The true Democrat., 1854-08-23

ID oAAO WuOm yOu IcCOmIQ0QU to DC knocked down if he offer an opinion about the affairs of the nation, which are his own affairs.
 Thus far, you write genuine Nativesm, pure and simple: it fits the Know Nothings pre- clsely. In fit of moderation, to be sure, you say few words in behalf of the " foreign po- pulatlon'-meanig all the time naturalized ci- tizens-
 "They are too numerous to be massacred, too numerous to be driven from the country; and native Americans, we hope, have too much se!f-respect, If nothing else, to seek to make them bond-slaves."
 There IS some comfort in this; but at the same time you warn them very fairly what is likely to become of them unless exceedingly well-behaved-
 "The Anglo Americans are abundantly able to take care of themselves, and if provoked to extreme measures the population of foreign birth would find themselves wholly at their mercy. We speak to warn our foreign popu- lation."
 Thank you, Doctor. The case then seems to stand thus-unless the naturalized citizens of America shall henceforth exercise their fran chlses, with modesty, decorum, silence and re- serve-if they persist not only in voting but in canvassing-if they presume to censure any public officer, member of the government. or policeman-in short, if they "take airs," then the time will have come for "extreme mea- sures." They will lie wholly at the mercy of their fellow-citizens born in America, and will thereafter be massacred, driven from the coun- try or reduced to bondage, as shall to such fel- citizens seem most expedent.
 In this whole article of yours, you utterly ignore the law. It is nothing to you that the naturalized citizen holds his citizenship by the same tenure, and under the same sanction as yourself namely, the law of the land. If it be so, that the law makes none of those dis functions which you have enacted above, about voting but not canvassing, discussing public questions but not discussing them with ardor, and so forth; you care not; you knowing mo- thing. You require something more than obe- dlence to law-namely, submissive demeanor ln the presence of ones native American su- periors, and conformity to the character of the Anglo American race''
 You say
 "You should understand in the outset if they would avoid unpleasant collision, that they must ultimately lose their own nationa- lity and become assimilated in general charac- ter to the Anglo American race"
 And who are the Ang lo-American race? know who the Americans are; and know that a naturallZed citizen must become good and true American-but as to becoming an Anglo American, or being assimilated in character to Englishmen, the thing can't be done; and find no law for it. On the whole, 1 advise you, be- fore you lecture again on the duties of Ame- rlcan citziens, to look little into the law and the constitution and if you find anything Ame- rican there, anything against taking airs, or can- vasslng, be good enough to let us know.
 But now comes the singular part of your Nativeism. It happens that the strongest el- ement in the present actual Native~American party, is its hostility to Catholicism; and that some of the most active Know othngs are English and Irish Protestants.
 You hasten to correct these gross mistakes.- You say to your allies, the Know Nothngs- Don't you see that aUe, the Catholics, are your friends, and the friends of American institu- tions. It is against those other wretches, those Protestant Germans, that Protestant Radical, John Mitchell, and such as he, you ought to aim your blows.
 You cry out-~
 "Not from Catholic, but from non- Catholic foreigners, comes the principal danger to our institutions.''
 Itis strange and sad; but one not of your allies believes you-not one of them (after all your outrageous nativist talk) believe that you care the institution of the Propaganda. In short it is mainly against you, Doctor Orestes, and your doctrines and disciples, that this Native point out their mistake, and tell them they are knocking down the wrong man.
 You tell us that
 "The party not only discriminates between foreigners, but it discrminates badly" Nay, what is worse, "It is itself animated by rad- cal spirit, and is hand and glove with foreign radicals"
 It is mad world, Doctor; and the time is out of joint. A Native American party you highly approve; but tue Native American party is all wrong. In respect it hates foreigners, you like it very well, but in respect it especially hates Catholic foreigners, it goes much against your stomach. In respect itknocks men down, look you, it fits your humor we'll; but in respect it knocks down the wrong man, it is tedious.- Why will it set fire to the churches of It's friends? Why will it be hand and glove with German and Hungarian Revolutionists Why hoot Bedini, and cheer Gavazzi, and hearken to the trump of the Angel Gabriel? Why twill it not come to you, and clothe itself in soutane, and get small tonsure on the top of its head and comfort itself like an Anglo American peni- tent before its professor?
 It will cost you much pains, I apprehend, to set all this right especially as you Dr. Orestes, youmore than any one living man, have aroused and kindled this strong anti-Catholic, and anti republican teaching and writing Innumera- ble and disgusting "Shepards of the Valley , and "Freeman's Journals have been brood ofyour begetting; and on the part fmy Irish fel- low countrymen, Iaccuse you ofso misrepresent- ing them and their church before the American people, that any republican nation could not but look on them and all their ways with sus- picion and abhorrence.
 How easy it would be to turn you inside out now, and to point in the pages of your own Re- view the very doctrines that have alarmed the genuine republican spirit of this country, and given to the Native party whatever genuine vigor it possesses! Since '48, you have regu- larly enlisted yourself on the side of all the tyrants of Europe, regularly exerted yourself to cry down all attempts of the down-trodden neonle eyervWhere to throw off royal and i'm.