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by THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR. VOL. VI E. riMIE Oassvillk Standard, is m _L published every Friday.—Ot fj3 tice, north-east corner ol’ the nub SeSpL* *' c square.--Tkkms, Two Dollars a-yearif paid in advance, two and a half after three months, or three ‘dollars at the end of the year. Xo paper discontinued until all arrearages are {paid, except at the option of the publisher. Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at 4-1 bet’ square (twelve lines,) for the first insertion, 4lid 50 cents for each weekly continuance. Legal advertisements published at the usual Advertisements not marked will be published Xiiitil forbid, and charged accordingly. Letters on business must be /jrc-/*an.l y and ad dressed to the I'roprietor. rDiUetoibb _____ CUI WVFORD & CRAWFORD, Attorneys at / Law, Cassville, Ga.—As a firm under the above name John A. A M. J. Crawford will promptly and faithfully attend to all business intrusted to their care in any of the counties ot the Cherokee or blue Ridge Circuits, if. .1. Craw ford will give particular attention to fhe-coltec tingofali claims and debts, and will spare no pains to [nit clients in speedv possession of their •money. * Vj. iranton, (Sa. —Practices in all the coun ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5 ; TAMES MILNER, Attar <■>! t Law, Cuss ville. Geo. Practises in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. * ,iJl 4 - ! B O. CUAWEOUD, Attornr# at Law,Cub . hoiin, Geo.—Practice in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. npr*2l. j I> If. TATUM. At tar non at Law, Trenton, ; of the counties of the Cherokee circuit, will meet •with prompt attention. Nov. til. q WEIL* Attorney at Law, Carttwn, Geor gia. Business entrusted to his care ill! aiiv ofthe counties of the Blue Ridge circuit, will meet with faithful attention. j Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov. McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph K. Drown, Canton; Capt. W. T. Wolford, Cassville; Col. Geo. N. Lester. Cuinniing. “Feb lei, liis5 —tt J.TAIX, Attorney <# font, Calhoun, Ga. j X. Will practice in all the counties ofthe: Cherokee circuit. Particular attention •ySlhfoe j paid to the collecting business. inb WT. WOFFORD, Attar net/ at Law, Cass • villi.*, Ga. —Practices in all the counties ofthe Cherokee circuit, and will attend faithful ly to all business entrusted to Lis care. Cilice ■east ot the court house. aug IS—G n COPER A KICK, At tor no ft*’ at Law,Ci iss ville. Geo. —Practice in the counties ot ‘Cass, Cobb, Ch ittoog i, C itoosa, Cherokee, Dade Fh.v’d, Gordon, GiLii r, Murr iv, Pickens, Walk vr and Whitfield. John 11. Rice will, as lieri itofore. continue to give bis personal and almost exclusive attention t ■) ‘Hie ’collecting business, j apr.l -jo, IS.ot. (f 1 . BARBOUR, At torn off at I Mir, A thin-! • ta, Georgia-.—Will practice in the litier cut Courts of Fulton and contiguous count.es. i?‘arf.;v*s far attention given to tire exi-cut’uHi of ‘tilierrog.itories, and draughting legal instru ments. Claims in the c;tv ot Atlanta will be lirompilv attended to. Office in Dm Biolland ■House, up stairs. -Entrance first door above ‘Whitney Hunt. Feb IC, ’■>•> ly : ( \ L. UPSUAAV. Dealer, in Dry Goods,Gro’ j T. ceries, Imrdw.uv, nil L-ry,.-saddlery, bats’ Sind caps, boats ami sho-s. inn, ‘initls, Ac., at Black’s old stand, west ol the public square, ‘Cassville, Ga. WUvLE .v WIKLE, Dealers in Dry Goods, Grvciries, Ac. Ac. South west corner •of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga. Jan. *>, 1854 T ]). c \IU’ENTKR, Deafer in fancy*, staple i>/ • and domestic drv goods, sugar, coffee, mo- ■ lasses. Ac. : hardware,’ *ht!erv,’ Ac., at Erwin's j old stand, Cassville, Ga. Jmi 1. TW. HOOPER A CO., Dealers in Stapleand • Fancv (roods. Groceries, Iron, Hats, Gaps, Boots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at the Brick store, Cassville. Ga. Feb •>, IS->4. 1 rUWCniiEIMr A DAVIDSON, t’uxxnlle, J i tin, —M imil’acturers of clothing:, aim cleal ..••r.s in Hoots, Shoes, Tints, Cops, Gentlemen s j Furnishing (roods, Fancy (roods, and Jewelry, “Wholesale and Retail, at Hatton’s oil* stand Cassville, G.i. June-id 1864. IOCKETT A SNKLLIXGS, Foctors an, / j j fr’ itn iil * ‘miruixxioii Merchant*, will attend | strietlv to Receiving and Forwarding and j Selling everything sent to our address, sept It—it in * WM. M. PEEPLES, Ifeiler in Dry Goods. Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,, (Hoots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal ;houn, Ga. May r>, 18.11.—'ly Tj, (J, COURTENAY, & CO. No. 3, Broad • Street, (tharlrston, South t\iroinot. Hooks, •Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and ■Newspapers. The most extensive stock of Novels, linmaii •ces, Ac,, in the Southern country. Near the Post Ollice. nili l f > -£. G. COIIRTCXAT. W. A. COUKTE.VAV. “JTYATT McIiUUNEY & CO., Divert Im -11 porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign : ;md Domestic Dry Goods, No. 37 Jlayne Street, Charleston, S. C. Jan Pi, 1855 —49 —ly WARD A BURCHARD, Augusta Ga r , would inform their friends and the pub ftic generally, that anticipating a change in their onsiness, the coming season, they are disposed •to make large tone ssions from their former low ‘scales of prices, in order to reduce their stock to Che lowest possible point. The attention of wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res pectfully solicited. Augusta, Dec 22 PARR k McKENZlE.—Factors and Commis sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries, Produce and .Merchandise generally, Atlanta, <Sa. Particular attention given to consignments of Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce. I” J. PA HR. E. MCKKNZIK. aug. 11,—-ly. TyiNSHIPS IKON WORKS.—The subscri ’ ’ ber is now prepared to receive and exc *N': orders lor any kind of Castings, or Ma- V 1 ® w °rk, and all persons favoring him wdth ih!T re, y u P ,,n having them executed in and with despatch. Orders ih b'inds and doors promptly attended to R f - At KS MITHING.—The Subscriber i r. r to do all kinds of work £ * lln V uch as Ironing Carriages, •merits, edgeuookl Farming iniple manner L * d‘S jiorse-shocmg, &c. m the west Sffto, , .u2 0n T™" 81 reasonable tenns.- jsolicited. ‘ ‘ dn,C ' d ’ A shart ; is .CassviUe, Feb. 16,18.35.-2- ly ‘ AbS, Guns 1 ! ! L1 ° fthoSe cUcil P CHEAP CASH STORE. - • j B^ertisetyeiils. C 1 ARRIAGE and Buggy Making Establish ment at Cartersville CasS - county Georgia, ’ rsfli'icp WE would solicit a continuance ol j the patronage heretofore enjoyed.— We are doing good work, and at reasonable pri -1 cos. AVe keep on hand a good selection of j Stock, and have employed a fine assortment of lirstrate Mechanics, who know what they are i about. We warrant our work not to fail. Give lus a call before purchasing elsewhere. Our i motto is ILmest// an,l Industri/. ’ JONES A GREENWOOD. Cartersville, Ga., July 8, 1854. NEW Tailoring establishment, at CurtersviMe Georgia, Shop at S. 11. f atillo’s old stand. The eubscriber has lately opened in gR* the town of Cartersville a New Tai j jf'f LORina Establishment, where he .s pre pared to do any work in his line in the best and ir.osi. fashionable manner, lie guar antees all voik turned out of liis shop to fit in the most unexceptionable manner. Particular ly attention onicl to cutting and litt.ng jobs for ladies. He icapectfullv solicits a fair trial, as ho is confident of success. SILAS O’SIUELDS. j sept o—l y rpO FARMERS AND PLANTERS. A. A J. X. L. Hill, are now receiving a superior lot of Negro Shoes, Negro Blankets and Kerseys, : Osnaburgs, Shirtings, Trunks,- Ac., for the ifidl ‘■ and winter trade, which they are offering Low for Cash, or on short time. Farmers or others wishing to pa-chase-such artides “will do well i'to give us a call and examine prices, for we will have them on hand and intend to sell. All that 1 we ask is that you will call and examine for yourselves, east ofthe court house. : Cassville, Oct 27 EORGE VOGT’S Piano and i waa y E Music Store, Ab. 148 Arch H-J O ff J Afreet, PliibnhlpJiM. Constantly ! ** on hand Pianos, Mclodeons, Musi cal Merchandize f every description, Sheet Mu sh", Ac. Ac. , Vonr’s Pianos are pronounced superior to . all others in sweetness, power and beauty of I tone and “unequalled workmanship. Persons j , wishing afPiano ofthe first class and undnnbt- t | ed excellence, fit a very moderate price, will do | \ well to give them a trial. sept I—l1 —1 ; | ‘VTOTICE TO LAND OWN MRS! TliiUmLw-1 ! 4 t signed having removed from Albany to j Troupville, Lowndes county, Ga. Will in addition to the practice of Law examine | anil report the value of land in the counties of: | Thomas, I.owmles, Clinch, Ware, Appaiing and ; I Irwin. lie will, when requested, examine j ( Lands personally, and.give full information as j to •'•iluc, location and probability of immediate • [ saL. Having no connection whatever with ! • land speculation lie will engage to act as agent, ! i in the sale or-pm-dlntse of lands, in any of tile 1 aforesaid counties for a fee often per cent, up ■on the amount received or paid out, 11 is char ges for examining land will be live dollars per i • lot, for lands in the l‘2tli district of Lowndes, in I ■ all the other districts, he will charge ten dol- ■ lars. Additional will be charged for an exami-; nation of litle upon record. EPIIKIAM 11. PLATT, j Attorney at Law, Troupville, Lowndes Cos. Ga. 1 Nov 17—Tv riAXoS, sIfLLKTALL’SI> <fv. ,(■■■. IVAT"t- TIIE undersigned is pre | paied to furnish Voor’s I’la nos, at short notice, I sand on as good terms as j Sr-C'-g they can be bad anywhere at the South. These in ; struments are warranted to be equal in point of] j tone, durability and workmanship, to any man | iifacfured in the world. Every Piano warranted : for live years. Anv instrument failing to meet tlie expectations of the purchaser, may be re turned at any time within six months, and an other will be given in its stead. Having a ; brother (a Professor of Music) in Philadelphia, I who selects every Piano sent out, purchasers : may rest assured that none but perfect instru i j incuts, in ever;/ rexjwct, will be sold, i A large lot of .-sheet Ataxia, of the latest and | most fashionable issues, constantly on hand ! and for sale at Publisher’s prices. ACM. SCIIERZER, Professor ol Music in Cassville I j Dec. 8 J 1854—1 y Female College. | T>HINrZV A CLAYTON, W*ae | j£. X House and Commission Men-1 / —.:~:---, c[[AN . rs , Aurtustn, Ga. —Continue the | business in all its branches, and will give i I their personal attention to the sale of COTTON j j and other produce. Cash advances made when i i required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies . ■ [inrehased at the lowest market rates. Com mission for selling Cotton ‘25 cents per bale. ! —uuglB— irpO OLD SOLDIERS.- -By a recent Act of 1. Congress, all persons who have served in j i any War since 179", ai'(‘ entitled to 16u acres of j baud—and those who have received Warraiits j | for ii less number, are entitled to a sufficient i | number of acres to make that amount. The i : undersigned will attend to the collection of’ I such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD, j Cassville, nili B—-ts Agency at .m . dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims , against the United States, before Congress, be- ! fore Commissioners, and before all the Public Departments, and especially claims for bounty j j land under the act of Congress just passed, pen -1 sions, buck-pay, half-pay, adjustment of amounts of disbursing officers, settlement of post mas-. ! ters and contractors accounts, and every other business requiring the prompt and efficient ser vices of an attorney or agent, A residence of twenty years at the seat of the ! ! Federal Government, with a thorough and fa miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the public business at the different offices, added to liis free access to consul* .he ablest legal advi- j sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg ! ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch to those who may entrust their business to his ; ! care. j Being well known to the greater portion of the citizens of Washington, as well as to niativ gentlemen who have been members of both Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it 1 * s deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by ! : special references. A full power of attorney should accompany all cases. Communications | must be pre-pa id in all cases. Pees regulated ! by nature and extent of the business, but al- I ways moderate. i 1L C. SPALDING, Attorney, ! Washington, 1). C. mliio— BOUXn LANDS.— The undersigned hay-H mg long been engaged in the prosecution 1 of Revolt!tiqnary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against ’ the General Government, now tenders bis ser vices to all such claimants, especially to Bovntu hind Claimantn for the procurements of their Claims, as there are many such Claims under the late law of Congress, which gives an addi tional Bounty of Land to the soldiers of all the | wars in whicn the United States has engaged , since 1790. who have not received as much as 1 Dio acres. ELISIIA KING, i Adairsville Ga. mb 22—2 m SELLING off at Cost for Cash, As the under signed is closing up the business of the lirm of Leake A Howard, be has determined to sell off at cost for cash. Come all that want good, bargains and come ’ quick or you will hush them. Cartersville, Dec I—rtf W. W. LEAKE. Ready-made clothing, Panti. stuff, Chainbrav, and a fine assortment of Jew elry, at * LEVY’S CAStf STORE apr 2(5 —'ts ‘I) j-fic to?.picr —)Jct l ok’o to lu|iioi|;il i|i|o Dolitic?, T-iiotiiiiir.’, njc ijjq oi|cis, l.oi’.’icjo k cto.-i, Ac, CASSVILLE, &j\., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 18p5. CJjniit i Illillli oil Ii). I think on thee. Though rock and wave divide us far, My soul is ever near ; The'morning sun the evening star Give back thine image dear, And when the moon shines o’er the sea, 1 think on thee. I think on thee. On passion’s wing, through fields of air, Away niv spirit flies To the air dwelling of my fair, Breathing its burning errand there, And hearing soli replies. TV hat dearest t hough we parted be ? 1 think on thee. T think on thee. Oil! when the sun at close of day, Crimsons the gorgeous cloud, That I could depart with his golden ray, Fading o’er.field and flood. Thun wish ! 1 linger here, content to be Thinking on thee. I think on thee. .When the summer day dies in the West, And night’s gems ye may not number, .And thy gentle spirit sinks to rest in deep and blissful slumber— I gaze upon the starry sea, And think of thee. I think on . thee. When sleep, the twilight of the liiinll, Hath burr’d all outwar^things, I leave my hopes and fears behind, -And all life’s vain imaginings, All save-one image dear to me: 1 think ot’ thee. & foi* .tlje lietwliftil. Softly, peacefully, Lay her to rest; Place the tori’ lightly On her young breast; Gently, solemnly, Bend o’er the bed Where you have pillowed Thus early her head. Plant a young willow Close-by her grave; Let its long branches Soothingly wave; Twine a sweet rose tree Over the tomb; Sprinkle fresh buds there, Beauty and bloom. Let a bright fountain Limped and clear, Murmur its music, Smile through a tear — Scatter its diamonds Where tlie loved one lies, Brilliant and starry, Like angel’s eyes. Then shall the bright-birds, On golden wing Lingering over, Murmuring sing; Then shall the soft breeze Pensively sing, Bearing rich fragrance And melody by. Lay the sod lightly j Over her breast; Calm belier slumbers, Peaceful her rest. Beautiful, lovely. She was but given, A fair bud to earth, To blossom in heaven. jfar flit yunint-Ilritjirtigs. From Putnam’s Magazine. fol’ i\)i An individiud, masked under tlie vul gar name of*Sam, furnishes just now a good deal more than half the pabulum wherewith certain legislators and jbur alists are fed. Whether he is a lin ihi eal or real peisonage, —a Magus or a monkey,—nobody seems to know, but we are inclined to fegard him as real, because of his general acceptance among Dalgettv politicians, and because of the irresistible merriment his occasional “ coming down” on somelhing or other affords the newspapers. We saw a paun chy old gentleman the oilier day, .with a face like the sun. only more red and blue and spotty, and a dismally wheezy voice, who came near being carried off with a ponderous apoplectic chuckle, which seized him when somebody casu ally observed that u Sam was pitching into the police,” and he was only relieved from the fatal consequences, by a series of desperate movements, which resem bled those of a seventy-four getting-un der-way again after the sudden stroke ot a typhoon. Now, if Sam was not un questionably a real personage, and this old gentleman unquestionably a real dis ciple of his, we are at a loss to account for the reality of the phenomena thus exhibited. But whether real or mythical, it lias been impossible fonts to raise our admir ation of Sam to the popular pitch. Al ter due and diligent inquiry, we have arrived at only a moderate estimate of his qualities. In fact, considering the mystery in which he shrouds his ways, we are disposed to believe that lie is more of a Jerry Sneak tlniu a hero. — The assumption of secrecy on The part of any one, naturally starts our suspi cions. We cannot see why he should re | sort to it, i( he harbors only just or gen erous designs. We associate darkness and night with things that are foul, and we admire the saying, that twilight even, though a favorite with lovers, is also fa vorable to thieves. Schemes which shrink from the day, which skulk behind corners, and wriggle themselves into ob scure and crooked places, are not the schemes we love at a venture. And all the veiled prophets, wo apprehend, are very much like that one wo read of in the palace, of Merou, who hid his face, as lie pretended to his admirers, because its brightness would strike them dead, blit in reality because it was an ugliness so monstrous, that go one could look upon jL ,a ; nd live. “PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.” There is an utterance, however, impu | ted to this impervious and oracular Sam, which we cordially accept. lie is said j to have said that '“America belongs to | Americans”—just as his* immortal name i sake, Sam Patch, said that “ some things could be done as well as others”—anti we thank him for the concession. It is ( good, very good, very excellent good,— jas the logical Touchstone would have J exclaimed, —provided you put a proper | meaning to it.. i What is America, and who are Amer* i icans ? Jt all depends upon that, and, j accordingly as yoti answer, will tlie j phrase appear very wise or very foolish. ! It’ you are determined to consider Amer ica as nothing more than the two or three million square miles of dirt, includ ed between tlie Granite Hills and the Pacific, and Americans as those men ex clusively whose bodies happened to he fashioned from it, —we tear that you have not penetrated to the real beauty and significance of the terms. The soul of a muck-worm may very naturally he •contented with indentitying itself with the mould from which it is bred, and in to which it will soon be resolved, but : the soul of a man, unless we are huge* |ly misinformed, claims a loftier origin ; and looks forward to a nobler destiny. America, in our of the word, | embraces a complex idea. It means, not simply the soil with its coal, cotton and j corn, but the nationality by which that i soil is occupied, and the political system jin which such occupants are organized, j The soil existed long before Vespucci J gave it a uarae, — as long hack, it may jibe, as when the morning stars sang to j gether, —but the true America, a mere 1 chicken still, dates from the last few years of the eighteenth century. It j picked its shell for the first time amid j the cannon-volleys of Bunker Hill, and j gave its first peep when the old Slate- House Bell at Philadelphia rang out j “ liberty to all the land.” Before that | period, the strangling and dependent j colonies which were here were the mere I spawn of the older nations, —‘the eggs j and embryos of America, butnot the full I fledged bird. It was not until the polit i ical constitution of ’B9 had been accep ted bv the people that America attain ed a complete and distinctive existence, or that she was able—continuing the fig ure with which we began —to spread her “sheeny vans,” and shout a cock a-doo dle to the sun. 1 1 would be needless, at this day, to state what tire distinguishing principles of that political existence. They have been pronounced ten thousand times, and resumed as often in the simple lor mula which every school boy knows — she government of the whole people by themselves and for themselves. In oth er wards, America is the democratic re public, not tlie government ofthe people by a despot, nor by an oligarchy, nor by any class such as the red-haiiod part ot the inhabitants, or the blue-eyed part: nor yet a government for any other end than the good of tlie entire nation —hut the democratic republic, pure and sim p!e. This is the political organism which individualizes us, or separates us as a living unity from all the rest of the world. ■ All this, of course, would be too ele mentary to be recounted in any mature discussion, if recent events had not made i it. necessary to an adequate answer of ; our second question—who, then, are ; Americans 2 Who constitute the people in whose bands the destinies ot America are to he deposited ? The fashionable answer in these times ■ is “ the natives of this Continent, to he sure!’ But let us ask again, in that lease, whether old friends Uncas and Chiugachgook, and Cag-nc-ga bow-wow i —whether Walk-in-the-water, and Talk ing snake, and 13ig-yellow-thunder, are jto be considered Americans par excel- I lenee ? Alas, no! for they, poor fellows! are all trudging towards the setting sun, ■ and soon their red dusky figures will ‘have faded in the darker shadows of the 1 night! Is it then, the second genera j lion of natives —they who are driving them away—who compose exclusively the American family ? You sav, yes ; but we say, no ! Because, if America he as we have shown, more than the soil of ! America, we do not see how a mere clod dy derivation from it entitles one to the name of American. Clearly, that title cannot enure to us from the mere argil laceous or silicious compounds of our j bodies—clearly, it descends from no veg etable ancestry —and it must disdain to | trace itself to that simple relationship to ; physical nature which wo chance to en joy, in common with the skunk, the rat j tlesnake, and the catamount. All these 1 are only the natural productions of A merica—excellent, no doubt, in their sev j oral ways—but the American man is something more than a natural product j boasting a moral or spiritual genesis; j and referring his berth-right to the im mortal thoughts, which are the soul of : his institutions, and to the divine affec tions, which lift his politics out of the ; slime of state-craft, into the air of great ! humanitary purposes. The real American, then, is he—-no matter whether his corporeal chemistry was first ignited in Kamscbatka or the moon —who, abandoning every other country and forswearing every other ul* jogiance, gives his mind and heart to ifhc grand constituent ideas o.f the repnb- j lie—to the impulses and ends in which laud by which alone it subsists. Jf he have arrived at years of discretion —it he. • produces evidence ot a capacity del-stand the relations he undertakes**# he has resided in the atmosphere of free dom long enough to catch its grnuine i spirit—then is he iui American, in the’ true and best sense of the term. Or, if not an American, pray what is • he? An Englishman, a German, an l- I rishinan, he can no longer be: he has cast ! the slough of his old political relations t forever; he has asserted his sacred light : of expatriation (which the United States .: was the first of the nations to sanction) or been expatriated by his too ardent ■ love of the cause which the U. States represents; and he can never return to : : the ancient fold. It. would spurn him more incontinently than powder spurns : the fire. He must become, then, either a wanderer and and a nondescript on the face of the-earth, or he received into our generous republican amis. r is-oitr : habit, to say that we know of no raceTfbt creed, hut the race of man find creed of : democracy, and if he appeals to us, a* a man and a democrat, there is no alter ’ native in the premises. We must either j deny his clouts altogether—deny that h<T lis a son of God and our brofnei—or else we must incorporate him, in due season, . j into the household. It enough that ‘ we offer him shelter from the rain—not . j enough that we mend his looped and | windowed ragged ness —not, enough that ! we replenish his wasted midriff with ba con and hominy, and open to bis palsied hands an opportunity to tod* These are j commendable Charities, but they are such , charities as any uqc, not himself a brute, would willingly extend to a horse found astray on the common. Slmll we do no more for our lelfcnts ? Have we dis : charged our whole duly, as.nxyn to men, j when we htjve-avouched the sympathies we would to a cat;? •’ Do we, in their claims at : all, when we refuse to confess that high* jer nature in them whereby alcne they ! are men, and not stocks or animals ? I More than that : do we not, by refusing : to confess a man’s manhood, in reality ! heap him with the heaviest injury it is j in our power to inflict, and wound him with 1 lie bit forest insul t his spirit I ceive 1 ! We can easily conceive the justness with which an alien, escaping to our j shores from the oppressions of his own I country, or voluntarily abandoning it for ihe sake of a better life, might reply !to those who receive him hospitably, hut deny him political association: — , “ For tour good will, l thank you fori the privilege of toiling against the grim inclemencies of my outcast and natural i condition, which you offer, 1 thank you ! ! —for the safeguard of your noble pub- 1 lie laws, I thank you; but tlie blessed ! God having made me a man, as well as : you —when you refuse me, like the J semi barbarians of Sparta, all civil life , when with Jewish exclusiveness, you j thrust me out ofthe holyjjtemple, as u mere proselyte of the gate —your in- : tended kindnesses scum over with tna- j lignity, and the genial wine-cup you j 1 proffer, brims with wormwood and ) gall.” We are well aware of the kind of ont- I ci v with which such reasoning is usually ; met. We know in what a variety of tones, —from the vulgar growl ot the pot-house pugilist, to the minatory shriek of the polemic, frenzied with fear of the Scarlet Lady, —it is proclaimed that all j foreign infusions into-our lire are veno mous, and ought to be vehemently re- I sisteil. Nor do we mean to deny-the ! right of every community to protect it j seif from hurt, even to the forcible ex trusion, if necessary, of ihe ingredients ! which threaten its damage. JJut that ! necessity must he most distinctly proved, j The case must he one so clear as to leave I no doubt of it, as an absolute case ot self-defence. Now, there is no such o- 1 vemiling necessity with us, as to com pel either the exclusion, or the extrusion |of our alien residents. They are not 1 such ti violent interpolation, its when grains of sand, to use Coleridge’s figure, • have got between the shell and the tlcsh ; of a snail, —that they will kill us if we do not put them out and keep them out. | A prodigious hue and cry against them ! wakes the echoes of the vicinage just now, such as is raised when a pack ot l hungry f> xes stray into the honest hen ! roost, but the clamor is quite dispropor j tionate to the occasion. The foxes are by no means so numerous or predacious * as they are imagined to be, and there is : tio such danger of them for the future I that we need to be transfixed with fright ! or scamper away in a stampede of panic ! terror. The evils which our past expo- J rienoe of Naturalization has made known !to us, for there are some —are not un j manageable evils, requiring a sudden i spasmodic remedy, and menacing a dis-1 astrous overthrow unless they are in-! itantlv tackled. The most ot them are like tiie other evils of our social condi tion, more incident* of an infantile ‘or transitional state, of a life not yet urriv-; od at full maturity—and w ill be work- ! ied off iu the regular counw of things.— ! 1 At any rate, they solicit no headstrong, j desperate assault; only a consciousness i of what and where our real strength is, and patient self-control. On the other hand, it is a fixed eon- 1 vieliou -of ours, iu respect to this whole TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ‘subject of aliens, —that there fs much less danger in accepting them under al . most 1 any circumstances, than there * would be iu attempting to keep them out. In The latter case, by separating them from the common life of the com munity,—-making them amenable to ■Taws for which they are yet not respon sible, —taxing them for the support of a government in which they are not rep j resented,-—calling upon them for pur j poses, of defense when they have no real country to defend, —we should in effect erect.th.em into a distinct and subordi nate clap, on wliieh we had fastened a very piMtive stigma, or degradation.— llow lamentable and inevitable the con sequences of such a social conslrast! The reader, doubtless, has often seen a wretched oak by the way side, whose trunk is all gnarled and twisted into knots he may have passed through the ? Wa?tls of a hospital, where beautiful human bodies are eaten with -ulcers and sores ; 6r he may have read of the Pari j ahs'of India, those vile ami verminous J outcasts, who live in hovels away from | the ciries, and prey on property like rats sand weasels ; or, again, chance may have ; ledjiih) through the Jews’ quarters, the TTiorrid 't*L/hettos of the old continental j towns, where squalor accompanies inef j fable crfcne ; or, finally, his inquiries may j have made him familiar with the free | blacks of his own country, with their hopeless degradations and miseries : | Well, if these experiences have been his, ! he has discerned in them the exponents j —in some, the symbols, and in others, ! the actual effects —of the terrible spirit j of exclusion, when it is worked out in j society. For, it, is a universal truth, ! that whatever thing enjov s but a partial participation of the life to which it geii ! eiieally belongs, get£, to tbe extent of j the deprivation, diseased. Jt is also as universal a truth, that the spread otthat disease will,- sooner or later, affect the more living members. Make any class of men, for instance, an exception in so ciety ; sqt them apart in a way which shall exclude them from the more vital i circulations of that society ; place them in relations which shall breed in them a sense of alienation and of degradation at time, and they must become ei* or partPutesywlneft*eemipt I it; dr-elite a b ind of conspirat rs more or less s£tire making war upon its integrity. Let fevsuppose that some ruler, a Louis Napbkfon or Dr. Franoia, should decree that the in habitants of a certain country, of obliqite or defective vision, should be rigidly confined to one ot the lower me [ chauical Occupations: would not all the ; squint-es ed and short sighted people he immediately degraded iu the estimation j jof the rest of the community ? Would | j not the feeling of that debasement act jas a perpetual irritant to their malice— j j lead them to hale the rest, and to prey ; upon them—and so feed an incessant I feud—open or sinister, as the injured ! party might be strong or weak —between ; I the strabismic families and those of a more legitimate ocularity ? In the same way, but with even more certainty and | virulence of effect, any legal distinctions j among a people, founded upon differen ces of-birth or race, must generate un pleasant and pernicious relations, which in the end, could only he maintained by three. ’Sa}’ to the quarter million of fer-j eigners who annually arrive on our shores j that, like the metoikoi and ptrioikoi of the Greeks, they may subsist here, but | nothing more ; that the privileges of ihe inside of the city, suffrage, ollice, equal- itv, ambition, are closed to them ; that . I they may sport for our amusement iu the arenas, look on at our courts, do our severer labors for us, and reverently ad mire our greatness ; but that they shall have no part nor lot in that poiical life which is the central and disiingiiishinj: life of. the nation ; and, so far foith, you convert them, infallibly, into enemies— into the worst kind of cueacics, too —be- cause internal enemies, who have alrea dy effected a lodgment in the midst of your citadel. Coining as an invading army—these thousands —with avowed unfriendly purposes —they might easi ly be driven back by our swords; but coming here, to tot tie and be transmu ted into a caste into political lepers and vagabonds—they would degenerate , into a moral plague, which no human weapon could turn away. Proscribed - from the most important functions ot the society in which the}’ lived, they would cherish an interest, and, as they : gr.ew stronger, form themselves iiPo an organized aud irritable clanship. Their j just resentments, or their increasing ar- ’ rogance, would sooner or later provoke 1 some rival faction into conflict; and then the deep-seated, fatal animosities of race and religion, exasperated by theremein brance of injuries given and taken would rage over society like the winds over the sea. . History is full of warnings to us on ; this head. No causes were more po tent, in sundering the social ties of the ancient nations, than the fierce civil wars which grew-out-of the narrow policy of j restrieling eitizenship to the indigenous j races. No hlight lms fallen with more fearful severity on Europe than the blight of class domination, which for oeuturio*, has wasted the energies and the virtues, the happiness and the hopes, of the mas-; sea. Nor is there any danger that j threatens our own country now—scarce-1 Jy excepting slavery—more subtile or 1 JSLO. 14. i formidable than the danger which Units ! in those ill-suppressed hatreds of race Jand religion which some persons seem 1 eager to foment into open quarrel. Al | ready the future is walking in to-day.— j The recent disgraceful exhibitions in this ’ e ity—the armed and hostile bands which i are known to be organized—the hater | taunts,and encounters of their leaders— I the low criminations of the Somite-house J— the pugilistic melee, ending in death —the instant and universal excitement —the elevation of the bully of -a bar room into the hero of a cause —the im posing funeral honors, rivaling in pa geantry and depth of emotion the most j solemn obsequies that a nation could j decree its noblest benefactor — : al! these ! are marks of it soteness which needs on jly tube irritated to suppurate in social : war. • Our statesmen at Washington are justly sensible of the dangers ot section al divisions; hut no sectional divisions j which it is possible to arouse are half |so much to he dreaded as an inflam jed and protracted contest between na j tives and aliens, or Catholics and Pro | testants. The divisions which spring i from territorial iuteiesfs appeal to few of j the deeper passions of the soul, but the i divisions of race and religion touch a j chord in the human heart w hich vibrates |to the intensest malignity of hell. Ae j cordiugly, tlie pen of the historian regis- I tors many brutal antagonisms—many I lasting find terrible wars; but the most j brutal of all those ant agonisms—themost ! lasting and terrible of all those wars, are ) the antagonisms .of race, and the ‘wars ; of religion. j It will be replied to what we have hitherto urged, that our argument pro ceeds upon an assumption, that aliens • are tube totally excluded from political life; whereas nobody proposes such a thing but only a longer preparatory res idence. j “We rejoin, that the persons and par | ties who are now agitating the general question, because they propose the -ex ; elusion of adopted citizens from office, i do, in effect, propose a total political dis qualification of foreigners. All their in vectives, all their speeches, all their se- I cret assemblages, have ibis end and no other. They agree to ostracise politi cally every man who is not born on our ; soil; they conspire not to nominate to j any preferment, not to vote for any candi date who is born abroad ; and these a . greements and conspiracies area present disfranchisement, so far as they are -us- I fective, of every adopted citizen, and a ■ future anathema of every alien. W both er the aim be accomplished by public ! opinion, by secret conclave or by law, ’ the consequences are the same; and the ! general objections we have alleged, to the ! division of society into castes, apply with j equal force. We rejoin again—in respect to .the distinction made between a total ‘exclu sion of foreigners, and a change in the I naturalization laws—that it ds a distinc tion which really amounts to nothing. For, firstly,if the probation he extended jto a long period, say t\yenty-one years, ! as some recommend it, would he equiv ialeut to a total exclusion ; and, secondly if a shorter period, say ten years, he ad opted, the change would be unimportant . because m valid objection against the ’ present term of five years would there by be obviated. Let us sec, for a mo : meat. Firstly, as to a term of twenty-one wars: we say that, inasmuch as lh majority of foreigners who arrive ou our slu tjs arc twenty-five years of age atidover when they arrive, if we im pose a quarantine of twenty-one years more, they will not he admitted as : citizens until they shall have reached an age when the tardy boon will bt -ot little value to them, and -when their faculties and their interests in human affairs will have begun to decline. W bother they will care to solicit their light at that period is doubtful, and if they do, they can regard it as scarcely more than a mockery. llow many of them wifi live to he over forty-five -or fifty years of ago, if we leave them in the interval to loiter in the grog-shops, and amid scenes of vice, as they are more likely to do if not absorbed into the mass of citizens j How many, having passed twenty-one years of political ban, and even of igno miny—for it would come to that —would i be thereby belter prepared for adoption ! The younger ranks of the emigrants might possibly benefit by the hope of one day becoming citizens, and look forward to it with some degree of interest, but to all Ihe rest, it would be a fata morgana , and the protracted test virtually Hu ! interdiction. Secondly, a* to any shorter noviate, say ton or twelve years, it would not be ‘more effective, in the way of qualifying | the pupil, than the existing term. As the laws now stand, an alien, giving three years* notice of intention, must have beeu five years conaeoutivoly a resident of the U nited States, and one year a resident of the I Stato and county iu which ho applies, juust be of good moral character, must be attach ed to our constitution and laws, must abjure all foreign powers, particularly that he was 1 subject to. and must swear faithful allegi ance to the government of his adoptive coun try before he can be admitted a member of | the State. What more could bo exacted ot I him, at the cud of ten years, or twenty l lf unfit for acceptance, syn aocordiug to