I received this morning the flattering invitation to attend the celebration of the 76th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, by Bunker Hill Chapter, No. 27, Order of United Americans, and regret the necessity that compels me to decline the invitation.

There are many associations connected with the place of the event you celebrate, which make it of peculiar personal interest to me, not the least of which is the circumstance, that on that hill I drew my first breath, and that the faithful, excellent nurse, who had the care of my infancy, was personally a witness of the contest, and a sufferer in its immediate consequences; and that my earliest pastime was in listening, upon the spot, to her graphic story of the deeds of that memorable day, then fresh in her recollection.

The first real battle of the Revolution, and its great results, the freedom and union of Americans, should be remembered at this time, not to stimulate local pride, but rather to fix more indelibly in the breasts of America's sons everywhere, those truly enlarged, patriotic, paternal principles of the fathers, for which they there contended, and which embraced not a single spot, a single town, or a single State, but the United States.

I remain, sir, with the highest respect,
Your most obd't. servant,

SAM'L. F. B. MORSE.

acknowledgment of their nationality, and by their prowess and wisdom placed themselves in an attitude to command not only the respect but the fear of every other nation on the face of the globe. It is considered that the time has arrived for settling this question. We desire to know whether the country, in a national point who purchased it with their blood, and whose of view, really belongs to the heirs of those bones have moldered in its soil, or whether it is, as some assert, the inheritance of the offscouring and the scum of all nations. This problem must be solved, and as there are still some Americans who remain true to their natural rights, they have taken measures to obtain the sense of their countrymen on the subject, and, if possible, bring them all into a defence of American nationality. In this undertaking they are aided by an association of American womenladies who are actuated by the same impulses that governed their grandmothers in the struggle against foreign influence, during the glorious era of '76, and who, proud of their birth and parentage, have given to their association the significant and patriotic title, "DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA." The sphere in which their efforts are directed, arms them with peculiar influence as auxiliaries in the cause of their country and its blessed institutions, and we solicit for them the sympathetic aid of the American public at large, and especially of the Order of United Americans.

The following Preamble and Resolutions were presented by Bro. G. W. Suffern, and unanimously adopted by the members of the American Star Chapter, No. 87, at Ramapo, New-York:

Whereas, By a just, but inscrutable dispensation of Divine Providence, G. B. CHAPMAN, a late member of the A. S. Chapter, No. 37, of the Order of U. A., has been removed from this life, and this Chapter, desirous of manifesting the sorrow which this melancholy event has produced, therefore,

Resolved, This Chapter has received the intelligence of the death of George B. Chapman, a late member, with the deepest regret and sensibility.

Resolved, That by his death the Chapter has sustained the loss of a valued and consistent member, and the remaining members the loss of an esteemed friend.

Resolved, That as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the officers and members of this Chapter will wear the usual badge of mourning for ninety days.

lutions upon the death of G. B. Chapman, be transResolved, 'That a copy of the Preamble and Resomitted to the family of the deceased.

UNITED DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA.-This Association of patriotic ladies is exerting a most salutary influence in the good cause of nationalizing America. We are too often told that there is no such thing as an American people. It has been too often asserted by greedy adventurers from abroad, that this country belongs to all the world, and that the Hindoo or the German serf who comes amongst us has as much right to conduct its destinies as the American himself. This doctrine is a little too impertinent for the sensibilities of a race, who, after achieving their own independence, and establishing a free and peculiar system of government, have flogged the European powers into an the Chancery of New-York, which will be held

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, this Chapter do now adjourn. RICHARD CORNELIUS, C. C. JOHN BOYD, S.

GRAND EXECUTIVE.-At the next meeting of

ETHAN ALLEN CHAPTER, of Williamsburg," is now in thorough working order, having received its charter and effects from Chancery, with whom they were temporarily deposited, and been re-organized by gentlemen of high respectability and influence. We learn that

P. S. I lent Brother Jones, of the Banner, my number of the Republic, as none reached him. I think it must be relished in the PostOffice; but if it does them good, let them have it.

MR. EDITOR :

BOSTON.

Boston, Sept. 8, 1851.

Have you ever been in our city during the political excitement which precedes a fall election? if not, words cannot describe to you the crowd that daily congregate on the pavement in front of time-honored Independence Hall, rendered so glorious by the hallowed enterprise there consummated. Men of every condition THE WAY THEY ARE DOING THINGS IN and character, the wealthy and the poor; those of the greatest respectability, and those of the the least; men in office, and men out; those who live on popularity, and those who live on rum; broadcloth and the shirtless; Americans and foreigners; Native Americans, Whigs and Democrats. A more motley group cannot be found in the Union (California excepted) than those who there discuss the chances, or bet on the results. But this will soon be over; the parties have each placed their tickets in the field, and ere long the victors will divide the spoils received from a generous, and in many cases a too confiding public, who smart under the wrongs inflicted upon them, without the knowledge or courage necessary to redress them, which the various patriotic orders so frequently point out. But will the people always thus tamely submit? or will they, at some future time, "a consummation devoutly to be wished for," rise superior to the influence of immigration and treacherous priestcraft, and spurning party trammels, upset at once and forever all the machinations of political demagogues, who, like another Esau, sell their glorious birthright for the mess of pottage obtainable by their present

course.

I wish we had the Order of United Americans here, that your readers could hear from them, through your humble servant, occasionally; but as this is not the case, I will give an item or two from their co-laborers, in part, the United Sons of America. At a meeting of the Right Honorable the National Camp of that Order, the following officers were elected: R. H. D. M., Jacob Broom; R. H. C., John H. Jones; R. H. A. C., William P. Bolton; R. H T., James Bering; R. H. S., John H. Hamelin; R. H. C. G., Elliott S. Neal; R. H. L. G., Richard G. Camp. Corresponding Committee; R. H. Brothers Daniel M. Curry, Elijah M. Davis, Charles P. Dare, Edmund M. Bird, William W. Burt, Joseph J. Moore.

At the last stated Session of the Honorable the General Camp of Pennsylvania, Charters were granted for Pennsylvania Camp, No. 20, to be located in Northern Liberties, Right Honorable Brother George P. McReding, Commissioner Plenipotentiary; and for Camp No. 21, in Shepherdstown, Cumberland County, Hon. Brother William A. Shannon, Com. Plen.

Since shaking hands with you in New-York, we visited Boston, and met with unbounded hospitality from numerous gentlemen, most of them members of the O. U. A. M., and found the right feeling in existence there, and we must here thank one and all for their numerous kindnesses. You would have been again visited on our return, but their hospitality detained us so long that we passed immediately through your city, business

The foreign Catholics of Boston are regularly organized for the purpose of influencing and controlling the elections of this city. They have naturalization societies in almost every ward, and are actively and systematically at work, naturalizing every foreigner, who is not a Protestant, whom they can hnd in the city. The clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court, it is said, attends their meetings, and takes their primary declarations, and then makes them out at his office by the ream. After they are made out, he sends them down to the next meeting for delivery. Thousands have thus been naturalized, the thing being done, we suppose, constructively, "in court." Whether this was the reason why Judge Woodbury removed the former clerk, and put his nephew in his place, we cannot say.

In this way the Irish intend soon to control Boston, and to have the City Councils filled with their tools. Boston people will find out the evil when it is too late to remedy it. Just to show what influence the Irish now have in Boston, we will state a single incident, which we have been told, on good authority, is a fact. In cholera times, the authorities of Boston found a good deal of difficulty from the habit of burials by foreigners in the city limits, and they undertook to regulate it, as a police and sanitary matter, belonging to the subject of internal health. The orders of the authorities of the city were resisted by the authorities of the foreign factions, who owe and pay an allegiance to other powers than our own, and the question was finally brought into the State courts, in a case where the city of Boston was one party, and Bishop Fitzpatrick was another. At the same time the City Councils directed that an attempt be made at the next Legislature to procure an enactment, by which the regulation of burials within city limits should be under the control of City Councils. Such an attempt was made in 1850, and a bill was introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature for that purpose. Immediately upon this, Bishop Fitzpatrick coolly walked up to one John P. Bigelow, Mayor of Boston, and directed him to go with him to the State-house, and kill off the bill. As ordered, Bigelow did. He went with the Bishop, and by his influence effectually killed the bill which the city, for the welfare of its citizens, sought to have passed. Thus the foreign power ruled Boston; and the fees of the foreign hierarchy were saved by the pusillanimity of Mayor Bigelow, under the weight of Irish influence. We think this hardly needs comment.

O. U. A.

DIRECTORY OF CHAPTERS, O. U. A.

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