The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-21
Expectations not Realized.


The editor of the Memphis Wing Judging
from the following, has been laboring under
very serious misapprehension as to the honesty
and decency of the anti American press. Now
ne never for moment supposed that under
any circumstances these editors could be
brought to acknowledge native born Ameri-
cans to be even as good as foreigners, much less
better-or that Americans have achieved any
thing for this country in comparison to what
foreigners have done. They can see nothing
except through foreign spectacles. On every
occasion, in every incident, and under all cir
cumstances, they exhibit partiality for Ger
mans and Irish over native born Americans.
Even in case of riot or difficulty Of any kind
between Americans and foreigners, who for the
last two years has ever seen the singular spec
tacle of an anti-American editor rendering
even common justice to his own countrymen?
Invariably and on every occasion, they have
thrown the whole blame upon the Americans,
Indignantly repealed the idea that there
could be two sides to the question, and held up
foreigners as peaceable, quiet innocent and in
offensive in every respect, and Americans as
the vilest scoundrels and murderers and assas-
sins ever God permitted to walk on the earth.
Show us an exception to this in the ranks Of
anti-American editors. Show us one such ed
itor who has even treated his countrymen with
common deceney in cases similar to those we
have mentioned.
But here is what our friend of the Wing ex-
pected. We presume he has by this time
ceased to expect any such improbable things
! We did expect that some native opposition
editor would discover that there were decent
characteristics belonging to his own country
men; that there was something in history be-
longing to ourselves; that we had past ofour
ol0n, to which we could look back without
blushing; that we did not owe everything to for
eigners and adopted citizens, no matter how
much they were deserving of applause; that
the old original Thirteen had not been entirely
barren of men-great glorious, mighty men
native and to the manor born; that the confed-
Grafton and union which followed have not
only produced States, but stStesmen-natives
of the soil-whose grand achievements would
add lustre to the history of any land that
! WAsHINGToN-a native-had made mark
upon the scroll OF time which nothing but the
wing ofeternity could eface; that the warriors
of Lexington, of Bunker Hill, of Saratoga, O
Butaw, and Of Yorktown, were not forgotten
that the Adamses, the Hancocks, the Sher-
mans, the Piikneys; the Rutledges and hun
dreds of others, had still some claim to CRATE
full remembrance; that Henry once spoke burn
ing words ofeloquenee, fresh and glowing from
his heart, stimulating our forefathers on to the
desperate struggle; that native cfthe soil; aye
q natiUe pealed forth fteedonrs war cry-givt
me Liberty, or give me Death;' that noble sons
succeeded noble sires; that the matchless CHA,
once reigned supreme among our "Conscrip
Fathers"-the mightiest of the mighty-th'
undisputed monarch of the realm of intellec
whose genius, like the rays of the sun, irradi
ated and enlivened the whole civilized earth
that the great CALHOUN had won prou(
niche in the TEMPLE of FAME; and that the un
surpassed WEBSTER had erected for himself al
intellectual monument that will far outlast tn,
> granite that covers his mortal remains a
Marshfeld.
We had hoped for some slight acknowledge
ment of these facts on the part of the opposi
tion-for they are facts, engraven upon tn
iron tablets of history, which nothing but thu
' extinction of our race, language and lineage
can efface The hand of the Almighty cal
alone destroy the record.