The native American., 1837-08-10

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| With the present number commence task.
Tc our individual feelings it will form epoch-and
be the result, for personal good personal evil, with
all humility; yet, in all devotion, lay every consd
Grafton down, and offer up every thing of energy and
ardor that we may possess, to the great principles Of
the Native American Association. We make the offer
freely, because believe that the object of creed
is calculated to elevate the standard of country
and give among enations Of the earth that proud
rank to which we are entitled. Singular and inde-
pendent in political doctrines, we should be in
national characteristics; and nature reason, justice
all, point to the surest Of bringing about
that glorious and salutary end-a National character.
In these two words are contained all OF wisdom, OF
virtue, and perpetuy; they should be written on every
heart and every mind in this Union. To us, as Amer
leans, the establishment and maintenance of separate
Government is allimportant. We have rejected the
doctrines Of the monarchiss, the ogarchst, and the
despot. We have drawn from the constitutions of other
lands whatever was wise in general principles, and
| from their laws, whatever was salutary in common
practice. We have examined their theories, weighed
and adopted their merits investigated their evils, and
discarded them. From the mighty mass Of govern
mental experiments have erected that rises high
and pure-coossal and beautiful statue of COM
plete deity-armed with virtue and majesty; the
ration of hearts, and the wonder Of foreign minds.
This statue is sunken deep, like mighty oak, into
our soil and our nature. We love it, because our ia
Tiers gathered beneath its in the din Of the
lution and because we repose in its shadow amid the
placid walks Of peace.
If our fathers, for wise purposes, bucked the
for battle; it, to maintain their rights and
to themselves and their descendants the inesmable
blessings of freedom, they thought proper to raise
their against the dictates of foreign king; and
they afterwards examined the constitutions Of foreign
countries for the purpose of perfec,ing for their
own, have right, upon the same principle, in
day, and for good, TO investigate own laws,
and prevent the encroachments of foreign Of
population which, in our view of the case is as dam
gerous in its immediate and ultimate effects as the
abuses that drove the colonists to revolution.
1t is useless repeat at this time, the form of our
Government and its history. We feel it in our daily
avocations remember it in the very forms of our
social colloquy. Its form and origin are impressed
upon mind in characters that cannot that must not
die. We are Republican; so in our theory than
we may possibly be in practice, because we are
yet in the experiment. before the great jury of
Time, and we are progressing rapidly, we fondly
hope and believe, to the grand accomplishment. On
the other hand, wealth and hereditary power effect
ing triumphs in Europe-the contest is anxious, pow
erfu, and interesting; the hopes of patriots hang over
the battle in state of fearful suspense every energy
of the monarchical principle is strained to triumph
every snew Of the giant is stretched and he scaters
in his Herculean strength the frebrands and missiles
of his warfare every free country of the GLOBE
wherever freedom is breathed by the voice of an
indignant people. Will he forget, in his fearful eff
forts to obtain the ascendancy, that country which is
forever quoted to him the final experiment of man
the fourshing republic of the United Statesl Surely
not; nor has he forgotten We have received, are
daily receiving, and will continue so to do, the mse
able evidences of his watchfulness In the course of
few, very few years. we, the natives, will be in the
minority. The increase to population from Europe,
within the last five years. has been great not great
er, in proportion to our domestic production. Policy
and beggary oustrip the efforts Of nature, and we are
peopled by the policy Of foreign courts. Long before
tread their native SOIL as voters, these emil
grants will have been in possession Of the elective
franchise, and have become the arbers in the great
political contests--they raly-they cente-they CO.
operate-they are conquerors. For what objects do
they so unitel Look at human nature-examine its
propensites-ts wild ambitions, and sordid aspira-
tions. Power is their object Power is every thing
in all governmentsit is extremely dangerous in one
like ours, where great respect is paid to the officers Of
the republic; but when these officers foreigners
aliens to our customs and modes of thought and the
same class constitute the greater proportion Of the
voters, what is the resultl Old feelings returnrev-
erence for the office, grows into veneration of the man
gradually the servle passion increases; rolls on
through every postoce, and custom-bouse, and petty