The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-03

The foowingis the report nom Tue house Vi ncPreseha
tives of the United States
The following list Of persons employed in the House OF
the LIST Of October, 1858;
Born in Pennsy vania, 8; Vermont, District of Coam
bA 6; Maine 2; Connecticut, North Carolina, 81 Ire
land, Ohio, 81 Virginia, IL Maryland, 8; New York 81
Indiana, New Jersey q Tennessee i and Georgia /
Total 81.
From the above you will that there but out OF
fifty who born abroad and he has been in the coun
try ten years, having arrived here in his boyhood.
-- w. " McKEAN,
Chief Clerk House of Reps.
In looking over these tables realize the urpitude
and recessnes of these proscrponists the extent Of
their falsehoods and the they resort poison
the public mind The fact proves that the ratio of adopted
citizens employed in all the various departments of the
general government falls far below the monsrous
aggeraons circulated in the newspaper press that
may we'll wonder that few of this class of Americans
have been employed Their power at the ballothoxes
their general inelgencetheir uniform decorumtheir
value emigrans in opening up the new territories
and their substantial Importance as producersal con-
spre to make them worthy, at least of impartial con-
sideration at the hands of the American people. No
battlefield that has been illuminated by the American
flag has failed to disclose the adopted citizen in the
foreground of the pcture and from the period when the
first gun flashed Lexington down to the moment when
the last sword cleaned Chepuepec they have exhibited
virtue and vaor in behalf of their chosen country
which they never have been able to display in behalf Of
their own atherland Cut Off from the opportunity OF
sacrificing themselves for their fresides, they have
come hherward to prove their devotion to the cause of
human rights and rational liberty.
What will the attention of the country however,
in these explicit and emphatic exposure of the scandaous
fsehoods OF the know-nohing papers and politicians Is
the fact that the adopted citizens almost entirely with
out representatives In the higher official branches Amer
leans occupy almost without exception and these excep
TONS few as they are have made the Of malig
nan censure by the opposition pres the best positions,
leaving the adopted citizens those places which are sim
ply subordinate and laborious.
When we look the objects of this party of intolerance
bgoy and prescription and contrast such facts these
with the vast numbers of adopted citizens and the slight
and nconsiderabe advantages they have obtained in the
public service, we feel profoundly Inundated Had there
been rigid rule of exclusion adopted by the powers that
behad the of adopted citizen been the signal
for his rejection from ocethere could not have been
greater disparity in those holding stations in the govern
ment between the natiyeAmerican and foregnborn cit
zens And yet have complaints and prosecutions be-
cause the reverse is supposed to be true
The ow-nohings in their upon the adopted citi-
zens are ignorant they dsqded and preudiced
They make charges have which are false and
malignant and they open themselves to the most fatal
criticisms by their shortsighted policy Their great COM
plant is that the adopted citizen drives the nativcborn
citizen out of certain walks Of labor We have shown
how UNANIMOUSLY false this charge is in regard to the offices
by the general and the facts in reference to
the employment of foreigners and adopted citizens
orally in the walks of labor generally ara no less con-
elusive
! m.r. g. branches of skilled labor in the
United Saes, and the American citizen has the monopoly
almost without exception There may be- and no aoub.
many educated foreigners who in certain branches OF
mechanics, have achieved eminence in th; cuf-
try which is we'll give them high position
here But the great fact stands conspicuous that the
employment of foreigners and adopted citizens in the
hgss branches Of labor exceptions the general rule
And It is to this end that desire to invite public
attention.
Why should American citizens apart from principle
which teaches them be liberal and just to Others lend
themselves to crusade against the adopted citizens which
Is at the same time unmany and proscrptve2 There
are it is true certain kinds unskled labor in which the
adopted citizens do perform the greatest part of the
work They dig capals, they help to build rail-
roads, they man OHr snips, taey Vdief
stations in life in which American citizens rarely to be
found Here after ALL is the great of the hatred of
the know-nohngs adopted citizens and with what
little ,astice? Would these very knownothngs, proscrp
tionsts as they awoud they undertake the heavy labor
eagerly and gratefully undertaken by the adopted ctzens
Il IL not pretended that Amercans ore willing to work
upon our railroads and canals and pet beeapse ne adapted
citizen does 10 he is to be boundd and hunted like wia beast
bv the ko,o-notngs Thus the native Americans will not
do this work they dsdain tit IL beneath their aspra-
tons and yet they do not hesitate to prosecute those who
are willing to undertake ii, the ground of excluding
born citizens Shame shame where is thy blush?
Can cause basd upon preudces so base and upon pas
sons SO ungeneroua aga upon hareds so unmanly-can
such prosper in the country ich is not ashamed
to acknowledge that Montgomery, and Lafayette and De
Kalb aided TO achieve our lberties2
The free negro be property holder. lie is dis
franchsed by resistess moral sentiment He can
not vote in most of the free States and in abol
ton community decent regard for the opinions Of the
masses compes him to stand aloof from the society
of the whites The nothngs would place the adopted
citizen upon level with the negro He could hold prop
erty he might vote but he cannot hold Office Is it pos
sble that discrimination revolving and cruel would
be submitted to? Where the American who loves his
country and who knows the history Of biz country who
unnatural and ungrateful?
But We need not go to expose the fasehood and the
hypocrisy of the know-no,hngs Thahas been done suf