The native American., 1838-09-15

We attempted in our last to explain the moving
causes that have convinced the patriotic Native
Americans of this District of the dangers that
threaten their Government, and that have indu-
ced them to seek remedy in concerted action
We then endeavored, by taking general survey
of the natural feelings of the foreign party, to es-
tablish our position, and we have been led to be-
lieve that our object was attained.
1t is in nature for all men to love the land of
their nativity, and it is that very principle which
urges us onward in our course. That affection
which we feel, we know must be experienced by
all descriptions of aliens. The enlightened for
eigner, even after naturalization, reveres the an
cent monuments that record his country's history,
and prides himself upon her triumphal arches,
her broad aqueducts, and all her edi6ces, and
smiles complacenhy upon the ancient annals of
her glory. The common and illiterate foreigner
turns to the sports Of his country, her games, her
fairs, her public institutions, and cherlshes the
quarrels of the various secs and parties that divide
the political and religious opinions at home.
These feelings are so natural that it is useless to
argue upon them, and we would not, but that it
is necessary to lay the foundations Of our cause
as we proceed, for it is new cause and one that
will yet win to itself the pen of the historian.
1t will now be our duty briefly to run over
some other general grounds in connection with
our cause.
We have lately witnessed the fact that five
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Michigan the same law is in force that counte-
nanced these foreigners in Illinois, a law unpa-
triotic, unnatural, monstrous and unjust. Sup
pose, for one moment, that similar law existed
in the State of Maine, what would be the inevi-
table result? The Governor of Canada, could
easily throw as many voters necessary into the
State, and settle the Northeast Boundary question
in day, and Maine would be robbed of her just
rights, and native Americans living on that dis
puted territory, transferred, like sheep in the
shambles, to the Crown of Great Britain! Unless
the Northeastern Boundary question is settled
soon, such may be the result. More than six
millions of foreigners have been poured in upon
us within the last few years, and within the
same number of years as many more will be
flooded over the land. This increase of voters
every five years is greater than the domestic pro-
duction; and important revolutions in the consti-
tuition of Maine may be effected by a few thou
sands of this gigantic tribute. 1t is not exagge-
ration to fear such result. The affairs of the
Canadas have assumed fearful import of late,
and wars seem to be gathering around the horl-
zon of the province. The great armament sent
over lately, the celebrated statesman Lord Dur
ham, being in the princely throne Of the Govern
ors house, all lead us to believe that there is a
powerful feeling in the British Ministry upon
the Canadian subject. The land claimed by the
State of Maine, of the British Crown, is all lie.
cessary to that Government for the speedy trans.
portaton of her troops; for if that region be given
up to us, the British Government can never
march her battalions through its confines. This
deprivation would retard the progress Of her arms
by sending them an immense circuit, and hel
principal posts lying upon the upper shores o
the lakes, might be sacked and burnt, while the
regiments of British soldiery defling through
the interminable forests of Maine.
All this may be chimerical, but it is chimer;
based upon solid probability. The principle IL
the same in the absence of the facts, and the ma
chinations may be enlisted even though they fail
There is danger in the chance; and it may be
that Divine Providence, which has been eviden
in peculiar manner in the affairs of this country
will interfere between the dark plots of men, ant
the permanent liberty of this country.
in Michigan the law Of six months residence II
in existence; and England, in order to carry som'
point essential to her colonial policy, raml1ed ant
mysterious as it has always been, may throw he
thousand hirelings into the State, and accomplish
her purpose, at the expense Of American right
These laws granting the privilege Of voting t
the, ,sx-monhed alien, are but branches Of that grea
tree of partisan policy which, we fear, is over