The native American., 1838-11-10
THE NATIVE AMERICAN.



population, and would be thereby more able to
sustain ourselves in the event of foreign war!
Preposerous idea We receive into our coun-
try hordes of aliens in feelings principles, preju
dices, and habits of thinkng-men who have been
taught from their earliest infancy TO despise and
abhor our country, her inhabitants, and her nsti-
tutions-(see O'Connell's speeches. men who
have no idea OF rational liberty, social virtue, or
political subordinatlon, except by the strong hand
and iron rule of vice-regal task-masers-men
habltuated by education to umult and lnsnrrcc-
tion, and practically familiar with the backest
catalogue of crime.
Are such as these to be depended on to protect
our country from foreign invasion, when perhaps
one half of them are imbueG with feelings Of SUI
perior loyalty to the invading enemy, and devo-
ton to their success; while the remainder are ut
terly destitute of any moral restraints, insuscep-
tlble of military subordlnatlon, and capable only
Of such degree of fidelity as they conceive to be
Immediately conducive to their private and indi-
vidual interests?
What can anticipate from such wretched
materials as these but perpetual series of dsaf-
fection, muliny and inidelity, which would soon
corrupt and vitiate our Native American troops in
war, their pernicous examples and evil COM
municalions are rapidly subverng and overturnng
our social institutions in peace! .'
Or do the advocates of continuance Of the
naturalization laws believe that the commercial
prosperity of our country is enhanced by the ac
cesson Of ailluent foreigners 10 the United Slates
The reverse is the fact !!
Almost all extensive foreign houses have a spe-
cial agent, who resides permanently in the United
States, or visits our country periodically.
These foreign agents do not occupy spacious
and expensive stores and establishments in promi-
nent situations like our Native American mer-
chants and traders, but conduct all their business
operations by means of warehouses, &c. in retired
situations, and are consequently exempted in a
great degree from rent and taxation.
Thus while they pay nothing for the general
support OF our country or TO enhance It's prospe-
rily and little nothing to promote the interests
Of the tax-paying citizen, they are enabled from
their diminished expenses to underselI American
merchants and traders. Our auction-sores are
gutted with their s'material," and through them
the whole country is inundated with foreign pro-
duclions to the manifest detrimcnt Of American
commerce, and the serious injury of fair Ameri-
can dealers.
Nor is their interference X it'll the domestic bu-
siness of the American merchant only productive
of injury by unders Ing him here. These for
eign agents also exercise most pernicious intlu-
ence on American exporting houses, not only by
investing all their eceipts in American produce,
but by employing every artifcc obtain the direct
shipment of American staples to the foreign con-
Germs which they represent, in which they are, un-
fortunately for American commerce, alas, but
TOO successful-thus instituting in their own per-
sons two-fold, powerful and most perncious RI
vary both in the domestic and foreign business of
our Native American mercantile community
/ need not add that the prepos1erons farce of
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home) facilitates greatly the diversified CONNER
clal operations of these foreign agents; and the
late seizures of foreign goods in New Y ork and
other places, is pretty fair illustration of the re-
spect which they entertain for American revenue
laws, Tor any other of institutions), and their
reverence for oaths when made to the American
Government.
Thus 1t appears that our belored country can
only be sufferer IN 1car or in peace, IN COM
nerce or morals, in arts or IN arms, by the ad-
mission and naturalization Of foreigners in the
United States.
The foregoing subject is one of such deep mo-
nent, and SO interesting, that it has amplhed IN
der my pen almost inyoluntarily.
shall only occupy your attention long enough
to suggest one thing more, and that is, that cor
respondence be Immediately opened between your
Native American Associations and all other Native
also with individual Native Americans who reside
in situations where those Associations do not vet
exist, inviting them 10 have their petitions pre-
pared by the commencement Of the approaching
session of Congress, that a Simultaneous
movement may then be made from every part of
the United States.
Allpe,tions to urge the passage of law con-
tanning the following provisions:
First. That all foreigners in the United States
at the time OF the passage or PRONUNCIATION of
said law, shall be entitled to immediate naturaliza
ton, without any reference to the period of their
previous residence in the United States.
This will not make the situation Of thincs.on
iota worse than it is at present; it will be an act
OF national justice and magnanimity; it will shut
the mouths OF clamorous and dturbucntnatur,Hzed
decaimers; and it will bring the subject fairly be-
fore the Native inhabitants of the United States.
for if they feel startled and alarmed at the mere
thought of at once naturallzing all the mass Of for
eigners now in the United States arhat hare tbeu
not to dread, when not only all foreigners mEo
are now IN the United States, bit hetndreds Of,
thousands and millions more ,ciH hare acquirc1dI
The same poCer and influence in the UnucdI
States: which will assurrlly ba tho c,eo :, IL