The native American., 1838-09-15

with the various "mdfefla'' OF business or sub
sstence-thelr determination land this has always
existed) never to support any Native American
for any office when they can find an g ould coua-
trymaa' to vote for, (when the tables are turned
on them by Native Americans resolving never to
vote for foreigner they call it most outrageous
and raise the dscordant and tumul-
tuary howl of faction and disafection) their ex-
ertons to keep up an identity of foreign name and
character, apart from the native population Of the
United States,-their direct personal dislike to
the natives of the United States, and their con-
slant expressions of scorn and contempt for our
national character, and their undisgused claims
to superiority, their reverence and admiration of
that rascally beggar and agitator Daniel O'Con-
nell. and their liability to be influenced by his
opinions and eXhoratons, which if carried out
would either institute a servile war, and bahe our
southern country in blood, or sever the Union in
twain, and light the torch of domestic discord and
civil war between the North and South which
nought but mutual extermination could extinguish;
but above all, their unmtgabIe detesation even
"fo The shedding Of blood IF THEY DARE.
of those Native Americans who have incurred
their hercest wrath and fiery Indignation by mere
ly exercleing prerogatve guaranteed to them by
the constitution, and pettlonng our rulers on a
subject which cannot affect their welfare or hap
piness in the slightest degree, viz: to change or
abolish the naturalization laws, so as to prerent
s'raR GERS, aliens, and enemies, no,C IN distant
land. from ener being able at any time hereafter
10 interfere mith the institutions of our country,
and possibly 10 orerturn hem. (How natural is
this desire on the part of Native Americans, and
how purely patriotic is the principle which die
tates it; but should we succeed in abrogating the
naturalization laws, it may not be agreeable to
Daniel O'Connell or some Of his friends who
may hereafter feel disposed to emigrate to Amer-
ca, possibly we may be enabled, at some future
fpelod, to conduct an election in our cities with
out turmoil and disorder or tumultuary violence,
which are always originated by naturaized citi-
Zens.) The above are the real causes which give
offence to Native Americans, and those are the
circumstances which induce us to deprecate the
admission of foreigners (for foreigners. they will
always continue to be, no matter to what process
we subject them,) to equal political rights with
the native population of our land and not their
paupersm or disability, which we always antici-
pate and expect to be the case, and which, were
1t not for the circumstances just stated, we would
pity and relieve with infinitely more cheerulness
and Satisfaction than we do at present.
1t Is TACT well authenticated in history, that in
every case in which a foreign population have
emlgrated IN large numbers to another land the
people of the country to which the aff1ux Of for
eigners was directed have. after time, lost their
original moral features and identity of character,
and become assimllated to the manners, habits,
and characters of The nvaders.
What Native American can reflect upon this
fact. fully subsantated by all history, both an
cIent and modern but must feel alarmed for the
permanenry of our Republic ?-and what Native
American would exchange the plain and unosten-
tauous equality of American institutions for the
artificial glare and tinsel OF foreign luxury and re-
galltv or who can contemplate without horror
substitution of the despotic misrue, or vile tu-
mulmary INSTRUMENTATION of foreign factionism,
for the primeva purity, simplicity, and obedience
OF our forefathers to mild, wholesome and salu-
tary laws
1t is fortunate circumstance that immigrants
cannot transmit to their children (born in our land
all their hostile views, principles, predictions,
and "reminiscences, (although they do too many)
otherwise our beloved Republic would not have
endured twenty years. The beautiful simplicity
and symetrlcal propriety of our governmental fa-
brio would long ere this have given place to the
distorted proportions of French Jacobinsm, Irish
y Connellsm, or English Kings, lords and com
mons, or to an anarchical comingling of all,-to
be corrected by imperial despotism only. For
tunately, although their foreign parents do all they
can to induce them to claim, as the highest source
OF all ancestral pride, their derivation from Ire
land. France, England, &c. &c. and even fire.
quently to call themselves, as a matter of boast,
English, French Irish. &C., still from their ne
cessary intercourse with their Native American
associates, by the time they reach maturity, their
understandings become enlarged, and they begin
to believe that small portion of pride aod graf
ycotion is TO be derived from, the reflection that
they ore natice born A,nericans. This, thank
Heaven, is an immutabe law of Nature, which
II heretofore permitted to operate unrestrctedly,
would soon have made us one people, and which,
IN despite of most unfortunate and inudicious le-
glslaon, has so fur preserved us; but our legs-
ators, as if determined to neuraze this benefi-
cent provision of the great Ruler of the universe,
have kept the door of foreign citizenship constant
/ ly open Fen thousand streams of vicious and
incompatible foreign feelings, prejudces and dis
affections, have been permitted to mingle with
the holy current of popular love and veneration
tor our glorious land and her benign institutions
Strangers, aliens, and enemies have been permit
ed to acquire equal rights with our native born
children, Tin one-fourlh the time required of them)
thus eflectually preventing the identity and homo