The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-10


.ny sufficient reason for such organization we are
td exists 10 prevent Catholics from ruling The country,
and which seems TO have entered upon its work by resoy
ing TO prescribe themf
Il has been said by Of the more Jealous in this
work that no objection was made foreign Protestants
such have been invited organize in separate bands
nv the New York Tribune But the developments which
have been made show that this is not and cannot be the
reed Of the native-Amercans If the purpose is to keep
our political system intact by preventing the infusion OF
foreign ideas unfavorable repu6nanis it might be well
said that foreign Protestants dangerous II there
was danger anywhere (which we do not belieye) as
foreign Catholics
The English High Church Episcopal emigrant has no
ton Of Church and State which is not in every sense ac
Gordant with theory Of religious and eiyn freedom
The Protestant of Prussia has known less OF constitutional
liberty than the Of the Catholic cantons OF o"NeI-
land But there is need point out the error OF pre-
tended exception according their creed II does not ex
list The purpose is against oil and though, by cunning
device the passions of the Protestant foreigner may DE
turned against his Catholic brother yes if such oganza-
ton were be allowed to prosper, he urn Of the Protest
dnl foreigner troua come He would lind huaSeg
also man prescribed among his fellow-ctaens. How
s+er sle or wise or firtuoushs
very children would be taught to look him in
tempt as one unfit hold place in the country of his
adoption.
We need spend time upon the question of charging
the time required by the present naturalization laws before
the foreigner can the rights of citizenship Our
fathers wiser in this respect than those who differ
rom their creed The doors of this land opened of
God to the poor and the oppressed of other nations The
tch the learned and the prosperous seldom leave the flesh
pos Of their Egypt to enter upon untred life of equal
iy Those who make their homes with us bring such
recoecon of royal state and power at variance
with their happy adoption of free constitution They
have felt too often the weight of the golden scepe de
sire il again. The forced military CONSUMPTION of the Old
World has charmed them that they will it in
the land which they have The they have
endured from the mobiles of their country has left
love in their hearts for arstocracy They have been
educated the love of liberty by the tyranny of foreign
nna did they are here nrured TO the uses Of industry
and virtue by the glad return which labor AMI integrity
make to him who employs them, Let be content with
the happiness we enjoy Let be content see year
after year the stricken people of the Old World commnge
with ourselves parts of great nation Let US not
desire to separate them by wider mark from ourselves
than the present law creates If they strangers the
land were fathers Their children will have equal
claim with ours to the common heritage enjoy.
We know that religious prejudices strong We
know how deeply laid in the human heart the ounda-
ons Of sectarian opposition And yet have deeper
ta in het principle Of right which uuderles all human
Judgment and gives only title govern ourselves
and others To that principle living trust in the
hearts Of all Christian men, and which should be elevated
TO supreme authority in the people, who the true
rulers of the land make oIl kbbeai And we de-
clare that present freedom and power the earth
given of God after long endurance by fathers of adj
we have gained by setting in turn mark upon the
faith, opinions or birthplace of any
A PROTESTANT DEMOCRAT.
BALTIMORE Maryland.