The Irish standard., 1893-08-26

stretching toward the setting sun; lei
them come aud take them Ourselves
the children of the pilgrims of the pres
ent let the home founded by our i'm
migrant fathers continue open in its
many mansions to the immigrants oi
to day.
The history of our country, in it's hum
blest as we'll as It's most exalted spheres
testi6es to the merits of foreigners
Their strong arms have helped to furrow
our broad territory with canals, and
stretch in every direction the iron rail
They have filled our workshops, nayl-
gated our ships, and even titled our fields
Go where you will, among the hardy sons
of toll on land OF sea, and there you will
find industrious and faithful foreigners,
bending their muscles to the work. At
the bar and in the high places OF COM
merce you will find them. Enter the re-
treats of learning and there you will find
them, too, shedding upon our country
the glory of science. Nor can any rehec-
tion be cast upon foreigners, claiming
hospitality now, which will not glance at
once upon the distinguished living and
the illustrious dead-upon the Irish
Montgomery, who persisted for us at the
gates of Quebec-upon Pulaski, the Pole,
who died for us at Savannah-upon De
Kalb and Steubens, the generous Ger
mans, who aided our weakness by their
military experience; also upon those
great European liberators, Kosciusko, off
Poland, and Lafayette, Of France. each
of whom paid his early vows to liberty
in our cause. Nor should this list be
confined to military characters, 50 long
as we cherish the name of Alexander
Hamilton, who was born in the West In
dies, and the name Of Albert Gallatin,
who was born in Switzerland, and never,
to the close of his octogenarian career,
lost the French accent ct his boyhood,
both of whom rendered civic services
which may be commemorated among the
victories of peace. ,ss-...= ...... -.
Nor is the experience of our Republic
peculiar. Where is there a country or
power that must not insoribe the names
of foreigners upon it's historic rolls? 1t
was christopher Columbus, of Genoa,
who disclosed to Spain the New World;
it was Magellan, of Portugal, sailing in
the service of Spain, who first pressed
with adventurous keel through those
distant Southern straits which now bear
his name, and opened the way to the vast
Pacific sea; and 1t was Cabot, the Vene-
tian, who first conducted English enter
prise to this North American continent.
AS in the triumphs Of discovery, SO also
in other fields have foreigners excelled
The Dutch Grotius, author of the sublime
work, 'sThe Laws Of Peace and Var
an exile from his own country-became
the ambassador of Sweden; and, in our
own day, the Emperor of Russia has en-
ployed in the most diplomatic trusts the
italian. Pozzo iii Borgo. In the list of
monarchs on the throne of England not
one has been more truly English than
the Dutch William. In Holland, no
ruler has ever equalled in renown the
German William, Prince of Orange. In
Russia, the German Catherine II. takes
place among the most commanding
sovereigns. And who of the Swedish
monarchs was better Swede than
Bernadotte, the Frenchman; and what
Frenchman was ever filed with aspira-
tions for France more than the Corsican,
Napoleon Bonaparte?
But I pass from these things which
have occupied me too long. A party
which, beginning in secrecy, interferes
with religious belief, and POUNDS dis
elimination on the accident Of birth, is
not the party for us.
It was the sentiment of that great
apostle of freedom, Benjamin Franklin,
uttered during the TRIALS Of the Revolu-
ton, that. "Where liberty is, there is my
country