The native American., 1838-08-25
FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN NEW ORLEANS.

We insert o.day piece on Na,lonai CHARACTER taken
from the New Orleans Merchant" which seems topor-
tray the people Of the different divisions of the English
kingdom very correctly The picture drawn of the Irish
though undoubtedly to the life, offensive to
that portion of the population in NewOrl ans, that we
understand the Editor threatened with summary ven
geance and was finally obliged 10 quit the city in appre
henson Of his life.
This spirit of mobocracy however, seems to have ros
ed the angry feelings of the Natives who had upon the
long old custom of hosptable indulgence, permitted the
foreigners to do almost they pleased This excess Of
oIeration was found produce there what fails
bring forth everywhere uron an ignorant population
licentiousness destructive Of rights and law Our
contrymen acting upon the same spirit and motives which
have acuated us here have therefore taken the remedy
in hand by appeal to public opinion. and the establish
ment Of Native Association. This will repress
the awess spirit of the foreigners and bind the Amer
cans n bond Of moral well natural obligation for
their own security, which will eventually accomplish the
permanent establishment Of general good order.
When we first began in this cause, we had
not studied to the full extent how strong the ties Of nature
are though crowded upon by all the ties Of interest. We
that people without any unity Of character
Or feeling; that the vast immigration from abroad was dis
persing the children Of the land and the ntesces thus
created in society filing with rude discordant
terias from the prison houses and inrmares Of distant
countries that vice raising her exclusive empire
here and that her votares with yuture wings spec
ding their way Join in the orgies of the unhaowed fes
tiva To from the pers of this state called
aloud upon our TO join in efforts. Though
decent respect for the position of naalized citizens
prevented from making appeal to them to help in
ibis career had hoped that their declarations and oahs
Of fidelity would at least have made them sufficiently
American TO have taken part in tn, general remedy
though it might affect their distant connrymen 1t has
generous hope arising ont of mistaken conf dence for
we now find that those foreigners who have covered
themselves here with the protective rights Of naturaza
tion are much interested in extending those ben
fits TO the unknown cnlprits of their own country.
than they are protecting the American people
institutions from the evils and curses which such po
pnlaon must produce In fine, they for transplant
ing the whole Of their brotherhood to these American
shores SO as to make themselves and subjects
Of their power The leaders in this attempt in every
section of the country-the Irish. Do propose an
eeconwho is that disurbs the orderly tranquility OF
the scene Do hear Of military companies called out
to repress rebellion-who the actors in the nmnf.
Do we read pages after pages in daily papers, of mu
ders robberies ncendiarsms, and punder-who the
culprts An American Association, with the purest pur
poses. attempts to collect the native feeling for the re-
medy of these things, not its leaders and members
yed traduced and sandered by the viest tongues that
humanity knows-are rot the authors and abetters of
these things all foreigners and almost exclusively rsh'
Well may put aside personal preudices, favorable
in many instances TO the of the green Ise to DIN
in the general Indignation against them when all their
aspirations all their love, and all their patriotism is for
themselves whether here in the old country and when
their appetes and interests allowed TO prey upon
property, our laws, and ourselves.