his Catholic friends that the
Sentiment which underlies Native American
ism is as strong in the bosoms of American
Oatholics as it is in the bosoms of American
protsstsnts: