The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-11-23

ADMITTED TNFruENCE OF TIE NATIVE
| AMERICANS as a P.9R7Y, AND THE AID.
| MINiSTRATIoN Indebted TO THEM.
From the well written article on the preceding
paga, which we take from the N. Sunday Morn
ing News, it will he seen that the Administration
obtained majority il the City Of New York, in
consequence Of a retaliation by the Native Asso-
citation upon the Wings, or rather some of the
Wings, who cndeavored to draw the Natives from
the exclusive and even tenor of their wav," into
the deprecated fields Of politics.
The systematic organization of our Associations
and the strength Of our numbers, is but little if at
all understood by partisans Of parties, who ihnk
that their own particular sect embodies al! the
power and influence Of the land. they have be-
slowed very moderate estimate upon that great
body Of citizens who are imbued with the emotions
Of natural religion tending to perpetuae the in
stltulions of their own land and the unity and ex-
'cluslyeness of tirer own brethren, while at the
same time that unnotced mass has been advancing
with the strength Of their Cause until, from the
unconsidered fragments Of small parties, it has
grown to be the maser-sprit which, like the
giant Of Athos, holds the ends of empire in its
hands.
The Native Americans have endeavored sedous-
lyto keep themselves in their associated character
entirely apart from Wing or Democrat contests
They have, nevertheless, been courted on the one
side, and assailed by the other. The Wings have
invited them to friendship, the Democrats tainted
them as enemies; still, they have pursued their
unwave:ing way, content, f,hey could accomplish
their good objects, to bear the dcseron Of friends
and the reproaches of adversaries in politics.
Previous to the last elections to the Legislature
in New York, we had conferences with the lead
ing men Of the American party who had most
rgdly incucated what we desired to enforce and
that was the unwavering determination to eschew
the entangling alliances OF parties, and to put up
their own candidates for the Legislature, upon the
unalloyed principles Of Native Associations. This
they endeavored to carry out and to 4 certain OK
tent succeeded IN; bit many Of the Wings who
were more alive to their old hopes and the sue
cesses of their political party than to the American
party, forgot in the zeal for their old cause, the
merits and demands Of the new, and hence gave
their votes to Wings, as such, rather than TO
Wings as Natives. The same error was commit
ted by Democrats, But to their praise be IL spoken,
not to the same extent and hence originated the
determination of the uncompromisng Native Amo-
ricans, both Wings and Democrats, who had stood
firm to their main object, to demonstrate by
most decisive and striking act, that, as party,
they held, and would hold, the balance of power,
and would teach all men, and the Wings especi-
ally, who constituted majority of those who had
deserted them, that thoy could be beat by their
own party men, when those party men preferred
preserving the NatiyeAmerican cause, in its own
purity, to the successes Of their own party as mere
politicians. Hence it was that the Native Asso-
citation, among the utras, in the spirit of relalia-
ton, and in proof of their power, voted, almost to
man. for the Van Buren, ticket, in the City of
New York. We have statistics and data to prove
this, before the inquest Of the Nation,-and SO
hencelorth, let not Democrats denounce, or Wings
lattcr, as we are bent upon single and patri-
Otto purpose, and are marshalled together, for the
welfare only of the country.