The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-23

Corresponding Sec'ry. Of the Natiue Am.
.association ofMe U s., Wash. City.
IT has been urged against u.s. that this country its
settlement to foreigners and therefore, should ever
hold that class as welcome guests and friends. In
answer we will merely state, that we freely admit that
this country peoped by natives Of other countries
but that it under peculiar circumstances In proof
of our assertion that not the descendants of
house patients, will quote the eloquent remarks of
Colonel Barre in the English Parliament the famous
Stamp Act which passed both houses in l765. This act
made it obligatory the colonies to particular kind
of paper which was stamped and for which dny was
paid
Charles Townsend, in spea king TO the BILL used these
" ords-" Will they. the children, planted by our care
he colonis now turn their backs upon and grudge
contribute their mite to relieve from the heavy load
which overwhelms us!"
Colonel Barre caught at the words, planted by our
care" and exclaimed
Planted by your care, No. your oppression planted
them in America they fled from your tyranny into then
uncuvated land where they exposed to almost all
the hardships which human nature is LIABLE and among
Others the savage cruelty Of the enemy Of the country
people the most subtle. and take upon to say the
most truly terrible Of any people that ever inhabited any
part Of Gods eah and yet aetuated by principles Of true
English liberty, they met these hardshps with pleasure
compared with those they suffered in their country
from the hands Of those that should have been their
friends.
They nourhed BY your Indulgence. They greD by your
neglect. As you began to care about them, thai
exercised in sending persons to rule ouer e IN
one department and another ,Dho perhaps The depu
Ties of the deputies of members Of this House sent to
spv out their liberty isrepreseni their actions, and to
prey upon them; ,Ohoe behaviour many occasions
had caused the blood of those liberty to recol On
them; men promoted to the highest seals Of justice some Of
,uo to my knowledge glad, BY going tooregn
tries to escape the vengeance Of The LAOS Of their os0
Yes, eloquent Englshman, true were your indignant
words and the prophecy that fell in inspiration from
your lips He continues" and belieus Semember.
this day told you So that the spirit which Gctated thai
people at first, ,oiA continue ,Oih then."
How many years have rolled by since these words
uttered and how long had slept upon posts! But
there the spirit spoken of by Barre still extant in this
descendants of those brave refugees from
tyranny and oppression The modern refugee does not
fly from tyranny to wild and Indian world where he has
to fight his way up from his boat to the beachthence to
the fields and where he cannot sleep the wild
Of his ruthless foe. The is the fact He is no
longer the victim oftyanny in Europe, but he is the VIC
tim of his idleness and Of the law The burning
sta cksthe smouldering houses-the murdered farmer
the that send him. in many instances to this
villains paradise. At home, in Europe, he sleep
from the st Of January till the 3ls of December in the
palace Of the parish the aims house. There law to
take from him his bed his clothing, his bread. He
is the natural monarch Of demorazng system Of pau
pesm. And he is sent to shores by the ship
purify ballot boxo bless poor natives with the
latest touch at fob cutting throat cutngto read
lectures government--to print book upon our
manners-to hiss at Democrats-to brand deal
ers in human fesh-to preach among Southern re-
gions liberty to the slavesthey, the emancpated beg
gars from the Lazarhouse!
Times have changed. The born and the noble Of
1872 of 7O2 of 1885, of the 10th of April ITS, were
Englishmen and gentemen-they cavaliers from the
ploughman Putnam, along the parallel lines to Washing
ton the panter-hey the fearless sons Of liber-
ty, whom Chatham appealed for and Barre eulogizedI
They not the dregs of Engands pauper system, FL
tered down through crime and misery, 10 the lowest of
Gods creaturesa refugee from the law of ones native
land. But they who fled dangerous sea,
to dangerous shore, 10 be free-not to riot in luxury
not to below at the ballot box in all the phrenzy of
to perjure themselves at electons-but
to live, in wilderness, If such their new-sought
homes should be, and Christians, free to practice
the rights inherent TO honest and the religion which
suited their conscences.
Where is the man SO foolhardy, would dare, in
these days, 10 draw comparison between forehers
and these hundreds of thousands Of emgans that crowd
our highways and rob of rghtswhose voices are
heard in every public Office of government from the high
est to the lowest interpreting the law, enforcing the law
and deciding the claims Of old heroes OF the
American Revolution
There is point at which human impudence must stop,
however great the nducement to proceed Bags of gold
may glitter beyond its eliminating height but dare not
raise its purd wing to to the purer ether To that
point have brought foreign oesto that point
Of comparison. would call the attention of those mis-
cradle and degraded papers, that appeal against us Ma
live Americans to rude cenous, and ignorant foreign
abble. We dare them to the comparison of the heroes
Of the American Revoluton-men born on this soil-to
The heroes Of the nineteenth century, who leave their
country, in all the generous impulses of patriotism
heir corntry's good"
Poverty is not considered crime of itself it is mis-
ortune that is felt in almost every family at some pecu
lar stage of its exence but we are opposed 10 the prn
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