The true Democrat., 1855-10-16

yearly. So, when the Germans and Irish, goad- ed to desperation by these and thousands of other insults resent them by violence a good deql later than the natives would under similar cir mstances-they are held up as horrible be- ings-they are held about as the negro is held II he dares to resent an injury upon a white man. Against the inevitable results of such process, the fact of his being naturalized affords him no shield-whether he has been in the country from one year old or from forty year old, these circumstances are swallowed up, to great extent, by his being ''a foreigner" If he has enemies it is used against him-if he has quarrel it is thrown up to him. The children of fnatves annoy his children with the taunt that their father is foreigner. l have seen little boy myself made to shed tears by other boys jeering him with the fact that his father was Dutch foreigner" 1 have known of natives decline purchasing at store, with the remark 70 don't let us deal with the d--d Dutch man." Yet the fool says there is no oppression. It IS the very worst of expressions. In a mo- narchy there are no invidious distinctions among men in the same sphere of life--their social movements are altogether among their equals; the source of oppression is removed long dis tance from them, but here under the know no. thing rule, it is met with at every step, every
 
 To guard against the Yec,lrrence of what treachry, done by foreign born citizens, is pro- posed to deprive them of their privileges? To avenge what pelJidy Is this persecution upon them brought about? It was not naturalized citizens who hoSted "bue lights to warn the public enemy, or who met in the Hartford con- ventlon to devise ways and means to weaken the energies of the country against the enemy. No-these conventonalsts did there, as they do no,O advocate know nothing principles.
 IL there Is any public duty, the performance of which foreign born persons would not be conhded Tn bet0re, this is beautiful plan by which to mend the matterl
 It is said by some that we should build up more intense national feeling. How? Not by national glory-military achievements, science, civilization or by the adoption of broad enlight- ened.pohcy, but by making the Dutch and Irish, who have come here as the first settlers did. to find home, trenabte an their shoes by making item teeL that the natives are their Superiors.
 l know there IS a variety of national spen- dor, one that other nations have got up by squeez- ang the governing power into a small compass, and displaying 1t to the world in the form of Kings, Dukes, Earls, MarIuises, Viscounts, Lords, Stars and GarterS. So the leading know nothings begin to be tired of the poor exhibi- ton their small citizen fraction of power enables them to make, and long to be masters of some body.
 True, 'I am a Roman citizen" was glorious agis .to the Roman; but did not the glory of Rome shine with more spendor when Paul, a foreigner by birth exclaimed so effectively, " I am Roman ctizen?' And was not the kosta affair more glorious display of the power of the United States, than it would have been if kosta had been know nothing born in Pennsyl- vauia avenue?
 A ZEALOrS PROTESTANT