The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-10-13

rallied citizen. Mr.. Z. proceeds to show
that the same principle is clearly rccog-
nized in the constitution of the United
States. For example, foreign born
citizen cannot be elected Representa-
tive in Congress, until seven years after
being naturalized, although he may have
been resident of the State for thirty
years preceding. He cannot be Soma
tor until nine years after being natural
lied. And no length Of residence after
naturalization will render him eligible
either to the Presidency or Vice Presi-
denoy Of the United States. What
stronger distinction is it possible to make
between the native and foreign born citi-
zen! And it is from this living root
that the Know Nothings have extracted
the ossenoc Of their creed.
Mr.. Clemens speaks, at some length,
Of the miserable toadyism to distinguish
foreigners, who visit this country, and
all for the purpose Of oonoiliating foreign
voters, and securing their support 70. a
particular party. And in this oonncc-
ton he alludcs to the the visit Of Kossuth
to Washington city under invitation Of
Congress:
"He came in all the pomp which sur
rounds the Monarchs Of tho old world
armed guards paraded before his door 70
keep of the vulgar populaee. And we
who would not have tolerated such con-
duet for an hour il the President of n,
Republic, not only Submitted to it on the
part of this foreign uendieant, but aetu-
ally invited him within the bar of the
SenAts.-Hs entered with bis guards
about him. The elank of foreign sabres
awakened the echoes in the vestibule of
the Senate, aud an eager crowd OF Repub-
Hcans look on with wondering admira-
ton Of the pageant. If the dead arc
permitted to witness events upon earth,
what must have been the fee :.ngs of the
stern fathers Of the Republic when the
velvet uniforms of foreign body guards
appeared within the precincts of the SEN
ate! Let US suppose them gathered
about the immortal Washington, as they
were wont to gather in the days that
tried mems souls, gazing in sorrow and
silence upon the disgraecful spectacle.
There is Warren, Greene, Sumpter,
Marion, Lee, Shelly, Williams, Wayne
and hundred others Of the mighty dead.
They remember that it was Germln can
non which thinned their ranks at Mud
Fort and Red Bank. They remember
that German shouts rang over tho 6sld at
Brandywino. They remember Chadd's
Ford and Chew's house and many an
other field where they met the hired
mcrcenaries that England had brought
across the Atlantic to fastcn manacles
upon "a people who had never injured
them, and remembering this, they turn
to each other with the mourmul inquiry,
care these our sons a-e the traditions
Of the revolution forgottenp' All!
shades of departed patriots, there is an
engine Of power in our land which in
your day you did not dream Of. There
are few hundred thousand German
voters among us, and every dcmagogue
who aspires to the Presidency, and all
the satellites that glimmcr ABOUT linn,
are vicng with each other in base con-
cessions to German pride and German
feeling. But the picture is sickening
one and turn from it. God knows it
was bitter enough at tho time, and l
have no desire to dwell upon it anew"
After giving the statistics of pauper-
ism and crime in the single city of New
York, and showing how vast a dispro-
portion of them are forei gners, Mr.. c.
preceeds:
These figures arc far more conclusive than
any language could be to prove the necessity
of arresting the tide Of immigration. ILet
every American impress them deeply upon
his memory. AZ 800 foreign paupers and in
valids 1881 lsnatics and % 90. criminals,
taxing the industry and blighting the pros
perty of = single city. In that list Of crimes
is embraced murder. rape, arson, robbery.
perjury, everything which is darnning to the
character Of the individual, and every thing
which is danger ,us 10 society. In our Sec
ton we see but little of the evils Of immigra-
ton -compara,ively few come among us, and
those are generally of the best classes of their
countrymen. 1t is not State that we suffer
most, but as an intIcgal part Of the Republic.
The crime vice, disease, dcstitution and hcg-
gary which flow in with every tide of immi-
grafton atillcts us but little. it is through
their political action: in their capacity Of vo-
tiers that the curse extends itself to us. When
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 gives us a
right and makes it duty to intcrposc.
With such dangers thickcnins around us.
the memorable order of Gen. Washington
should he upon every mans lips: Put none
but Americans OH guard to night" In time
Of peace your public officers are your senti-
nels. Put none OIL guard whose bosoms do
not swell with cxulting pride at the mention
of Bunker Hill, of Monmouth, of Saratoga, or
of York Town. Put none on guard whose na-
tonal traditions are not confined in our own
commonwealth. Put none on guard who can
dwell by the hour upon the eloqucnce of DAN
iel O'Connel, but have never heard the name
of Patrick Henry. Put none on guard who
turn with cool Indifference from the story of
Niagara. or N. Orleans to boast, of Marengo,
or Lcipsic. or Waterloo. They do not love
your land is you do-thcy will not watch o.
Yer it with the Same absorbing interest. OPP
preston, not choice has 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 highways
he reads the history of his native land. and