Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-12-10

a level in climbing towards the top round of tn
( ladder. All do not reach the top, some fal
= aud are ruined yet in no country do men star
q so nearly on an equality In the pursuit of 'hl
= thy lucre. We are indeed peculiar people il
Z this respect. | do not say we are the mos
; penurious, worldly minded, avaricious, covet
= Gus people iu the world, for we are not, as GU
3 many magnificent and noble charities, comiul
not trom Princes and Lords and Dukes, as
pittance out of their abundance, but s. 9
I grateful, free, spontaneous, Offering frow th
people, everybody throwing In his mite or
his thousands, as he may have the means
, proves that we ought not to be nationally
} characterized as cevetous. But yet it is true
that in no country are the masses 30 universal
ly desirous of becoming rich as in ours. Te
make money, and as much OF it ss possible ID
! the aim Of all. All endsavor to lay by them
10 store for future wants. Nor are we re.
mark oily conscientious nor yet an especially
cautious people as to the methods by which
we multiply our gains, aud increase our pos
sessions. An enterprise is proposed and only
one question is asked, will it pay II there
; is only bare possibility that it will be remu-
nerative, the man Of wealth will invest his
thousands, and the mechanic his hundreds, in.
huenced by common motive-the expectation
OF immediate and large dividends. The pros
pect of gain Is everything We care little a.
bout the security tor tue Investment. We love
money, aud without much regard either for the
principles on which the transaction ia to be
conducted, or the secarity offered for the in
vestmont, We rush pell NELL into mining for
gold and silver or bsring for oil, or into any
thing presenting itself Offering a fair prospect
of realizing
We have now noticed three things respecting
tn Q population OF this great country of ours.
Its mongrel character, made up of many ma
uonalities, its unparalleled enterprise, and 10
universal love OF gain. We are now ready to
advance another step with our subject. This
mongrel enterprising, and avaricious people
constitute the American nation. 1t is to the
custody Of this people haviog these character
| istics, that God In His providence has not only
committed the preservation of free govern
ment, but, as We have seen, the destinies OF
the world In great degree.
Now it is not the territory that forms the ma
tion, but the people resident in that territory.
1t is not the geographical limits bounding our
| area thai constitutes the nation, but the people
living within those limits. We have just given
a brief analysis of the people living within the
geographical lin ts of the United States. We
have found them mongrel, enterprisiug and
avaticious. The question then resolves itself
| into this DO these characteristics pressge
national welfare, or national misery. Do they
secure or do they endanger our country and its
| institutions. Let US pass then to the consider
| alton OF the subject from this point of view.
| 1t is not the language of mere bravado to
assert that we have nothing to fear from ex
| ternal toes; for, presenting now united front,
we are inviucible; our attitude is one of def
ance and we command the respect of all ma
tionsi for, though not professedly a military
nation as France or Prussia, yet, as has been
recently admitted by an English statesmaa we
| are the greatest military power in the world.
But in order to national preservation we must
have something better on which to depend than
armies and nayies. We must have something
beside military justice on which to rely. II
| q cd be forgotten ; If truth and righteousness
are dijregarded these will be of no avail-"for
the nation and kingdom that will not serve me
shall perish; yea, that nation shall be utterly
| wasted" Our national safety must therefore
| be found In the piety, moral worth, and general
intelligence of our people, for our only defence
| against either internal convulsions or external
foes, will be found in their strength and preva-
lence. If we are weak in virtue, we shall be
weak at all points. 1t our national iategrity
and uprightness diminish, in that ratio our go.
| vernment will become powerless and we shall
be unable to quell domestic insurreetions. or re-
sist any attempted aggression of external toes
| Here, therefore, lies our greatest danger. I'LL
now depends upon our purity. We must not
| only preserve our present moral status but we
must ego on to perfection" endeavoring to
| make virtue general and vice local; righteous
ness universal, and unriyhteousness exception
| al. II we do this we shall be cemented by one
of the strongest of all ties, vrtueus affinity
This will make as one people. Its prevalence
will heal all wounds and Danish all sectional
alterations, and by making US in sense, the
broadest and truest one people, cause our
peace to h1w as a river and our righteousness
as the waves of the sea-
But let as now return 10 an analysis OF our
population aud learn what answer it will give
to the question, Are those national traits in
imical to our public purity. Do they eudanRer
public safety by tending TO the propagation of
vice. Are they elements that, if not the direct
cause, are the indirect occasion of evil, and
hence jeopardizs our couutry's safety We
affirm that they are each sources OF national
corruption. That they are the parents of per-
nicious results which, IL unchecked, and suf-
fered to spread without counteraction, must
produce evil to our country, and that before
many years. First then, there is danger to our
country's virtue IN the mongrel character Of our
population. Our population ia dssimilar from
that of any other nation. Other nations are
composed mainly Of one race they are one
people, they have one nativity. They have
common Fatherland; but we are a nation inclu-
ding representatives OF many nationalities. As
| a consequence OF this, we have united with
those vices, which may be regarded as strictly
American, the vices of all other nations. We
have annually large importations of those that
| are indigenous to other nations. ln the State
of California We had, according to the census
of $780, "a 933 Chinese, and as during the last
six years large numbers of Chinese have been
| employed on the Pacific Railroad, west OF the
| Rocky Mountains causing u large influx of
| Chinese emigrants, it is fair to estimate them
now at ffty thousand. They are iiolators.
They have magnificent Temple dedicated to
Idol worship in San Francisco, and doubtless
at different points in the State. They are ad-
herring to their superstition and practising their
incantations. Only few days siucs our news
papers informed US of a very amusing circum-
stance, that the Chinese residents of Sacra-
mento had sent an urgent, and numerousy
signed petition to the Mayor and City Coun-
ellis, asking liberty to explode FIRE crackers for
three days 10 the streets, for the purpsse Of
espelling the Devil from the city, land if the
re-ele;tion of tust Mayor and Common Coun-
cilmen had depended upon those Chinese votes,
the petition would have been granted) Here
are $4,000 idolators at our doors, members
of our household, port OF our population, and
| destined no doubt to make large portion of 1t
ou the Pacific coast. They have imported this
idolatry, they have brought with them their
supe-stitions. They adhere with as much te-
naciiy as ever to their ideas Of morality. They
contribute to give complexion to public morals.
ln Utah, we have what is found in no other
country claiming to havs christian civilization
We have there legaliEad Polygamy, legalizsd
inasmuch as II exists, and hourishes within the
limits of our country, and is not suppressed by
our laws. Its effects outside of Mormondom
are seen in the following brief extract from
"Across the Continent" p. l0s. "The Gov.
ernmsnt should no longer hold a doubtful OF
divided position towards this great crime oi
the Mormon church. Now half or two-thirds
Of the Federal officers in the army in the terri
tory are PolyRamsts, and others bear no testi-
mony against It,"