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

hood in reality heap him with the heaviest injury Il IS In
our mower 10 ine and wound him with the biteres in
suit his spirit can receiver
we can easily conceive the business with which an
alien escaping 70 our shores the oppression Of his
eouutry or voluntarily abandoning il for the sake OF
better life might reply TO those who receive him hospa-
bly, deny him political association; For your good
will thank you-sor the privilege OF toing against The
grim inclemencies of my oucast and natural condition
which you offer thank yonfor the safeguard OF your
noble public laws thank you but the blessed God hav-
ing made me man, well you-when you refuse me,
like the semi-barbarans Of Sparta all civil liiwheD,
with Jewish excusveres you thrust out OF the holy
Pile proseyte to the gateyour intended kind
nesses scum with magnity and the genial wnecup
you offer brims with wormwood and GALL
We are all aware Of the kind Of outcry with which
such reasoning is usually met We know in what
variety Of tones-from the vulgar growl Of the pot
house pugiis the minatory shrek OF the poemic,
phrensed with fear of the Scarlet adyt is proclaimed
that all foreign ninsions hto life vsnomous and
ought be yehemen,y resisted Nor do to deny
the right Of every community to protect itself from hurt
the orchle cxruson If necessary of the ingre-
dents which threaten its damage. But that necessity
be distinctly proved The must be one so
clear leave doubt Of it. absolute OF self
defence Now there is such overriding necessity with
us as compel either the exclusion the extrnson Of
alien residents They not such violent interpola-
ton when grains Of sand to Coerdges figure have
got between the shell and the flesh Of the snaitha they
will kill if do put them out and keep them out
A prodigions hue and cry against them wakes the
echoes OF the vcnage just now such is raised when
pack Of hungry foxes stray into the honest hem
roost but the camor is quite disproporonate to the
occasion The foxes by numerous
predaeious they imagined to be, and there is no
danger Of them for the future that need be transxed
with fright scamper away in stampede Of panic ter
The evils which past experience Of naturalization
a. !. - r. ~.
manageable evils requiring sudden and spasmodc
edy and menacing disastrous overthrow unless they
instantly tackled The Of them like the other
evils Of social conditionmcre incidents Of infan-
tile transitional sateof life not yet arrived at full
maturtyand will be worked Off in the regular Of
things any rate they solicit headstrong desperate
assault only consciousness of what and where real
strength is, and patient seli-control
On the other hand ii is fixed conviction of ours
spect to this whole subject Of aliens that there much less
danger accepting them under almost any circumstances
than there would BIO in attempting to keep them out In
the latter case by separating them from the common life
of the community making them amenable to laws for
which they yet not responsible taxing them for the
support Of in which they not represent
ed calling upon them for purposes OF defence when
they have no real country Defend should in effect
them into distinct and subordinate class which
we had fastened very positive stigma degradation.
How amentablc and inevitable the consequences Of such
social contrast !
The reader doubtless has often wreched oak by
the way-side whose trunk all gnared and twisted into
knots he may have passed through the wards of hos
pita where beautiful human bodies eaten with ulcers
and sores he may have read Of the Pariahs Of India
those vile and vermnous ontcass who live in novels
away from the cities and prey property like rats and
weasels again. chance may have led him through the
Jews quarters, the horrd ghso Of the old continental
town, where squaor accompanies neable crime final
y his inquiries may have made him familiar with the free
blacks Of his country with their hopeless degradaons
and miseres WE'LL if these experiences have been his he
has dscerned in them the exponentsin the SYM
bo and in Others the actual eecof the terrible spirit
of exclusion when it is worked out in society; for it is
universal TRUTH that whatever thing enjoys but partial
participation of the life 10 which it generally belongs gets
the Of the deprivation diseased II is also uni
versa truth that the spread Of that disease WILL
later affect the living members Make any class Of
men, for instance exception in society set them apart
way which shall exclude them from the vital cir
custons Of that society place them in relations which
shall breed in them of alienation and degradation
the time and they become either blotches
parasites which corrupt it else band Of conspraors
or less active, making war upon its integrity.
Let suppose that rucr-a Louis Napoleon Dr.
Franca-should decree that oil the inhabitants Of
tain country, of oblique defective vision should be
rigdly confined to ofthe lower mechanical occupa
tons would all the squnteyed and shortsghted pso
pie be Immediately degraded in the estimation of the rest
of the community Would not the feeling of that de-
basement perpetual rrtant to their malice lead
them to hate the rest and prey upon Them and SO feed
incessant feudopcn sinister the injured party
might be strong weakbeween the strabismc families
and those of legitimate ocularity? In the
way but with certainty and Yirulence of effect
any legal distinctions among people, founded upon diff
rences Of birth must generate unpleasant and per-
ncous relations, which, in the end, could only be main
tanned by force Say to the quarter million of foreigners
who annually arrive on shores that like the metoik
and psoa Of the Creeks they may snbss here but moth
ing more that the privileges Of the inside Of the city su
frage Office equality ambition closed to them that they
may sport for in the arenas look at
courts do abors for us and reverentay ad
nre greatness but that they shall have part
lot in that political life which is the central and dstn
inialbly into enemesinto the worst kind of enemies
too because internal enemies who have already effected
Judgment in the midst Of your citadel Coming i'm
vadng army these thousands with avowed unfriendy
purposes they might easily be driven back by
but coming here settle and be caste
into political lepers and yagabondsthey would degene
rate into moral plague which human weapon could
turn away Prescribed from the important functions
Of the society in which they lived they would cherish an
interest separate from the general interest and they
grew stronger form themselves into organized and ri
table canshp Their just reentens their increasing
arrogance would later provoke rival fac
ton into conflict and then the deepseated fatal anmosi
ties Of and religion sxasperated by he remembrance