The Nevada journal., 1856-05-23
DA CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY MORNING. MAY %. 1885.
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WE MAY CHANGE OUR COUNTRY, NOT OUR
l kkJUDIcEs.-Ihe records of Our race does
not not EXHIBIT single evidence that the en-
igrart can ever forget his native land.-
io.ai indifference to the country abandon
ed is positive proof of the loss of the no.
oiest characteristic. of humanity tself-the
ACTIVITY OF human affections. The philos-
oPhy OF the mind indicates Enthusiastically
the danger of weakening nationality by in.
iuslhg a large proportion of foreign ele-
menu INTO the population of native citi.
zens.
!, The history, of every government shows
the hlgh estimation placed upon citizenship,
ana the extreme jealousy manifested of its
acquisition by alters and is also full of
warning of the sad effects of the abandon
ment OF this sound precaution against for
elgn influence. But no other nation ever
offered the inducements for emigration pre-
sented by the United States, or received
tne thousandth part ofthe:access to its pop
uiatlon from foreign fountains which is
yearly received into its bosom. America
has become the Alsatia of the world. The
teemlng millions of an overcrowded and
debased population, the paupers and Grim
mails OF every description, alike look to
our shores as a refuge from ills not to be
endured, or fruitful field for their yicious;
lenterprizes.
BY the singularity of our law of natu-
rallzatlon, the man who entered our terri
tory as refugee, may, in two or three
years, aspire TO the dignity of a citizen or
legislator. Were the English law sim
liar to that Of these States, M. Victor HUI
60 might now be contesting with Sir
Charles Napier the representation of South
wark, and Citizen Pyat aspiring to become
the colleague of Mr.. Hayter for the bor-
ough OF Wells. Thus it comes to pass
that adventurers of every description
French Socialists and Jacobins, Italian Red
Republicans, Hungarans, and Poles, driv
en- into frantic hatred of all government
by Austrian or Russian tyranny, refugees
from every country in Europe, and adven-
turers, pirates and filibusters from every
country in the world, and last, though not
least, united lrishmen, orange men and
Catholic devotees all find themselves re-
ceived into the governing class, and treat
ed as if they possessed sympathy for the
interests and an honest wish for the disni-
ty and prosperity of the great Republic.
But, in the votes that they give, the speech
es they deliver, and the parties they form,
these men are really thinking, not of the
country, they have adopted, but of the land
they have left /; not how to benefit their
friends in America, but how to ayenge
themselves on their enemies in Europe.
The German brings his mysticism and
his inidelity,-the Frenchmah his social
ism and Red Republicanism, the Catholic
lrishman, his hatred of Professionalism, and
his hostility to England-all, their becu-
liar prejudices and desires for revenge,
and on our own soil preach hcrusades against
religious despotism to our shores, disre-
garding, because of the strength of their
early prepossessions, their duties to the
government Of their new home, and stri-
wing, in all their civil action, to assimilate
our institutions to those they have left be-
hind, or to change into Eutopia of free
dom such as their blind visions have pain
ted as the means of the regeneration of
mankind. They do not, because they can
not become Americans. They are not re-
publicans and life of culture cannot make
them such, because the character of their
minds is formed-the direction is given to
their thoughts-the tone of their preiudi-
ces is established.
Yet contrary to all the teachings of his
tory-the warnings of experience, and the
inductiors of true philosophy, we are will
ing to entrust them with the destiny of
our country, which has peculiar mission
to perform that none but the native-born
can appreciate or understand. Nothing
could be binder patriotism-nothing weak
er craftsmanship.