uylkill, the
Delaware, and the Brandywine, or have a host of Luddites
amongst us--wretches from whom every vestige of the human
creation seemed to be effaced? Would they wish to have their
elections on that floor decided by a rabble? What was the ruin
of old Rome? Why, their opening their gates and letting in the
rabble of the whole world to be their legislators!"

"If (said he) you wish to preserve among your fellow-citizens
that exalted sense of freedom which gave birth to the
Revolution--if you wish to keep alive among them the spirit of
'76, you must endeavor to stop this flood of immigration! You
must teach the people of Europe that if they do come here, all
they must hope to receive is protection--but that they must
have no share in the government. From such men a temporary
party may receive precarious aid, but the country cannot be
safe nor the people happy where they are introduced into
government, or meddle with public concerns in any great
degree."

* * * * *

"This (said Mr. Randolph) is a favorable time to make a stand
against this evil (immigration,) and if not _this_ session, he
hoped that in the _next_ there would be a revisal of the
naturalization laws."

A few short epistles from the pen of Gen. WASHINGTON, and we will close
this chapter. These we take from the "Papers of Washington by Sparks."
George Washington, justly styled the "father of his country," was a
great and good man--a primitive Know Nothing--a praying Protestant--and
withal, the man who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen." Here are the honest sentiments of this man:

TO RICHARD HENRY LEE.

"MORRISTOWN, May 17, 1777.

"DEAR SIR:--I take the liberty to ask you what Congress expects
I am to do with the many foreigners they have at different
times promoted to the rank of field-officers, and, by the last
resolve, two to that of colonels.... These men have no
attachment nor ties to the country, further than interest binds
them. Our officers think it exceedingly hard, after they have
toiled in this service and have sustained many losses, to have
strangers put over them, whose merit, perhaps, is not equal to
their own, but whose effrontery will take no denial.... It is
by the zeal and activity of o