The native American., 1838-11-10

1t is no doubt well remembered by our readers,
that some months ago we took up the subject Of
the appointment, by the President of the son of
the editor of the Truth Teller as cadet in the
West Point Academy. We were assured by a
respectable citizen, who had seen and conversed
with this editor on the subject, that the appoint
ment had been made; and we were also assured,
by satisfactory evidence, that this editor was a
foreigner; but we did not know, till now, that
this foreign editor bad only recently arrived in
the country, nor "that he bit a fcw gears since
,cas British soldier, and bore arms in tie
British seruice during the last acar yiM the
United ,Eates" And 10! this mans son, under
these circumstances, is preferred to those whose
fathers bed and suffered and fell in defending the
very institutions whose benefits now nure to the
descendants of our enemies, when hundreds are
constant applicants, though unsuccessful compe-
titors against foreign influence, for the very situa-
tons which they uniustly obtain.
We act under the conviction that these state
ments are true, and that the authority whose
sanction they bear is good; otherwise, we call on
any person to bring proof to the contrary
This appointment, then, is unnatural, unpatr-
otic, illiberal, and unprincipled, and we cannot
believe that these facts were known TO the
President when he made the appointment; and
although ignorance in this matter would be a
miserable apology, yet it is the most charitable
view to take of it, as it is the only stand the
President can take, except that of the peremptory
right Of acting under his own arbitrary will.
On the latter, the question occurs, has the
President shaken of, or can he shake off, all re-
sponsibily to the real propretors of this nation!
Will these proprietors, the natives, submit to
this shameful disregard of their rights? An in.
suited people forbid it.
Fine will relute or conf 6rm the facts in con.
trovcrsy ere long; and we hope the President
will be able satisfactorily to cxonerate himself from
what we consider a charge duplicating him in a
degrading and dishonorable agency. For the
honor of our common country, we wish he may.
But we do not bow down in servie humility in
imitation of the crouching foreigner who finds i,
so availing; we demand of him, what we Justly
claim as due to the people, that, if the aega-
tons be true, he will Immediately revoke this
appointment, and give the place to some one who
has better right to it. In the event of his re.
fusa to comply, we shall make it part of our
patriotic duty to carry the examination of this
matter before tribunal which we trust will not
shrink from either the investigation of the charge
or the punishment Of the misdeed.
Dg- "The New York Times states that Mr.. VIM
Denan, editor Of the Truth Teller violent Loco Foco
paper published in that city, had been rewarded for his
Iabos by The appontment Of his SON as Cadet IN The
Vest Point .Academy Mr.. Denman is foreigner, re-
Gently arrived from England, and but few years since
was a BRITISH SOLDIER, and bore in the Bri
tish service during the last with the United States
Here. them is the of British soldier appointed by
Mr. Van Buren 10 post which the descendants of Ame.
rican soldiers and patriots have sued for in vain! Such
is the order of the day.'"-Patriot and Democrat.