The native American., 1837-08-19
EMlGRATIoN-NEw YORK ADDRESS.

la EMIGRATION-NEw YORK ADDRESS. .
TO AARON CLARK, Mayor efthe city Of New York.--
SIR: You are engaged in an arduous Offices the evils
of the times clearly require the strong hand OF reform;
and rejoice that you have stretched 1t forth. The
reople-the thinking people-will sustain you in all
your exertlons even those who naturally apatheti
cal, love and praise vruous energy when they it,,
and particularly when they feel the benefits of The
subject of emigration is which you have neces-
sarly turned your thoughts, and been obliged to act
and one that cannot, once, be dismissed from your
mind. Permit to call your attention 10 some views
that |, with many others, entertain upon the subject
and if they do not coincide exactly with your own, you
will find my remarks were well intended. l have
seen much Of the evil have attempted to describe
and in this as in other griefs incident to life,
s.He best paint them, who can feel them most"
We often act from impulse but we generally reason
from necessity. There are times when the thinking
part Of society solemnly called to deliberate upon
the elementary principles Of national prosperity, Of ex-
In the common of events, many too busy,
idle, and not few too imbece, to bring be-
fore them greatqueston, and discuss it at the
time, with sincerity and candor. We love to throw
behind us the thoughts of evil hour and to DWELL
with pleasures on the sunny views before us. Our
fathers made of sterner stuff, and they exam
ined their hopes and their fears upon rational grounds
If this had not been the case, they would, in earlier
times, have fallen beneath the toahawk of the abori-
hand of expressions but neither nor the other SUBJ
dued the strong impressions of their prowess, or of
their patriotism. Life, to them, was nothing without
freedom, and they s'ponred out their blood water"
in defence Of their possessions and their opinions.
They acted, by day, with indomitable courage. and
bad fearful dreams by night They often, when
danger threatened, took farewell of the partners of
their feelings and their fame, and indulged heros gaze
upon the sleeping babes they went out protect The
God of battles was on their side, and if some fell
tn lar tn chprS nd
perpetuate their lofty principles. Success and secu-
ny which to other nations had been matters of acci
dent, to them just reward for their exertions
When the Indians had been driven back, and our
independence achieved from the mother country--our
constitution adopted, and all things going swmmingy
forward-the great mass Of the people thought that
now all difficulties over, and the strains Of
peace and peaty We're never 10 be disturbed He who
preached caution, Ill omened bird that croaked
on the left, and his voice senced by the huzzas
Of the multitude, full of momentary Joy and success
but the sagacious Of patriots viewed at this
tme the great influx Of foreigners to this country with
painful emotion sEestia flE
For long time previous to the revolutionary war,
there had been but few emgrants landed shores
but after the close Of the struggles the tide commenced
its flow inward. and increased until the wars in Eu
rope, in a good measure, consumed all the surplus
population Of England, Ireland, and the continent.
Many, however, were desirous to get to the United
States. Mr.. Jefferson had called our country sthe
asylum of oppressed humanity" and all our people
hailed those whose political wrongs had reached
high measure of suffering. This in accordance
with our feelings, phanthropists and friends Of
equal rights. The Einmetts, the SampsoAs, the
McNevens, and host Of others, here found warm
friends, and ample fields for their talents. We had
an extended territory, and fruitful SOIL and not
in dread Of a crowded population We were not fear
fnl that the table Of nations bounty would be so
full that no could be admitted to sit down to it;
but lost all apprehensions of the future, in our
charity for the unfortunate With the oppressed pa
z1E1r os,aIo rpfro fnSc
worthless pretenders to our favors. The emigrants
became of less moral WORTH they Increased in
bers; crimes began to increase also, and our penent
aries fast filled up, by those who preferred life of
crine to one Of industry and thrift. But although
we complained bitterly Of this food of emigration, we
managed toleraby well to make Of part of them,
in our rage for building and internal Improvements.
If they had gone about only to get honest living,
and worked what portion Of the time they could, we
should have readily assisted them in times of scarcity
and distress; but not conented with this they painted
to become citizens at once, and urged Congress to
more favorable terms Of the naturalization law, and
unfortunately obtained the change required.
The phanthropist, who is often blind to the true in
terests of his country becrme the friend Of the emf
grant, and the deeper sighted demagogue, hiding his
sinister views under the cloak of generosity, aid
ed their Many Of the minor courts in the United
States listened creduously to the countless PERU
ries before them, and the trade Of procuring nauai
zation, without full compliance with the laws, be-
came proverbally common. Theynoment an emigrant
made, per jas a,a netas, citizen, he hied TO the
polls and took upon himself to vote, and often to insult
all those who did agree with him in politics. This
remark chiefly applies to the Irish and English emf
grant; (for the French, Italian, German, had nc
such rabd taste for politics.; in their rage for liberty,
which they seemed to define the right of doing they
pleased wthoat any regard for the feelings interests
the rights Of others; in their fury to gain their
long lost liberty they not scrupuous of tramp
ling on the liberties of others. This hard to be
borne; but it not the last vial Of wrath that was to
be poured out upon When England found repose
from her long struggle with the French and Bona
parte she looked around aud seeing her almshouses,
her prisons, and her streets, all full Of her manned,
crippled, degraded population, she thought of the
scheme of giving them facilities for reaching the United
States; and for several past myriads have been
landed on our Shores many Of them totally destitute of
any means Of sustaining themselves. The prisons,
too were opened and criminals allowed to embark for
this country. The whole country was taxed for their
support. In many places the municipal authorities
were remss in their duty, in carrying the few and
wretched laws they had into execution and the tide Of
emigration swept over the land like flood. The En-
glish, under preence of sending these emgrants to
Canada for settling that colony, have landed them in
much convenient places for reaching the United
Ctates their original destination. ENGLAND did