Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-09-13

He insists that throughout all history, AN
cent and modern, we will find among tn,
most devoted and patriotic citizens, names o
foreign birth. Hear him adduce bis facts:
elias any mind shed greater lrstre on illus
trious Athens than Aristotle! Aristotle was
foreigner, and came to Attica when seven
teen yenrs old. Has there been any Spaniard
more Spanish than Columbus! Columbus
was a Genoese. Has there been French
man more French than Napoleon, and Cuvier
and CONSTANT Napoleon was an Italian;
Cuvier, by birth and education, a German;
Conuant, Swiss. Who carried the Ne
therlanders through tie direst war of Inde-
pendence on record, and who founded the
Republic of the Netherlt ndsl William of
Orange. German. Has England ever had
a more English King than William III, the
Netherlandeyi Has Germany ever had q
more German leaderthsn Eugene Of Savoy
Who was Catharine &. Russia, that made
her the great Power! She was a German
woman. Has Oxford ever had greater pro-
fessor than Erasmus, Of Rotterdami The
very country in which the Know Nothings
now revile the foreigner was discovered BY
Cabot, Gencese, in the service of England.
The proto. martyr of the American Revolu-
ton was Montgomery, an Irishman; so was
Barry, called the father of the American
navy; and Paul Jones, the bold and early
captain, was a Scot. Were De Kalb, La
fayette, Hamilton, Gallatin, not Americans!
Mark the list of signers, and see how many
were foreigners Tie hue and cry against
foreigners belongs to Pagan antiquity, when
one word served for foreigner and enemy;
bat not to Christianity The very word
Christianity rebukes Know Nothingism."
Sir, the creed that tries men by the latitu-
de and longitude of their birthplace, instead
Of their character, and -honors or degrades
them accordingly, is not only Pagan, bu,
monstrou 1t insults common sense, and
confounds all distinction between right and
wrong. The Divine Founder of our religion
teaches that God is no respec;er of personsI
that na'ionalities are Of small account, tnat
all men are brethern; that the accidents Of
humanity are nothing, and man is everything.
Native AmericRnism discards all this as the
foolshness of preaching, & whilst it clutches
its cold-blooded dogmas, and stabs Christi
anty to the heart, whnes sanctimoniousIy
over the growth of the. Papal power! And,
stranger than all else, thousands of Anti
Slavery men who have for lorg years peal
for the elevation of the African, on the
ground Of Christian brotherhood OF all, are
now fighting under this Infdel banner, and
thus aiding movement which completely
JUSTICES the enslavement of the negro, and
every other form of despotic rule. Do they
not see that they are mnrdering the cause OF
Freedom by such conduct! Can an Aboli-
ZIONIST embark in such an enterprise without
fatty contradic,ing the very first principles
of his faith! Can any man justify it! Is
the foreigner to blame for having been born
tive to be praised for having been born on
this! Not having been consulted on the
subject beforehand, their destiny in this re-
spect being entirely beyond their control, is
it not a shameless mockery of justice and
deccncy to deal ith them according to any
such test! You might as we'll di,franchise
the emigranl fo' the size Of his head, the
length Of his arm, the virtues or vices OF his
| neighbors, or the height of our mountains -
You might as well openly repudla:e the New
| Testament, and institute new code, requr-
ing every man, upon the pains and penalties
of the Order, to be born in America, and de-
scribing the general judgmel as grand in
quest for determining vino shall be admitted
into The kingdom, and who rejected, on Ma
tive American principles. For if the foreign.
er is unfit for good society here, can he he
suffered to enjoy it in the world to comet
And could he enjoy Paradise in the compan-
ionship of Know Nolhings! Would moi
Heaven itself be turned upside down, if the
Order should have its way!
Mr. Chairman, there need be no sort oi
difficulty in solving this problem of foreign
ism, If we are willing to deal justly. "Emi-
grants aud exiles from the Old World,' using
the language of the Pittsburgh Platform,
"should find cordial welcome to homes OF
comfort and fields of enterprise in the New;
and every attempt to abridge their privilege
OF becoming citizens and owners Of the soil
among US, ought to be resisted with inflexible
determination" They have the same right
| to come here as had our fore.athers. When
they have cast in their lot with US, let them
be treated as Americans. If they violate the
laws, let them be punished. If they demean
themselves as good citizens, let them be re-
cognised as such. Let the heather spirit oi
caste be exercised, in our dealings with them
as well as the negro. If they give themselves
up to intemperance. unthriftness, and life
of mere animalism, let us strive to enl'ghter
and elevate them, as we would our own peo
Pile under like circumstances. If, under the
lead of foreign rufiians or Jesuits, they be-
come clannish, and inclined to take sides a
gainst US, let every good citizen rebuke them
! If our native den.agogues and pot-house po
liticans pander to their ignorance, for selfish
ends, let US apply the lash to their bare backs
instead of making the deluded foreigner the
vicarious victim of chastiscment he docs
not deserve. In short, let the alien races a.
mong us be treated according to their deserts
in the light of their numbers, intelligence
and character. Under such policy, dema
gogues and their tools would soon find thei
true level. notwithstanding minor diyersitie
we should become, in spirit, one people. Tit
solvent power of American ideas would mel
and fuse the different nationalities into on