New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-05
ANTI-AMERIcAN SPIRIT.

| Under the foregoing caption the Galveston
Confederate. of the 18th ult., contains some
| very Just and toreible observations, which we
append The editor speaks boldly and truly
We, very frequently, have been constrained to
the use If language somewhat similar, which
was elected BY actual pain at seeing native Cit
| izens vllllfy and exeerats their own born coun-
trymen who were guilty Of no offence against
law or morals, simply because they enumerated
a great principle honored and observed in
every civilized land under heaven that the
natives of the soil were most interested in, and
best qualified for, the exclusive control and gov
| eminent Of that soil That is all the members
of the American party are guilty of, and for
that, and that alone, they are assaulted and stig-
| matizedin the coarest terms of furious yitupe-
ration, while the foreigner, or adopted citizen,
exalted to the highest altitude of perfect abil-
| ity and patriotism elevated to q pinnacle of
excellence the mere native can never hope to
attain.
Everything infamous is freely attributed to
| an indigenous source, while Mt the same time
the fathers of the Republic are seldom quoted,
unless soa e phrase can be found to advantage
doctrines of precisely the same character they
periled their lives to put down in the fearful
days that :" tried mems souls
| And all this is done to secure partisan tri-
umph by the aid of foreign votes Oh, shame.
shame--where is the blush that should mantle
the cheek of shaueessness itself' Appeal to
| foreign aid to beat down and crush your own
native born brethren Why, that is exactly
| what King George did do, when he ransacked
the continent Of Europe to employ foreign mer-
| cenaries to defeat the patriots under GEORGE
WASHINGTON, in order that he might enjoy the
| exquisite pleasure of hanging him and his COM
patriots of the Revolution! The analogy is
good between the two cases cited.
But to the article from our Galveston cotem-
porary We commend it to the perusal of all
whose native blood courses proudly through
| their veins: ss5@
Among the many singular circumstances developed by
the present condition of parties III the Union has
ever oceasioBed real astonhment and sincere
greet than the yndicve hatred aud dsbpical passions
which have besn excited by the simple irmatou of the
American party, that citizans in ali the relations
which csens tain to their government are more re-
liable intelligent patriotic aud national
than the of foreigners who land upon our shores
and whose country home, friends, prejudces education
gave them birth We say that what has asonished
usis that should have been met just hereupon the
very Threshold aud the issue made upon this question
between aericdns themselves That foreigners hast
the great mass the should have been found arrayed
against the American party that their feelings and
pjudices should have oyerpowered their better impulses
and caimsr Judgments is not strange This perhaps,
was the only difficulty which the American party at fest
apprehended But certainly it could not have been fore
that the prpcpai opposition to from Amer
themselves and the ercest opposition, the
r-lruting hatred the lowest abuse uhb u-bug
asthood the West oaumny aud the bassst treachery
were to be encountered among who share with us
this glorious Union birthright Aud yet. deeply
lament that such Ia the case that Americans have far
ontstrpped foreigners in the effort to cast odum upon
their country Thty have not hesitated 10 every
means to this purposeths pulpit and The IRE
side have bse alike Invaded they have torn with
ruthless hand ths bleedpg heart VI the country
upon its soil the hgs of foreign potantatps and
attempted by every within their power to extin-
aush that spirit of nationality which psr4ades the uni
verse and which its r1stsbce to the highest purest
and best impulses OF human nature All this and mora
have they DONE There be no crime committed, no
outrage perpetratad law violated portion Of the
social compact broken in short there is nothing that
is bsse despoabie aud INDUSTRIOUS of which these
american Americans have not accused their country
meu there is nothing good yirtnous, high minded
honorable which they willing TO accord them II the
American party the ant American party say it
Is what position should country occupy in the eyes
OF the civilized word