The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-23
I,rlsufE.-a;ifs and the Children Of
ESeyr :gI'0nfs.

That was noble Grafton of George VIII
liam Curtis at Concord yesterday. worthy
of the noble theme and the noble men who
shed their blood OF the spot, but Ii has one
conspicuous and damning fault. Ii raises
tie question of nationality-or rather OF
original nationality since citizenship IS
universal, and il does il IN an offensive and
imtoleraut way. We do not know for fact.
but it looks, after reading some of the pas
sages in Mr.. Curtis Grafton, as if Eugene
Lawrence was a nom De plume of his, and
lis able brain the hand that guides the
I,encil of Mr.. Thomas Mast. Mr.. Curtis,
having carefully consulted the statistics Of
the Bureau Of Immigration and tie reports
Of the commissioners OF Castle Garden.
tells Us that one-fcuTJh Of the population Of
the country i now either immigrants OF the
children OF iE3mi grants This immense
foreign iuflux has brought with it, lie
says, an Immense ignorance :'it has
brought he continues, ''other political
traditions. other languages, and other re-
ligiOus faiths. Il has introduced powerful
and organized influences not friendly to the
republican principles of freedom of thought
and action. Il Is TO the change produced
by immigration that we owe the first seri-
ouS questioning OF the public school system,
which was the nursery OF the early repub-
lie. and which Is 10 day the palladium Of
TO tell Mr.. CuItis-fur lie is an educated
nlau-that the original settlers of this
county were not all of the sturdy Puritan
stock lie tiacc back to- ard which was the
parent stem Of four-nfths the human forest
lie yesterday Fwayed with his eiOquence
bat everybody Is not SO learned as be. The
PGritans were doubtless the salt of tie col
onies, and their descendants are probably
the best citizens Of .lle Republic, out they
have no right II usJfp all the title IN the
sacred temple Of Fresdom, or to constitute
themselves an exclusive guard for its keep
ing. The blood SIZED ~ tie Revolution was
not all Of one hue. That had 5een English
that was spilled in Massachusetts,: that was
DIIcli IN New ! fork: German and scotch
Irish ia Penu,y lvan'a; Swede in New ,jeT-
s-y there was pure Irish III MARYLAND
cavalier Euglsb in Virginia Huguenot in
the CaroiInas, and AustTO-G ermAn In GcOF-
Cia- The glory Of the achievement belongs
to 40 one of our thirteen tribes: and we
viii have ~ High Priests Of Israel, nor
Levites bearing the Ark of the Covenant
aur fathers made with God in the name Of
Liberty and sealed wth their blood. The
es,eLce of our being i democracy. The
men Of IS did not tistrESt one another be-
cause some BeIe English and some Irish,
some Dutch and s0rae Austrians. some
French and some German. They came
here IN search al freedom, and they foInd
it the foreigner Of - day comes here in
search Of liberty, and it shall not bc denied
him, no matter what lie hIs political or re-
ljgious conviction. Therefore we tell our
adopted fellow citizens not TO fear the ma
tive, as the native does not fear them.
They are immigrants and children of im>
miCrauts-to borrow tlr. Curtis phrase.
only as one is to fpur. and we never heard
oC one of them asserting the ability to whip
four Americans amy day" Mr. Curtis
need not be alarmed at :he proportion
PAila. Times, 20th.