The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1855-01-05
who Invited the Foreigner. rietei

The Washington Union has this eloquent
and elegant response to the above question
Of Mr.. Bsnks---the Know Nothing candidate
ror Speaker OF the next House: Mr.. Banks
says that foreigners have never been 'nV'teo
here! Who invited our fathers' What In.
dian chief was ii that sent cut for the May
Floweft Not invited! Dc the sun land the
rain invite the springing grass! Does the
clear air Of morning inspire the song Of birds!
Do the warm kisses OF summer invite the RI
pehing fruit! Not invited! They were in
vited by the Declaration of Indepe ndence,
which appealed to the world for the rights OF
immigration They were invitedby the con-
stitutien, which provided for naturalization.
They were invited by repeated legislation
used that same subject. Our broad and fer
tile and unpecpled territory invited them
Our free institutions invited them. Our a.
bundant resources invited them. There was
starvation nt home. end there was plenty
here. The Almighty himself invited them
Shame on the poor, narrow spirit which, ufl-
der such circumstances, would exclude tlieml
Let them come! They will come, at sll
events. lie. US do our best to relieve their
hunger, il they are destitute, TO instruct them
if they are ignorant; TO make them friends
instead OF enemies, and as fast as we can do
50 safely, let US give them the rights, not Of
c0nspirators or secret plouers, | IT Of Amer
/ icsn citizens.
The Union grows eloquent over the en-
actment Of the bill for the relief Of tbs heirs
Of Baron de Kslb, Of revolutionary war me-
mory, saying:
"There is something peculiarly interesting
! in the history Of Baron de Kab. Let US re-
( call some of the incidents Of his career. now
when we are demanded by an arrogant party
to annihlatp the recolla ction of the brave
and generous man who came from sother
| lands to suffer and to die for the cause of
J American independence. twice sssaied by
the strongest power Of the Old World. He
was a Ge rman by birth. b was in France
knight Of the order Of military merit. and
a brigadier general in the French Army
He came to this country with La Fayette;
was appointed major general by Congress,
and served at the head Of the Maryland de
vision He commanded the right wing OF
the Americans at Camden, s. and in that
fearful conflict he fell, in his last attempt 10
achieve victory ,pierced with eleven wounds.
| He was rescued from immediate death BY
the Chevalier du Bysson, his aid, (and also a
foreigner,) who embraced the PROSTATE gen.
eral, and received into his own body the
bayonets intended for his friend, exclaming,
Save the Baron de Kalb; oh, save the Baron
de Kalb.' The brave veteran survived the
bloody battle bat a few days. Before hi.
death he spoke these noble words: i die the
death always prayed for-THE DEATH OF A
SOLDIER FIGHTING FOR TIE Kr0H1's OF MAN.
What commentary upon this language are
the doctrines Of the new secret order! 1t is
voice from the grave tf great soldier,
pleading against the passions and the preju-
dices, and to the justice and the graft itude OF
the present generation. When Gen. Wash
ington visited Camden, many years after, he
went to the grave of the German patriot
After gazing upon it, with a countenance
marked with deep thought, he exclaimed, with
a sigh: so, there lies the brave De Kab; The
generous stranger, tpho come from a disldn!
land to fight our battles. and 10 ,ra,er toiM his
Jlood the tree Of our liberty. Would to Goa
he had liued 10 share its fruits"
"Little did the immortal hero and sage sup
pose that day would arrive in American
history when such man as De Kalb would
becoze a mark of prose cription; when his
children would have been disfranchised by a
fannticsl party, and when his services would
be denied by set of mciern'reformerg,who
ambition can only be satisfied ny war upon
| all men born abroad, whether naturalized or
not, and by a crusade upsn the religious be-
lief of large portion or the American ?eo-
Pe!"