The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-29

reversed? To retire with such majority does
aot confess to something which dares not subject Itself 10
he scrutiny of knowledge and would have discussion
xnow nothing of its designs and operations ana enuS
Cannot the know-nohings trust TO the leading frotss
churches defend themselves and the souls OF an
the saints and sinners, too against the influence OF .a'
olics2 Can't they trust TO the patriotism ana fraternity
natives guard the land against immigrants IN
the great American Protestant churches venture 70 say
in their behalf that the Pope and all his priests eopheu
Jealous in their masters work. or " 'e
for the mastery than are our Episcopal rres1y ara hsy
are as whole church militant with their arnor DriHht
they are Jealous they jealous they walchu they
are organized mbodied however divided by sectarans
vel banded together against Papacy and learned ana
active and polite too any brotherhood OF monks.
They need such political organization to defend ne
taiM Are they united in it, Do they ydror or connfe-
nance il among their foekss To what end? In the name
of their religion ask them Why not rely on Gody And
do the knownothngs imagine that the pride and love Oh
country dead in native hearts that secret ogahz
tons necessary to beget PATRIOTISM 10 pro-
tect us from foreign nuence2 Now, in defence OF our
people, say for them that no people upon earh aie
more possessed with nationality strong passion than
the freemen Of the United States Of North America NO
where is ia and domestic tie stronger nowhere
the tie of kinshp binding nowhere IS there more
amor ocothe love of home which is the foundation
of the love of is any counrys romance
of history felt nowhere are the social relations ON
better moral foundation nowhere Is there as clear identy
parentage and offspring nowhere are sons and daugh
educated to liberty nowhere have any people snc
certainty of the knowledge Of the reward OF vigilance no.
where have they such freedom Of segoyenmen nowhere
is there such trained hatred ongs lords and
nowhere is there sedependence more independence
of the Old World its tradonsin word, nowhere is
there country whose people have, by brthright uthe
of what people have to make them love that dna whch
is their country and that spot which is their home am an
Americana Virginan Prouder than ever to have sad
q am a Roman citizen y So far from Brother Jonathan
wanting national feeling he is justly suspected abroad OF
little much pride and bigotry of country The revo,
luton and the last with Great Britain tried US, and
the late conquest of Mexico onnd not wanting in the
sentimenality of naonalsm Though so young we nave
already dialect and mannersm, and or customs ana
our costume A city dandy may have his coat cut III
Paris but he would fight Frenchman in the cloth OF his
country quick to-day Marion man ever pulled the
trigger of Toner musket against red-coat Engshman
in l776 And peace has tried our patriotism more than
wnr What people have more reason to lovea country
the labor they have bestowed upon its development
by the arts of industry No long the memory Of
George Washington lcsas long there shall be 22d
of February and 4th OF Jnyas long as the everlasting
mountains of this continent stId and our Fathers OF
Waters owthere will be fathers to hand down tbe stores
which make hearts glow, and mothers to sing HAL
Columbia to the Sabesand that song is not yet stale
There is need to revive sinking patriotism ia the
hearts of people And who would have them be selfish
in their freedom? Freedom I! Liberty selfish and en-
clusice Never for il consumeth not in its USE but is
like fire in magnying, 10y mparting its sparks and It's
abroad for snch secret political organizations Against
whom and agsinst what is it leveIled? Against foreign
ers by birth.
y on foreigners by birth to defend and aid us IN Sc
curing Independence Now that we are twenty-five mil
lions strong how it have become SO weak in our fears
as to apprehend we are be deprived OF our liberties by
foreigners? Verify, this seemeth as If know-n0fhings
reversing the order of things or that there another
and different feeling from that OF the fear arising IRON
weakness Il rather from proud conscious
of overwecning strength They wax strong rather
and would kick like the proud grova tat 1t is an eIc-
sire not an aristocratc feeling in the true sens when
would say the friends of freedom born abroad HWo
had need of you, and were glad of your aid, when We
weak but independent OF you That we
not compelled to allow you to enjoy our republican
privileges We desire the exclusive use OF human rights
though to deprive you Of their common enjoyment Will not
enrich the more and will make you poor indeed but
not only is it IeYeed against foreigners by birth but
against the Pope Of ROM.
There was once time when tue very of Papa
frightened the children of the nursery But now
now who be frightened by the temporal eeelesas
teal authority of Plus X2 Has he got back to Rome
from his late excursion? Who his bodyguard there
Have the lips of crowned head kissed hs big toe for
century, Are any poor to do his Italian crown ay
reverence? Do not two Catholic powers France and Aus
tria hold all his dominion in deestable dependency
What army what revenue what diplomacy What church
the New World, has he? Why the idea Of the Popes in
huence at this day preposerous as that OF gunpow
der plot would soon think OF dreading the ghost OF
Guy Fawkes
No. there is necessity from either oppression weak
ness of Protestahs natives They are both free and
strong and do they because they rich in civil
and religious freedom WISH in turn prosecute and ex
clude the fallen and the downrodden Of the earth? God
forbid
litica organization, but it against the spirit Of our ows
and the facts of history Some families in this rcpub-
lie render themselves ridiculous and offensive by the
vain pretensons to the exAtng accidents of birth We in
Virginia not seldom pointed at for double F. VS.
of ancestral arrogance But whoever thought that pre-
tension of this be up by exclusives
for the republic itself? Some the ancient European pco
pie may boast of their protopasts and of their being
themselves dnoctones" that they had fathers and moth
from near Adam, whom they name rs their frsf
formers and that they of the unmixed blood
original inhabitants of their country. But who
prooplasts? English, Irish, Scotch, Germans, Dutch
Swedes French Swiss Spanish Italian, Ethopanal peo
pie of all naon tribes compilations languages and re-
gionsl And who alone "antochtoncs' here North
America Why, the Indians! They the only true
natoes One thing have and that more distinctly than
any other nation have "eponynas' We caa
name the very hour of our birth as people. We
need to fable of wolf to whep into exist
encc. 1t may be hard to fix mundi, or the year
OF Noah's flood, or the building Of Rome. Rome may
have her Julian epocha the Philippians their epochl
of the Abyssines, The Arabans theirs of the fight of
Mahome the Persians theirs of the coronation OF Jesde
gerd; but dates from the declaration of ndepend
among the nations of the earththe 4h day of July
A. ID. l776.> As nation but 10 years Of axe
Many person is living who alive before this
tSp born. And the ancestors of this people, about
two centuries only ago foreigners every of them
coming to the shores of this country take away from
the aborigines the a.oehoncs and take possession
of it By authority either directly deripatpely Of Papo
powcr His Holiness the Pope the great gantor Of all
the new countries Of North America This fiction
fact Of the history OF all first discoveries and settle
ments Foreigners in the Of the Pope and Mother
Church. took possession of North America have and
hold the same to their heirs against the heather forever
And already their descendants for excluding for
eigners and the Popcs followers from equal enjoyment
of the privileges of this possession So strange
human history. CHRISTOPHER Columbus Ferdinand and