The native American., 1838-12-08
THE ENATIVE AMERICAN
COMMUNICATED FROM NEW ORLEANS.

Normandy TO adoru his Hail. The foreigner
came here poor beggarly, crlnglng, ana suosei'''
ent. and ready to dof his cap to the meahes. na,
tive of the household. He returned PamPereu
aud proud, to tell his rapaclous countrymeIi . e
wealth and simplicity OF the Saxon. w inaos
,besa strangers our bosom friends' we oorro"eu
their artists and their arts and desPseu INC io''-
%, simslicitv and hardihood with which our brave
ancestors supported themselves ana we became
encryatcd by Norman arts long ere we ien uhaer
Norman arms.''-Uaher Scott.
How descriptive, how accurately descriptive, is
this pathetc burst of patriotic feeling, oil the pre-
sent condition OF our country, with regard TO ior-
o;on immigration, and how reasonable the appre-
tensions which agi,ate the mind OF the Naive
American patriot, when he contempates prospec-
t;yelv her probable condition in future; and how
h;ooited. how Infatuated must large proportion
Of the people OF the United States have become,
when ,hev will calmly and ndiferenty steel their
minds against all the portentous torewarnlngs re-
corded in every page of history.
We tell our countrymen, again and again, that
, ferocous gang OF foreign rutfians, or collec-
,on. for instance of canal diggers, assembled for
,urposes of violence, whose watchword IS ''ha-
VOC ,'is well calculated to collect an American
mob for defence, as was recently the case in Bos-
ton And thus the foreign tumullnary spirit has
been enrendered and is daily increasing in our
peaccful land. The next consequence which
must inevitably follow, will be, that armed troops
will have to be Stationed permanently IN our cities,
10 aid the civil powers in preserving the majesty
of the laws In order to exhibit even-handed JUS
lice. these military forces in the event OF tumult,
must exercise All inaiscrminate severity between
natives and foreigners. Native American blood
must now to appcase the tnmults created by Tor
eign desperaloes hy the h,nds of hireling soldi-
erv. which possibly may itself consist principally
of foreigners. And when was the blood OF any
citizen of ayly land nnjustly shed by those in au-
,hori,v, that it did not cry aloud from the ground
for vengeance, until it had obtained full and ample
rctrhuuon.
The martvrdom Of native Americans in civil
commotions will create heart-hurnngs. disaffec-
tons, and thirst for revenge, which 1t will re-
uure additional forces to contlol. Then will come
a large standing army heretofore the abomlnatlon
of the American People, which will only require
to. adop, some aspiring and popular leader as their
idol; endow him with the imperial purple, and
farewell TO American liberty. May God avert
this dread calamity from our beloved country.
Let no man smile or sneer at these fearful sug-
gestions and say ..they are the preposterous
many days have elapsed since the Mayor of the
City of New York iound it necessary to furnish
the troops of that city with ammunition for the
purpose of firing upon the populace, if every
other means had failed to restore order. And
who doubts that the destruction of the flour on that
occasion was originated BY the foreign mob which
rides rough-sho. over the outraged inhabitants of
that gorged receptacle Of foreign vice, ignorance,
and nfamv.
Who can. for an instant, hesitate to believe
that the devastation committed on a late occasion
in Baltimore, WAS perperated bv a mob whose
elements consisted principally of foreigners, aided
bv few Americans, contaminated by the daily
increasing foreign mob spirit which is so rapidly
pervading our country!
What is the present mormon War; which is
desolating the State Of Missouri, and immolating
some, of her best citizens but a villainous COM
pound OF knaverv and fanatcism of foreign origin,
and sustained and stimulated as we are informed
bv late renforcements of hundreds of emgrants
from various places, but especially from Canada
the halfway house from Ireland!
They say they are determined to have King
Joe Smith. or some other toreigner-and car
any rational man doubt that when they find them
selves foileA in the undertaking, they would hest
tate for an instant to hoist the black flag and in
vite our servilc population to abet them!
These are some Of the glorious first fruits of th
ndscriminate admission of bigotted and besottet
foreigners to enjoy the blood-bought privileges o
our devoted land.
In reflecting OH the rapid progress of foreign
influence and domination in the United States,
have been amazed at the strange hallucinatior
which appears to have bewdered the minds of Sc
many intelligent and patriotic native Americans
on this subject, and the blind acquiescence Will
which they not only submit to the encroachment
of foreigners but absolutely enter into elaborate
arguments to Justify their mpudent usurpation
Even presses, edited by Native Americans
which should be employed in better cause
have lent themselves to encourage these fatal de-
lusions, and to sanction the arrogant pretensions
of foreigners in the United States.
The Washington Globe, a few days since,
contained severe rebuke on the present attempts
to obtain the passage of protective laws to pre-
vent foreigners from trampng on the rights and
liberties of American citizens, (by compelling
them TO give security for their good behaviour
on their admission into our country,) denouncing
and stigmatizlng them as ''revival of the alien
and sediton law" and calling it '.Federalisn, :"
There was also in the same paper an article
from some other print charging the present Ma
tive American party with ingratit.de to those
r., b, ,iJnI