Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-27
a. SENSIBLE LETTER.
An exchange paper saws:

The following letter is from cussed foreigner
in iowa. It tells its own story. We submit it for
the consideration of all Know Nothing readers:
/ was born in England by accident, not choice; I
not consulted in the matter; came to the Uni
ted States by choice, not accident; 1 came on the
faith of your flag, your Constitution and your laws
these told me might become citizen of the Re-
public and stand on equal footing with my neigh
bors native to the manor born,' by giving ''vaue
received" The consideration was remuneration of
my birthright my natural citizenship. [ paid the
consideration and became, 1 supposed, a citizen
Of the United States; hardly established in my new
home, hear the blast and find myself doing
soldiers duty in Mexico, under my newly-adopted
flag; after that, bind myself by other relations,
this country; I marry American woman and
have sons born unto me, Americans all l come out
into this wilderness to out of this forest and
this prairie, ieemens homes for my sons. l am
startled by another sound, the scream of bigotry
and intolerance; told the contract made be-
tween the United States and me- to be repudiated
that am to be deprived of my citizenship, or at
least that it is to be robbed of it's virtue and its at
tribute, Equality, for which | prize it, must be
stricken cut; must not hold office want none,
but like not this ban. gave away my citizenship
for another; this the contract, and must have
my bond" But you say 1 shall not have it. To
this reply: You are strong can withhold it;
submit.
fit is dangerous to your institutions, that foreign
ers should come among you Will leave. 1t Will
be a loss and an Inconvenience to me, yet leave L
must. cannot stay where [ am not welcome, nor
live where am not good as another. will seek
again the red banner, and the cold soil of
Canada repent like the Prodigal. I will take my
American wife and my American sons, and on the
Threshold of their native country they shall shake
the American dust off theix feet My boys are the
sons OF the sires of 76 puritan Stock not Hessan,
like some Know Nothings) but they will never
know it. Of the s1fferings of their ancestors, in
the cold days at Valley Forge and in the hot day at
Monmouth, they shall nothing know. One thing l
regret; cannot take them all, for of my boys
has become American dust. He lies the shores
of ~, &c
peake dash upon his grave. He sleeps well; let
him sleep.
Here new difficulty meets me. If, as American
jurists tell me, cannot renounce the allegiance
myself have voluntarily undertaken, then am dou-
bly, cheated. But if this be not SO, will England
take me back? She may; but my wife and children
England does not know She may recognize my
wife as part of my individuality but my sons,
they Foreigners born in America, when their
father aoas American citizen. They cannot stand
equality with free-born English citizens. Here
is the dilemma. What am to do? If live here
l am unuer social and political ban. If go to
my native country, my children nnder the same
disability. Who is responsible? am not. You
told me might become American citizen, by
rendering a certain consideration. | gave it. Am
to be cheated, and my children, too?
AN INDECENT OUTRAGE-The city of New York
has been disgraced during the past week by most
beastly exhibition, calledFa baby show, and gotten
up by the notorious Barnunl. We might laugh at
of his other fcats-we might consider the mer-
maid good joke-the woolly horse a small and
comparatively harmless swindle-the canonzation
of Jenny Lind piece of absurdity-Out in this
the hero of Iranistan the patron of Joicc Heth
and the agent of the fire annihators has inflicted
a last stain upon the fair fame of the cty-affXed
lasting stigma upon the of many innocent
Children deuded their confding mothers, and placed
before the public exhibition the details of which
too disgusting for publication.
We have given readers of the facts
nected with this affair; but it is impossible to describe
he loathinp-the
the controlling feeling in the mind of every decent
visiter to this exhibition. People go, we presume
for the same reason that they pay high prices for
good places to see notorious criminal executed
In the it is morbid appetite for the horri
ble-in the other it is intense craving for what is
decent and disgusting.
We pity the respectable matrons, ifany such there
be, who have from ayarcious other motives al
lowed their infants to be examined handled and tos-
sed about by half the thieves prostitutes and pick
pockets about town. They will one day hang their
upon their children, upon whom the sins of the pa
will be visited tenfold. The stands thus
In the hope of gaining ten fifteen dollars, you
Mrs. B., have shown up your child-the hottest of
the secret mysteries of have been laid open
to gaping crowd-the health Of your offspringhas
been endangered-your own character in the eyes
of all good men and women, hopelessy ruined-and |
all this has resulted in nothing but evil to you while
it has put many dollars into the pockets of man |
who is proud to call himself the greatest swinder in
his way in the United States-who is beneath criti-
cism, and insensibe to shame.
1t seems too, that Barnum does not keep faith |
with his victims An indignant mother writes to the
HERALD to say that he refused to pay the expense
of bringing the children here unless the mother con-
sent that the fatigued and out infants remain
on exhibition four weeks longer How long will it |
be before people come to know that they cannot |
touch pitch and remain undcfiled2
If the fathers mothers guardians of the I'M |
happy children who now form the material of the !
disgusting exhibition at the of Ann street and
Broadway, have any of dccency left, they will
remove their children at once. Their lives are in
danger. 1t is monsrous that such outrages on the |
properties of life allowed in city which is sup
posed to be inhabited by civilized, Chrstianzed men
and women. Such thing as this baby show would
not be tolerated in Tmbuctoo; but it is supported
in the refined metropolis of the progressive Western
WORLDLY. Y. Herald.
The American party lacks manliness 1t has not,
yet acquired the great masculine virtues which give
strength to character and enforce the respect of the
world. 1t would scorn the act of being unprincped,
and, yet if it has principles, nobody can specifically
tell what they Itnever talks about principles
at all if it can help it. and when it does its language
is never alike two different days OF in two differ
ent places Here you find it saying it will support
no candidate who is not pro-slavery to the midriff
there that it will support no candidate who is not
antslavery to the backbone; to-day it will exclude
all Catholics from Office tomorrow that it believes
in the broadest religious tolerance; here that the
naturalization laws should be amended, there that
the naturalization laws should be repealed to-day