The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-08

both honest and industrious. Certainly as
honest and industrious as natives in their
condition. These, an oppressed, afflicted,
aown.lrodden, over-wrought, enslaved peo-
pie, seek shelter and living in your free
country, where millions OF idle capital are
only waiting the hands of industry to loom
out 10 all that enrches, adorns, enables and
strengthen a nalion--these are the people
which your order would drive from our shores,
simply because they are poor!
You tell US with more candof than self-re.
specl, that the rich may come without op-
position, but you will not have your country
burdened with paupers. With you the old
motto which you learned from The lips of
your sires and grand sires, "America an asy-
lum for The oppressed" is changed 10 Amer
ica an asylum for the oppressor, and scourge
to The oppressed. Your aims are as imyoltic
as they are inhuman Hear The language of
one who knew the effects OF Immigration
upon a country, far better than the wisesl
man Of your order: "a nation receiving
stray child IA fortiori grown man, HinIo i;s
bosom again, acquires real treasure; mas.
much as ii receives ip him an addition to its
population, an accession TO The profits OF ma.
lional industry, and acquisition Of capital
1t at the same time RECEIVERS lost citizen,
and the means for him TO subsIst upon. If
The er,s bring back his industry only, a, any
rate the profits Of industry are added 10 the
national stock. 1t is true that 6 source of
consumption is Likewise superadded, bui
supposing it to counlerbaancs the stvan-
tage, their is no diminuiion of revenue while
the moral aud political strength Of The coun.
Try is actually augmented" (Say's Pol.
Econ. Book II. Chap. X. Page 1851 In This
short passage will be found The secret Of our
country unparalleled advancement in wealth
and greatness. The foreigners who are now
hocking TO the country are precisely such as
have always come to il-precsely such as
have contributed so largely 10 our growth in
agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and
the mechanic arts. Some who came hi,her
paupers, when was a boy, died m mlionaires;
many died possessed of large esIaies, and al
most oil OF them died in easy circumstances.
Few, very few comparatively, fell upon the
parish. They enriched the country by The
whole amount OF their accu umulal;on--by Just
so much more than il would have possessed
without them. Just so will ii be with those
who are now coming into The country. If the
amount expended in support of the helpless
be compafed with the amount raised by the
industry of tbe sound, for any three years
together the first would be 10 the last less
than one 10 a thousand. You would fling
away the eagles 10 save cents! You would
reiard the growth of the country hundred
years to save lands for your children upon
which your children will not be permitted TO
enter, unless they will consent 10 commi, the
keeping OF your graves 10 their slaves. Spen.
did statesmen are coming out OF The Know.
Nothing factory, truly The last Massachu-
seus Legislature exhibits 10 Us the fabrics
of this nechine in their highest perfection -
In thar body were FIRE and twenty preachers,
Zone third Melhodsts,j Christians many, and
Know-Nolhngs almost all. Their acts need
no comment. They will remain burnt into
the character of the State in lines so deep
and ganereLous, that even the offspring of
the Hartford rebels and murderers of Bach.
elder will sicker al the sight OF them. Those
hierarchal Know Nothing Legislators are your
"brethTen" in double sense, and The mirabis
signum. 'lhat none but Americans should
rule Amenca" Do you not blush 10 fra,er-
nize with such men And can you believe
that you are favorng your country or your
church in espousing their principles?
But if these papers be uuissnce, whom do
they affici. Why Massachusetts and her col.
leasnes in war upon your cepsliIu onal
rights and christian character. Wi,rihese peo-
pie you could not, as Methodisls, harmonize
They drove you away from them, by insults
and injustice rable-wept crocodile
tears when they saw you going--promised
you peaceful parting. and an oulfi, from the
common fund, aui no sooner were your
backs turned, than they denounced you an
schsmaics and sinners, cabbaged all the
common property, and kept it unii the end
of seven long years, they were forced TO dis
gorge part Of it under the wings OF the law.
But as Know Noibings you can harmonize
with them, join them in an onslaught, uron
Catholics and foreigners who never injured
you, nay who are your neighbors and friends
-and even turn a cold shoulder TO native
brother at your door, who protests agains,
your mode of warfare! Verify If you did
not revive Catholic sins three hundred years
old 10 justify your wrath against the church,
if you did not al times evincs a higher re-
gard for the sinners of your order than for
the Saints of your Church, and chafe al oppo.
slion 10 you from any quarter should re-
gard yours as the master institution Of the
world, for teaching men to forgive injuries
and love their enemies.
But however lawful it may be for your con.
freres 10 repell the poor from your borders, it
is not lawful for you and me 10 do it. Much
less lawful is it for you 10 complot with sim
ners 10 lerify them from the land, when the
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