The native American., 1838-09-01


kindred materials settled among us, TO the injury
Of our country, that it is mentioned. The same
power and the same means that enable men to
propagate and establish one set of doctrines in
mcal to our tranquility now, will not fail in be-
ing the medium of transmitting other and more
aggravated notions, until, by degrees, the inte-
gritty of the Union will be lost in the principles
sent from monarchists, and the nation, as re-
public, cease to exist The present evil is so
manifest to those who have been enabled to sepa-
rate party considerations and prejudices from
simple love of our country and her prosperity,
that societies are growing up every where TO carry
out the humble efforts of this association. The
effect of the newcomers, with all their infirni-
ties and vices and their arrogance, and after strug-
gle to direct or pervert the political opinions Of
our own people, is SO evident, that, in some
places the legislatures, and in others the whole
community, are appealed to, that some measures
may be adopted to avert it. So strongly was the
course of Mr.. Stevens, which essayed to marshal
alien influences and alien force with the cause of
slavery, linked to the wild untrammelled notions
of ''the white bondsman," against the established
citizen, that, III the fall of last year, Mr. Wood
ward, member of the Pennsylvania convention,
offered the following, in order to protect the coun-
try from the consequences of such appeals to the
passions of the wild:
'.Resoiued, That the committee inquire into the
expediency Of SO amending the constitution as to
prevent all Foreigners, (more especially the Irish
and Germans,) who may arrive in this State after
the 4th of July, lS4l from acquiring the right
10 rote or holi office in this Commonwealth"
| There is no one who has looked calmly into
this matter, who has not acknowledged the evil
of the law that admitted aliens to the rights of the
ma Iya opltE tEara rhn has l-nI he
temper Of recent times, who can fail to foresee
that its repeal will be demanded not merely asked
for boon, to suit the self-love of the few, but
as right, to give confidence to the people.
Such has been the influence of separate classes
of foreigners, that they have been appealed to as
a body by politicians to carry out elections sup
posed to be congenial with their views; and such
is the arrogance of another caste Of emgrans that
they have lately adopted resolutions appointing
men to note the course of the natives and the ac-
ton of Congress on their petitions.
The following. from convention of the Dutch,
at Cape Grardeau, in Missouri, in February last,
shows their designs:
''Resolred, That committee of vigilance and
correspondence, consisting of twelve persons, be
appointed, whose duty it shall be to enter into
correspondence with our German brethren resi-
ding at distant places, to watch the proceedings
and movements of the native Americans and of
Congress upon the above subject, and to call an
other meeting whenever desirable or necessary
The chairman shall be president Of this com
mittee.
"Resolued, That we herewith call upon all
Germans residing in the United States, and ad-
monlsh them most earnestly to join us in taking
measures calculated to oppose propositions hold
ing i'll derision all reason and higher considera-
tons OF civilized nations, and to prevent such ca
lamiy to our countrymen and all emigrants, as
must necessarily arise from the accomplishment
OF the aforementioned designs. We request
them in particular to call meetings, and petition
Congress that the prayer of the Native American
Association be not granted
From all these doings it will be seen that the
emigrants are not satisfied with the enjoyment of|
the rights provided for, and secured to them by
the laws, but they are agitating the extension of
these rights to the unborn of their respective ma
tons; 50 that hereafter, and in the course OF no
very distant time, the native may be stranger in
his own land, and outnumbered by the foreigners.
This is only in keeping with their kindred
feelings for one another, for people Of the same
land and Of the same blood; and in itself is not to
be denounced, because It'll natural The emigrant
colonlsts ut we may so term them) would no
doubt think it not only an addition to their own
security to cover the whole land with their own
people, but give new honor to their name to re-
deem country so great and wide from men whom
they think too careless to appreciate, and too
supne to defend its value. Though it is wise in
these men to carry out plans, whether be that
national character by their own
numbers and their own agency regardless of us, or
that Of accomplishing the designs of their ancient
rulers or countrvmen at home, and erect new
form Of government upon the spoils Of thls it is
well for us to inquire whether we are doing JUS
tice to the institutions for which our ancestors
struggled, and of which we boast, to stand with
folded arms and see those institutions and our
natural rights transferred, while our judgments are
deluded and our energies suppressed by insidious
appeals to our humanity and our present security
We believe the powers Of thrones are at work
against us; that while paupers and dregs of life are
sent to us under rule of policy in England, and
assassins come to us in the national vessels of
France, there are thousands who are taught TO
look forward to the day when the old colonies
which the former lost shall be brought back to
the folds of monarchy by her settlers, who are
temporary citizens of these United States, but
still better subjects Of their own kings.
There were even in this city persons, who,
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