New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-10
NO FOREIGN ISSUES AND IsMs,

We offer the warmest welcome to al
people who come to America to become
republican citizens. Our government has
bestowed upon them homesteads and pro-
lection. They in turn give US brave arms
and honest hearts. This Ia a plain and
reciprocal exchange of benefits. Yet we
have right to demonstrate that discon'
tented immigrants do not settle theli
wrongs at home. They come to the United
States to plant battery to throw incen-
diary projectiles upon country with
which the United States may be at peace,
and subject US to the risk Of be-
ing made party to contentious
about which we do not care. 1t
does not seem to us manly to leave the
country in which an alleged wrong bas
been committed to agitate its reform here,
and we deprecate the possible mischief
from this removal of European litigation
to our American forum. 1t would be well
if some Monroe could arise who should
impose moral Introduction upon the i'm
portation of those historical, chronological
and theological theories into our country
which have SO long distracted Europe, and
perhaps have occasioned the exile of the
very people who agitate them here.
Historian Froude came with deliberate
purpose to placard his new work upon the
hills and prairies of America. He came
to revive the dead controversies of another
age and of distant country. It occurred
to us that it was not wise to welcome him
as An Englishman come to bury the ami
mosities which had disunited England
from her colonies. 1t was signal and
significant contradiction of this harmony
that he at once went for our Irish fellow
citizens, and revived in its most bitter
form quarrel which has even contributed
to drive them from their native country
Whats Heouba to him or he to Hecuba?"
What to us the prosecutions Of past age
and of another peopie2
Hero we, already perplezed with issues
of domestic character, are to be compi-
Gated with the rows of the Fergus and
O'Brien from the first invasion of Ireland
to the act Of compulsory union. We are
challenged to take an interest in this dis
turbance of our peaceable American-Irish
element, this controversy between Mr.
Froude and the eloquent father in the
church, who handles the logomschic shil-
laleh with consummate ability. Indeed,
he seems to rejoice in the opportunity of
catching this Froude upon neutral ground,
and has danced around him metaphor
ically "ike. a cooper round cask.
What it is all about puzzles our American
comprehension, but we had rather these
differences were fought out on some other
farm than ours. Then here come these
French communists who have involved
their unfortunate country in terrible |
war. One of their manifestoes, whether |
genuine or not we do not know, announced
some weeks since that they had decided |
to try the efficacy Of their principles /
in the United States. The papers to which |
we refer assumed the right of directing
these destructive issues out Of the jurisdic-
ton to which they properly relate, and
assumed that the United States of America
was common upon which any social
experiment might be tried. Possibly, as
intimated in another column, they may
find that the burning of few American
cities may conduce in some inexpicable
to the solution of their sooislistic
theories. 1t is our opinion that an immi-
grant electing to become citizen of
new country should lay down his allegiance
to the sovereign he has abandoned. He
should leave the political and religious
issues interviewer with the history of that
He should take part in Ameri-
can affairs with heart renewed in its
adoption of republicanism, and abandon
nent of all ideas connected with other and
forms of government
We can not refrain from reminding
hese foreign organs which discuss 30
iippantly the situation of the United
States, and especially that of Louisiana,
hat We are still long way from the tur-
,ulent ferociousness of Professionals and
'apists; and that, as yet, America has
lever nurtured in her bosom, even when
me part of the people were in bondage to
mother, any combination SO vile as that
which has saturated Paris with blood, and
low proposes to extend the same tender
f1ices to two American cities Let us
ope then that these foreign and antedi-
avian issues and isms will be confined to
be countries wherein they properly be-
,ng, and that America may be kept sacred
rom their polemical and pernioious dis