The native American., 1838-12-08

times employed in sustaining the principles OF
pure Democracy, does not hesitate to believe, had
the destinies Of this country been placed in the
hands Of thorough paced jscobinicsl radical. at
Iits first emergepce from, coiopzl vassalage, that
| anarchy and confusion would have been fhe re-
suit, and Danton. Marat and Robespiere. would
probably not now have stood in such bold relief
in their infamous immortality. Federalism st
that period, in my opinion, was the happy rfaedi-
um between monarchy and anarchy, which pre-
served our country from fatal copyusions, and
paved the way for pure Republic; and con-
ceive il an impious reflection upon the dispensa-
tons Of an al-wise Providence, whose peculiar
benefcence has marked every successive step Of
our counry's progress up TO her present great
ness, and who raised up the conscript fathers Of
the Revolution, and imbued their mighty minds
with the principles which they entertained, to de-
nounce at the present day that Federalism which,
without the convulsive throws Of anarchy, first
took the rough unshapen mass Of revolutionary
elements, hewed them into Republican .form and
pressure." smoothed their asperities, and gave
them "a local habitation and Democratic
name" in our beloved country.
Indeed consider Democracy to be but the
greater maturity and perfection Of principles Of
which Federalism was the germ and parent-the
flowers and fruit of what Federalism was the
root and stem. m"A
On this neutral ground, therefore, ancient Fed
eralism and modern Democracy may cordially
harmonise. And God knows j, is high time for
them to do 50, and TO employ their united ener-
gies in stemming the stupendous foreign food
which now threatens to inundate our beloved
country and her institutions, and TO overwhelm all
American names, distinctions and parties, in one
undistinguished ruin, beneath its raging biliows
So Of alien and sedition laws.
What might have been an act of great injustice
during the early stages of our coun,ry's existence,
may not only be perfectly proper. but absolutely
essential to her preservation nor. s..g+,..n
AS for sedition laws, although formerly unne-
|cessary for the government of Native Americans
hold them indispensably requisite no,c TO- con-
troll the hordes Of foreigners who are daily swarm
ing into our country, the majority Of whom hare
absolutely imbibed seditious propensities from the
maternal bosom.
l, therefore, as Democrat, protest against the
cool compacency with which the editors of the
Globe and various American prints-for example,
the Courier and Enquirer Of New York, and
other papers, labor to prove that the efforts now
making by Native American patriots to secure our
country from foreign domination through the bal
lot-boxes, is ingratitude to those foreigners who
aided our revolutionary ancestors at their extrem
est need.
As long the laws of my country permit
avowed foreign papers to promulgate foreign
principles and opinions in direct hostility to Ma
tive American interests, so long care not what
foul libes other prints (which arc probably edited
by foreigners) may chose to assert about the OBJ
jects and intentions Of the present Native Amer
can party, or with what charges Of ingratit,Atte
they may endeavor to brand them, but |, as ,
Democrat. will not stand silently by, and see snch
base and servile trucking to foreigners, Or such
superficial and illogical views on SO important
subject, promulgated by tho Globe. the avowesll
organ Of the Democratic party. without at least
some attempt at correction, remonstrance, or rc-
futation.
(Tb be continusd.)
~ A DEMncRAr-