The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-23

once that they can lord it over the despised
foreigner, in virtue of their being born here,
and what will be the consequences? Who is
| powerful enough to stem the current of per-
verted human passion, when once let loose?
Northern men, who are so noisy in their
profession of Anti-Negro-S Slavery, but would
enslave, politically, men of the Caucasian race,
| for the crime of being born on a different spot
than themselves, l would hesitate to tempt with
an inheritance of plantation stocked with
negroes" for fear they might conquer their
prejudices."
We're we " foreigners to see these Native
Americans superior to ourselves in public vir-
tue, their arrogance might be borne, in the
consciousness of their being better. But such
is not the case. No civilized country, ven-
ture to say, exhibits such utter prohigacy and
shameless corruption in its public servants as
this boasted model Republic. Show me the
assembly on the face of the globe which would
have dared to outrage the settled convictions
of its constituents as did the last American
Congress, by selling itself out, body and soul,
to the Slave Power, in repeating the Missouri
Compromise.
The sensibilities of the American people
seem to be blunted, as regards the corruption
of its public officers. To be an Office holder,
it seems to be acknowledged on all hands, is to
be public plunderer, who "makes hay while
the sun Shines" The more he plumbers, the
smarter" he is considered
Nor is the American party any better in
these respects. That party selected a virtuous
Hiss to ferret out the immoralities of the nun
neries; and his fellow-members on that same
committee helped to pass Maine Liquor Law,
and afterwards, if report speaks true, guzzled
at the expense Of the State; party that threat
such man Sauo ri nth xzol;.;ool Jao+b
and desires to elevate a George Law to the
Presidency, and that immaculate politician,
Simon Cameron, to the United States Senate
Americans shall rule America" What
contemplate cant! Who else ever ruled it
A stranger, unacquainted with the history of
this country, would suppose you were governed
by foreigners. What are your Quitmans, Atch-
Isons, Stringtellows, Pierces, Douglases, Fill
mores, and Kanes? Are they not "bone of
your bone, and flesh of your hesh?"
We foreigners have never aspired to rule
you; we concede this to you, as prerogative,
by the grace of God" All we ask, and for
which we claim the republican right of the
governed, is to cast our votes; is, to give us
such rulers as will not disgrace our common
country in the eyes of the whole civilized
world. Give us statesmen, and not filibusters,
slavedrivers, and slave-catchers, for rulers.
This may seem bitter language for " for
eigner" to utter, but, let me assure you, it is
not spoken in illfeeling, but in spirit of kind
ness. l am not blind to the exalted greatness
of America, and her sublime destiny. i vene-
rate her truly great men of the past and pres
ent, and dwell with delight and admiration
upon her manifold benevolent institutions, and
the domestic virtues of her native population.
God knows, after all the sad experiences
have had of late, and although / have felt for
the last year like stranger in this my adopted
country, yet love her as much as any native
born can, for | cannot but look upon her as the
home of my wife and children, who were all
born here. ID.