The native American., 1838-04-28
ARE THE EMIGRANTS OF THIS CENTURY
ENTITLED TO THE NAME OF PATRIOTS?

We hear opponents, this endeavor of ours to
arrest the downward tendency of things, repeatedly
urging upon the public the claims which they foreign
ers, have upon u.s. in consequence of their being ugtves
from oppression, and exiled patriots
Upon this, would simply ask, what are the facts
the at issue Is it the fact ayerred that aliens
come to shores through the generous and snter-
ested views and suggestions Of love Of liberty and
hatred of oppression! Are in suffering and in dan
ger, and involved in unequal conflict with some
strong and hostile kingdom, that the foreigner is
tain of finding peril and hardship by abandoning his
peaceful home and the graves of his fathers? IT, indeed,
the thus then might the sacred of Patriot
be given to the engrant but is il just proper to desc
crate the sublime title by conerring it at random upon
men, who know that in this western world safe asy-
lum awaits them, where peace and prosperity march
hand in hand, and liberty is free and the
air breathe Where is the sacrifice that makes them
good claimants for the privileges Of patriotism Where
the troubles and dangers to be met, which alone can
prove their conduct generous and disinteresed 1t is
not with these hordes Of exported refugees and pau
pers it with the brave and gallant exles emf
grants of revolutionary times. Then the hgh-born the
rich, the powerful and honored sacrificed all the sweets
of home and the smiles Of the great for the rough fare
and desperate combat in the New World. To such we
have given the dignity Of Patriots and for their reward
history has enshrined them in glory, and their
live in the memory of those they helped to save Now
the emgrant fees from land where he il suspected, and
perchance i'll treated, to country where no such tolls
and dangers TO be incurred No sedevotion on the
shrine Of liberty is exacted-no elevation Of SOUL or in
trepedy Of spirit is demanded probation before
citizenship and its blessings conferred They told
in their country that proverbally kind to the
strangerthat our Offices, SOIL our houses opened
wide and speedily for their benefits and where is the pa
triosm in their coming to strand, and puckng the
fruits Of tolls and enterprze for the noursh
menr and cultivation of which they themselves have
done nothing? The hitherto sublime and envabe title of
Patriot must indeed be degraded is thus to be
ferred at random the vile the vena and the vulgar
who make no sacrifice, display no love for freedom,
practice no generous selfdevotion, in leaving penury
and disgrace home, to intrude upon patrimony
and share the prosperity in which they had interest
concern. We atter ourselves that the American COM
muny is well informed, and respects too much its
own dignity and Judgment to be dnped by this ridiculous
claim laid to the of patriot by these modern emf
grants and imported eons 1t scarce have any other
effect than to provoke the smile of contempt and
on the lips of every reasonable man. and would advise
our silly opponents to abandon their presumptuous anbi
ton and nonsensical assertions.
Let us but gaze around in this city, and examining
the superintendent and laborers our public works. md
who are these pretenders to patriotism. Poor OBSCURE
and despsed at home behold them now insoently arro-
CANT we'll fed, well paid well clothed and well housed;
and then tell how these people to be called pa
trioc. Ii fsuch be patriotsh then who would not join
their rans Let step into public offices, and with
foreign faces meeting the eye, and strange and uncouth
language ringing i'll ears, and discover what right
these pampered strangers have to rejoice in the name and
of "a and
needy position in the social scale at home, and reap
without risk or trouble the results Of labor and ns
tutions, be patriotism, then the glowing names of our
revolutionary sres overshadowed and the exported
paupers Of the 18th century to be honoed and
revered than the great and good men of '76.
We stop here in remarks, merely asking our read
ers if they deem such taunt and insult the
Native deserving of the Of Patriots and commend
ing the subject emphatcay to their attention, may per-
haps continue the consideration of the point at early
opportunity.