The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-10

Sweet household talk, and phrases Of the hearth
and did you love them the more IN that their eyes
grew liquid with the dear old themes Or is there, in the
whole circle Of your large and respectable private
qusntance single Scotchman whom you refuse your
hand because his affections melt under the aAuld Lang
Syne Of Burns because bis sides shake like falling
house when "iiooweenT or "Tam O'ShanterR is read
Can you blame the poor Frenohman Il his eyes light
up into kind Of deahess glow when the eaarscilaise
twisted from wandering hurdygurdy has yet power
TO recall the glorious days in which his fathers aud broth
danced for bertys sake and with gay audacity to-
wards the guilotine2 We say for you "No
and believe if the truth told that often the
lonely plains you have dreamed again with
the German his dream Of the resurrection aud
unity Of the Fatherand2 We have ourselves you
at the ST George dinners, oh Wessncht swell with
very evident pride when some fragrant Engshmsn, re-
counting the battles which bis ancestors for ten
turtles bad on every field OF Europe the better
trophies gained by Shakespeare, Milton Bacon Crom
we told You that little Of that blood coursed in
your veins The blood itself il tinged through your
body and suiused your cheeks confessed the fact If your
words did not I How, then you who gaze at Bum
ker Hill with in your eyes and fling up your bat Of
Fourth of July with jerk that almost disocates the
shoulder retire your concave and chalk be-
hind the door against the foreigner that be has lingering
love for his native country Why, be ought to be de-
spsed he had not he could forget his heritage of old
for il is this traditional tenderness these genial
memories of the immortal words and deeds and places that
constitute his patronymc gores which show that he has
human heart still under his jacket and all the
likely, account of il to become worthy American
Do not deude yourself however, into the shallow be
lief the aliens because OF thase sentimental attach
rnens will be led into the love of their native govern
men which having plundered them and their class for
years al last expelled them 10 shores All! aopoor
devshey have not been so chucked under the chin and
fonded and caressed aud talked pretty to- and fed with
cakes and huored in all sorts OF selt-ndulgences
by the old desposms to have fallen in love with them
and On the contrary If the reports are true
quite other endearuens showered upon themsueh
as cuffs and kicks with distinct intmnton, besides as
Mr. Richard Swivier said Mr. Qulp after pounding him
thoroughly that "there were plenty the same
shop-a large and extensive assortment always band
and every order executed with promputude and despatch
Now these are experiences that apt TO make republic
cans OF men, and fill them with other feelings than those
of overweening attachment 70 oppressors!
But this is slight depression, and return 10 the main
current Of argument TO saywhat we esteem quite ia
tai to all schemes for accommodating foreigners
greatly extending their minoriy-that the best way,
the whole for making them good citizens is to make them
citizens The evils of making them class by themselves
we have already alluded to- and speak, on the
other hand of the benefits which them and
from their absorption into the general life of the COM
muny 1t universally conceded by the liberal writers
and society that the signal and benecent adj
vantage Of republican institutions Thy which
organized series of local segovernments s that their
practical influences strongly educational They
train their subjects constantly into increasing capacity
for their enjoyment
In the old despotic nationsas we are all awarewhere
the State is thing and the people anotherthe State
is in reality machine of police, in its educa-
tiona and religious rigid order
but acting only externally the people, whom it
. 1c.u
the sense Of responsibility Them accustom them
seeontro and the exercise of their faculties But in free
abhor this excessive centralzing
tendency and which distribute power through subord-
nate municipalities leaving the individual much discre-
ton possblehe people the State and grow into
each other kind of living unity Thrown upon their
own resources they acquire quckness Skill energy and
sefpoise yet made responsible for the general interests
they learn deliberate exercise judgment weigh the
bearings public questions and to act in reference to the
public welfare Al the time, the lists Of preerment
being open TO Them they cultivate the virtues and talents
which will the confidence of their neghbos Every
motive of ambition and honor is addressed them inn
prove their condition and perfect their endowments
while consciousness of their connexon with the State
impars sense of personal worth and dignity.
In practice of course show themselves nsensble to
these considerations but majority do not The conse-
ouencc is that the commonalty of the republic are vastly
superior to the same classes abroad Compare the farmers
Of our prare to the Russian seppes or to the
peasants of the French valleys Or compare the great
body of the working in England with those Of the
United States Now, the American is not Of better ma
than the European for be is often of the stock
nor there any charm in soil and climate unknown TO
the soil and climate of the other hemisphere but there is
difference in institutions Institutions with Us are made
for men, and for the institutions 1t is the jury
the baobox the free public assemblage the local COM
mee the legislative assembly, the place of trust and as
result of these the school and the newspaper which give
such spur activities, and endow with such po
litica confidence The actual responsibilities Of civil life
support and nutrimen and the wings wherewith
fly,
If consequently you desire the foreigner grow into
good citizen You subject him to the influences by
which good citizens made Train him as Won are yor
selves trained under the effective tuteage of the regular
routine and responsibility Of politics He viii never learn
TO swim by being kept out of the any more than
slave become freeman in slavery He gets used 10
Independence by the practice of it, the child gets use TO
walking by walking 1t is exercise alone which brings ont
and improves all of ftnesssocial as well as phvs
caand the living OF any life alone teaches us how IL Is
to he best lived Nor win any work for an end in which
he and his hare part They only for the commun
ty who of the community Outsiders are always riders
They stand sit aloof They have no special call TO PRO-
mote the internal thrift and order which may get on as
can for all them But incorporate them into it. and ii Is
as dear as the apple of their eye Choose person select
man OF the village, and he conceives paerna regard for
it Instantly and makes himself wondrousy familiar with
its affairs, aud their practical management Show rude