The native American., 1838-11-10

The door opened for every foreigner in the
United States to be forthwith na,raized, without
any qualification, other than personal applica-
ton. and after one month that door closed forever
Third. That no foreigner who may arrive in
the United States, one month after the passage or
promulgation of said law, shall be permitted 10 re-
main more than one month i'll each year III any
incorporated city of the United States, under pc
nalty of one thousand dollars fine and one years
Imprisonment for each oilence-the term OF i'm
prsonment 10 be doubled III every case where the
parties are incapable OF paying the fine (ulthoW
oppeal.) ....
If foreigners who immigrate to our country TO
reside, are influenced by love for our Government
and her Institutions. and aie dcsrous OF rendering
any real benefit to the United States, by employ
ing themselves i'll agricultural pursuits, they can
accomplish that object most etlectually, and II
they are really in love with liberty and indcpcn-
dencc, and have actually crossed the Atlantic III
pursuit of those blessings, they will find and en-
JOY them in all their primeval purity in the re-
mote forests of the West, where they can by Il
moderate degree of industrious exerton, make
the wilderness to blossom as the rose, and where
they and their poslerity may sit under their own
vines and tigtrees with none to make them afraid,
to the latest generation.
Should such an enactment, as the one under
consideration, pass in Congress, it will terminate
the mutual accusations of the two Native Amerl-
can parties-Whigs and Democrals-on the sub
ject of naturalized foreigners.
1t cannot be denied that almost all rich and
aristocratic foreigners join the Whig party while
their trans ported vagrants and paupers generally
become 'uprorous" Democrats.
The former portion of these commercial and
political marauders, if not rs numerous by Their
superior wealth and consequent influence, are
quite as pernicous in the United States as the
latter, if not more so.
The passage of a law excluding all foreigners
who shall in future arrive i'll the United States
from our cities, or even lis universal demand by
Native Americans of every political party, will at
once ALLEVIATE almost all foreigners from our re-
spective ranks; it will prevent them from parllci-
patng in our political struggles, and will destroy
their influence in our elections; it will place them
where they ought to stand, viz. in the back
ground, as mere spectators, and enable Native
Americans alone to be-. as they should be, the on
ly arbiters Of their own counry's destinies.
Each Native American party can then ac, ac-
cordng TO its own conscientious opinions,
without the apprehension of foreign interference,
and without the possibility Of a suspicion that
party tactics have been at the bottom, in the for
nation Of Native American Associations, and much
the largest proportion of the present bitterness in
party struggles will at once subsde. Unwarran-
table additions TO the influence and power of one
party, will not then Ee met by hatred and vitupe-
ration from the other.
Fourth. That from and after the passage of
said law, none but a Native American shall be per-
milted to own, or edit newspaper, in the United
States.
No man is Justly entitled to originate and pro-
mulgate sentiments and principles which are cal
culaed to influence the political action of free
born Native Americans, or perhaps give tone to
public opinion throughout the United States, but
one who has been familiar with the American
principles of sef-government from his earliest in
lancy-nay, from his very birth, and whose every
thought, motive and affection, are deeply mbued
with, or rather enanate from, filal love and de-
votlon TO our country and her institutions, which
are essentially Indigenous, and can never be sue
cessfuly engrafled upon any individual Of forelg
origin.
Fifth. That from one month after the passage
of said law, no foreigner (who may afterwards ar
rive in the United States) shall be permitted to en-
list into the Army or Navy of the United States,
neither shall they enter into her Volunteer Corps,
nor Militia.
This will not only exempt our descendants in
after ages from having their dependence upon
foreigners, for safety and protection, perpetually
urged upon them, and made everlaslingly the
theme and subject of fore gn boasts and sneers,
but ii will protect them from the dread conse-
quences of foreign depravity and inGde(ity in the
event of war.
Sixth. That from and after the passage Of said
law, no alien shall possess the power ofimprison-
ing for debt, a citizen of the United States, which
cannot be done by another citizen.
The justice and propricty of such an enact
ment, must be selfevident TO euery natire-born
.4mericam citizen; but its importance can only be
appreciated when reflect thai aliens could in
errupt the action of government itself through the
effect of the present laws, on the persons of men,
1ers Of Congress, or other agents Of the gorera-
nent. The laws of our land should protect the
person of a citizen from this oppressive and vim
dctive privilege granted to aliens!
have at length arrived at the close of my Sc
ries of long, and, / fear, tedious communications.
Let not those American citizens who have been
accidentally located in situations where foreign in
fluence, arrogance and usurpation produce no in
onvenence-"whose lines have indeed been cast
in pleasant places such not feel Indifferent
to the warnings which an humble Native Ameri-
can citizen has presented to their reflection: hut