The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-21

in due season into the household. II is not
enough that we offer him shelter from the
rain--not enough that we mend his looped
and Widowed raggedness-not enough that
we replenish his wasted midriff with bacon
and homouy, and open 10 his palsied. hands
an opportunity TO toll. These are commend.
able charities. but they are such charities as
any one, not himself brute, would willing
ly extend to a horse found asiray on The
common. Shall we do no more for our fell
lows? Have we discharged ou. whole du-
ty, as men 10 men, when We have avouched
the syipathies we would freely render 10
cat! Do we, in truth, recognise their claims
al all, when we refuse TO confess that higher
nature in them, whereby alone they
mon, and not stocks or animals? More
than that: do we not, by refusing 10 confess
a mans manhood, in reality heap him with
the heaviest injury it is in our power 10 in
flict, and wound him with the biuerest in
suit his spirit can receive.
We can easily conceive the BUSINESS with
which an alien, escaping 10 our shore from
the oppression Of his own country, or volun-
tary abandoning it for the sake of a better
life, might reply 10 those who receive him
hospitality, but deny him political associa-
ton: "For your good will, | thank you
for the privilege of ,oiling against The grim
ncemencies of my outcast and natural con-
dilion, which you offer: thank you-for the
safeguard ofyour noble public laws, thank
you; put the blessed God having made me
man, as we'll as you--when YOU refuse me
like the semi-barbarians of sparta, all civil
lfe--when, with Jewish exclusiveness, you
thrust me out of the holy temple, as a
mere proselite 10 the ga!e-your intended
kindnesses scum over with nalignity, and
the geniel wihe.cup you offer brims with
wormwood and gall"
with which such reasoning is usually met
We know in what variety of tones--frnm
the vulgar growl of the pot-house pug gllist TO
the minatory shrek of the polemic, frenzied
with fea, of The Scarlet Lady--it is pro-
claimed that all foreign infusions into our
life are venomous, and ought to be vehe-
mently resisted. Nor do we mean 10 deny
the right of every community to protect it,
self from hurt, even TO the forcible extrusion,
Unnecessary, of the ingredients which threa-
ten its damage. But that necessity must be
most distinctly proved. The case must be
one so clear as 10 leave no doubt of Il, as an
absolute case OF self-defence. Now, there
is no such overruling necessity with us as 10
compel either the exclusion or the extrusion
of our alien residents They are not such
violent Interpolation, as when grains of sand,
10 use Coleridge's figure, have got between
the shell and the flesh of the snail-that
they will kill us if we do not put them out
and keep them out. A prodigious hue and
cry against them wakes the echoes of the
vicinage just now, such as is raised when
pack of hungry foxes stray into the honest
hen roost, but the clamor is quite dispropor-
tonate to the occasion. The foxes are by no
means so numerous or predacious as they
are imagined 10 be, and there is no danger
of them for the future that we need 10 be
transfixed with fright, oil scamper away in a
stampede OF panic terror. The evils which
our past experience of Naturalization has
made known 10 us--for there are some-are
not uumanageable evils, requiring sudden
and spssmodic remedy, and menaclng dis
astrous overthrow unless they are instantly
tackled. The most of them are like the 9th
er evils of our social conditioh-mere Incl.
dents of an infanile or transitional state--of
a life not yet arrived at full maturity--and
will be worked off in tine regular course Of
things. AT any rate they solicit no head
strong, desperate assault; only conscious
ness, of what and where our real strength is,
and patient self-control.
On the other band, il is fixed conviction
of ours, in respect to this whole subject Of
aliens,--that there is much less danger in
accepting them, under almos, any circum-
stances, than there would be in attempting
to keep them out. In the latter case, by
separating them from the common life of,he
communiy,--making them amenable 10
laws for which they are YET not responsible,
taxing them for the support of govern
meni IN which they are not represented,--
calling upon them for purposes of defence
when they have no real coantry TO defend !;
we should IN effect erect them into dis
tinct and subordinate class, on which we
had fastened a very positive stigma or degra-
daion. How lamentable and inevitable
the consequences of suoh a social con.
irast.
The reader, doubtless, has often seen n
wretched oak by the way-sije, whose trunk
is all gnarled and twisted into knots; or he
may have passed through the wards of a
hospital, where beautiful human bodies are
eaten with ulcers and sores; or ne may have
read of the Pariahs of India, those vile and
vermipous ouicasts, who live in novels
away from the cities, and prey on property
like rats and weasels; or again chance may
have led him through the Jews quarters,
the honid ghiitos of the old continental town,
where squalor accompanies ineffable crime I:
or finally his ipouiries NAV have made