The native American., 1837-12-09
FOREIGN OFFICE HoLDERs-THE IMPULSES
OF NATURE.

FOREIGN OFFICE HOLDERS-THE IMPULSES
OF NATURE.
There is a mystery which we cannot unravel in the
course of our rulers Upon all occasions, foreigners
aens-are preferred natives where an appointment
10 Office is to be made The country is governed by Tor
egners-for the minor arrangements OF the Departments
are those that conduct the great OF our system
The Secretaries leave great deal be done ny her SUD-
ordinatcs-those snbordinates are aliens VINO 40 they
prefer to see associated with them in ofhce Ihe ques
ton easily answered Of course persons alike 10 ne
selves in sympathiss ORIGIN and views Inc secrets o.
our foreign relations opened to their knowledge
They,may not abuse the trust but yet they may Devo-
ton to young and beautiful Queen, may prompt the gal
lantry dwelling within them, to render her Majesty
service Who is to prevent their dvulging the key to
our diplomatic cypher. Then the whole secret cores
pondence between the Departments at Washington and
our Consus Agents abroad made as clear as noon
day. to the spies of foreign Cabinets America then can
have State secrets-no secrets OF po'cy-ior mere
are secrets of policy well as of Suppose, as we
have stated in our article on Canadian affairs, was
TO break out between England and the United States
how could we trust the numerous British Office holders
with numerous plans of carrying on the war; Ana
vet YOU cannot remove them from Office where they could
Masters abort the false accounts to the heads
of the Departments-ruIe the Custom. Houses-buy up
for the enemy the founderes Of cannon-and in word
impede the progress of the and accomplish our de-
feat. We will be answered that all this is chlnerca--
we have never seen the foreign office holders abusing
their trusts. We reply that arguing to pre-
vent that contingency The list of offices and holders
has been wofuly increased since the late war The long
peace in Europe has driven those who formerly were
food for powder, to our shores; they have become.
through their arrogance and impudence leading men at
our polls they have begged whned and threatened our
rulers into donation Of good Offices. The state Of affairs
has changed in the last twenty The whole moral
atmosphere Of Europe has been sucharged with evil and
crme and we have had due portion Of the storm dis.
trbuted upon our fields We have gathered up the scat
tered thunderbolts, and planted them in our political fir.
mament We have made gods of these outcasts-have
knelt down and worshpped them-and they may think
that they can the Of their native lands by
ercisng their offices in giving information. counteractng
our movements and derangng the general concerns Of
our Government. How are they bound to their native
soil? AS the child is bound to its motheras the heart
is linked to the loved circle of the parents hearhas all
the sympathes Of nature revove round the magnetic
Home-as the Esquimaux loves his grit plains-as
the Hoentot boasts of his country as the nobest under
the the dog likes his masters the horse
his instinct governed and regulated by an over
ruling Providence directs the wild beast of the field to
his native gades-in fine loves the home where
he was born-where he tottered child, and where he
struggled as man. 1t is Nature, beautiful in all its at
tributes but beautiful in this that makes the love
of country sublime concentrated and undying emotion
of the heart.
How do they love their adopted country BY all the
pnawng memories Of their distant landry all the forced
affection for strange cme-by all the yearnins propen
sites of man love god-by all the promptings of am
bition-by all the wild cries Of hunger, famine want
by ties as thin and weak sken thread-by motives
that are dishonorable-by oath that renonnces their
fathers graves--their mothers memory-in fine, BY all
debased exaggerated and mercenay principles, they
bound to another country.
We would not trust them-they are not of us-thcy
are not foster brothers-they ridcue simple lfeour
plain republican institutionshey boast of every thing
in the old country and TO prove their deyoont to this de-
clare that there is place, after all like home--only
here it is cheaper vingbeer wages-more lands--and
plenty of fueand practice the social vices as if the
freedom of our country the patron principle Of crime