The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1856-07-09

Why good Roman atholic, faithful to the
United States, should not give this country.
as our Protestant citizens do, his whole al
/ legiance. And, il any Catholic Of all ale-
glance to Rome, ahjure all Papal power, and
cease TO tremble under Papal excommunica-
tions, Whenever they choose to have an
American Pope, all war will cease upon them
from any American party.
! 1t is further said, that the candidate We
have nominated for the Presidency, and the
party who nominated him, are hostile to the
forelgner as individual that, therefore, we
are bgoted and observation-disclosures we
dislike and hate the man, and that because of
this we decline to share with him our CON-
mon institutions. This allegation is not true,
neither in spirit nor in substance: it is not
true that we are hostile to the foreigner as a
man. In all our veins, I'VE, who are Of white.
and not Of the African race)-in all Que veins
I flows European blood. We are proud Of our
ancestry, all Of Us; we cling to it with love
aud affection, and If we would divest our
selves of il. we could not. We are linked
/ to Europe by ten thousand ties and ten thou
sand affections. The names. the bones, the
graves oi our ancestors are there, and we
have brought over those names for ourselves,
! for our children, for our towns and our vii.
lages; so that Europe, as il were, becomes
daguerreotyped on the broad surface Of the
United States. We have in no degree the
hostility to the foreigner that is entertained
i towards Us and our institutions on the con-
i tinent Of Europe BY almost all classes Of peo.
pie. II approach any State on the cOnti-
ncnt Of Europe, what is my treatment? The
stranger near the Belize, at the mouth of the
Mississippi, or Oft the coast OF Sandy Hook.
IS not examined by passport officer, 10 as
/ certain The color Of his hair, thu. height Of his
form, the rotundty of his person, or general
appearance; but il should visit Berlin.
/ Vienna or Imperial Rome even, should be
! scanned all over, and only the more minute-
/ ly for being an American citizen. The fact
i that the passport says, am an American,
/ implants the character Of suspicion upon me.
i The police dog me, and if the description is
! not identical between me and my passport.
1 mat be subject to many difficulties and
troubles. IlI were mechanic, should not
be admitted, in many parts Of Europe, as all
! foreign mechanics are here, into their work
/ shops aud manuiac tories without examinatIsn.
] the rules OF their guilds and corporations I'M
posing ON me various restraints before could
enter into their mechanical ats, without ex-
i traordinary permission. But here, every
foundry and manufacturing shop are thrown
wide open TO the foreigner. We give him a
hearty welcome as tradesman, and in the
higher arts, Of design, Of painting. ol..sculp-
ture. OF drawing, in which our countrym men
are little trained, we give them the SUPERIOR
ity and lead over our own people, till We can
learn these arts. All these facts disclose no
hostility, and they know IT; for FIVE hundred
thousand Of these people annually for some
years, until within the last year or two, have
come over to enjoy this hospitality. But when
J they ask more OF ls,--thst we give to them
rights and privileges We would not give TO
our own wives aud children, with whom We
are dearly and tenderiy connected they de-
mand what We cannot give, in the right to
vote. Ion live here twenty.One years before
YOU can vOte,-you, who are educated and
!, trained IN The spirit Of our laws which Wash.
ingtnn, and Madison, and Franklin inspired
--you, who studied them in the English Ian
guage, in YOUR chillhuud, in your own school
books, and are thus better qualified to exer.
else the rights Of suffrage at twelve wears,
than nine.tenths Of the foreigners at thirty
or forty. tCheers.l But We, who will not let
our wives and daughters vote, no matter what
|, their ages, are told. We are proserip,iye,
bigoted, and fanatic, because We wish to keep
J the foreigner here, the fall length Of time we
have To stay, or at least some longer time
than he has to stay at present, before he can
; vote, and thus become partner in our Gov
ernment. Our principles are laid down in
the Mell.knOwn motto. which reveals every
thingia knn3 Sot,ngisn or Americanism-
. AaERlcSNs SHALL GuyERS AMERICA" loud
6 and prolonged Gbeers.)
. Go 90 the banks IL the Rhine, stand On the
castcllated peaks Of that beautiful river--sisit
tie Seine, Tie PO, or tile Fiber, aud ask
: PfussIan, frenchman, Austrian, or Italian.
: toilet ynu. an American. govern, and the bayo.
: net would. ! think, guickl, prick your SIDES.
! The lflshman, On tie banks Of the Shannon
cries, " lrishmen shall govern Ireland:' the
Frenchman. un the seine, :. frenChmen shalt
govern Frances" the Italian, il I've could have
lis Nay, Italy shall be governed by Ital.
! ians;" Austria, By Austriaa.; aud We too sav,
! with divine permission, " Americans shall
! govern America loud and prolonged
7 cheefs.l say this with no uakind spirit to
= the foreigner Il is difficult even for an cdu-
Gated iurrisn % 20 unlparn great deal that
. lie has learned; It Is vet more dIlkealt ii he
z i unearne,, TO learn what il Is necessary he
! should knew. TO be good American citizen.
. Self guyrrnincn, j. not lesson to be learned
e in an huur or day. We have been brought
! up. edurated. and trained for seli.governmen,
j we, and our fathers lrom the hrst establish.
u mcnt 81 tie colonies at jamestown. in yir.
e ginia. aud on Plymouth Rnck, through two
:. hundred years Of training. have been arriving
y 81 the present state nf impeffrctien in the
Is matter Of selg.gu,crnment. What is self.
e government, sits II is not disscbsion. disOr.
!. tlcr aud iiscOrd--nn mad, reckless liberty