The Nevada journal., 1856-12-12

FOREIGN EMGRATIoN.-A paper
called the Citizen, an Irish organ, is
published in New York Its doctrines
are considered orthodox by the Demo-
cratic party, and the sheet is pufed by
presses of that political stripe in con-
sideration of signal services it performs
on or before election days, in bringing
one-eyed men to the polls. 1t gives
infallible evidence of being Democratic
in sentiment, eminently and thoroughly
so. 1t is edited and supported by men
who assume to know what policy Ame-
rica should pursue to-preserve her lib
critics, and to teach the sons of those
who achieved them-men from mum.
ber four-fold larger than the patriots of
rs, but who, not like them, have not
themoral and physical heroism to pledge
their olives, their fortunes and their
sacred honors" in liberating their coun-
try from British oppression. Or, at
least, they have never exhibited, what
ever pledges made, a will to redeem
them with blood. The Citizen devotes
itself to creating prejudices in the people
against Great Britain. A cowardly
foreign whelp, it points its nose from an
American kennel and barks at an enemy
it never dared to face in an open field,
even in righteous defence-here it
copies the bloodless tragedy of fifty
four-forty, or fight, and proves its De-
mocracy true. 1t lauds Walker, and
fillibusterism generally and well it may,
for John Mitchell prayed for a 'planta-
ton of well fed negroes" and William
Walker is fulfilling the prayer in carv-
ing out several-Democracy is here
again most clearly evinced
On the subject of foreign emigration,
the Citizens Democracy is an taH. 1t
wants all Europe to flock to our shores
to keep American liberties and pros
perity from spoiling-a specimen of pa
triotism rarely to be found among the
natives of the soil except in arrant
demagogues who praise the rich Irish
Ybrogue" in hopes of the use of the shil-
lalah to help the freedom of the electil
franchise.
A leader in the Citizen of the frI
November, proelaims with an AFRO
fattering to the pride of men in 4
veins ruus the blood of the hereof
Revolution, that "every man on
now knows, unless he be a Kn91
thing, that European emigratione
life-blood of American prosperity =
off, then, the stream of Irish NV
yearly to our shores-a horde that
not love liberty enough to achieve theN
own freedom, who have lived in abaseI
ment all their lives-and a American
interests would decay, American com
merce, trade, and prosperity generally
stagnate There is not virtue, enter
Prise, vitality enough in the American
people to save them from torpor or even
death. except by an infusion Of mon
archical subjects from Europe! We
belong to the Anglo-Saxon race-a
race which conquered and rules over
the Irish Celts in the old world, but the
climate, soil, and perchance republican
institutions of the new continent so
enervates and degenerates the dominant
race when transplanted, that a judicious
infusion of the serfs is necessary to salt
us for national salvation Everybody
knows" that, check foreign emigration,
the ''life-blood of American prosperity"
and the sons of heroic sires who founded
this magnificent social structure of ours,
are so eifeminate, weak and imbccile
that the fabric must
for want of support