The native American., 1838-04-21

II is with feelings of pleasure we transfer I
our columns the following from the {" Nativ
American Citizen" Brooklyn, New York.
i GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN MEETING.
! At a Meeting OF Native Americans, in favo
Of an alteration ofthe Naturalization Laws, helo
at Smiths Hotel, Fulton street, BROOKLYN, or
the evening Of the 7th instant, George Hal
was chosen President, John NayIor, Daniel
Wright, Cornelius Bergen, and r. Tolford
Vice Presidents, and Moses Van Buren, and
Nicholas r. Van Brunt, Secretaries.
The following resolutions presented by F. G.
FISH, were unanimously adopted:
| Whereas one of the most frequently y-urged OBJ
jectons to the Federal administration of John
Adams, by the Democratic party Of '9S and
$500, was, that it discovered prediction for
"A Standing Army; and whereas the Democratic
administration Of James Madison was assailed
with the same reproach by the Federal party OF
that day; and whereas during the adminstra-
ton of James Monroe, when the political ele-
ments were for time hushed and men thought
and reasoned calmly and dispassionatey on the
subjects presented to them, all parties concur
red in the propriety Of placing the standing mi
itary force Of the country upon the lowest pos
sible scale; and whereas the American People,
in these and other instances have evinced a
very natural and commendable jealousy Of a
Standing Army, even when composed Of Ame-
ricdn Cnizens-Therefore,
Resotred, That the recent enlistment, by or
der of the Government, of Corps of aliens,
(Hessians) with alien officers, ignorant alike Of
our discipline and our language, to be employ
ed in the Florida war, is an act deserving Of the
reprobation ofevery American.
Resolued, That the resolution recently intro
duced into the Senate of the United States, by
Mr.. Allen, Of Ohio, directing an inquiry into the
|expediency of admitting to all the rights Of citi
zenship. those foreigners who may signify a
willingness to enter the Army, involves prin-
lciple of the most dangerous character-inas-
much, as soldiers and citizens so made, would
whether in the one capacity or the other, feel
none Of that wholesome responsibility which
attaches to those who have :" local habitation
and name" in the country and would be mere
instruments to execute the will of the master
that employed, or the demagogue that fattered,
them.
Resolped, That these indications Of desire
to convert aliens into mercenary soldiers and
these again into equally mercenary citizens,
united to the persevering determination to place
the national revenues entirely and absolutely
within the Executive control sufficiently show
that the mantle of Democracy may be used to
cover the glossest usurpation-and that, as in
the recent case, flag Of truce, while holding
out the exterior of friendship, it may cover the
basest treacherv.
Resolred, That we.will therefore oppose, with
all the power and influence we possess, every at
tempt to employ alien foreigners in the military
service of the United States, and every attempt
to give more mercenary character to the army
than naturally and inseparably attaches to it.
Resolred, That we most unqualiGedly con-
denim the organization Of independent militia
corps, composed in whole or in part Of aliens,
as in the instance of the Montgomery Guards
as an encroachment upon the privilege, and a
mockery ofthe dignity, Of the citizen soldier.
Resoired, That, in view of the great-and
most probably prolonged-struggle, which is
vet to ensue before the Naturalization Law
shall be repealed, or so altered as to be compati-
bic with the safety of our institutions, particular
ly as the object cannot, in the nature of things,
be accomplished by either the one or the other
Of the great contendng parties of the day, we
deem it indispensable that the NATIVE AMERI-
CAN FLAG be kept unfurled, and that the organ
ization which erected it, be persevered in, until
Native Americans shall exercise ENTIRE control
in their political affairs.
The meeting then adjourned
GEoRGE HALL, President.
JoHN NAYLoR,
DANIEL WRIGHT, y p.o.d,.
CoRN's BERGEN,
r.. ToLFoRD,
Moses VAN BuREN, } e.o,a;o.
| NIcu r. VAN BRuNT, '''
9g- The Ninth Ward, for two years, past, has
been swindled out of its rightful representation
in the Board, by the introduction of Seepers
and by other foul means. The foreign party
admitted that they carried the election by com
pelling raw Irshmen to take out Naturalization
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