The native American., 1838-08-18
1CoMMUNICATEp.l
FROM NEW ORLEANS.


FROM NEW ORLEANS
The fifth or April number Of the United States
Magazine and Democratic Review, (page o.
contains the following paragraphs
In our last number We brought our account Of III,
States of Southern America, generally, down 1929
The history of those States si:ce that PERIOD presents
only series of which should be subjects of hu
initiation and painful reflection their inhabitants They
are, indeed, humiliatng to mankind and calculated
to depress the hopes of those who desire 10 civil Ii
bery established throughout the world"
This paragraph is a text from which volumes
might be preached on the subject of the unwse
admission of foreigners TO a participation in the
councils of our nation, or an interference with our
political Institutions.
Why is it that the South American Republics
have forever been the prey of anarchy. revolution,
and confusion, and why do they still continue
so? Answer: The ignorance Of their popula-
ton is the sole and only cause Why did France
fail in her attempts at rational liberty, and after
going through all the various phases of revol,l-
ton, insurrection, and anarchy, finally settle
down into one of the most adanantine despot-
isms which now disgrace the fair face of creation!
Answer: The ignorance OF her population
Why are the Irish the most dehased degraded,
and the most tumulnary people or the face of
the earth, and vet in contlgulty with Eng land,
of the most free and elevated! Answer: The
ignorance of her population is the sole and only
cause.
1t will be no refutation of these assertions to
declare that France contains several of the most
intelligent and scientific associations in the world;
or that Ireland has furnished one of the bravest
generals, one of the wisest statesmen, and one
of the most bury heggars and agtators of the age,
viz: OConnell; or that South America can exhi-
bit some of the most skilful Lapidares and min
eralogists of the present day. a,.
When speak of a nation. allude to the mass
the aggregate of the populatlon-TnE PEOPLE.
Perhaps if we received the members of the sci
entific associations of France, the statesmen and
scholars of Ireland, or the chemists and minera-
logists of South America, we might profit bv such
an addition to our population; but do we receive 1
such! Mo-! Two thirds Of the foreign adventu-
rers, who wander to our shores. are the very out
casts and offscourings of every European popu-
lation, and are utterly illierate-ignorant of the
first principles of rational freedom embraced
in the term American Liberty ;-nen who cannot
even read the name Of the candidate for whom
they vote, and who without their instinct are lit
eraily as impulsive in all their actions as the
beasts that perish.
Should such as these be received with open
arms by thousands and tens of thousands. and
confraternated and affiliated equal terms with
our Native American population. and endowed
with penarv powers to interfere with our insti-
tutions, for good or for evil. or rather for evil
only! Alas alas! "Quem Deus vult perdere
prius dementat" Whom God intends to destroy
he first makes mad
Does not the Indifference which the rulers of
our country display to this momentous subject,
and even their hostility to its discussion, evince
that the God of our fathers has almost given us
over to judicial blindness, and that the destiny
of our Republic is almost sealed?
Can rational beings, men whom we know to
be the purest of patriots. stand indif'eren,ly by,
and see millions Of unenlightened and tumutuarv
paupers and "Alibiists" inunda'e our otherwise
happy and vrtuous land and forthwith partic-
pate in the formation of laws to govern freeborn
American citizens-bengs who have never been
taught to exercise the slightest control over their
own turbulent passions, and who are utterly
incapable Of making any distinction between il
berty and licentiousness, Could our rulers and
our countrymen, ! ask, see these foreign hordes
mingling on equal terms with our noble Native
population, and absolutely holding the balance of
nolitical power in the United States, (strencth-
ened annually by the accession of myriads of the
same stamp while they sec that through the
world the same species Of population are the least
capable of securing or enjoying rational liberty
saw, could our Native American people tamely
and indifferently submit to, or witness these
things, unless the benignant Ruler of nations had
removed from US the light of His countenance,
and sealed our visual perception so as to incapa-
citate us to choose the good, or refuse the evil (?
But will not-I cannot believe that our coun-
,rvmen will continue to acquiescc in the present
condition of our naturalization laws. They must
be abrogated-they must be repealed in toto, no,c
and forever
Let us suppose five millions Of ignorant and
turbulent foreigners to be suddenly thrown upon
our shores--the same kinds Of population who
have evinced in their own lands an utter destitu-
ton Of every principle Of rational liberty-let
them become naturalzed, and in five years, with
our present foreign population, they would be
able TO denaturalize the Native citizens Of our
oountry--to overturn all our insttutions-to alter