The weekly Placer herald., 1855-08-04
NUMBER. 47.

Americans to rule America" Well, don't
they? Are we not all Americans, by birth or
choice? (From the noise made in Massachu-
setts. one light infer that the Africans should
govern.j Pause for a moment and think what
you have done. Who are responsible for the
election Of those rabid abolitionists in the
northern States, and how are they to be got
rid Of? They, brought into political notoriety
by your order, go boldly on denouncing the
South Constitution, God and the Devil, all
for the negrOes-o opening wider and wider the
breach between the North and the South. and
attempting to crush the great democratic par
ty, which has in every emergency stepped for"
ward to sustain the honor and glory OF our
nation.
But why do you make war on religion? why
assail the house of God? why commit sacrilege
on the sacred sanctuary? "Oh, mol we admit
all-yes, and Catholics yet think them lit
tie dangerous, and swear them pretty tight.
We would rather not have them but are not
disposed to drive them quite Off" Then why
did YOU not admit them at the Philadelphia
convention as delegates from Louisiana? what
is there about them that is so dreadfuY are
you still boys. dreadng the nursery stories Of
raw head and bloody bones; or do you think
they are like old Aunt Jerusha's gun-dan-
gerous, without lock- stock, cock, or barrel.
Has not the Catholic and Protestant ever
not both erred; and have not we as nation
avowed our neutrality between religious de-
minations-permitting every man to sow
and reap his golden harvest set under his own
vine and fig tree. and worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience!
Bull" hurled at the head of Gen. Pierce,
for some heretical insult offered to his Catho-
lie majesty. might throw a few Jealous. ignor-
ant Catholics into fuster, but the better in
formed would laugh at the presumption.
OF all nations on the earth ours is the most
averse to temporal pretensons of any foreign
power, whether civil or religious,-ior the
great democratic principles are so deeply inn
planted in our nature. that nothing can drive
them from our people-the right to govern
ourselves. There is not thought. habit or
act that is not in consonance with that right.
and for this reaAon and the progress OF demo-
cratic principles the Roman POntif is far more
likely to become American under our liberal
principles and influences, than we are to be-
come subject to his rule.
Did not the Pope rattle away at Louis XIV,
but Louis was hardly civil to him. He was
very angry at Philip V. hut could not prevent
the Cortes from confiscating the Church prop
erty. The Senate of Venice disdained his
legate, and Napoleon, who imprisoned the
Pope. laughed at him, and used him as tool
afterwards.
Much ado is made about foreign influence
and policy. Are we not all foreigners or the
decendants of them. 1t may be true that some
errors have been committed by some of our
foreign emigrants. But who has been the
cause of it? Has it not been the eager desire
for Office that has set up such great opposi-
tion to the Democratic party, and 10y this
means the foreign vote has been courted. with
promises Of offices to some and liberal rewards
to Others And how unjust that they should
now be the recipients of injustice for others
sins
\ We owe to foreigners our very political
, existence and the boasted liberty which we
inherit from our fathers was purchased by
foreign blood In the darkest days Of the
revolution who came to Americas cause. who
. drilled our soldiers. who marshalled our forces,
who aided us to gain those victories that won
; our liberty? Foreigners Then shall we deny
, the rights of citizenship to the offspring of
our fathers comrades in arms Shall we turn
a could shoulder to the descendants of the
gallant La Fayette, the companion and friend
Of Washington. or forget the patriotic blood
Of De Kalb or Pulaski--for the sons of freedom
are the same, it matters not WHIT immediate
spot is honored with their birth place. Boon
of Providence to the human race-ther fame
is eternal
There are over 25OO officers in the house
the occupants. and who the defaulters! ap-
peal to every man of common sense to look
over the past and examine disnterestedly.-
Would he not find that all this cry about
Americans ruling America is mere clap-trap
for political purposes-the drowning voice of
the sinking whig party.
For one. l say let the foreign emigration
come. They aid in filing up our vast wilder
nesses, converting them into beautiful farms
and cities, and thus adding to the glory and
greatness Of our common country. The great
democratic spirit is preponderant, swallowing
foreign or alien sentiment Like the clean
/ Ohio as she rolls along, the tributaries come
pouring in making streak upon the clear
stream for moment and then presenting
clear and unruffled surface. l hold that we
have as great a need for foreign emigration
now as at any time, for west of the Mississippi
are broad aud beautiful praircs, filled with
fierce and hostile tribes of Indians who now
arrest the progress of civilization. There, is
half our territory wilderness. Here on the
Pacific coast only small colony. That wild
tract Of country must be settled. An iron
link must unite us with the fatherland So
let us live in friendship with those that our
fathers have sworn friendship to-let us bind
the covenant upon our hearts, and hold that
we are brothers in the common cause of liber-
ty-though they be foreigners by lot yet they
are Americans by choice.
AMERICUs
Know NoTHlNGIsM IN MAssAcHusETrs.-The