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all the satellites that gimmer about him, are
vleihg with each other in base concessions TO
German pride and German feeling. But he
picture is a siekening one, and tuin from it.
God knows il was bitter enough at the time,
and l have no wish 10 dwell upon il anew.
Not satisfied with the honors heaped upon
KosfuIh, Congress determined to extend 70 him
more material aid Mr., Seward discovered
that he was nations guest, and introduced a
Bill assuming his expenses as National debt
The account turned out to be somewhat ex-
travagantu This plain Republican Martyr TO
liberty lived at the raIo Of $500 per day. Con.
sumng in the twenty-four hours Champagne
and Burgundy which cost more than it would
take to feed a respectable family 10 Alabama
for twelve month. At that very moment
there were bills upon the calender Of the House
for the relief Of destitute widows and orphLns,
whose husbands had died in defence Of the
country, which Congress has not had time to
attend to even 20 this day. Not so with Kos
suth-he drank his wine-eat his pates de fois
gras, and Congress Immediately footed the bill
Do you ask the reason? l answer widows and
children had no voice. The foreigners who
were to be conclialed by adulation Of KOssu!h
had many Others will say it was not Kos
suEh but the cause-that he had been battling
for freedom, and they wished 10 mark their ap-
preciatiOn Of his efforts. As a tribute to the
spirit OF Liberty 1t might have been well enough
if we had not been 50 lamentaby deficient in
paying that tribute 10 our own citizens. When
Gen. Jackson had driven the British army
from New Orleans and rescued the country
from one Of the most terrible dangers with
which il was ever threatened, he was arrested
in the very hour of his triumph and heavily
fined for the rigorous discharge Of his duty;
and ye. Congress permitted more than quar-
ter ofa century to roll away without acknow-
Lodging the wrong, or attempting TO repair it,
He was Native Amercan-there was no for
eign sympathy in his behalf no foreign voters
to conciliate.
When Gen. Houston returned TO the U. s
with the laureIs or San Jacnto fresh upon hi;
brow, bringing an empire in his hand to lay al
our feet, no Congressional invitations ceebra-
ted his arrival. No bills were passed to pay
bis expenses. He was a Native American and
nothing was TO be gained by laudations of bis
chivalry or his patriotism. When Cen. Scott
had concluded one Of the most wonderful cam
paigns ever recorded in history he was recalled
almost in disgrace, and his army which he had
found unframed militia and converted into vet.
eran heroes was transferred to one of lis sub.
ordinates. Yet Congress offered no word Of
sympathy, applied no balm to the wounded
feelings of the matchless soldier. He was a
Native American and the voice of coincidence
was mute: Had Gen. Shields received similar
treatment howl would Lave been raised from
one end Of the continent to the other, and half
the tongues in Congress would have grown wea.
ry lamenting his wrongs.
With these facts before me, and all know
them to be facts, must be pardoned for nam.
tanning that there is danger from foreign inAu.
ences, and the sooner it is boldly met the bel
ter
tits gravely urged as an objection to the orde
of Know Nothings that they originated in tb
North and ought therefore to he regarded wit
suspicion by the South, and this reason hav
seen advanced by such men as Toombs an
Stephens of Georgia, and Preston of Kentuck,
gentlemen who know personally, and 70
whose TALENT attainmenLs, and moral worth
have very great respect. To my mind it is eV'
dehce of the weakness Of any cause wher
men of fair abilities resort to such himsy
means to supportit. l do not know how th'
fact is but shall concede that it did originate
in New York. and then shall proce ded to shov
that there is no spot upon the continent wher
the people have suffered more from fo' eign EN-
igration or where they have more imperiou
reasons :or arrayin3 themselves against it. B,
reference to the annual report of the Governor
of the Aims House find that there was in tn
New York Aims House during the year 1853
2O98 inmates--of these only 535 were Natives
and 563 Foreigners supported at the expens'
of the city, And now propose to use on ou
side the argument of our opponents that ther
are only 100000 Foreigners to 2o,00O,00
Natives. According to that ratio there ough
10 be about 7 Natives 10 l Foreigner in tn
aims house, Whereas we find more than
FOREIGNERS to l Native No wonder that
people who are taxed to support such BODY
Of paupers should be the first to set about de
vising means to get rid of them. Let US pur
sue the record--in the Bellevue Hospital, il
the same city, there were TOE Americans
4134 Foreigners: now the proportions rails
nearly 6 to /, There were of outdoor poor
that is persons who had some place, to sleep
but nothing to eat and nothing to maxi, fre7-
956 Native adults, and i044 childreG--5l3
Foreign adults, and 5229 Foreign children, o
children born of Foreign parents 5Theopdm
Der were relieved during the year with money
OF those relieved with fuel there were 1248 q
dult Americans and 1901 children, 10, 355 adu
Foreigners Ond 1887 children. But the re
cord Is not yet complete-let us turn to th
statistics Of crime. In the city prisons ther
were during the year 6,lO2 Americans-aa,
q29 Foreigners. Ipass on to an abode eve
more gloomy than that OF the prison cell, an
call your attention to those whom God in h
w;sdom hos seen fit to deprive of the lipht