The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-22
A COSMOPOLITAN REPUBLIC.

A COSMOPOLITAN REPUBLIC.
The era Of the opening Of our western
continent for settlement, happened to coin
eide with that in which the other hemisphere
began to be uncomfortably crowded with
population. 1t a time when civilization had
been turned to life-preserving use, and when
comparative peace and moderate prosperity
gave fair scope to the great business OF max
ing living and raising families, Europe
being in consequence well occupied with great
and increasing mulhtudes, navigators found
and travellers advertised this vast, vacant,
fertile, inviting continent, towards which q
stream of emigration has ever since been
running
Here were found in favorable development
all those things which nature consents to give
to the human race cost free, with hearty in
vi!ation to the crowded people Of the filed
up Old Wcrld, to come 10 these shores, ex-
pend upon the fertile fields their skilled labor,
and to enjoy in abundance the fruits Of their
toll.
The flow of immigration was in full move
ment two centuries ago, and it has. as rule,
been constantly increasing in volume. The
transit of the sea has been shortened and
cheapened to a great extent The cost of
outfit for the emigrant is less. The motive to
leave the Old and come to the New Continent
is permanent or increasing. The chances of
employment in America at living wages grow
better and better. The immigrants of this
year find more in America like what they left
at home than they have ever before found.
This country is now SO extended, and the
incoming Europeans and their descendants
are SO numerous. that the newly arrived
stranger can easily find thrifty colony Of
his own countrymen, speaking his own
language, sharing his own sentiments, APP
preciating his national feelings and extending
to him cheering welcome. Whatever eli
mate he left at home, whatever products grew
upon his native soil, whatever character of
scenery had been familiar to his early
days, he finds the counterpart in many por-
tons Of this vast republic. He meets with
everything to make him feel at home, and
chanic, an accomplished engineer, learned
professor, merchant, financier, a savan or
an artist he can always find somewhere in
America employment for his hands, his
brains and his capital This condition must
endure for centuries, or until North America
shall be occupied by three hundred millions
of inhabitants; and to this invitation and |
welcome there must be a responding inflow |
of the foreign born.
1t is, therefore, merely inference from |
causes to effects to predict that ours is to |
become thoroughly cosmopolitan nation of |
nations, just as its government is q republic |
of republics. Nature, time and accident have |
combined to make of this great country a |
joint stock association of diverse nationali. |
ties. In few more generations, less than |
two hundred years, the blood Of all these |
white races will be so commingled that |
almost every family will find several nations
represented in their ancestry. Then Ameri-
can citizens will cease to claim any single |
foreign people as their progenitors, and,
instead of Boosting of any one country as
their fatherland, they will remember that
their veins flow with tho blood of many
races.
Out of this union of blood and races may
we not hope that there will proceed higher
civilization than isolated races are capable
Of? If many nationalities so blend and
mingle that the animosity, antagonism and
prejudice of race shall cease, must not this
escape in great part the damages
md barbarizipg consequence of wars which
yrow out of international hate? If our great
ederative system and constitution, sacredly
main tanned, shall always secure to each con-
tituent State its home rights and its home
will there not be such union,
uch peace, such prosperity, and such prog
ess as were always and must be always,
impossible where international strife pre-
ails )?
As long as the libe ty and rights of the
!ates of this Union are maintained, we shall
dvance toward this bright, exalted and glori- ,
us goal of national power and excellence.
therefore ought reverence for State rights to ,
o implanted in the heart of every American. ,
therefore, ought all citizens. native and
,reign born alike, to join in q common oath :
nd bond to hold the contemners and viola r
DIS of State authority as the worst of all
nemies. :
PREMATURE CANDIDATES.
Is it not rather early to begin in May, 1876,
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