National Republican., 1878-08-31

gruous current as by odds the proudsst acltievc.
mont Of the rDce. III - |
Tho shove precious sorecau is from an
editorial in the Post yesterday. Tho msnof
Irish aud German descent, rs we'll rs those OF
our citiscns who were born IN Ireland and
Germany, should read and ponder over this
extract. It should be considered in connec-
tion with another sentence from the same
editorial, so that VIC can understand the full
extent of this Democratic sheets estimate of
the German and Irish aud their descendants.
That sentence reads thus, aud prccedcs the one
first quoted:
To this perpetual friction botwecn climatic and
hence irrccOnclablc civilizations add the Jat ana
lostle Of incessant immigration for forty years,
hlling our country with motley mass OF lrishmeh
Dutchmen, swedes, Frcnchmen ltslians, and, In
fact, representatives of every race. and natlOn-
each one Of whom begins 10 vote and exercise
| governing influence before he can speak our Ian
| euage much less understand our institutions.
Then, as Il to make chaos OF confusion, hurl into
the scethlng pot Of incongruitlcs huge, indlssou
bic mass ofstnOco black voters, but few removes
above the cattle of the fields In practicable capac-
| ity, but each individual made, by arbitrary laws,
the peer ofthe savant and the economist in the
practical administration Of government, ns well as
| In the theory ofsovereignty. OF
The negroes are put down as "but few re-
moves above the cattle of the fields, and then
ants in this country arc classed with the
negroes, as "but u few removes above the cat
tic Of the fields" How do they like itr
Ireland for centuries has been celebrated
for producing men of genius and brilliancy-
men whose talents have benefited the whole
world, and numbers Of these have settled In
the United States; yet they, according to the
organ of Democracy at the National Capital
are but few removes above the cattlo Of the
fields"
German scholars for a century past have
ranked as high or higher than those OF any
other nation, and our system Of public schools
Is modelled after the German system, and ye'
Germans and their descendants arc but few
removes above the cattle of the fields say
this organ of Democracy.
The accident of birth probably made th'
writer of the article In the Post an American
Had he been born in lie-vat the same &C
cdent would have made him liar. or In al
asylum for imbeciles, a fool. As 1t Is he has ha'
the liberty (which he had not as to citizenship
to choose for himself In these respects, and hi
article shows how he has chosen.
The writer Of this Is American by at leas
eight dcscents, his ancestors having been Of tn
earliest settlers of tho continent and from tn
soldiers of both Cromwell and Rupert" AM
he is almost ashamed Of that citizenship when
his country can produce reptiles who emit sucl
sickening and disgusting stuff as that whic
is quoted from the Post.
To the inferior strains" Of German an
Irish blood to which the national organ Of th
Democracy alludes this country it greatly In
debted for being what it Is. But for the infu
OF these inferior strains vast domains tina
NOW blossom as a garden" would be sti
Q primeval forests or unbroken prairics and tn
Q nation, instead Of comprising a continent an
numbering nearly 5oyOooOOo souls, would hav
I been confined to narrow limits, inhabited b
0 less than 100000. The Germans and Iris
I of Washington should eagerly assist to build u
the organ which classes them as "inferio
and "but few removes above the cattle of til
fields"