The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-23

When the Congress which declared the thirteen Ameri-
can colonies free and Independent States assembled Al
philadelphia they debated in no dark lodge but they de-
liberated under the eye Of God and the people and then
tey proclaimed all the nations Of the earth the glorious
work they had oonsammaed Bat while they struck At a
foreign oppressor they excluded foregnborn citizen
from their councils They et that they spoke not for one
hemisphere but for world. There rapture IN the
thought that they preparing chart race Of
men nor for one generation but for all mankind and for
Iongpoerity They could therefore withoutdong vio
no 10 this ennobng cause exclude the patriotic foreigner
from ter councils No grim tyler gloomy sentinel stood
Al their doors 70 ask where each OF that devoted band
horn No puritanie priest scowled there ask their re
zion Robsr, Norris was challenged because he was
IN Epylishman Matthew Thornton not detained be
n.a he was an Irishman Button Gwinnett because be
wa. scotchmAn There fanatic 70 drive out Car
roll because be was Catholic Hopkins because he was
ouaker or witherspoon because he Presbyterian
woeunto him who had proposedit Woe unto the bigoted
fool who that awful presence and in that dread hour
when new republic spoke words of fire and OF inspiration
to down-hodden world, had sought to degrade tue men
Of that day cheaper the glorious boon they proeie 70
the whole human race and to shut down the door BY
which all men invited to and to parake OF the
blessings Of liberpl
Nor in The days which succeeded this act of imRorta
daring did the great savior OF bis country George Wash
ngton establish standard Of birthplace and OF religion
as the test by which were TO be selected to fol-
low the flag Of Amerea. Imagine, for moment the
Young and titled Lafayette, who came from far-of land
OF ease and luxury attracted hther by the glow of dawn
ing freedom repuIsed by insoen nqusor at the port
where he landed because he Frenchmsn Think Of
the Irish Montgomery turned oM Of has Office in the Amer
lean army BY some secret oabound combination because
OF his nativity Or behold DeKab denied the right die
for bis adopted country
In those days when the acts OF the American people
were eecirfyng millions over,urnng thrones liberating
masses from chains Of desros and Christening the
,yrant such party that which exists at this day
called know nothngs would have led to popular rising
from one end the land 10 the other Not than would the
adopted citizen have suffered but those who prosecuted
the adopted citizen. Not then would secret lodge have
concealed intoerants and bigos from the awakened wrath
Of proud and grateful people Then the hunt would have
been Of another character, and the blood that flowed
through seven long years of would have been in
creased if necessary by that poured out to avenge and
punish migrate deed Of inamy too base to be cassed
with Arnods treason. Such organization the
present conspiracy would have been purned and denounced
as damnabe invention Of foreign foe eager destroy
the American at single blow.
Have seventy years degenerated SO much that that
which shame during the American revolution is
glory now Have fallen low that that which Wash
ngton hailed duty Godthe duty Of and
gratitude the brave by God from other lands
to rescue from the despot--we regard a crime
and an nfmy2 great nation reused as if an invader
ravaged coasts and filed harbors with his ships
and all this put down imaginary evil, and pursue
citizens Of foreign birth Catholic belief if they spread
among pestience, Such is the change produced in
seventy years.
But We told by superficial demagogue-some
echo of faeiionsome asprant for oicehat times have
changed and that emergencies require remedies
We deny this wicked ophisry Such truth that
by Washington change The wise philosophy of
experience tells as day by day that good principle
sany renewsits title to the sacrifices Of by pepe,
ua necessity good government I, false that the liberal
ism of the revolution has done harm to the works Of the
revolution When and cut short the creed that
came from the revolution We yield everything coun-
ny like be nationally free and absurdy into
Grant at the period of time I, may change its being
but claim admiration imitation a, the hands of
those ~ho struggle to be free when the soul of equality
has departed from its counsels
As If to mark these truths upon the skies in characters
that all men may read observe how this fatal folly of Sc
cet politics and intoeant persecution goes hand in hand
with every conceivable decentralization political and So
cia W. Begin 6orror from monarchy The rorst eessss
just IN proportion as the idea of hunting down ci
for birth and belief grows upon the public mind 80
do the nonous doctrines of depoc hostility law and
constitution become agreeable to Accepting
the one error accept all Yielding up veneration
for the saes of the revolution for their practices and pre-
cept written not only in history but battle
fields we yield up with apparent eagerness all respect
those safeguards and those barriers which have protected
Us against unlicensed anarchy the hand aud ty-
rannical usurpation on the other.
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