The hydraulic press., 1859-06-25
PATRIOTISM.

In recent article upon the impending
European war, we took occasion to hope
that the sympathy of Americans would be
more worthily bestowed than it was during
the Crimean war, when love of "fair play"
and hereditary hatred of England led our
countrymen to sympathise with Russia. The
Sierra Caizen-a paper Of independent views,
which it expresses with forcible originality
docs not strictly coincide with this hope
and opinion, but thinks the sympathy exhb-
tied by our countrymen towards Russia, in
the great struggle alluded to, was occasioned
by the friendship and respect manifested
towards US by that government. Our CO.
temporary then advances the opinion, that
'our two contests with the government and
monopolists of England, left ranking noble
hatred which should never die" The query
is put-"can the posterity Of those who oh
tanned this free and Incompatible nationality
from seven years war, unequaled for atroc-
ity toward a kindred and colonial people,
forget the unnatural conduct of the British
Government? Ought they to let the men,
ory Of the oppression which caused their
fathers to suffer, to struggle and be free, pass
from the enlightened cultivation which is
productive of unconquerable patriotism and
adherence to the protective principles that
make our constitutional liberty more pow
erful and lasting than the armies and policy
of despotism?
To this we reply: "The unnatural con-
duct of the British Government and the sue
cessful resistance Of our forefathers can nev-
er be forgotten. They were the cause and
the birth throes of our now mature inde-
pendence. But we cannot see why the illib-
eral colonial policy of Lord North and the
third George should impel us, fourscore years
afterwards, to hate that honorable British
Government which has jnst given such dis
tinguished proof of friendship and good faith
towards US, by refusing to second the dis
honorable diplomacy of Ousely. Neither can
we draw that nice distinction which separa-
tes the government and people Of ''our little
mother isle" holding one up to detestation
and the other to love. Hatred that would
precipitate our armed fury upon the rulers,
We think man may love his own country
without hating another. Affection for the
home hearth is not fostered by enmity to our
neighbors Wenever had any sympathy with
that sort of patriotism which makes one ma
ton the ceaseless foe of another. 1t must be
feeble affection that can subsist only upon
the strong stimulous of animosity. En-
lightened people do miserably to cherish
hereditary hatred. 1t is the bosom -nursed
viper that will ultimately destroy them. 1t
is the potent ally of despotism, that has
many time manacled the uprising masses
and rolled back the tide of more humane
civilization.
False patriotism and difference Of relig-
ious belief have done more to separate and
enslave mankind in all ages than any other
cause. 1t is time that the learned and refined
nations who boast of their Christianity
should cease emulating the tribes of fierce
savages from whom they sprang. Hereditary
hatred should be left to those yet existing
barbarians who may accomplish some good
by destroying one another. An enlightened
and free people, strong and self-reliant, can
afford to cultivate that true patriotism which
springs from the hearty appreciation of in
herent advantages. Our country is free, gen
erous, virtuous, progressive; her institutions
protect and develop individuality. and allow
every citizen to attain the largest mental
stature of which he is capable; ;-theerfore, we
loveit, and need no ointernationalhatet to stim-
ulate our love. Like stoutman in the sacred
castle of his home we stand, hating not our
neghbor, rather striving to love him as our
self; provoking no enmity designedly, yet
prompt to resist unwelcome intrusion upon
our precincts and privileges, and ready to
die, if need be, in defence of our family gods.
SHAKESPEARE and Calico were both born
in 1864, the year in which Luther and Calvin
and Roger Ascham and Michael Angelo died.
One left US the most wonderful creations OF
the dramatic muse, and the other bequeathed
the telescope Both opened to mankind new
worlds of which before the human magma
ton had only dreamed.
The hydraulic process of mining has been
adopted with success in the auriferous dis
tricts of Georgia. A Boston sauan informs
the Paris Academy of Science of the fact,
but says nothing of California, where the
process was first applied.
The General Land Office has decided that