Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-21

ron THE AMERICAN ORGAN.
Americaa Character.
Every measure Of the American party Is based
upon the primal sentiment, "Asaenea nlIst b
goosrnsd BY Amsrieans, and while all Americans
agree that participation IN government should be
withheld from foreigners, because of their general
ignorance Of our principles aud susceptibility to
the coruptions Of aspiring demagogues, the expe-
diency Of prohibiting their immigration becomes
an important question, that should not be rash
ly decided, for II involves weighty concerns, not
all mankind and the future If immigration be
permitted, 1t should only be for reasons Of high inn
portance and under restrictions which would effec-
tually insure safety; and if entirely prohibited,
only the most apparent and imperative necessity
should be It's vindication. Those who advocate
the latter, however, may not only insist upon the
dangerous approach Of the day, when foreigners as
such win have the government in their own hands
the existence Of the American party win hereafter
secure us against that-but unfortunately there Is
another consideration which, lying deeper than pc,
litical philosophy, American patriotism cannot
reach--in the organic laws of human organization.
Never since human reason learned TO invent mag
niicent fouies, was madder project entertained
than that Of fully peopng with the d.
verse races of the Eastern hemisphere All history
discloses the fact For ages, aggresaions andretaa
tons have convulsed Europe and Asia hlong and
wasting wars, and for Q reason obvious and simple.
These were the legitimate and inevitable phenom-
ena Of antagonistic races in contact. There is no
palmer truth than that all races Of humanity are
reciprocaDy and radically antagonistic. The very
fact Of diverse organization should alone prove It,
The Monaghan race Is antagonistic to the Malayan,
the African, the Caucasian, and the aboriginal
American; and the same is true Of all; each is
radically antagonistic to all the Others In further
proof it is certain that during the whole historic
period, notwithstanding the different races have
occupied contiguous territory, no assimilation TO
any extent has been effected. And through cycles
Of time that repeatedly revolutionized every ex-
ternal condition Of man. the races alone have pre-
served their several identities. Nor is it the least
important observation that varieties of the same
original type likewise acquire reciprocal repusion.
Every one has observed that German instictively
dislikes an Irishman. while an Englishman Is pro-
verbal Of his dislike of both. This feeling not
only seems an instinct, but is one.
In consequence of policy in defiance of the
plainest truths Of philosophy physical, moral and
political already there is not race or nation on
the globe but is represented here, and has contrib
uted toward the connection Of that grand prospect
i've totally, the " American character" A hypo-
critical agglomeration Of all the giblets and frag-
ments of eastern degeneracy that all their excel
lencies may be united in one superb whole! Let
us how fares this hypothesis in that land Of gold
and gore, unhappy Mexico, our sister republic, if
the phrase be not blasphemy, to our own nstitu-
tons.
Here, with summer skies above, and fairer
earth beneath, with mountains Of rich minerals
and laved by two oceans-everything that could
invite peaceful industry insure prosperity, Mex
lean repubicanism Is libel upon liberty But is
anything more natural to mongrel race? Span
iards and Tlascalans, Aztecs and Camanchea, Ca
ribs, Yankees, Negroes, Mestizoes, &C., &C., all
jumbled into every conceivable incongruity, until
the race Is without analogue on the face Of the
earth. Among such people, how Is It possible
to secure that unanimity Of public sympathy
SO indispensable to selfgovernments With gov.
eminent annual, lunar, or diurnal according to the
purse and sword of the reignng bandit one, to buy
the clergy, and the other to butcher opposition,
whether from struggling patriots leagued to unchain
their country rival asprants, equally daring in
the pursuit of power through blood and devasta-
ton; our contempt at the spectacle must be soft
ened by our pity for the inevitable misfortunes of
hybridous imbecility.
These results are charged upon the 'snstitutions
of the country"-upon priestcraft public ignorance,
&c. True; but could ignorance and oppression
SO long prevail, in spite of every encouraging ex-
ample, over noblcr race? Every people in Eu-
rope was once worse still but they emerged from
their bsrbarism by the spontaneous energy of
healthy races, while Mexico, starting with their
enlightenment, has fallen back to their degrade
tion. II is true in all philosophy, that the human
races cannot be amalgamatcd, the greater with the
less without general deterioration and the obvi-
Gus nferiority Of the Mexicans, of mulattoes, and
halfbrecd Indians must confirm the proposition,
even If it could not be deduced beyond appeal
from the anslogies OF nature.
Let us profit by the example of this unhappy
people, and remember that selfgovcrnmentis posi-
Bile only through unanimity-that unanimity is posi-
bic only through the reciprocal sympathes in pre-
dominance, and that such prcdominance can never
exist in people composed of various races, be-
tween whom as all must admit reciprocal antago-
nisms and repulsions must necessarily prevail Let
us then, as citizens govern our action by the es-
tabshed truths Of the physical and moral structure
Of man. sts.-.ss SAM
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