Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-04-18
From the Alexandria Sentinel.
Professor Lciber on TOreig Cit
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From the Alexandria Sentinel.
Professor Lcibcr sOn TOreig .born Cit
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The celebrated DR.. Leiber, of South
Carolina, has an article in the Carolinian.
containing many excellent points in refer
encG to the merits and dement's of foreign.
born citizens, which he illustrates By ma
ny references. Not alone on the battle
field have foreigners born, Loyalty and
faithfully served their adopted country,
6utiu. aIIthe walks of life, authors, phi
lOsoPhera, statesmen, artisans, Investors,
merchants, &c, have been always honor
ably represented. castor and Girard.
whose industry and intelligence enabled
them to acquire princely fortunes, and
who, with corresponding liberAIty, rem
dercd millions to the community in which
they became SO rich, were both foreigners.
In reference to the latter we cannot re-
fTain from telling Il little anecdote which
strlkingly shows with what naivette ma
tiveism is some times working. Girard,
it is we'll known. left many millions for the
purpose of establishing an orphan house.
He was a native Freedman, but left all
his fortune to America. When the time
approached for the appointment Of the
chief officer of that college for orphans,
number Of trustees were DESTROYS of elect
ing person who for many long years had
been citizen of the United States, and
to whom actually the drafting Of plan
for the whole organization had been com
mitted.
che was not, however, appointed. be-
cause, rs it was minated to him, native
ism was then too strong in Philadelphia.
NauvelSm was not too strong to receive
ten millions Of dollars at the hands Of a
foreigner The susceptibility Of native
ism does not lie i'll that region; but it was
otPecuiar dcIicacy when the question was
to pay moderate salary out Of the pro.
ceeds of the gigantic capital TO a person
who it was declared was considered other
wise the very person the trustees would
have selected had it not been for certain
degree Of longitude marking the place OF
his birth.'
The Professor, who is himself Of foreign
birth. proceeds to say, too little do men
respect the strength OF the convictions or
the emotions Of soul with which one turns
away from tho graves OF his fathers and
the home of his childhood. to tread strange
goil:-"-Hy country is deur, bit liberty is
aearer"' He continues:
Little, indeed, do the men Of ease, who
now so lightly and yet SO bitterly decry
the foreigners know the pan.s Of fer
vent heart that has to repeat Putriu, ca
ra, carior HGertuS, and when it must act on
it; but when man is forced to act on it,
he clings to the country of his choice even
as a man Cleavcs to his chosen Dit3 faster
than to his kin.
Has any mind shed greater lustrc on IT,
luStrious Athens than Aristotle? Arts
totle was foreigner, and came to Africa
when seventeen years old. Has there
been any Spaniard more Spanish than Co.
lumbuS? Columbus was y Gcnoesc. Hast
there been Frcnchman more French than
Napoleon, and Culver, and Constant .
Napoleon was an Italian; Culver, by
birth and education, a German; Constan,
a Swiss. Who carried the Netherlands
through the direct war of independence
on record, and who founded the great re
public of the Netherlands? William, Of
Orange, German.
Has England ever had more English
king than William the Third, the Neither
lander? Has Germany ever had more |
German leader than Elgene Of Savoy?-
Who was CAtharine of Russia, that made |
her The great power? She was German
woman. Has Oxford ever had IL greater |
professor than Erasmus Of Rotterdam?-
The very country in which the Know |
Nothing now rcvi!es " the foreigner" was
discovered by Cabot, Gcnoesc, in the !,
service Of England
The proto mur.yr of the American rcvo- |
luton was Montgomery, an Irishman 50 /
WAS Barry, called the father of the Anne
riCan navy; and Paul Jones, the bold
and early captain, was Scot We're |
DsKalb, Lafayette, Hamilton, GalIatin,
no Americans ? Mark The list Of signers, |
and see how many were " foreigners."-
The hue and cry against "foreigners" be-
longs to pagan antiquity. when one word
served for foreigner and enemy; but not to
Christianity, one of whose earliest writers
gloriousl said nostra civi!as tatas nundus
The very word Christianity rebukes Know
KothiRgism.
The term free trade has far wider
meaning than a merely economical one
It applies to all merit, truth, Intellect
Let every one stand ami fall By his O,On inai-
VidUaIity,z and take the best. So did Your
forsfathers; so your Gospel demands it,
When Sir Harry founded. in 1919, this
SavilIion pro(esSorship at Oxford, he pre-
ScribGd shat the best man that could be
gotten, no matter whence, should always
be taken, so that he was a man Of good
fame and honest repute, er 9uacamque, ma
TOMS or6is cJtri,tidncs ct cuWscunque oydinis
siVe Professionals" And this ought to be
the rule in all spheres, but most especial
" so in our own land.
~ a singular Inquisition was lately
attempted by the Massachusetts Legis-
latVre, arising out of the excessive know