Washington telegraph., 1855-08-08

ering the dignity Of the Senate, and cheap
ening lis honors- By myself and others,
upon the further ground that he had, while
in ireland, INDUCED in denunciations of
slavery. and taken part with the abolition
ISIS against the South, which! I considered an
unwarrantable intefneddling with matters
that in no way concerned him. Notwith-
standing these objections. the resolution pass
ed by decided majority. and Father Mat
thew took his seat upon the foor of the Sem
ate Not long afterwards Gen. Pillow, who
bore upon his person the marks of honora-
bic wounds recently received in the service
of the Republic. visited Washington, and
found, TO his modification, 10 doubt, that
the place which had been occupied by a
Catholic Priest, was inaccessible to him, q
native born American, and late Major
General in the wars of bis country. Nor
was he alone sufferer. Every officer who
served in the Mexican war. not member
of Congress. or an existing State Legisla-
ture, but was. in like manner, excluded. with,
perhaps. the single exception of General
Scott. who received a special vote Of thanks
during the war Of 1872, which, of itself. en-
titled him to admission. 1t will not do to
tell me that respect for the cause of temper
ance produced this astonishing result. The
Congress of the United States are not re-
markable as disciples of temperance, and
that very day there were perhaps not six
members of the Senate who did not drink
wine at dinner. or brandy before it,
The Irish vote was the controlling cause
the desire 10 conciliate that large body of
naturaliZed citizens who looked up to Faith
er Msitnew as superior being. 1t was
this which gave to the Foreigner and the
Catholic IN Importance above and beyond
that Of the so!diery, whose blood had been
poured out Ike water on the plains of Mex
ico- l. WAS this which induced the Senate
to forget what 1t had heen-to throw aside
the severe dignity Which had so elevated
them in the minds OF men, and to exchange
the character of Roman sages for that Of
servile sycophants There was time when
that high body was composed of sterner
stutt- There was Il time when such pro-
position would have been treated With the
scorn it deserved. But that was before the
Irish Exodus. Now, if we venture to cues
ton foreign merit, it must be with dated
breath Ii We venture to deny any for
eign demand, however -imperious. we are
threatened with political annihiation, and
yet am told we are in 90 danger from for
eigO influence. When the Senate OF the
United States bows before the storm, where
are we to look for that public virtue which
is strong enough TO resist it
The other case to which alludc was still
y~1O
actively engaged in exciting a revolution in
hungary, but when the hour of trial arrived.
he shrank from the danger he had evoked
and flying across the country took refuge
beneath the Crescent of the Turk. An i'm
mense amount of sympathy was at once
manufactured for him. and our Government
not to be behind the public expectation. dis
patched vessel Of war to bring him to our
shores. OF course this was done under the
specous name of sympathy for struggling
freedom. But If there had been no Ger
man votes in the United States | am very
much Of the opinion that sympathy would
have expended itself in some less costly
manner Bot. not satisfied with bringing
him here. Doth branches Of Congress passed
= resolution inviting him to Washington -
He came.in all the poup which surround
the Monarcis Of the Old Worn-armed
guards paraded before his door to keep off
the vulgar Populace. And we who would
not have tolerated such conduct for cne
hour in the President Of the Republic, not
only submitted TO it on ttTepart of this For
eign menIicaut, but actually invited him
within the bar of the Senate lie entered
with all his guards about him. The clal,k
of foreign sabTes awakened the echoes in
the vestibule OF the Senate. and an earer
crowd of Republicans looked on with won
deriug admiration st the pageant. IF the
dead are permitted to witness the events
upon earth, what must have been the feel
iDgs OF the stern Fathers OF the Republic
when they saw the velvet uniforms of for
elgn body guard within the sacred precincts
OF the Senate, Let US suppose them ratb-
cred about the immortal WashinetoD. as
they were wont TO gather in the days that
tried mems souls. gazing in sorrow and 81
lenee upon the disgraceful spectacle. There
Is Warren. Greene. Sumpter, Marion. Lee,
Shelby, Williams, Wayne. and a hundred
others of the mighty dead They remem-
Der that II was German cannon that thinned
their ranks at Mud Fork and Red Bank
They remember that German shouts rang
over the field of Brandywine. They re.
member that German bayonets were DIM
med with patriot blood at Monmouth
They remember Chads' Ford and Chews,
House. and many another fields where thew
net the bred mercenaries that England
gold had brought across the Atlantic to fas
ten nssDacles upon people who had neve,
injured them and remembering this they
turn to each other with the mournfr
inquiry. 'are these Our SoNs? are the
traditions of the Revolution already forgot
ten pa Ah. shades of departed Patriots
there is an engine of power in our land O
which in your day you did not dream