The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-24

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4 Mr. KELLY; Then was in error confounded the
gentleman with his brother and regret that with 80 good
example before him. be has not before this accompanied
him the shrine of the true faith when be does-and not
withstandng the geneman's diluted Americanism don't
despar--his convictions will be otherwise.
Bat, sir, watchword has been given to the faith
althe cry has been that Americans rule America
Do gentlemen forget that country thus called America
is made up of natve-born and foregn-bornof born
In the localities where they reside and who have emil
grated TO their present homes from other State either
OF this Union or of the great Union of Chrsendom So
ar then as the foreign part concerned the native
claim right to rule him lie may well refuse TO be
ruled claim equal grounds that Americans should
rule Americans and that foreigners whether Irshmen in
New England or New Englanders in Missouri should rule
foreigners The great feature Of counryhe blend
ing OF all men, OF every creed and cline and race one
homogeneous mass actuated by feeling love of our
glorious country and its noble insttuoDswould by the
blind, narrow policy OF these reormers be defeated
| and destroyed.
II ia argued that it is wiser for us to take care OF our
affairs The proposition clearly correct and re-
ceves my assent il by we is meant the whole American
people But If portion of the people to be the
whole and talk of the affairs Of the nation their aars
then the proposition is supemey absurd whether that
portion in the case OF our country at this moment be native
or foreign born.
The early policy country Mr. Chairman was to en-
courage emigration from Europe So mportan and
sary was that policy deemed that the fathers of the republic
brought against the King of England and his ministers
charge which holds good to-day against the party which
calls itself American. Nay, sir it applies with more
force against the know-nothng faction for the King of
England only discouraged emigration because he knew it
would shut it altogether after il has aided in building
up our country and making wis TIVE arethe fret power
on the globe Sir such policy is than that which
closes China and Japan against the humaning influence Of
enlightened Chrisendom Nothing Mr. Chairman has Leen
providenta to America than the influx from Enrope
OF large class which had compete with IA In the
existing populauon1 mean sir the labofing class Po-
ea economists reckon in dollars and the value of
each emigrant to the country, and show that materially
speaking, they are positive gain Experience too has
shown that these emgauts blend easily into the existent
population and yield in attachment to our nstu-
tons and the laws which for nearly half century have
conferred citizenship after five years probation beed
the country advance in prosperity and greatness But the
gentleman from the State of Missouri its monuments
Of its Catholic founder scattered over its surfacwith its
Catholic city OF the Crusader Santtes that the ma
chinery of government is delicate and complex and
that the foreigner should not touch until he learns TO do
SO with safety aOtherwise, says the poetcal member
otherwise he might disturb his equilibrium and unsette
lis notion in which the innate powers Of sefpropul-
son within the machinery of the State would scatter its
rolling and flying wheels in thousand directions" Now
supposing all this to be the case-supposng simple re-
publican government to be complex than sewing
machine the Sasburg clock it evident that FIVE years
is all sufficient 10 enable foreigner to learn work the
machine. Otherwise the tremendous blow-up which the
gentleman so POLITICALLY depicts would have convulsed the
earth years ago. and travellers would be gazing on
the rivers that darted up the steep decvities Of The
mountainthe hills that yawned in craterous volcanoes
or the lakes formed by Natures tears at the terrible
plosion OF the American commonwealth No one can
deny that the country still existsexis!s with the pres
ent naturalization awsexiss with those laws profted
bynot by thousands, but by millions Therefore SIR
the conclusion is irresistible that these laws are moi
as dangerous ms the gentleman and his friends would
have the country believea least little fraught with
danger that no alarm need be entertained Among
the prominent advocated by this selfstyled
American party is which seeks to period of
probation requisite to naturalization from Ave twenty
one years What would be the practical working OF this
cangeY 1t would exclude the foreigner who arrives here
at the of twenty-five from all rights of citizen
ship until he has attained the age forty sxunt he is
longer subject to military datyuntil period when
the State no longer call upon him to arm in her de-
fence, During the prime of manhood he will remain In
different to the political system of the country ho nspires
bis children with patriotic feelings for can ami
mate his own breast He is ruled, subject citizen
living here from necessity, not from choice And will
gentlemen tell that such class will be dangerous
Isolate class and you adopt the way to prepare
ruin for all They will feel that the laws really intend
their perpetual exclusion and little will they reck whether
lapse of 81 or 2o years the nggard boon be given
II has become quite fashionable Of late to charge directly
that the foregn-born citizens profgate in their
born are exemplars OF every virtue. The gentle
man from Missouri charges this, by implication and
tells Us that the foreigner is peculiarly fitted to pull down
the gentleman learned all this, at a loss to
know Such Pharisaic selflaudation may well suit
meeting of phrensed devoees where zach thinks himself
elect aud all else doomed to perdition, but i'll BELTS
member Of the American Congress for IL virtue ia the ex
elusive gift Of American BIRTH the founder of the Christian
religion erred strangely in de!errng his advent until
our time, to avoid being condemned vicious for be-
ing born In Bethlehem Where the gentleman learned
that foreigners are peculiarly fitted to pull down gov
einment cannot see, unless he alludes Nicaragua
where armed foreigners invited in and have since
proclaimed themselves Of the country But our his
tory furnishes example of the slightest difficulty caused
by foreigners who notwiths landing their great success in
BUILDING railroads and canals have been unable with all
their power, to pull down the government of single
State does history show single instance where
they attempted TO do so.
The question of immigration, Mr.. Chairman, has been
hitherto treated most silly and unphlosophical basis
Little suscephblites religious anpahies and less credi
table grounds have blinded many the real benefit which
country has derived from foreign immigration Since
the great commercial review of the country Hunts Mer-
cIe
convincing calculations proving the real value of every
Immigrants decided change has taken place In the man
of estimating this important element of national
wealth None has yet called in question the principles
laid down in that valuable publication or the numerical
results OF those principles 1t stands, therefore, admitted
that emigration has been Of wealth and power TO
the country and the friends Of the assaed foreigner need
longer turn to invoke the of Montgomery Bar
ry Lafayette or Koscusco to propate public opinion
There is little in this there is much the ground that
the immigrants have contributed more to the stability
wealth, and power Of the country than all the lodges of
know-nothng Americans in The Union could do If they
should continue to exist until the archangels trump shall
call the dead to judgment
AT the close of the revolution there millions OF
people in this land Since then three millions have come
emgrans OF these latter few may have been bad
citizens but should forget that the former near
ly onehaf were during the whole war; open concealed
friends of the English rule Each claims descent from
whg Of '76. But Mr. Chairman, could genealogies be
traced could go back step by step and by man. to
lean lineage must number among his ancestors the bitter
est tory of that period? OF what intrinsic vaue then is
their vauned Amercanism2 Why, sir century hence IL
will be impossible TO distinguish the descendants of the
first three millions from those of the second as b now TO
distinguish the heir of the gallant whg from the descend