hese "nativists" when they
robbed the old Britons of their homes and of those liberties which they
were _hired_ to defend. What models of honesty, justice, and truth you
are, most distinguished "nativists"! The foreigner built your house,
after having first procured the site or the lot; they furnish the house
with all useful, and necessary, and ornamental furniture; and these very
emigrants are yet necessary to keep the house in order; and you come and
threaten to turn them out, telling them you can now dispense with their
services, and that they are "furriners"! And, what is more inconsistent
and unjust still, by this policy of yours, if it could prevail, you
would be doing the most effectual thing to annihilate yourselves, both
physically, politically, morally, and socially. For, if you turned off
all the "furriners," not only would you sink in wealth and
resources,--your ships unmanned, your factories unworked, your canals
and railroads undug, and your battles unfought,--but your very blood
would corrupt, and turn into water! Your physical stature would soon be
reduced to the standard of the Aztecs; and, what is worse, following the
natural channel of your Anglo-Saxon instincts, you would become a
godless race of Liliputians! Yes, followers of Mormon Smith, Joe Miller,
Theodore Parker, and spiritual raps. O nativists, to what an abyss your
mental intoxication was hurrying you, in your blind zeal against the
emigrant and the foreigner!

CHAPTER VIII.

THE ORPHANS IN THEIR NEW HOME.

After the arrival in the city of the wearied missionary, his first visit
was to the scene of his late visit to the dying widow; and learning all
the particulars there that came under the cognizance of Mrs. Doherty, he
next drove rapidly to the poorhouse, where, as we have already stated,
the _pious_ officials had arranged the details so as to disappoint the
Popish priest of his benevolent designs, and to secure, if possible, the
adhesion of the young and interesting orphans to what they called "Bible
religion."

When Father O'Shane called at the county house, he learned from an under
official that the boss "_warn't to home_; and," said he, "the children
hadn't been here mor'n a few hours, when a highly-respec'able farmer had
taken them with him to bring up." He couldn't "tell nothin' about who
the farmer was, or where he was from; but the children wor well done
for, that's all." It was in vain the priest represented that the
c