Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-10
Rnltlmore sun upon one Right 20 Riot.

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does not stand upon the platform Of open sour
rility with the Union and other assailants, but
it chronicles, with iuexpressble malignity, |
everything which it deems disastrous or dis
graceful 10 the American cause. The Scion
who does the editorial seems TO have been
chosen for skill In compromising opinions, I'M
til, like most other amalgams, every distinctive
feature Of the constituent is lost in the inno-
cent insipidity of the whole.
That we may do Scion no injustice, we quote
specimen to show his insidious hostility,
through the muddy metaphysics in which II is
concealed Here Is his defence of the alien
from the imputation of having commenced the
Louisville riots Il
1.-THE earliest despatch promptly followed by
outrage were foreigners" or. in other words, natu
rallied citizens for II is hardly to be supposed that
aliens were engaged in the ARRAY.
1.-THE distinction is an important one, of course, be-
cause the alien or unnaturalized citizen would be an
intruder participant in the political affairs Of the
country, and appears as such at his own risk. On
the other hand the rights Of the naturaized citizen
well defined, and, an American citizen, his &C
tivity a partisan is only restricted by the laws
which apply equally to the whole of the American
people"
The supposition that non naturalized aliens
were engaged in the ARRAY" is thus pro-
nounced improbable because the alien or un-
naturaized citizen would be an intruder" and
"appears as such at his own risk"
Whilst the alien is thus excluded from his
national amusement of shooting from an
ambush men of different religion, the act of
naturalization seems to invest him at once with
all the rights of partisan" and makes the
whole American people responsible for all his
violations of law in that capacity. Let us re-
duce this defence of the alien to the forms of
logic and we have the following syllogism:
!. 1t is not to be supposed that any alien
could have been engaged in the Louisville
riots.
2. A naturalized alien is an American citizen,
consequently.
8. Foreigners" could not have been the
" transgressors," since they could not have
participated at all.
Ingenious Scion! Our people have been
shot, and their houses burned, not by Dutch
men and Irishmen, but by Americans These
bloodthirsty foreigners are entitled to all their
native merits, whilst their crimes are thrown
upon the land of their adoption.
Scion next favors us with an chronological
explanation of the riots
"Thcse riots, however indicate popular divisions
and contest between race and in all probability,
religion thus demonstrating the prevalence and
force of those political and social elements which
have for ages disturbed the peace of Europe and at
length threaten the social harmony of our own be-
loved country"
According to the previous reasoning we can
not exactly sec how European quarrels have
anything to do with violations Of the law, at
tributable to an abuse Of partisan activity in
America But Scion cannot entirely exclude
the suspicion that these riots indicate popu-
lar divisions and contest between race, and, in
all probability, religion"
/ Taking an uneducated view of the circum-
stances, we should say that fight between
Irish Catholics and Germans on the one side,
and American citizens on the other, " did indi-
cate popular division" and we avail ourselves
of this indication to ask: Is it proper that the
quarrels of Europe should be referred to Anne
rican adjudication Should we not promptly
correct this evil, by correcting the abuse of suf
frage7
But Scion subsidies from the SCRIBE who ex-
pounds the law, to the philosopher who teaches
US to respect it Hear his lecture:
1T Is very certain that we have in the broad and
liberal constitution under which live, the letter
and spirit of organic law infinitely superior to all
existing causes of dissension and strife. And it is
he lovcra If this CON in ia Iatter aud
spirit to educe the practical remedy for all political
and social disorder from this hallowed source The
founders Of the republic familiar with European
history. They knew that the sources Of disorder
in civil and political disabilities Of the people,
originating in the intolerance Of power, exerted by
State and Church. Hence they established a system
by which the State existed only Us power created
by the whole people, under certain restrictions, ire
spectve Of their origin class order and utterly dis
tinct and separate from the Church.
ut is only by a strict adherence to this system of
government that social peace and order can be main
tanned; hence it is incumbent upon all who would
sustain this system to observe literally its import and
design"
This is the perfection of obscurity. It ef
fectually excludes all intelligent perception Of
the writer's position or purposes. When
Scion, by accident, finds himself rising to the
light ofintelligiblty, he plunges into the utter
most depths Of nonsense, and escapes alike
comprehension or conviction just such sense,
grammar, and logic, may be made after the
following recipe: Take a page of any En-
glish dictionary, chew it patiently for ten
minutes, spit it against the wall at random,
copy carclessly, and print-it will be a Sun
editorial.
What the last paragraph, which we have
copied, means, we cannot undertake to guess.
Our knowledge Of Sunscrit is utterly mace
quate We presume it was not intended for
translation.
But we know enough Supscrit to under
stand that journal to be hostile to the Ameri-
can movement, and TO take the side of foreign
ers against our own citizens. But-hallool the
Sun admits that aliens may have had something