The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-30

mints there 43o Americans % foegnborn and not
known.
Revenue-cutter service, Americans, s..
Lighthouse keepers Americans, 23s foreigners, 80 not
known 1872.
CustomsAmericans ls45; foreigners, 227; notknswn,
&c.
Total number of persons employed under the State,
Treasury and Interior Departments is as follows;
Americans
Foreigners. 40
Not known.. $50
Whole number employed LOG
In the House of Representatives the LIST of October
1853 there were ffy-our persons employedal of whom
except one, were Americans.
On these facts we repeat what we then said;
In looking over these tables realize the turptude
and reckleness of these proscrpons the extent Of their
aeood and the they to to poison the public
mind proves that the ratio of adopted citizens
poyed in all the various departments of the general
falls far below the exaggerations cir
culaed in the newspaper press that may well wonder
that few this class of Americans have been employed
Their power the baotboxes their general intelligence
their uniform deeorn-their value emgrans in opening
up Territoesand their substantial Importance
producer-a conspre make them worthy least of i'm
partial consideration at the hands Of American people,
No field that has been illuminated by the American
flag failed disclose the adopted citizen the
ground the picture and from the period when the first
gun flashed Lexington down to the when the last
sword cleaned Chepuepec they have exhibited virtue
and valor behalf of their chosen country which they
never able display in behalf of their father
land off the opportunity of sacrificing themseives
for their own esides they have htherward to
their devotion to the OF human rights and rational b
erty.
What will arrest attention of the country, however,
in these explicit emphatic exposures of the scandaeus
asehoods of the papers and politicians the
fact that the adopted citizens almost entirely without
representatives in the higher official branches Americans
occupy without exception, tand these exceptions
few as they are have been made the of malignant
sure BY the opposition press the best positions leaving
the adopted citizens those places which simply snbord
nate and laborous
When we look at the objects of this party Of intolerance
bgory and prescription and contrast such facts these
with the vast numbers Of adopted citizens and the slight
and nconsderab advantages they have obtained the pub
lie service we feel profoundly humliaed Had there been
rigid rule exclusion adopted by the powers that behad
the name Of adopted citizen been the signal for his ec
ton from ocethere could have greater dispar
ty in those holding stations in the between the
American and foreign born citizens And yet we
have complaints and because the
posed to be true
sThe know -notbngs, in their upon the adopted cit
zens are ignorant they deudcd and preudced
They make charges, have seen, which false and
magnant and they open themselves to the most fatal cr
cisms BY their short policy Their great complaint
is that the adopted citizen drives the naveborn citizen
of certain walks of labor We have shown how UNANIMOUSLY
false this charge regard the offices by general
and the facts in reference the employment
of foreigners and adopted citizens everay the walks
labor generally, no less conclusive.
Take fer instance the branches of skilled labor IN the
ited States and the American citizen has the monopoly
almost without exception There may be- no doubt are
many educated foreigners who In certain branches
chsnics have achieved eminence in their country
which well calculated to give them high position here
But great stands conspicuous that the EMPLOY
of foreigners and adopted citizens Ia the branches
Of labor exceptions the general rule And this
end that desire TO invite public attention.
Why should American citizens apart from the principle
which teaches them TO be liberal and just Others lend
themselves crusade against the adopted citizens which
the same time unmanly and proscriptve7 There
are true certain kinds Of unsked labor which the
adopted citizens do perform the greatest part the work
They dig canals they help build railroads they
ships, and they FIJI various other stations in life in
which American citizens rarely be found. Here after
ALL the great of the hatred the
adopted citizens and with what little iusticeg Would
these very kuow-nothngs, proscripons az they are
would they undertake the heavy labor eagerly gratefully
undertaken by the adopted citizens It is not pretended
that Americans willing to work upon railroads and
canals and vet because The adopted citizen Nc 70 to Be
kopaded ard hunted Tie rid beast Jy the kno nolings
Thus the native Americans win do this work thew dis
dain tilt IL beneath their aspirations and yet .hey do
hesitate 10 pesecute those who are willing to undertake
shame where i thy blush Can based upon preu-
dce base and upon passions ungeperous and upon
reds unmanycan such prosper in the country
which ashamed to acknowledge that Montgomery and
Lafayette and De Kalb aided 20 achieve liberties
The free negro can be property holder He IL dis
frsnchsed by resess moral sentiment He vote
In % the free States and in abolition
nifty decent regard for the opinions Of the compes
him stand aoof from the soety Of the whites The know
nohings would place the adopted citizen upon level with
negro He could hold property, he might vote
hold oee u possible that discrimination
voting and cruel would be submitted 10? Where il the
American who loves his country and who knows history
Of his country who would reco from lending himself
IN oppression unnatural and ungrateful9
But need not 90 TO expose the isehood and the
hypocrisy Of the nothiues That has been done Eu
GENTLY. The facts have given show how deliberately
these asebcods have been coneoeed and pesevered and
how cooy the enemies OF the democratic party have eacu
lated that they would be believed We shall more
say on this subject hereafter"