The native American., 1839-04-27

Baltimore"
The same gentleman, in a subsequent commu-
nicaton to the President of the United States, IN
formed him that fourteen conyicts had actually
arrived from Bremen, who were landed with the
other passengers. They had been embarked in
irons, which were not struck of until near the
Fort.
When we tell our countrymen that such as
these are the very clements with which civil
commotions are effected in their own lands, or rs
they have been not inaplly termed the blood
lappers OF revolutions" who, having no congo
nlali,y OF feelings, interests or aspirations with
of iples-educaed from
their earliest infancy in ieuds, brawls, tumults
and Instructions, and who are liable at any time
10 be welded by artful demagognes. menaced by
ecclesiastical iulmnations, or bought with money,
TO strike their daggers deep into the institutions
oi the countries which gave them birth but how
much, oh! how much more eadily and willingly
into ours. for which they have no sympathies,
and which they despise and abhor.
Yes, they have hitherto despised our country,
for her easy credulity in admitting them, to equal
rights with her native czens, upon the fln,sy
basis of an electoneerng oath, and now they
abhor usbecause they perceive the first kindlmgs
of attention to this subject, which teaches them
ed away.
When we tell our countrymen, that such are
the hordes of foreign mechanics and artisans,
now congregating hither from other lands, wholly
undertaking the native American mechanic, have
almost monopoized the whole mechanical bust
ness OF the United States,-tha hosts of foreign
merchants have congregated in our cities, and
obtained the control of almost all our commercial
and banking interests. and operations. thai every
department OF Law, Science, and even Divinity,
is being rapidly overrun, and absorbed by fore
lgners, and feregn infuence-that two thirds of
The teachers in our schools, seminaries, and in
situations Tor the education of our YOUTH and the
instruction OF the rising generation, consist of for
egners, who have themselves been brought up in
distant lands,-embned with feelings, preudces
and aspirations alien to our own,--and who can
not with the patriotic fire which burns in the heart
of a native American call their attention and ven
Grafton to the deeds of their ancestors, who pro-
jected our happy institutions, and the majority of
whom should they undertake to sketch the outline
of patriot and statesman, to their pupils as
worthy Of emulation, would select as their beau
ideal the hcartless despot Meternicl, or the beg
carly agiia,or Daniel O'Connell.
When we tell our countrvmen, that large ma
iority of the offices of honor, trust, and profit,
throughout our country are occupied by foreigners
that when young native American changes
his residence i'll pursuit OF fortune, he must carry
with him from place to p'nce spolless reputation,
and even then he is perhaps repulsed with cold and
heartless indifference. but no sooner does for
egner appear in our land, than without any en-
curry as to his past history. he is grasped warmly
by the hand, and is surrounded BY host of friends
and benefactoIs, and heaven and earth are moved,
until by dint of irrepulsible and pertinacous APP
picaton he is thrust into some lucrative office, to
the exclusion of a native born American, hose
nicer delicacy or higher tone Of feeling, and great
er refinement, have prevented him from pursuing
the same inmodest course, and lett him to pine
in poverty and perhaps in misery. Thus are the
Official, Commercial, and Pecuniary power and
influence of foreigners, extended throughout our
When we tell our countrymen, that many or
the professors in our Colleges and Universities
are foreigners, and that the press, the great mo-
raj lever Of nations, has almost been absolutely
by foreigners, for melancholy TO re-
late, when native Americans own presses, for
eigners are too often permitted to control them
that presses whose whole object, aim and end,
is the establishment of foreign tone and feeling
among the mullifarious hosts of foreigners now in
our country, have been quie,ely permitted 10
erect themselves throughout every part of the
United States. Presses which can perceive no.
thing virtuous, benfcient or admirable, nothing
glorious, Just or wise, in the United States,-her
institutions, or her people,--bu: who shout peans
of praise and aduaton to all foreigners and every
circumstance of foreigner origin.
When we point our countrymen, to the fact,
that almost the whole machinery Of our Criminal
Courts, is sustained by foreign malefactors, at
a great expense of time, toll and treasure 10 the
people of the United States aud with fearful
deterioration of native American manners and
morals.
When we tell our countrymen, that in the
private and social circles, where foreigners con-
gregate unobserved by the eve of the native Ameri-
can, that jibes, taun,s, and insulting sarcasms are
heaped upon our country, and her institutions,
and comparisons the most opprobious and degrad-
ing to us, are made between ear habits. manners
and capacities, and those of the countries, from
which they have been transported or escaped for
refuge to our happy land.
When we tell our countrymcn, that throughout
the United States. in every city, town and village
there exist societies of foreigners, who hold their
meetings in great degree in secret, and their
proceedings remain unscrutinized by native Ameri-
cans and that although generally under the color
If Reneyolapt purnnses their objects NAV ba