Washington telegraph., 1855-08-08

355 Adult Foreigners and II .S57 children.
But the record is not yet complete-let US
| turn to the statistics of crime. In the city
prisons there were during the year 6.102
| Americans-22, ,229 Foreigners. | pass on
to an abode even more gloomy than that ..of
/ the prison cell. and call your attention to
! those whom God in his wisdom has seen fit
to deprive of the light of reason In the
Lunatic Asylum there were admitted from
the year 1S47 to 1858, 779 Americans
1881 Foreigners. For the year 1853 there
we're "a Americans, 393 Foreigners.
These tables might be made more conf
pletc by adding organ grinders, strolliug
mendcants, and professional beggars, but
of these have no reliable data, and there
fore pass them with the single remark that
have never seen Native American who
| belonged to either class. These figures are
! far more conclusive than any language could
! be~to prove the necessity of arresting the
! tids Of immigration. Let every Ameri-
can impress them deeply on his memory
~, 1863 foreign paupers and invalds; 2.3SI
/ lunatics, and % 229 criminals taxing the
industry, and blighting the prosperity of a
single city. In that list Of crimes is MUIR
der, rape. arson, robbery, perjury, and ev-
cry thing which is damning to the charac-
ter of the individual and everything which
is dangerous to society. In our section we
| see but little Of the evils of immigration :;
comparatively few come among us, and those
| are generally of the best classes of their
countrymen. 1t is not as a State that VIC
suffer most, but as an integral part of the
Republic. The crime, vice, disease desti-
| tuition and beggary which flows in with ev-
cry tide of immigration affiicts us but lit
tie; it is through their political action-in
their capacity of voters that the curse ex-
tends itself to US. When thousands upon
thousands are carried to the polls and made
TO vote in favor of any man, or any party,
for shilling, corrupting the ballot box, and
rendering liberty insecure, then we suffer
then the law Of self preservation give US
right, and makes it duty to interpose-
With such dangers thickening around us
the memorable order of Gen. Washington
should be upon every mans iips-''Put
none but Americans on guard tonight -
In time of peace your public officers are
your sentinels. Put none on guard whose
bosoms DO not swell with exulting pride at
the mention of Bunker Hill, Monmouth of
Saratoga, or of York Town Put none on
guard whose national traditions are not con-
fined to our own commonwealth Put none
on guard who can dwell by the hour on the
eloquence of Daniel O'Connell, but have
never beard the name of Patrick Henry
Put none on gsard who turn with cold in
difference from the story of Niagara, New
Orleans, to boast Of Marengo, Leipsic,
and Waterloo. They do not love your
land as you do--they will not watch over
it with the same absorbing interest
Oppression, not choice, las brought him
here. and though he may feel certain
amount Of gratitude for the shelter he has
found, he still looks back to the green fields
of his childhood-he remembers every stone
upon The bigbways-he reads the history of
his native land, and partakes in the pride
Of its great eEents-in his heart of hearts
he feels that there is his home, and there
his holiest affections are garnered up
Fear, necessity, common sense, may keep
him here, but he loves not the land of the
stranger-cares nothing for its former glo-
| r;es,-sheds no tear over its former disas-
tefs.
With what reverence can the German regard
the name of Washington when he remembers
that his pathway TO freedom was strewn with
the dead bodies of German mercenaries9 What
exaltaton can the Briton feel in the fame Of Jack
son when he remembers that it was won by
trampllng the lion banner in the dust! 1t is not
! In human nature that they should feel as we do.
/ and false to ourselves when we put them
/ III power, give them the direction OF the law.
/ Perhaps no party in this country has ever been
! the subject OF so much invectIve as the American
! Party. All the depths of the language have been
sounded TO fish mp degrading epthets 70 be applied
/ TO men whose sin consists III loving their own
| blood something better than that of the stranger
! Practices which in daily use by other parties
suddenly become henious sins when resorted to by
the Americans, and Editors the excess of their
zeal not unirequently run into the most ridiculous
/ Inconsistencies 1 have seen column of a
I newspaper filed with demonstrations of the secret
/ feature of the order, while the next not only pur-
! ported 10 give the principles of the party, but
even the very forms of initiation. One thing is
certain, either those forms were forseres OF ali
/ the indignant denunciation OF secresy with W hch
We have been favored We're bypocTltical pretences
/ in no ways creditabie to those who eunployed
/ them. All parties observe more or less secresy
IN relation 10 certain portions OF their tactics
The secrets of a Democratic Caucus are as pro-
found as those of a Know Nothing Council and
the Will of every member is more completely
subjected to the control of the majority. A
] knoE-Nothing. after his party have made nom-
ination, may abandon the order and then rid him.
self OF all obligation to support it, but Democrat
, who has once taken part in Caucus, is held in
honor bound to abide the decision of that Caucus
no matter how dista steiul it may be- If the term
| Ozark Lantern Party" was applied to the mid
| night pottings of those W DO manufacture in Cau-
eus.es aud Conventions candidates without con-
suting the viii of the people it would be much
more appropriate. The State and the National
Councils having both removed the Injunction Of
secrecy that reproach is disposed of, in point o
! fact ii never existed. Thei, principles were
known from the beginning, and he must have
been ignorant indeed who had any doubt of the
aims and purposes of the order. But it is alleged
that it is a Whig trick gotten up to iniure the
). Democracy. Such arguments the usual resort:
of weak men, who when reason fails attempt tc
enlist prejudice in their behalf The head Of ths