( 50 ) 
S, between neighbor and neighbor, friend and friend, a warm-hearted 
sociability should ever exist, and a cordial and comforting welcome 
be tendered when a civil visit is paid or some exigency of life’s distresses 
claims relief; so, between the people of any country and strangers com¬ 
ing within its borders, there should be plainly manifested that sympathetic 
regard which will buoy up the lonesome and greatly diminish the pangs 
felt by absence from Motherland. Man’s better nature will ever prompt 
this kindly exhibition of a common brotherhood. 
Our own Republic is deservedly credited with the wide-hearted and 
open-handed generosity that impels it to take to its bosom alike the op¬ 
pressed refugee from many a clime, as the thrifty immigrant seeking its 
shores for permanent settlement, or the scientific explorer, or the transient 
visitor bent on travel merely. This national virtue lies at the very basis 
of its original institution; it is in part the reason of its being, the spirit 
of its life. May it thus continue!—with all due precaution, however, as 
to the safety of its institutions and the welfare of its people! And may all 
its citizens be so practically imbued with that spirit, that here at least may 
be verified that declaration so cheering especially to the enforced wanderer, 
THE EXILE IS EVERYWHERE AT HOME ! 
Now, it is clear that on extending or exchanging social courtesies in 
the ordinary home-relations, the recipients of such favors should not in 
any of the many possible ways abuse the proffered hospitality; to do so 
were the height (or the depth, rather) of boorish ill-breeding and heart¬ 
less ingratitude. 
Similarly, when open and free asylum in any land is conceded to 
strangers, whether or no they contemplate permanent residence—with or 
without the honorable badge of citizenship,—all thus benefited, should so 
comport themselves as never to misuse their position; they should commit 
no breach against the Nation’s hospitality. On the contrary, they should 
aim at conforming themselves to the new order under which they have 
elected to live, and respect, even if in some matters they may not wholly 
