The Sun. — 1867-09-28 (London, England)

ROULAND.  AM-ERICA FOR THE AMERICANS.  There is an admirable article in the Watchman and Reflector on " America for Americans, by an Adopted Citizen." After showing that it is true policy for America to encourage immigration, the writer observes that one inflexible condition should be coupled with the invitation :—" They must come to be not with us only, but of us ; they must leave behind them their political allegiance, their pride of race, their traditional hatreds, and even their once cherished hopes of freeing their old fatherland. They must become Americans in name, in senti' ment, in idea, and in hopes as well as in allegiance. If Irishmen, for instance, intend, in emigrating to America, to be Irishmen still, far better cast then, out of the land than welcome others to our shores. It is time that every true American should speak out with emphatic plainness on this subject. We are warming social vipers into poisonous life that will one day sting our children to the heart, in tolerating the shameless truckling of American politicians to our fellow citizens of foreign birth as a distinctive class." Although the Irishman abjures allegiance to the Queen, instead of becoming an American, he remains an Irishman still, and in a lesser degree the Germans, creating an imperium in imperio. Look at the titles of their journals ; take the news given, and the writer boldly announces "that the Irish as a class have not been true to their American allegiance. Above all look at the Fenian movement from beginning to end, from care to bark, in root and branch, in every fibre and every leaf, that movement was as treasonable as it was unwise. Our citizens of Irish birth violated their oath and their duky to our country in order to be revenged on England. As Americans they had no right whatever to seek redress from Great Britain. Our Government did not ask their aid. It is amply able to protect our rights, and it alone is authorised to determine the proper time and method of performing this duty. But the Fenians sought no redress of American wrongs. It was Ireland that they sought to liberate. The Canadian raiders, in the eye of the law, and in every sense, were highwaymen and robbers. They differed from ordinary bandits only in this, that they added murder and treason to their crimes. They slew unoffending men, and sought to involve the country which had sheltered and fed them in a gigantic foreign war. In other words, they committed murder, robbery, and treason in the hope and belief that native Americans by the thousand might be sacrificed for the benefit of their native soil. They acted as Irishmen for the sake of Ireland. When these marauders and violators of American treaties returned to the United States what reception did they meet from our leading men? Neither bolts, nor bars, nor fines. General Banks tried to repeal the neutrality laws which branded them as lawless bandits. Mr. Stevens lost his bitterness in prophesying smooth things to them. The majority of the House of Representatives graced the Republican party and the nation by tendering them the free use of their hall. These raiders have been flattered, and petted, and encour aged to persist in their defiance of our laws."