New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-20
ALIENISM INsIDIOUSLY ATTACKS REPUB
LICANISM IN AMERICA.

The Bee. still maintaining the govern
ments Of Europe to be superior to our own,
asserts that their subjects do not immi-
CRATE here for love Of our institutions, but
because of our cheap lands. Very WELL
What government before ever gave to the
alien home without price? Did "the
Crown" ever do so when it held colonial
possessions? 1t granted to royal favorites
extensive territories. But no modern gov
eminent has before provided homestead
for the foreign man that had nothing.
Yet, our alien friends who write in for
eign tongue, have not apparently resided
long enough in the United States to read
its history. They will, therefore, listen
and learn. The immigration from Ireland
since 1893, and the immigration from
Germany since 1S4S, has largely consisted
Of refugees from political oppression. 1t
was even, we suppose, considered advan-
tageous to escape from the murderous
mobs of France in 1898, and from the
communes, the fusillades and deportations
Of 1s71-'72. The immigration to escape
that imperial inscription and conscrip-
tor, to which all male subjects are liza
BILE, has been, and is now. grand cause
Of coming to a country where no such in
stitution exists. We consider that free
dom Of speech, Of suffrage, OF religion, the
right to bear arms, and to be exempt from
standing army or an established church,
are inducements which the most ignorant
foreigner is most apt to understand. If
any one Gill read our argument, and the
quotations by which it is sustained, it will
be seen that the Bee has habitually de-
nounced the republican government of
the United States as failure and a fraud.
1t has adopted an argument Of the Picc-
y,tae to show that cause Of French inter-
vention exists to guarantee to the inhab-
itants of Louisiana those rights which have
been by republican government denied
them. 1t would certainly be a brilliant
strategy to replace Alsace and Lorraine
with thirteen American States, twenty mil
lion people, and enough material to make
as many more States out Of But the differ
ence logically between ourselves and the
Bee is narrowed to this: We think the SUBJ
iects Of the monarchies come here to enjoy
the free homes Of our government.
We think they come here to get
rid Of their own government. Now,
as very few Americans emigrate to
Europe, and great many millions of
Europe immigrate to the United States,
the combined attraction of our govern
ment and their detestation Of their own
fills our whole country with a great
many very valuable aliens. The Bee
and others have chosen to denominate and
denounce Americans coming from one
part Of the country in which they and
their fathers before them were born, as
'scarpet-baggers. What word has that
journal for those aliens who assume the
right TO censure our government, with
out having ever taken the oath of allie
glance to that government? Who in the
crisis of civil war takes foreign protection
from a foreign consul and RENTS his
gains, and removes himself to foreign
country Are those not carpet-baggers?
Undoubtedly. As much carpet-baggers as
those Cinnamon of whom California COM
plains, that they convert their earnings
into gold and send it home to China, and