The true Democrat., 1856-09-09

sand years afterwards crossed the Atlantic. and gentry don't live two thousand years hence, and they want it aN now. They would have the country adopt the snob character, they would have it put on the airs of nations that are run ming over with population, so that there is not an inch of room for a neU conner. They are dissatisfied with Meir 1ot-ths thing of being a home for the odds and ends of aN creation of- fends their dignity--and to be sensible of such an origin is humiliating to their new born na- tionality.
 They do not like the aspirations of their Cau- casslan cousins who crossed the Atlantic Mter than they did, say they hold too many of the the country is governed by these new corners by virtue of their holding political offices.-- From the days of Washington down the new corners have held two or three cabinet appoint ments and a few chiefships of bureaus. all of whom have discharged their duties to the satis faction of their fellow citizens. In the legis latlve departments of the government there have never been more than tsco orthree citizens of this description at one time, there is at pre- sent one senator, Mir. Benjamin, and not one I believe, in the lower house. Occasionally a new conner has represented the country in fo reign nations. Under the present adminstra- ton there was one holding a diplomatic ap- pointment of the first grade. Mr. Soule to Spaln-of the newcomers this appointment is the head and front of their offending. They see an immensc difference between the men who threw off the government of their birth and set up for themselves here in '76 and those who did the same thing sixty years afterwards or now and yet, it is true the first diplomats we ever had from among the revolutionists of '|6--natlves all-dd not discharge the duties of their missions, so little suspected of treacherv did Mir. Soulc. If fault is to be found with Mr. Soule minst er to Spain it lies in his being too intensely American'' He was by birth Frenchman. If he had shown dspo- siton to trucklc to the influence of the French government he would haze been .ftt, aa,h fol knoW Nothingism; but he shot the reprcsel- tatiyc of the French government to the same court, and was but too jealous to accomplish all object in behalf of his own government which the government of the country of his birth was bitterly opposed to. Then again Mr. Souie as Catholic, the prime object of his mission to Spain, the acquisition of the island of Cuba, meets no doubt, the strongest disap- probation on the part of the ecclesiastical court of the Pope--as such transfer of ownership from Catholic government to a Protestant community would mahe notAjag for Catholicism Here foreign born Catholic Soulc was Jealous ly at work sapping the strength of Catholicism |" advance the interests of lis own (Protes- tanD .overnment-prepaTing the way for the Dr. CIapps into Havana. Whercis Know No. thing shame?
 There are two other diplomatic appointments of citizens of foreign birth of an inferior grade The charge to Naples and to the Hague. They are dlscnArglbg their duties to the satisfaction of their fellow w-citizens-no fault is found
 Well, then, this great clamorous persecution against those who still keep up the stream com menced by the av-fower emigrauts is, tC drive them from the enjoyment of portion O their ancient rights and privileges, that o holding ofice-not, so it is avowed, of votipo at the elections. We have noticed how fa, this beg''wlged privilege has been made available and how little mischief has grown out of it. We have noticed too how little the political Influence of men can De impaired by withhold ing from them the privilege of holding office When the summing mp has to be done, which will prcponderate, the good that Know Moth. ingiSm has done for the country or the mischief If 1t has not done great den of harm it i. only becasse it has not triumphed As H is Know Nottingham has strengthened the Roman Catholic faith. And has done much to con,o lldate the political influence of Catholic and foreign born citizens to elan them together, and only lacks Know Nothing success to make them one indissolubc faction, seeking from their organized strength that protection which they should receive from the institutions of tbe country to make them a medium, if one eve, could be made herc through which that "fo. relgn influence" may operate, which the fathe, of his country so solcmnly warned us against
 IIAMPDEN.