The native American., 1838-09-15
THE NATIVE AMERICAN.
COMMUNICATED FROM NEW ORLEANS
[For the Natire .4mer7can.]

COMMUNICATED FROM Ne" oNhh|
IFor the Natire .4mer7con.]
"Freedom NAV be blessing ,he virtuous and intel
,rent but cannot be conferred the ghoranl degraded
populaon of old governments without destroying 'ne We
~ foundation of civilized socety uproolng religion ano
law and producing state OF anarchy and CONFUSION "hi'h
The ircn rule ol military despot can alone suodue.
I'm former communication l endeavoured to
shew that the same vicious, ignorant, illlterate,
and umultuarv population who were from their
awless propensities incapable of acquiring or sus-
tanning rational liberty in their own lands, were
equally irsusceptihle of enjoying or apprecating
it in ours, and that consequently, if thrown into
our country in immense masses. with capacity TO
interfere with our institutions in ,fre gears, while
the native-born American cannot participate in
less than t,centy-one years, they must eventually
preponderate and finally overpower the Ameri-
can population, and become the rulers,-egisla-
tors and "nasters'' of the American people,
Yes unless we soon reform this glaring incon-
sistency in our national policy or organization,
the people Of the United States viii! ere long be
compelled TO exclaim, Rome has at last found a
'master.'" Native Americans who are opposed
to the unwarrantab!e encouragement of foreign in
fuence in the United States. and even the men,
bers of our Native American Associations. and
those public men who have dared to proclaim
their patriotic opinions, (fo it has already become
aperilous act to do SOY are too much in the habit
of Disgusting their real feelings this subject,
and honeying over the actual truth, by alluding
only to ''foreign paupers.' This is weak and
injudicious course, and is calculated to encourage
the impertinence of their foreign enemies. who of
to all foreign political equality With our native in
habitants, and not to their paupers only.
HoaD many foreigners haze erer come 10 the
United States to reside who were not pnupers
when they arrired? One in Million! Ex-
cept, perhaps, those who have robbed some bank
ing house or ranawav with the property Of their
employers or possibly few eXes, who after
revelling for years in the official uxuries unnatu-
rally bestowed upon them by American Etuity,
and who, after swearing perpetual featv TO our
government and her institutions. have been ready
at the first turn of the political tide in their oar,,
countries, (Which, in fact. they have never ceased
to call SOY have hurried home, to discard their
pseudo allegiance to America. and if profitable
opportunity offered, to imbrue their hands in the
blood of her best citizens The inhabitants of
the United States are not sordid, gripping. and
mercinary people, as the note below viii serve to
illustrate,* and they are infinitely more humane
and generous to unknown adventures from the
other side of the Atlantic, or thousands of miles
distant, when sick and disabled than their foreign
brethren would be if they had happened to wan
der beyond the imaginary boundaries of parish
precinct.
1t is not, therefore, the privation or paurersm
of emgrants which onends US 1t is their igno-
rance, duplicity, and immoralitv,-their greater
familiarity with crimes. and their 1ncapacv to be
content with the liberal policy which characeri-
zes mild form of government. Their contin-
ued loyalty and devotion to the land which gave
them birth, in positive derection Of their ohlga-
tions to this-ther attachment to the habits, man
ners, and customs OF the countries whence they
came, together with their indisposition and indeed
incapacity to amalgama,e with our Indigenous
population terms Of fair equality. (their motto
being "Aut Cesar aut nnllus' their grasping
ambition TO monopoize every office and all power
in the United States, or, in plain English their
lntolerable lmpudence, arrogance and cupidi,v-|
their studlonsly stunning every act which might
promote the interests of Native American and
Table shelving whence have been derived the vari
patients admitted into the Charity Hospital, New Or
leans, during the seven years last past.
Nat'res ofMe Natresof far
United SfnieS. eign countries