The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-02
FOREIGN E r S.

During the present session. the memorial of the Native
American Association Of the city of Washington, to re-
neal the Naturalization Laws, will be presented to Con-
gress by the committee appointed by the President for
that purpose That committee is very able one-con.
sisting Of GEORGE SwEENy ard JOSIAH F. POLK Esqs,
gentlemen every way qualified to discharge the honora
BILE and important trust confded to their hands We can
form no opinion of the effect of memorial upon Con-
press We are sanguine, however, of ultimate success,
and feel confident that it will give rise to interest
ing debate for we know that numbers among
the members many warm and distinguished advocates
We can safely promise to SUCH the gratitude and admira-
ton Of the entire and undivided American people
That cause is now growing in numbers-i cannot IN
crease in Importance. From the time when policy dc
tated to Europe the necessity of Kidding her shores OF the
destitute and politically unprincpled pauper, the question
of receiving them has commanded but one expression OF
opinion The public press for many years back until the
formation of Native American Associations proclaimed,
without reserve their hostility to the indscrminate in
PRODUCTION of foreigners among They all painted the
evils that would flow from an intermixture of such mate
rails as we now find in New York, with the industrious
and simple hearted natives.
But no sooner had patriotism required that public and
concentrated opposition should be made and Associations
were established than the old enemies of emigration
at once by changing sides and abandoning their former
opinions how they might turn the question to political
advantage. The cry of politics and prescription was
raised at the outset against and they tried TO win over
TO their peculiar ranks the miserable outcass who did
not even understand the language in which our hostility
was uttered The conflict since has been between natives
of single purpose and patriotism and natives and foreign
ers the one prompted by desire to augment their fac
TONS the other impeed by motives OF plumber AFRO
pance and nsoIence The natives oppose the admission
of the emgran under any considerations, to the sacred
exercise of our elective franchise They oppose the aid
Of ignorant foreigners, because they know that it is na
raj for the emgrant to vote for the person who caoes or
brbes them; that voting they Of course imagine they be-
bv that process citizens of the country and thence
forth begin to preach their ideas Of liberty Their ideas Of
bep And what are those crude and savage notions Of
our stern and simple principle' They think that liberty
/, the potica mantle that all sins; that the murderer
can lie down under it. and be protected; that the house
breaker-he robber-the villain of all crimes, can ind
safety in its embraces for sent from their own homes Out
casts doomed and dspsed they discover that as soon as
they land upon shores, they are hailed as e martyrs
of oppression the pctims Of kngshe true and only trenas
of iberty-he chosen people Of Cod" and the ballot box
is extended them, and they initiated into the solemn