The native American., 1839-09-14
TENTATIVE AMERICAN.
For the Native American.
WASHINGTON, SEPT. 4, 1899.

all communications for ii are to be directed to you.
As fast and devoted friend to that paper, and the
cause 1t advocates, | rejoice to see that il is still
kept up with spirit and zeal which hope will
secure i, increased patronage. Are not the OBJ
Jects to be attained, of sufficient magnitude to
list every true patriot in their contamination
How long will the people sleep upon precipice,
when the very government, framed for them and
their children, is threatened TO be wrested from
them, or utterly subverted by reckless strangers
Are they not invading in fearful mul,itudes
Will the great right of suffrage, welded against
us, be less efficient in their hands, to accomplish
our ruin, than the spears and iavelins of the Gohs
and Vandals, who sabdued the Romans and took
possession of their country! 1t is more so. be-
cause more insidious, and done without the show
of avowed hostility, while hostility in fact is be-
ginning to manifest itself undsguised in the ambi-
tious scheme of contesting right to govern the
country, and to prescribe rules for those "yet TO
come" among us from foreign nations. We had
thought the Irish was the class most likely TO
contest that right but it would seem the Germans
take the lead, claim the ascendancy, and antci-
pate the power soon to establish their own Ian
guags and customs, and 10 rule US. The former
would, perhaps, as soon fraternize with us or
devils, as with the others so we shall have two
distinct foreign contestant parties to contend with
and while the wheel of time is rapidly rolling on
the fondly-expected period of German ascendancy,
the Patriots at every public work are lessening
our numerical strength, by -bludgeons, pick axes.
and fire arms. The scenes constantly perpetrated
on the public works, but especially those on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Croton Wa
ter Works, and the letter taken directly from the
New Orleans Native American, and by that paper
from the Journal of Commerce and lately pub
hpd in ci.r of A
German" will make my alusion very clear to
your mind.
The Irish battle for supremacy, whenever and
wherever they can muster band together, and
plenty of whiskey. The Germans cold, cal
culating people-do not often loose sight Of their
characteristic caution, even under the ordinary
liberal indulgence in gin; they will remain more
passive for few years longer, till circumstances
are ripe for them to assert their political superior
ity. and back that assertion by an array of num-
bers.
That writer-"A German''-states that, 6 Be-
t,oeen fire and sic millions Of the population
in this country are Germans, more than one-half
Of Whom hare come acithin the last ten gears
He farther SAYS, that +" Such preparations are
making in the different German States, compri-
sing population of seventy millions, to enigrate
to the Western States of this country that in all
probability from 5000 to 100000 Germans
sciA come annually, aoho, added to their country-
men already here ,oiH make nine or ten millions,
enyears hence, erclusiue of the natural Increase
He says, that 6 Such body Of people are not to
beouerlooked or throa0n into the shade''-that is,
in plain language, not to be deprived Of the reins
Government! He comes to the conclusion that ''the
day has gone by now to prcven emigration and
naturalization Of foreigners :" that amy party,
to rule here, must have their support !" and that
"they will all, to man, advocate the admission
Of their friends and relations, get to arive to all
the privileges granted to or enjoyed by them
selves :" that /" various causes combined, tend to
produce the present state of things; which, if
continued, will, an twenty-five gears hence, shoW
a greater German population IN .america than
in Germany itself" And what is the conclusion
this German arrives at He boldly predicts that
:" the increase Of poaeer and strength of these
States aoiN, beyond doubt, cause their dissolu-
tion = and that = then, as matter Of course, the
different communities will speak their native Ian
gGage, unless a to them foreign tongue be forced
upon them by superior force" So zoe may pre-
pare to give up, not Only the Government of our
country, but our vernacular ton ue-the language
Of orr fathers and mothers, in imitation of the
Poles, under the force Of Russia
This is frank and candid confession of the
1CClNkS dHu vi tlGSc dllelS, dS VI
tered by their mouth-piece, in defiance of our ef-
forts to redeem the country from that heavy curse
which they have inflicted on it, endangering its
peace, good order, and freedom.
And further; that writer quermoniously says,
=" Why then should we not preserve our language,
and complain Of not being abound our due i'm
porfance in political affairs, 80 being inuited
here - We should Immediately suspend, revoke
and annul that invitation, and that forever. Let
not our unsuspeeting and foolish benevolence be
made the plea for their intrusive .imposions and
ambitious designs. "A German" seems evidently
to derive much hope and consolation from the
fulflment Of the prediction with which he con-
cludes his article, that /" Ohio and the other Wes-
tern States ociN one day prone a ncso Germaay"'
BY all this we understand, what nothing but
the blindness of party could fail to see, determi-
nation on the part Of the aliens not to yield any
right granted to or enjoyed byttemselues, which
it is designed and may be thought expedent to
withhold from their :. friends and relations yeti
to arrive" unless compelled by superior force. ;"
The people should now, at least, see the i'm
portance of agtating the subject of the repeal of
the law of Naturalization in time if, indeed it be
not, as "A German declares, already too late.
We believe there demagogues in the coun.
L. Co.. "a,