The native American., 1838-11-03

proper uegfee.
This will weaken our cause, and strengthen our
enemies; and instead of occupying the position of
Native American patriots, rightfully demanding a
redress Of grievances, at the hands of our rulers,
we will be placed in the attitude of querulous and
discontented factonists.
Besides, no true lover of his country would de-
sire to see perpetual vascillation and incertude
in her laws and Institutions
No, Sirs! Whatever changes are now made in
the naturalization laws of the United States, mus
be ultimate and final. The feelings between
Native Americans and foreigners, have grown toe
strong to admit any halfway measures.
Native Americans must alone rule our country
in future, or foreigners soon will. We see enough
every day to convince us that the rights and priv
eges of our native countrvmen are even now
trembling in equllibrio with foreign influence and
domnatlon-that one or the other will soon pre-
ponderate-that one or the other must soon be
annihiated-yes, we are well assured that nothing
can save our sacred, our blood bought institutions
but speedy and entire repeal and abandonment,
Of all statutes and provisions for foreign natu
rali@ation, no,o and foreper.
What just or reasonable causes have naturalized
citizens, to object to achange of the naturalization
laws, or to their total and final repeal?
Whatever naturalized citizens of the olden
time" may have had right to claim of our coun.
try, they, OF the present generation, have already
obtained graiuitously all the benefits that our in
stitutions can confer, and stand (although unwor.
thy on equal footing with the native born in.
habitants Of the land; and acha right hare they to
require more?
Is it that some of them have friends and rela-
tives on the other side of the Atlantic, who may at
f1tu law vic
partake of all her privileges!-or is it that they
have some uterior object in view, and desire the
door of citizenship to remain open until they can
accumulate sufficient force to predominant and
rule over our country?
This should be considered a test question. The
naturalized citizen, who feeling no gratitude for
the privileges and advantages which our country,
through her institutions, has already gratuitously
bestowed upon him, will not be satisfied unless he
can congregate around him his former friends,
neighbors, and countrymen, thereby toaccumulate
power and increase his political importance, so as
eventually to be enabled to hold the balance of
power in the United States, and dictate terms to
the native born inhabitants, is guilty of treason to
the country to which he has sworn allegiance, and
is an overt enemy to the United States.
But admitting that the only object of natural-
zed citizens in opposing change in the natural
zation laws, is an innocent desire to obige and
crafty their friends abroad who may wish here
after to emigrate to the United States-Are the
Representatives of the American People TO legis-
late to please foreigners, now in distant land?
or should the benefit and qualification of their ma
tive born constituents, and the welfare and happ-
ness OF their country, be their only object, aim,
and end!
If one single natire born 3merica1 desired the
repeal of the naturalization laws, and conscien-
tlously impressed with the conviction that they
are pernlclous to his country, demanded const-
tutionaly their abrogation by Congress, l hold
it is as an axiom that his petition should take prece-
dence of, and outweigh in potentially with his
rulers, all the combined eXerons and solicitations
OF all the forei gn nations of the earh and all their
'laturalized agents, put together.
1t naturalized citizens were able to adduce any
advantages which could possibly accrue to the
United States by continuance of the process of
naturalization, 1t might, to certain extent, con-
tribute to extenuate their guilty interference las
foreign party) with the desires of our native born
Inhabitants; but as all their objections to change
of the naturalization laws are based upon their
foreign affections and predictions, they of course
come under the above category 1t is not to ac-
compllsh any good to their adopted country, or to
themselves that they institute objections to a
change of the naturalization laws but to serve for
egners now in distant land.
Besides, what are the naturalization oaths OF
foreigners to the United States but mere form
dead letter? The writer of this article has heard
most intelligent foreigner-one who came to
the United States before the age of sixteen. (but
who has several times since visited Ireland to re-
fresh his loyalty at his natal altars)-argue and
maintain that 'oaths of allegiance to foreign
land dwlndle into mere secondary and inopera.
tive formaity, when brought into competition
with the acquisitions Of his birth-place-that the
laws Of his native land not recognizing renunca-
ton of allegiance, the prerogatve of subject,
her statutes should influence his action under all
circumstances in short, that mans native land
always claimed and was entitled to prior loyalty
and immutable fidelity, no matter what nominal
obligations he may have incurred in any other
country A DEMOCRAT.
The necessity which General Jackson experienced
at the defence of New Orleans when he obi ged to
refer to The PollL to enforce the duty Of defending
the country upon those who had enjoyed every benefit
adopted citizens, and who had fidelity to our Co.
vernnent and also the deseron of military corps en-
titled the Irish Greens, Of New York during the late war;
and the case of Capt Poussan, adopted citizen of the
United States, but now responsible officer under
Monarch in his native country; also General Bernard
who received with open arms by the American Peo-
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