The native American., 1838-12-15
THE NATIVE AMERICAN.
COMMUNICATED FROM NEW ORLEANS.

tH"taoteoRs, ~ nUOW, pTuy' are Ut Hue0tCd
6ut 10 foreigners, for the desire and attempt 10
easlaUe uS2
The children of those foreigners who aided
our fathers in securing our liberties, are now Ma
tive Americans-but the descendants of those for
elgners who sough TO enslave MS, are aliens in
distant laiad, ,and are now crowding hher 10 avail
themselves Of the benign government against
whose institution their ancestors fought.
Are we TO permit such as these TO avail them
selves of ''their own wrong" and enter our coun-
TRY, unquestioned, unnoticed, and unopposed, to
'consummate by fraud and corruption the over
throw of those bood-bought Institutions against
the establishment of which. in open war, their
foreign fathers vainlv contended!
The following extract from an address of the
Native American Association of Louisiana,
(Which, with few slight corrections should be
pleased to see published entire in your columns,
explains fully my views on this subject
.'Atsthe time" (says the author) . the sages o.
the American Revolution projected the wise, hap
py, and indulgent government under which we
live, they did SO under circumstances of great
and unprecedented peril and every foreigner who
willing to cast in his lot with them. had to
jeopardise in common with our fathers, his life,
his fortune, and his sacred honor.
"This extraordinary hazard Justly entitled ev-
cry foreigner who incurred it to every right, prvi
lege. and Immunity which our country could be-
stow Upon them, and they have received them in
fruitioh, and their descendants are now no longer
adopted citizens, but the native children of the
o,.and the legitimate inheritors Of every bless
ing. secured TO our happy land by the privatons
of OR revolutionary forefathers.
''Even after the revolutionary war had termi-
mated, the perpetuity and practcabity of our re-
public on so gigantic scale as was necessarily
contemplated prospectively, was considered in a
great degree problematical. 1t was indeed an ex-
pertinent, and all foreigners who came amongst
US, hazarded all their future hopes and prospects
upon its success, and inasmuch as thev had Pc
rled their all upon the successful result of the
experiment, they also were entitled TO all the
rights, immunities, and privileges Of the native
born inhabitants of the SOIL
-''These they have possessed, and their chi
dren, and chlldrens children, will continue to en
JOY them to the latest posterity
:" Not only have foreigners who aided our f.
theirs III their revolutionary exeriions and tho;
who contributed to build up the incipient grea'
ness Of our country, but all other foreigners will
out distinction, who, during the last half century
have fed for refuge from Transatlantic despots,n
to this happy land, have enjoyed the same rights
lmmunitles, and privileges also; and almost ever,
Office in our country, from the highest to the low
est, has been filled by nauralized foreigners nds
crimlnatety, rs by native-born citizens.
"lhe engagements Of our forelathers with fol
elgners (when they made this land an asylum fl.
the oppressed of every nation, guaranteeing
them under certain conditions and after certai
probation, equal rights. ;nmunitics and prvilf
ges with the natve-born children of the soiN hav
therefore been amply redeemed. and thpv staa
as ever spotless and immaculate and no reEiee
ton can ever b. Justly cast upon their memorie
"A fl,otr r.
safety OF our country and her institutions IT thi
period Of time to change the naturalization law
for future ger1erafions
g NoV, when the permanencv of our rcpubli
can institutions is established upon firm and i'm
muable basis. when countrv's nlagniicer
destin!es are beginning to be fulfilled, when on
power IS acknowledged throughout the universe
when we have nothing to apprehend from com
parson with any nation in the world, when W
are able to resent the aggressons or humble tn
arrogance Of any external enemy who NAV. b
unwarrantabe acts, incur our resentment, vine
so abiding IS the attachment 70 our institution
throughout this hemisphere, that every interna
enemy which has arisen to agitate the elemen,
of our holy Union, has been laughed to scorn BIZ
the united voice of the whole nation.
"Can foreigners, who emigrate to this land
under these proptious circumstances, not to er
counter pers, but to reap the rich reward of reI
olutionary su1erngs. can those who aow com
bat to bask in the bright beams of national cor
tentment, happiness, and prosperity. who are pc,
mltted TO reap in peace and security the rich bar
vest which our fathers sowed in anguish. toll an.
blood, to enjoy the fruits of our indulgen ins;it.
tons, and . to sit under their own vine and fig
tree, with none to m9l," 'hnm a!ra;d?"
Can s'ch as these. (manv OF whom are the
dlrect descendants Of the very tvrants agains1
whose Vaccinations our fathers s;ruqgedD-can
such as these be permuedo demand equal rights
lmmunties and privileges. or TO accuse America
II sac refuse TO grant 10 them and to fti,,re emf.
grants, the same terms of citizenship !, hcb wrrc
permitted to those who hurried from other lands
to water with their blood, tho tree Of .u,er;r,r
Liberty, or who pcrilcd their all in ,eienc. ar s,r
port OF our country, when beset with every, a,n-
ger, aad encountered BY external and internal cne.
mics! No, It cannot be! Justice forbids il, pa
trotism iorbids It! II is indeed setting too low
an estimate upon the blessings which the mex.
pressihie suherlngs and prvatiors Of our revolu.
tlonary fathers have achieved for us. TO render
them accessible to "rerY toreigner ,rho scM con-
descend 10 accept Mem''
| have now. gentlemen, in conclusion. ONLY 70