Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-03
American independence.

American Independence.
The seventy anniversary Of American
Independence will be celebrated tomorrow in
thirty-one free and sovereign American States
The original thirteen Colonies had, in 1776, a
population Of less than three millions. The
thirt lone States Of the Union, Of which those
thirteen Colonies were tho germ, have this day
a population Of twenty-seven millions. From
comparatively insignificant and unknown de-
come, in seyenty-nine years, one Of the richest
most populous, and most powerful nations Of
the earth Our eaglos, like those of ancient
Rome, are continually on the wing. 1t is with
in the memory Of many now living, when they
first pcrched upon the western bank Of the
Mississippi and now they sweep the breadth
Of the whole continent, and are stayed in their
flight only by the Pacific.
Contrary to the predictions Of nine-tenths Of
the philosophers and statesmenor sciolists
and politicians Of the Old World, the American
Constitution has survived the storms of party
for three quarters of century. Foreign hos
tility--avowed or concealed--domestic treason,
political corruption, and political NAL admins
tration, have all conspired to destroy it; but
It still lives-and will continue to live, SO long
as the people Of this country continue to imi-
tate the virtue, the patriotism and the sef-sacri
ficing spirit Of their ancestors. We may have,
and undoubtedly viii have, domestic troubles
md discussions, as in tho case Of the purchase
of Louisiana, Of the admission Of Missouri, of
California, and the repeal ofthe Missouri Com
promise. But by judicious concessions on the
one hand and the other, such difficulties, ifthey
arise sgain, may be speedily overcome, as they
have been heretofore, and the confederated and
consolidated Union resume its march--grand,
rssistless, and illimitable.
It will not be denied by any intelligent and
rejecting citizen that the immense foreign emf
grafton to this country forms at present por'
tantous element Of mischief to our political in
stitutions. Half million of foreigners annu-
ally land upon our shores. They are natives
chiefly Of European countries which have
groaned for centuries under political and spirit
ua despotisms, and were educated under sys-
TENS Numerically opposite to our own. We
were "born Free" They know freedom only
from hearsay, and even in that way, to very
limited degree. They come here in the main,
to better their physical condition, and they
bring with them the languages, the usages, the
faith, and the priests of their own countries.
The larger portion ofthem congregate in towns
and cities, where they become the prey of dem
.,I e. Il, all
litical contests. They are gregarious like all
unenlightened and semi-civiliZed races, and
therefore easy to be led by any political or
spiritual chias'of their own nation.
Having recently been cmancipated from the
shackles Of despotism in the Old World, they
become too highly inflated with their newly
acquired freedom here, and in place of their
old seryility and obsequiousness, they assume
the boldest assurance, and demand, with I'M
blushing impudence, to be admitted, not only
to the ordinary privileges of citizenship, but
even to share In the honors and emoluments
Of office
Not content with elbowing our mechanics
and other laborers from the places of their
birth and the homes OF their childhood, they
demand moreover voice in the executive de-
partments Of the municipal, State, and Fcde-
raj Governments; and when obtained, lord 1t
with the insolence Of emancipatcd slaves over
free born native American citizens
In such condition Of AFFAIRS il is not
strange that the masses Of the people should
be aroused-that the great heart Of the nation
should throb with unusual excitement-and
that determination should be evinccd by
thousands who have heretofore acted with one
or the other Of the old political parties, to form
a new organization, for the express purpose Of
amending the naturalization laws, and of saw
ing the country, il it be not too late, from tho
denoralizing and destructive effects Of foreign
insolencc and foreign corruption.
This new political organization is already SO
powerful as TO hold controlling IL not COM
manding influence in all future elections in this
country. With judicious management and
with able and experienced generals, the army
Of the American Reformation must be victori-
Qua From the day when Americans were
first arrayed against a foreign foe, on the field
OF Lexington, to the date OF the last battle IN
which their arms were engaged, when ever was
the American standard trailed in the dust or
the American power humbled or subjected?
Have not our eagles always been victorious.
Twice have we COPIED successfully with Eng
land when at the zenith Of her power, and when
she held against al Europe, the mastery Of the
seas. We have conquered the conquerors Of
Napoleon.
Shall we finch now before the motley, de-
formed, and squalid cohorts which modern
Romo arrays against uss Never. They will
be routed, as ADLER and better men have been
routed, whenever they have contended with
Americans in the open field and in fair fight
They will be defeated in the contest which Is
now at hand--"the penitentiary win reclaim
It's fugitivcs in office'-and when the sun sets
on the evening Of thu first Tuesday Of Noyem-
Der, 1866, that great and vital question, "Shall
Americans rule America" viii be decided 10