The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-19

ii AistlnctoDs OF birth will be obeIated for all are
bs men the Irish and the Germans will become Aneri
can. and substitute the foser-mother at whose bosom
they arnourished in place Of the unnatural parent who
has disinherited them. .
five trace this inhospitable feeling towards emgrauts
its source il will be found TO originate altogether in
marty feelings and religious intolerance large portion
be emgrants has enrolled under the banner Of democ
raey and they had good reasons for so doing. The old
federal party had always been opposed If not to emf
Grants at least to their admission to the enjoyment of the
rivbts Of citizens The democracy, the contrary,
.ouraoed emigration by liberal policy. 1t was
therefore natural and perfectly jusfabe for them to al-
late with that party which held out its hand and bade
them welcome The alien and sedion laws taught thsm
lesson and they soon learned where to choose their
friends IT. therefore the great majority Of foreign emf
grants side with the democracy because they prefer
their friends to their enemies If the wings or know
uohnqs or black republicans desire their cooperation in
political contests they may possibly yet succeed in obtain
ing II by adopting such are usually resored to
ia order to conca,e all other Looking, then to the
past and the present the general political bias OF the emf
gazts is all surprising and neither the old nor new
wings have right to reproach them with ingratitude
That considerable portion of the emgrans are, per-
haps not well qualified, from habit education, or gen.
ea intelligence to exercise the rights Of citizens as the
native Americans may be true though challenge the
know-nohngs TO produce any examples Of ignorance or
disregard of the constitution Of the country the part of
the Irish or Germans fragrant they themselves have
exhibited and exhibiting. Certain it is they
at least well qualified for the enjoyment Of these rights
as the runaway negroes who the aholitonsts insist should
be placed level with their masters. But setting this
aside and admitting that the emigrans deficient in
perience members of free republic the they
oure that experience the better and this best be
complished by early initiation into the practical
else of the rights of citizens Practice alone makes per-
feet and men can learn 10 do anything we'll by
merely looking and seeing how it is done by others
OF all emgrants the United States the Irish have been
the avorite objects Of hostility to that party which, by
whatever it may be called has always stood in oppo
slton the democracy This hostility is not alone polit
cal the bitter pill Of religious prejudice autipatby,
which always gives additional venom to whatever it min
giles WITH s of the principal ingredients. great por
ton of the Irish emgrants Catholics and this is in it.
self sufficient to array certain aud powerful
denominations of Christians against them But this is
the worst There is scarcely among the Catholic emf
grants from Ireland pho is an dboIioa Here it is the
shoe pncbes the highest and this may, in great
measure the crusade of the aboonsts and know
nothngs (which If and the same at least par
n0s ratrum) against the poor Irsh who
railroads, dig canals build houses, bear great
portion of the rude and heavy abors of the country and
TO whom the people of the North indebted for their
household servants and great part of their domestic
forts. ....-. ....r.-
The danger to be apprehended from the progress of the
manuvre appears to US little more than idle dream
Though the tenets Of that church and the spiritual prerog
aves of the Sovereign Ponti are in theory what they
when be acted the umpire of Europe and placed
his foot the necks of emperors in practice they
tirey different The Papacy has been shorp of its beams
and from having played at shuttlecock with kings, has
become their shutecock in turn The Pope may be said to
be longer temporal prince bis patrmony is diminished
TO nothing and for the possession Of this be indebted
to foreign bayones Though stn the head of church
compromising hundreds OF millions of men, and still
claiming be inable in points of faith these millions
dispersed over almost the entire surface Of the EARTH
and though their minds may approximate TO common
centre their bodies combine; out Of his little
church patrmopy he has civil power whatever instead
Of dethroniug kings and psrceing out worlds Of
yoe he is lettering his temporal thrOne aud though
he may continue for ages the head Of his church. there
not the slightest probability that he will aspire be-
come the arbiter Of States Even should he succeed in
reganng bis ancient political ascendency in Europe which
We hold be impossible the attempt establish in the
United States would be still more absurd To do this he
must oyeriurn our whole political system, and subver the
entire fabric of our civil Institutions which every where
stand 10 the way Of ecclesiastical encroachments He
change the habits Manners and principles of the people
and create new race Of men, before he establish
church despotsm in the United States He may be des-
poto inside the church. but there his reign will end The
bear Of the Pope s therefore u our opinion mere bug
bear for childhood and dotage
In order to strengthen this roundeSs apprehension Of
the revival Of Papal deposm in the United States we are
told that the number Of Roman Catholics is rapidly ncreas
ing. Now, at this moment the different denominations
Of ProteShn outnumber the Catholics some six or eight
to one this dproporiion IL in future be superseded
byanyhing like equality It must be by foreign emiga-
ton by greater natural increase by new converts
As to the FIRST although great portion Of Irish emgrans
are Roman Catholics we believe this not 50 generally
the case with The Germans who OF late have outnumbcred
the lrish and who increase quite fast the Others II
would SEEM then there Is great danger Of the Protest
ant church being overhrown by emigration II is idle
pretend that 20 Of Proesans viii not increase in
an equal ratio with the 100000 Of Catholics and
queny always maiutan the asceudency Of numbers In the
same proportion they do now.
the Catholic priesthood make more converts than
a than 4hn~ - -