The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-14
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IoREIGN1NFIUENCE Upon THE .INTECs
al 6# taRlFY OF THE UNION XIV

HagWOOsAh VI u ~ i u u lONE.
FORE GNiNFLUENCE Upon THE .INTEGi
sRlIY OF THE UNION. Ni
IN aformer number, we adveried to the Injurious
influence OF Emigration, upon the domestic relations
oi our soatherpand South states, and qnoted
me language of O'Connel, 10 show, that there was
=" ihscombinatipn directed to the question: Of sla
very Which would, if successful. destroy our laws
ana ous Union. Since then, we have examined the
speeches of the Irish orator, TO ascertain, what ex
plantations he might have riven 10 correct the reports
o. DIS harangues published in the papers Of the day
'ut 40 Tar from finding any mitigation Of his violence.
we discover that his own interpretations of what
ousnt 70 have been printed stronger than those
mat were over imputed to him. Now it would be an
un'hPor'ant matter Ia MS, what opinions any politi
ch u distant country might express. concerning our
institutions as compound with the more admired ones
OF MS own government but when we find an indvidn-
al VINO from prominent, if no, high station, is
constantly declaimng against rights Of property.
me morals and humanity, Of seperate portion Of our
people, and endeavoring to raise crusade Of his own
conntrymen, in land against our own states il be-
comes subject of public policy, tina, should loo,
TO me influence of that ndiv ua, the materials he is
working Upon among us, and the consequences thai
are 10 follow, II we do arrest his means Of action
~ u should be asked, stop the voice of the
Ggfdfor in his own land! we answers WE do not claim
such power hut for The sake Of our own security, and
TO keen down the angry temper. which inlemperancc
will generate. when his creed shall he heard and fol-
lowed by his partzans here, we have the right, and
we trust Will ere long exercise it, of preventing the
increase of those partizans. and holding the suprema
nv hot haFt ta.. r.
his can only be done by early repeal OF the
ra!izaiion laws and that will not effect the OBJ
Iect to the full extent, unless there is cooperation
among the states to exclude all those from their shores
who come without occupations, character, and the
preparatory means of living. The slavehoiing states
have manifested apathy in regard to the agitation
Of the abolition question: That really asonishes those
who live upon lie middle ground Of politics. and we
should not be surprised If when the memorials, for
alteration Of the laws Of naturalization. shall be dis
cussel they will be resisted by fana,cs upon the plea
that foreign population strengthens their party.
II is not chimerca thing to believe, that the doc
trnes OF the agtao in Ireland have been unpro-
dlctire transported in the purses Of his proso yes
his conn,ryme, and his political slaves to these U.
nited States; yet that they have spread among the
bew'ldtred enthusiasts of our own people, ff find
that even in Legislative body in the great State Of
Pennsylvania, it has been said hatn oN be strange
indeed, i any son Of Ireland. here. ho after hopng Oh
fained his emancipation, by the abanaonnento his
ocn country, wiU take The part Of The szre holder,
against Jreemen. !"
II the creed of The destitute and pensoned son Of
Erin, has so developed its fruits. that an appeal
can be made to his connnymen, to resist oDn in the
lawful enjoyment of theirpropery and laws,-what
will moi foreigners and traitors dc, when the vast and
expected hordes from Germany, shall have over run
and nut numbered us.
We shall be strangers in OR own land, and aliens
TO the people around u.s. and like second race of is.
Iaelies, wanderers over the world.