Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-28

DEVOTED as we are to the cause of free labor
and the interests of white men, we have no con-
troversy with what we understand TO- be the
aims of sensible Americans. We cherish a
lively sense of the debt of gratitude we owe to
a lafayette, Pulaski, a De Kalb, Steuben,
and many other brave Europeans for their labors
with our fathers in the great struggle for our
national independence. We would also vel
come with warm and old fashioned Virginia
hospitality, all true men, who come from the
land Of our ancestors, either driven hither by
their love of liberty or simply by the hope OF
lettering their condition. And we would accord
10 them perfect civil and religious freedom.-
But we still hold that America should be gov
erned by Americans, either native or those who
have been qualified by laws rigidly gnardingthe
purity of the right of suffragei and that VIC
should prevent the despotims and monarchies
of the old world from making our country
general Botany Bay, and pouring into our sea
ports the public criminals and paupers of their
respective governments,
As Americans, we ought not to forget, how
ever, that we are but stewards for the benefit OF
our race. entrusted with this wide, magnificent
and inviting country demanding cultivation, and
created for an asylum to the oppressed and per
secuted of the kindred and crowded people of
Europe with whom we are bound by the most
sacred ties of humanity, to share this God-giVen
heritage with all the rights of brotherhood, fur
nishing them homes and privileges as becomes
the children of the same common Father.
Nor should we forget the benefits to our coun-
try and our own posterity, resulting from hos
pitable welcome TO our European brethren
Not to speak Of the immediate increase of ma
tional power and wealth from immigration; the
statesman who looks at the effects of what far
mcrs call judicious crossing, of mingIing tho
blood and mind OF different families, as shown
in the history of the Anglo Saxon peoPle-the
product of Roman, Danish, Saxon and Nor
man intermingling with the native English;
and the still! greater comningling of races in
our own land, producing a still nobler condition
of physical, mental and moral endowment; will
sec in these instances of obedience to the voice
of nature, most encouraging reward for
faithful discharge of duty. Looking, on
the contrary, at the effemiuate deterioration
of nations and of families, that yielding to the
narrow ideas of excluSivcneSs and aristocracy
have confused their sympathies and association
TO their own limited circles, the folly of selfish
exclusion seems greater even than the guilt
Striking examples of this folly may be seen in
many of our proud American families, who refus-
ing all connection with the prolane vulgar, have
married in and in until their present representa-
tves have little more than half common sense,
and like all other proud flesh, have become worse
than useless parts of humanity. Let US, then,
all be Americans in the truest and highest sense,
welcoming to our heart Of hearts, every one
who shows genuine love Of liberty and of his
fellow man. Influenced by such Americanism,
while beholding our fellow men all ranging the
same earth, breathing the same air, basking in
the same sunshine and alike receiving the smiles
of the same Almighty Bencfactor, &e shall be
apt to regard the place of birth less important
than the conduct and character Of life; especial.
" if we remember that the manager of a stable
was the place of the most ilustrious birth that
ever blest the word.
The Tyrolcse sharp shooters in the Austrian
army wear on their bonnets tuft OF plumes,
which resemble very much that of the Pied
montese sharp shooters. At the battle of Pales.
tro regiment of these Tyrclese were hidden in
the wheat, and the Zounves deceived by the
plumes and approaching with confidence, re-
ceived at thirty steps, most murderOus dis
charge along the whole line. "Sac u terre!"
cried the Zouaves in one voice; "a Ia 6aioaette!''
Their colonel did not try to oppose the torrenti
the smoke of the discharge was not yet dissipa-
ted when the Tyroleans received the human
avalanche, preceded by its thousand steel
points, and were thus precipitated into the canal
where many hundreds were drowned bayo-
neted. Not a single Tyrolean would have
escaped, perhaps, if the zouaves had had their
linen instead of their wooden pantaloons, for
they could not swim with these, and the enemy
had thrown away their guns.