The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-12-06

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to love country from the the labor they
have bestowed upon its development by the
arts of industry? No. as lung as the mem
ory of George Washington lives; as long as
there shall be 22d of February and a
Fourth of July; as long as the everlasting
mountains of this Continent stand, and our
| Fathers Of Waters flow, there will be faith
ers to hand down the stories which make
our hearts to glow, and mothers to sing
"Hail Columbia" to their babes, and that
song is not yet stale. There is no need to
revive a sinking patriotism in the hearts of
our people And who would have them be
selfish in their freedom? Freedom! Lib
erty selfish and exclusive! Never; for it con-
sumeth not in its use, but is like fire in mag
nifying, by imparting its sparks and It's rays
| OF light and of heat. Is there any neces-
sity from abroad for such secret political or
gaRizations? Against whom, and against
what, is it leyeled? Against foreigners by
birth.
When we were as week as three millions,
we relied largely on foreigners by birth to
defend us and aid US in securing indepen-
dence. Now that we are twenty-five mil
lions strong, how is it we have become so
weak in our fears as to apprehend we are to
be deprived Of our liberties by foreigners?
Verify, this seemeth as if Know. Nothings
were reversing the order of things, or that
| there is another and a different feeling from
that of the fear arising from a sense Of
weakness. II comes rather from a proud
consciousness of oyerweening strength They
wax strong rather, and would kick, like the
proud grown fat. 1t is an exclusive, if moi
an aristocratic feeling, in the true sense,
which would say to the friends OF freedom
born abroad:
I'VE had need of vhu, and wer2 glad Of your aid
when we were weak, but aro now so iudepend
ent of you that we are not compelled 10 allow yor
to enjoy our republican priv leges We deSIFe til'
exclusive use OF human rights, though to deprive
you of their common enjoyment will not enrch Us
the more and will make you poor 'lndeed!"
But not only is it leveled against foreign
crs by birth, but against the Pope Of Rome
There was a time when the very name o
Papa frightened us as the children oflhe nur
sery. But now now swho can be Grghten
cd by the temporal or ecclesiastical authOrl
Ity of Plus IN? Has he got back to Rome
from his late excursion? Who are his body
guard there? Have, the lips Of a crowned
head kissed his big toe for century? Are
any SO poor as to do his Italian crown any
reverence? Do not two Catholic powers
France and Austria, hold all his dominion
in detestable dependency? What army
whatreyenue, what diplomacy, what churcE
denomination, in even the Catholic coun
tries of the Old or the New World, has he
Why, the idea of the Pope's influence a
this day is as preposterous AS that OF gun
powder plot. would as soon Il ink OF dread
lag the ghost of Guy Fawkes. ......
No, there is no necessity, from cithe
oppression or weakness of Protest ants o
natives They are both free and strong
and 10 they now, because they are rich Ii
civil and religious freedom, wish, in turn
to persecute and exclude the fallen and thu
down trodden of the earth? God forbid!
Second; But there is not only no neces
sity for this secret political organization, bu
i. is against the spirit of cur laws and the
facts OF our history. Some families in this
republic render themselves ridiculous anc
offensive too, by the vain preteIs sions to the
exalting accidents of birth. We in FrgniF
are not seldom pointed at for our double +
VS. Of ancestral arros lance. But whoever
thought that pretenson of this sort was
soon to be set up by exclusives for the repub
lie itself? Some of the ancient European
people may boast Of their "protopIasts," F." anc
OF their being themselves "antoehtohes;'
hat they had fathes and mothers from neal
Adam, whom they can name as their frs
formers, and that they are of the same un-
mixed blood, original inhabitants of thel
country. But who were cur protopasts?-
English, Irish, Scotch, Germans, Dutch
Swedes, French, Swiss, Spanish, Italian
, Ethiopian--al people of all nations, tribes
compilations, languages and religons Ant
who alone are "antochtones" here in Nortl
America? Why, the Indians! They ar
the cnly true natives. One thing we have
and that more dstinty than any other ma
, ton; we have our "eponymas." We cal
name The very hour of our birth as a peo
? ple. We need recur to no fable of a VOL
to whelp US into existence. 1t may be hart
= 10 Fix ammo mundi, or the year of Noah
t flood, or the building of Rome. Rome ma
4 have her Julian epocha, the Ethiopian
e their epocha of the Abyssines, the Arabian
o theirs of the flight of Mahomet. the Persian
:, theirs of the coronation of Jesdegerdis; bu
It ours dates from the declaration Of indcpen
d dence among the nations of the earth til
e 4th day Of July, A. D l776. AS natio
= we are but 70 years Of age. Many pei
e son is now living who was alive before tn
e nation was born. And the ancestors {
= this people, about two centuries only ag'
l. were foreigners, every one of them comm
is to this country to take it away from the al
t, origines, the "antochtones, :" and to takepo
t session of it by authority, either directly {
rs derivatively, of Papal power. His Hol
D. ness the Pope was the great grantor OF a
A. the new countries of North America. Th
lie fiction was fact Of the history Of all OF
e. first discoveries and sett ements. Foreig
III ers, in the name of the Pope and Moth
is Church, took possession Of North Americ
Is to have and to hold the same to their heir
le and against the beathen forever! And no
of already their descendants are for excludir
d, foreigners and the Pope's followers from ;
lie equal enjoyment of the privileges of I'll
o. same possession! So strange is human hi
,h tory Christopher Columbus! Ferdinal
,ir and Isabella! What would they ha
nj thought Of this, had they forseen it VIII
a they touched a continent and called it theil
n in the name of the Holy Trinity, by autht
It. ity of the keeper of the keys of Heaven al
ch of the great grantor of the empire and d