The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-12
TRANsPLANrED FEUDs.

The telegraph reports warlike state
affairs in the vicinity Of PottsvilIe, Pa, in th
midst Of wealthy and populous mining r.
gion. It is serious trouble among th
miners, but not in this instance growing OF
of strike or other dispute between minel
and owners. 1t is q quarrel on account q
nationalities, tripartite war in which th
Irish, the Welsh and to some extent tn
English, each sustain a part. 1t is an oil
feud chiefly between Cornishmen and Irish
men, in which personal political and religion
hatreds are combined and intensified. Wher
ever Welsh and Irish miners are employee
the strife of the last century is renewed
and each side struggles to get and keep the
mastery by violent means, being another
of the unlawful ways in which the more ig.
norant classes OF foreigners or citizens OF
foreign birth, sometimes manifest their in
ternational hatred as we'll as their small
regard for the laws of this country. The
mutual violence of these unseemly feuds and
riots of races, sects and clans is to be de-
plored, but what we chiefly feel annoyed at
is that in keeping up their ancient quarrels
they forget that they are American citizens,
and as residents they are no more entitled to
the protection OF our laws than they are
bound to respect and obey them.
We feel it as a species Of indignity to the
American people that this country should be
made an arena on which grudges and enmi-
ties of different nations and different sects, all
contracted on the other side of the Atlantic,
are to be carried out in deadly contests The
essence of the oath of allegiance taken by
the adopted ci.izsn is the spirit of loyalty in
which he expatriates himself from his native
land, and vows to support the Constitution,
obey the laws, and defend the rights of his
adopted country. He should do this sim
cerely. thoughtfully, cordially and without
any concealed or reserved design or else
he should wait. A citizen can not have two
countries at once. When naturalized he
leaves his own country behind him, and he
ought to leave there his old national antipa-
thies, or, if that is not possible, true re-
spect for the country that has welcom ed him
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ship and suffrage on terms of strict equality
ought to induce him to restrain the violent
and quarrelsome expression of such antipa-
thies in behalf of peace and order.
No one can reasonably expect French
man, who comes here to be q citizen, to
orget his friends, his kindred or the land
which gave him birth. or the records of his |
Incestors or the glories, the monuments,
he language, the spirit or the history of his
country. None would expect an Irish immi-
rant who becomes an American citizen to
orget the green hills where the shamrock
rows, or the beloved churchyard where his
.infolk are buried Mona would wish that
he German who joins his fortunes with our
republic should also cease to remember the
'atherlana or cease to love and to cherish
IS traditions. We would not, il we could,
ave even their children or their grand
hildren forget their ancestral country or
ease to hold it in affsctionate respect
Yet we are free to say that we want no for
gn feuds fought out in this country in viola
on of our laws and of the spirit of the feal- ,
all citizens, whether by birth or adoption,
We to the State. Let us suppose that hun {
red American negroes were in mob to at
OK another party of American negroes in !
q streets Of London with firearms and I
her deadly weapons, would not every Briton (
81 himself insultei by such contempt r
the laws of his country? Or, if we :,
ppose that like riotous and murderoas
llision should take place there between a
rty Of Imperialists and another of Repub- G
ans from France, would not the savage
ectacle shock and disgust the people and b
the islands with angry protest? The sup !,
sed cases are parallel with Orange riots, Il
tional disputes, and this constantly recur- i,
g miners feud in America. r.