Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-04-17

migrant, canal.digsing lIishmcn and
farm laboring "Dulch," as if all the
good VIC derive from immigration is
IRISH bone and German muscle. A mo.
ment's reflection will show them their
error. We do not only mainly speak
OF those citizens by choice who in their
spheres are what the "foreisners," As.
tor and Girard were in the mercantile
pursuit. As we speak Of ell spheres, so
we speak Of all degrees OF success of
skill and intellect. Every reader can
test what We say 10 his immediate circle
around Kim. Let him "call the roll,"|
let him "mark" the citizens by choice,
and "inwardly digest" the result.
Having mentioned Astor and Girard,
whose industry and intelligence enabled
them to acquire princel, fortunes, and
who, with corresponding liberality, zen.
dered millions to the community in
which they became so rich, we cannot
refrain from telling little anecdote,
which strkingly shows with what naivete
natvism is sometimes working. Grard,
it is well known, left many millions Tor
the PURPOSE Of establishing an orphan
house. He was a native Frenchmen,
but left all his fortune TO America
When then the time approached for the
appointment Of the chief officers Of that
college for orphans, number Of trus.
tees were desirous Of electing a person
who for many long years had been
citizen Of the United States, and to
whom actually the drafting of plan
for the whole organization Of the ins,i.
tuition had been committed.
He was not, however, appointed, be.
cause, as il was intimatcd TO him, natv.
ism was then too strong in Philadel.
phia. Nativism was net too strong to
receive ten millions Of dollars at the
hands of "(oregner." The suscepti.
biIty OF nativism does not lie in that re.
gon but it was Of peculiar delcacy
when the question was to pay a moder.
ate salary out Of the proceeds Of the
gigantic capital to person who it was
declared was considered otherwise the
very person the trustees would have
selected had it not been for certain de.
gree Of longitude marking the place Of
his birth.
We say, then so far as skill, industry,
intelligence, productive labor, elevating
talent. and success Of every kind are
concerned, citizens by choice are found
among the foremost. How is it with
that truthful loyalty which is the choicest
Jewel in the citizenship Of freeman ?
We subscribe what was once said in
another place, that throug hout all histo.
ry of this hemisphere and the other, Of
ancient times as we'll as modern, you
will fad among the most devoted and
patriotic citizens names Of foreign gin.
There is no mora solemn act on rec.
ord than that Of the meeting Of the Ne.
therlanders, when they resolved, in the
darkest hous Of the trial to which Phil.
ip the Seco Of Spain submitted them,
that, should it come 10 the last, they
would one and all leave their country,
and save liberty by "carrying the Ne
,herands" to another hemisphere. They
loved their land, yet they cried, Patri0
cara carior Hbertas. Little, indeed, do
the men Of ease, who now so lightly,
and yet SO bitterly, decry "foreigners,'
know the panGs of fervent heart that
has 10 repeat patria cara, carior Hber-
tas, and when it must act on it bu,
when a man is forced to act on it, he
clings to the country Of his choice, even
as man cleaves to his chosen wife les
ter than to his kin.
Has any mind shed greater luster nc
illustrious Athens than Aristotle =? Ar
is,olle was foreigner, and came 10 At
tica when seventeen years old. Has
. there been any Spaniard more Spanist
, than Columbus? Columbus was Gen
5 oese. Has there been Frenchmar
. more French than Napoleon, and Cui
. yer, and Constant? Napoleon was ar
, Italian Culver, by birth and educ alton
a German; Constant Swiss. Wht
s carried the Netherlanders through thu
! direst war Of independence on record
! and who founded the great Republic o
= the Netherlands William, Of Orange
. German.
a Has Eng and ever had a. more Eng
f lish King than William the Third, the
!. Netherlander Has Germany ever hat
J more German leader than Eugene o
Savoy? Who was Catharine, Of Rus
sia, that made her the great power 2
t She was a German woman. Has Ox(oid
} ever had a greater professor than Eras
i, mus, Of Rotterdam ? The very countr.
}, in which the Hndoos now reviles eth
=. foreigner" was discovered by Cabot
Genoese, in the service Of England
e The proto martyr Of the American rev
!. olulion was Montgomery, an lrishman
# so was Barry, called the father of tn
;. American Navy and Paul Jones. tn
}, bold and early captain, was Scot
4 Were De Kalb, Lafayette, Hamilton
q GaIlatin, no Americans Mark the Ii!
ir Of signers, and see how ntAny wer
d Foreigners" The hue and cry again
"foreig gners" belongs to pagan antiquit,
Is when one word served for foreigner an
ID enemy: but not, to Christianity, one
|; whose earliest writer's gloriously said
N Nostra ciuitas totas mundus. The ve'
ID word Christianity rebukes Hindooisn
l.. The term free trade has far wild
Of meaning than merely economical on