The native American., 1838-12-15
From the Old Domimon.
/" NATIVE AMERICAN"

Among the multifarous schemes OF Federal
Whiggery to delude the people, "Natiuc Anne
rican Associations are among the latest. To
show how completely ridiculous IS this attempt
we have only TO state that the Ndtire .7mer1can
Hotel in Washington, is owned by an English
man and occupied by an Engishnlan; and their
official organ the "Native American was first
printed by an Englishman. In noticing paper
started for. the purpose of opposing foreigners,
the Baltimore Sun makes the following just re-
marks: -.
1.-The idea that the true principles OF civil and
religious liberty cannot dwell in the breast OF any
but native born American, is preposlerons.
lie is the freeman whom the truth makes free,'
and whether; that man be a foreigner or native
horn, if he be actuated by the pure principles
of truth and justice, he is entitled to the re-
spect and confidence of the community. We
would not disfranchise or restrict the privileges
of any honest man, because he happens to be
born in another cline than our own We have
laws, and while those laws are regarded and re-
spected by emigrants from distant lands, we go
for extending TO them ihe largest, liberty enjoyed
by any native. Americans are under too many
obligations to patriots from every land, to refuse
their couhtrymen peaceful abiding place here.
In the list of the giants of the revolution, the
names OF the foreigners, in every sense of the
term, stand pre-emimenfly high, and among our
civilians they are no less conspicuous, and il
would be a poor: return for the expenditure OF
their talents and energies, thus to eXpatriate, as
| it were, their descendants
While on this subject we take the liberty Of
laying before our readers the following sound and
ljudicous reflections from the Paris Times, an
able French paper
| -. REVIEW OF THE JOURNAL.
! On the subject of law proposed to the Ame-
rican Congress, having. for its object to exclude
from the United States all poor foreigners, and
also all cf them who are Of infirm health or who
have been condemned for any offence in Europe,
the National" with sentiment of generous
indignation, expresses itself as follows:
st isa subject Of the most lively regret that a
portion Of the American population should be SO
blinded by the sense of its supposed interests as
not to see, at the first glance, what blow the
mere proposition Of such a law must be to the
character abroad of the United States. What! to
refuse access to the hitherto hospitabe land to the
poor, to the infirm of mind or of body to the un-
fortunate subject of penal law, to every man, in
short, unprovded with an American passport
to sustain this interdict by inquistoral measures
no less odlous than impractcable, enforceable by
the agents Of the United States, and instrumental
to their cupidity-to sanction this law by pen
atty Of five thousand francs and an imprisonment
of three vears!-afl this is sort of Legislation
more worthy of the most barbarous despotism 0
antiquity than of the United States of America
the first and most fourishing of modern Repub
| lies.
''By what right could the citizens of the United
States prescribe from their shores the unfortunate
the nfrm, nay, we would add the criminal
Have they then forgotten, in the drunkenness
of their prosperity, the origin of portion Of tn;
population now so proud Of its freedom-ts ir
lustr,-its riches? Have they forgotten that tn
New England pilgrims were prescribed exiles
Have they forgotten the exiles Of Virginia!
"Hcre the ingratiludc Of the scheme render
doubly odious the calculations of an egotism
less pitiless in the pursuit of its object than bin
in the adoption of its means. By whom, W
would ask have the pestilent marshes been p,
rhed, and canals dug, the high roads, the raj
roads, and all other great works executed, whc
spread the benefits of civilization and of libert
| from the shores of the Atlantic to the wilderness
of the West! By whom but the laborious cole
nis,s from Alsace and Germany, or by whom bu,
the never-tiring laborers from Scotland and Ire
land? Do you then fear, you cyclists, that Ian
will become scarce; you who are yet separate
by three thousand miles of fertile wilderness
from the shores of the Pacific!
"Divine Providence would seem to have ker
in reserve the immense regions of the new hemis
phere an asylum, ever open to that excess
population and distress which affects the ol
world. The poor man finds there food and raj
ment--the victim of prescription there finds
countryside man who has sinned may there bt
come moral man-there even his existence ma
find an honorable object. To attempt to counter
act those benign dispositions of Divine Prov
dence in the miserable spirit of moneyed aris
tocracy, or Of a local security, or mercantile Gu
pdity, is to misconceive the high destiny of Ame
rica-to reduce the functions and the government
Of a whole world to the paltry police and lul
ambition Of diminutive Grecian State or Swis
canton-t is to be guilty at the same time Of a
enormous absurdity, and of an impous inter
ference with the work of an omnpotent God''
Political malgamation.-About ten day
since gentleman drove up to the Columbus Tic
tel with a fine looking boy servant whom he call
ed Ned, and ordered every thing that was condu
ei:e to his comfort; he was also particular in hi