Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-31
Mountain Correspondence.
OnEeoN HUI, July goth, 80.

country, and gave expression IN those simple
but touching lines to the fondest hope and
dearest wish of every lrishman, no matter in
what country he may chance to reside
There are few men Gf any who leave the
country of their BIRTH for the purpose of
seeking and establishing a home in another
land, but love to talk over the days Of their
youth, and, if possible, return Gf but for a
day. to review the scenes of their earlier
years. But that privilege the present Ad-
mnistration denies to the foreigner, be he
Irish, German, French, English, or anything
else. The concise epistle of Secretary Cass
says that no foreigner leaving the shores of
America is entitled to protection abroad.
Now, this protection is one of the priv
ileges of citizenship of which l boasted and
if cannot enjoy the same right in this res
pect as a native American, | do not see the
great benefit accruing from being naturazed
citizen of "free America" Cass however,
insists that there is, and that we shall be pro
tected here as long as we choose to stay and
conduct ourselves as good and faithful sub
iects ought to. In other words, he says,
"stay and protect rs, as you have done for
the last fifty years, for without you the Re
publican party will ride over us and kick us
out of office, and that would be humiliation
uncomfortable and must not for a moment be
thought Of" But, Mr. Cass has reckoned
without his host, this time. We understand
him perfectly well. and shall endeavor to
tration no longer has n charm for some of
us. Our naturalization papers are only a
tlimsy pretext of citizenship, that give us the
right to vote at elections and elevate coward
ly old dotards to Office who, when placed in
their exalted stations, prove traitors to every
trust confded to their keeping We know
that when once we quit the limits Of Ameri-
can territory (perhaps for the purpose of re
ceiving the last blessing of an aged father
and mother) that we have no protection, and
that the country we have sworn our allegi.
ance to, refuses to fulfill its portion of the
contract, thereby acting the traitor to every
foreigner in the land, and reducing the Amer.
lean name to a by-word We know that if
German, Irish, French or English citizens
should return to the country of their birth,
no matter for what purpose, John Bull or
Louis Napoleon might with impunity lay
their unholy hands upon them, and very po-
ltely inform them that they were first their
subjects, and consequently, that the things
called naturalization papers were null and
void, and only issued to delude foreigners
and induce them to come to this country to
further the interests of the home family, elect |
Presidents and keep the Republican party |
at respectable distance. This is all we are |
wanted for. What then should our course
be? Better to shatter the organization at
once than stick any longer with men whose
principles are hostile to our interests, and
whose very acts demonstrate the fact that
We are only tools, used by a certain party
alling themselves Administration Democrats
or the carrying out of doctrines as obnoxious
0 the genuine American as to the foreign
,orn citizen.
Would jackson and Madison have suffered
such doctrine to exist? No They would !
sooner see the Capitol of these United States
into pieces, and would have died |
it, before they would have per-
nitted such an epistle to go forth to the
world to be laughed at and scorned by the
ountless thousands who watch the progress
# American history. For my own part l
m content with my lot, at least for the pres
mt Affairs may wear different aspect in
$50. We may then enjoy the same rights
md privileges as of old The present Ad-
ninistration may find it necessary to invoke
he aid of foreigners and retract the language
Of the Cass LIE Clerc letter. With Douglas
carrying the banner of Democracy, we have
nothing to fear. This great statesman will
administer justice alike to all. At Aome and
abroad shall the naturalized citizen be pro-
tected and be on like footing with the ma.
tive.
Billy O'Neale and Col Watkins were here
a few days ago. They looked and acted more
like newspaper or lottery agents, than men
who were on an electioneering tour. Why, |
sir, this man Watkins scarcely knows the
principles of the party he belongs to, and
Billy O. Neale is but very little better Wat
kins' reasons for not accepting Mr.. belongs
challenge to meet him on the stump, are OBJ
vious to every man Of sense, now. He knew
but too well that he was no match for Char
ley, and for no other reason declined to meet
him, giving as his reasons that he had "com-
pleted his arrangements to be absent ten
days." but did not say that he was going on
an electioneering tour for this same period
One of our most unassuming citizens here
was so far ahead of him in an argument on
Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution, that
Watkins was the first to propose peace, by
asking the boys to take "horn." To do
these gentlemen justice, they are the fairest
specimens Of their ticket but they are on the
wrong tack and must become good Demo
Gratis before they can expect to obtain what
they now seek. Yours truly,
LAND OFFICE OPINION FOR CALIFORNIA;
We find the following in the Bulletins letter
from Washington;
The local land officers at Marysville in
your State having asked instructions of the
Commissioners of the General Land Office as
to the proper construction of the act OF Goth
February 1882 entitled can Act to author
ize settlers upon sixteenth and thirty sixth
sections. who settled before the snrvevs Of