The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-21

POLITICAL NATIVE AMERIoANIsM,


World he Home ef me 0pqressed-7No. p
Ma EDroR propose take glance at the settlement
Of America after the discovery and show that the OPP
pressed world looked 10 the western continent as an
asylum, and that both by ac consent and positive con-
stutona enactment and law Il has been regarded
and that the solemn stipulation in which the world is in
teested cannot justly be denied any person suffering from
the same causes that led to It's discovery and settlement
As nation we have great TO rejoice and we all
look with pride at the figure have made in the world
and onr march TO glorious destiny AS democrat of
the progressive school, in favor Of all progress
sisent with the times consistent with law and order
sistent with reason consistent with the constitution
sisen with the hopes and expectations of the world
directed to consistent with eternal justice and mercy
and above ALL and beyond ALL consistent with the Creator
of the world am Young Ahaeriea' according to the
pectations of Washington Jefferson and Madisonaeeord
ing the practical illustrations OF Jackson and those other
iustrious statesmen, Clay and Webster and still Others
down to this very day and year of Lord While
yield the most willing tribute of heart that throbs only
for counrys future greatness, while remember
past renown and behold present prosperity and hope
for future career cannot and should not forget the
still earlier events of the world that in the providence
God led to all this But iorgeulness nyades the sacred
precincts Of memory asd oblyous night closes darky upon
the grave Of buried years. In prosperity pride
tells us to forget the days when poor--when
reproached every side-when royalty and kngy
fugitives upon the world without protection and without
home. We forget our origin-we forget our parents
that begot us, that nourshed us, that protected us
in the weakness Of our infancywe forget the friends
of our youth, with whom played, and whom
loved when the heart innocent and pure and
interrupted, while yet the pride of life and the
rogance of power had not subdued and trumphed
the generous ympathies and affections of the heart
We forget every hngwe forget ourselves sometimes and
fear many Of us forget God Forgetfuness is indeed
the of nearly all the temporal msorunes Of men,
and fear it viii be the fatal circumstance upon which the
caanltes of eternity shall depend!
The Scriptures tell Remember thy first beginning
and thy last end" This is, in my Judgment an nfble
rule in the practice of which lie the temporal as well
eternal peace and happiness Of the world No who
will observe it fail being Christian and patriot
andin my opinion be either who does carry
into practical effect With these reflections then let
consider beginning let consider merely glance,
the condition of the Old World from which we came
fathers came which is the thing, in the fifteenth
century, let consider fathers, fugices in the heart
of Europe let consider them leaving England for
sterdam, in Holland let follow them back their home
again. to the sea-coast at Southampton and then Amer
lea A New World has been discovered, which for fifty
five centuries far any knowledge suspicion of
the Old concerned had existence To Christopher
Columbus man, and to Queen Isabella as a woman
the world indebted for this extraordinary discovery
himself wanderer and beggar at the of kings
pleading the of world for the discovery of
other Repulsed but dshear,ened oppressed but not
overcome he still continues his exertons and with his
Diego led by the hand find him at the court of
Spain To that court and 10 that monarch he told the
story his ambitions but neither the nor the monarch
could comprehend the grandeur magnfcence of his
teprse In the last resort always do he appealed
10 woman-generous magnarmous, noble-hearted woman
To her, in his disappointed but still burning eloquence
he painted in the language Of inspiration and of prophecy
the ncaculable good that would result from his success
The New World would be refuge and a home for the
superintendent and oppressed of the Old and it would add
immense wealth and glory TO the Spanish Crown Her
heart touched and the arrangement entered into and
when exhausted exchequer and unwilling court could
not and could not furnish the money she parted with her
ornaments and jewels in order TO give New World to the
Old! That was the contract and that the covenant
and she paid the consideration with the ornaments of her
person The Catholic Queen and the Catholic mariner
made and executed the contract and by virtue Of this we
all here And every power from that day TO this has
sanctioned and sustained the conditions OF that agreement
Charters and patents granted under its comprehensive
policy colonies and plantations were established and
fourshed after long and painful struggles with every OBJ
sacle physical and artificial And when we consider all
the circumstances connected with that discovery and the
settlement of this country and the which led TO the
revolution and its Successful termination VIC must admit
il we have any faith in Providence that God had
hand in the whole matter.
During the civil in Europe every bond Of society
was broken and the whole human family seemed to be ar
rayed agains, each other religious warfare-the most
cruel and memorable Of all warsdesoated Tu
rope aud England though waged enormously said
for the glory Of Cod nothing but the evil spirit can conn
tenanoe or provoke it. Men became wild beasts thirst
ing for blood and skin was exhausted to invent modes Of
EXTREMIST torture
Catholics arrayed against Protesants and Protest.
ants against Catholics Churchmen arrayed themselves
against Purtans, and Puans against Churohmen; and
each party i obtained alternate control exhibited and
exercised the same cruelty After years Of determination
and bloodshed dsgraoeful human nature Episcopal
Catholic and Puritan an directed their attention to the
New World, where they could find repose and worship
God in their way. In 1907 Jamestown settled
under the auspices Of the London Company and charter OF
James This the Episcopal colony Of Virginia In
1851 Maryland settled by the Catholics under Calvert
and the Purans in 1920 arrived at Plymouth This colo
ny separated from the Episcopal English church In 500
and under the pastoral Of John Robinson exiled
themselves to Holland At this time The Church Of Eng
land and the Crown one, at this day and law
passed requiring al persons attend ne established
worsLp under hs penalty Of bqHishsNt and ey returned
Of DEATH Nor could they safely expatriae themselves
without mourning the rigo Of the law Once they en-
barked Mt Boston, in Lincolnshire but by treacherous
captain given the officers and imprisoned They
discharged except seven Who tried but were al
length released Again they barganed with Dutch cap
tain" at Hull to take them from hard by The
women and children sent in 0 small bark to
the place q rendezvous while the went foot The