The native American., 1838-06-02
[coMMUNICATED
TO Leri Uooa6ury, Secretary Of the Treasury
0ffhc United States.

10 LeC3 ~ OOuOuTy, OecTGfuTY u tHe 4 TeuSuJY
ofthc United States.
SIR: Titles are the distinctive marks of the no.
bility in kingdoms, and are intended to designate
that order as superior in birth or fortune to the
common herd Of men, and in Republics they are
the insignia Of merit, of trust, and of honor. To
your name is commonly prefixed the epithei
'.honorable, but cannot use it this occasion;
because hold that you are traitor to the true
interests of your country, and recreant to those
everlasting principles that impar to the bosom OF
man love Of his native land. Excuse me, then,
if call you nothing more nor less than Levi
Woodbury..
My object in intruding your name before the
American people is not to wrangle with you about
treasury note, or hasten your downfall from
that giddy elevation to which the contemplate i'm
pulse Of accident has elevated you, but to hold
you up as a man who will make his official flcil-
tiles the means of the most yenomous SANDER that
ever fell from the lips of esponsible creature
On the 3Oth of April resolution was passed
by the House of Representatives. calling on the
President of the United States for information in
relation to the introduction of foreign paupers into
the United States, and by message bearing date
the 18th of May, the President replies to the call
That reply is composed of papers from the Office
Of the Secretary of State, (Mr. Forsyth and from
your Office of the Treasury.
The replies of Mr.. Forsyth are all convincing
on the subject of immigration, and advocate with
tho uoiee of jnstiee enl fact proud and
al creed. But the emphatic truths could not pro-
duce one word of fervor from Mr.. Forsyth Those
documents from you are embraced in NINE separ-
ate papers: concerning those nine you remark,
''The only INFORMATION COMMUNICATED TO THE
DEPARTMENT, Is CONTAINED IN THE ENCLOSED PA
PERs, NUMBERED FROM TO INCLUSIVE" Here
you specify under your hand and seal, the parti-
cular facts, and allude pointedy to the infamous
articles from the s'TruthTeller.''
Oh that your pen had been of living and quench-
less fire, that it might have withered away and
dissolved to ashes, ere it had been used to num-
Der those papers and have written to the Congress
of free people, that the NINTH paper was infor-
nation be6ttng the head of department to COM
municate to that Congress. Would that your en-
bittered heart and perverted mind, had quaked
with prophetic stroke of shame, ere they could
have prompted you to the preparation of an
offence which should consgn you to the oblivion
of the proud mans scorn and the patriots pity.
In that paper number nine Sanctioned too by the
President Of our blessed Republic) | find matter
that would disgrace prison-house, and language
too low for brothel From the files of the Truth
Teller, newspaper of New York, the Secretary
of the Treasury, has quoted his fact and his argu-
ment ~! and dares to call it ''lniormation.' Is
QeLraCuOn Oi the honest cltiZcn, 'lnlOrnatlOn, TO
be sought for by the heads of our departments
to be glutted over by his minions-kept sacred
(Oh unhaowed, and runian like sanctty) in
the archivessof the official bureaus! Are the names
of Mr.. Clark, Mayor of the City of New York,
and other distinguished citizens to be dragged be-
fore the public gaze, because they boldly advocate
the Native American doctrine! Are their names
to be linked with epihets false as they are dis
gusting, and to be stamped upon the official re-
cords ofthe House of Representatives, and held
upon the files of its proceedings as men destitute
of principle and disgraced in morals. All this
you have done-and you have gone farther; for
by inserting this editorial of the New York Truth
Teller, you have sanctioned its sentiments, and
impaired what little dignity you could command
to the hiss ol the bravo's threat. You have po-
lished the dagger, and coward like have thrust
the victim into the hands Of the assassin.
What right had you to hunt over the files orl
the Truth Teller, TO Gull thercfrom its cbo;ces,
and darkest venom, and engraft it in a renort ~
Congress, under the envelop of your master. the
President! Was Mr.. Clark pertinent to the
subject of inquiry! Was it incumbent on YOU to
introduce the communication of "Patrick Henry
to the same paper, in which every epithet that can
impart glow to language is spread profusely for
the vulgar appetite, which you seem to have
shared! Or was il necessary to your reputation
that one dying hiss of the serpent should be
heard ere you sank from your proud horizon into
the easy chair of judgeship--some parting
token, to the party or the people, that there was
bitter power in your heart, which you hoped
might be taken for mental ability, for intellectual
sarcastic eloquence. You are to be Judge-sol
common report announces. Your destiny: You
are to give up the Department of the Treasury
and to administer justice to your fellow beings
Could an honest native American meet with JUS
tice at your hands? You, who have slandered
and dc6led his motives-who have stopped from