The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-29
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Wednesday Morning, June %. ls7O.s



effort now making by the Republicans at
the North, to revive the Know Nothing
issue, and make new crusade against
tho easy admission of immigrants to the
privilege Of citizenship. The World
charges that such Republican journals as
the New York Times and Tribune are
zealously aiding and abetting in the re-
vival of the Know-Nothing spirit. Re-
ferring to an extract from the New York
Times, wherein that journal objects to
'the olinging to old nationalities" which
oharacterizes our foreign-born citizens,
the World shows the value of the foreign
element in our population, and pays
deservedly high tribute to these adopted
sons of the land. It says:
s'The Know Nothing Republicans who
are seeking to obstruct naturalization
are not only enemies Of immigrants, but
enemies of the country. In wealth,
population, and development, the coun-
try is at least thirty years in advance of
where itWould now stand If it lad grown
only the natural increase of the native
pophlation. Our Irish and German in
tives, as any person may convince him
self by observing the multitudes of chill.
dren that swarm about their dwellings.
Having been educated to lower scale
of comfort than prevails in this country,
they bring their old habits of frugality
with them, and marry and multiply with
out any fears for the future. But even
assuming that they are no more prolific
than the natives, itwould be easy to show
that the population Of 1890. left to grow
from, its own stock, without accessions
from; abroad, would have only reached
about the same figures in 1870 that our
population had actually attained in 194O.
One of the chief inducements which has
drawn foreigners to this country is their
easy admission to the rights of citizen
ship. Our marvellous growth and no
tional greatness are the direct fruit of
the liberal policy of the Democratic par
ty, which the Republican Know-No-
things are attempting to overthrow.
''The Times complains that our natu-
rallied citizens do not Immediately for
get the land Of their birth. It is credit
able to their character that they do not.
If Americans should emigrate in large
would undoubtedly feel towards ono
another as Irishmen and Germans do in
this country. They would be justly sus-
pected Of moral degeneraoy and loss of
ennobling natural affections, if they did
not continue to cherish O patriotic at
tachment to the land of their birth. We
dishonor both ourselves and our foreign.
born citizens, when we ask them to do
what we should consider unnatural and
despicable in Americans who had
changed their nationality. Our immi-
grants transmit to their offspring the
same virtuous sentiment which renders
ones birthplace, and the soil which
contains the bones of our parents, dear;
but their offspring being born in this
country, their natural affection is given
undivided to their actual home. In the
second generation oil are natives, and
the grandchildren become so blended
by marriage with other stocks, that all
traces of separate origin are effnced.
Even if the alleged clannishness were an
evil, it ought to be regarded with gene
rous tolerance, in consideration of the
praise-worthy feeling from which it
springs, its transient duration, and the
great advantages which result to the
country from immigration.
''But we deny that it is an evil. We
had Irish and German regiments in the
late waf. It would be easy for the new
Known othing organs to say that this
kind of association was clannish, and
that in forming such regiments and bri-
gades 'the fact that all citizens are alike
was ignored But no regiments did
better service. None offered their lives
more cheerful sacrifice, or came back
with their ranks moro terribly thinned
by the casualties of battle Wherever
there was danger, those brave regiments
were in the front. Whenever o despe-
rate charge was to be made against bat
teries belching fire, they rushed forward
to be moved down like grass. Their
thinned ranks and tattered flags, as they
marched through our streets after the
close Of the war, should have protected
them forever from Know-Nothing as
saults, and insulting, impertinent re-
minders that they ignore the fact that
all citizens are alike"
The Four LARGEST CATTLE IN THE
WoRLD.-We learn from the Pough-
keepsie correspondent of the New York
Erening Telegraph that Mr.. George