The native American., 1839-01-12

Our readers will see in another place. COM
muncation from i" Republican" Immediately toi-
lowed by an appropriate reply from the Sunday
Morning News. We give both, en- erfenso, the
poson and the antidote--,he one, to show how
culpably ignorant Republican is-'he other, to
explain how reasonable and just are our objects,
and how convincing and rreiutabe the arguments
by which our position is sustained as set forth ny
our friend of the .Ncws' With great scIf-grat-
;6cation, we take this opportune occasion to ex-
press our happiness, that the Native American
cause has fortunately fallen into such talented as
we'll as such honest hands.
There are some remarks in that communication
which excite our as,onshment--that any one
living in the City Of New York where this for
eipn evil of which we complain shows itself in
all its gorgon terrors-that associations have ex-
listed there for sometime and addresses OF great IN
terest and ability have been delivered on various
occasions, especially in Brooklyn--,hat the sub
iec, has been agitated in every way, and that too
bv paper lately established for the avowed pur-
nose Of enlightening the public on the subject in
that place-that the matter has been before Con
gress year ago, and even reported on-that
the arguments and the reasons for our course are
as familiar in New York as household affairs
that after all these things, the writer of that COM
munication should he, er have quoted one passage
nor stated one proposition from our records but
appears to be in the very A, B, G, of the matter
We should like to extend our comments in re-
lation to some points of this article still farther
but we have not now the times we therefore de-
fer it for another opportunity not, however, with
ont repeating the evidence Of our surprise that
any intelligent, reasonable man. IN this communl-
ty. if a native born, should undertake to write
AGAINST us without ever having made himself ac-
ouainted with our principles, which would not IN
fact require as much time to understand as was
lost. ay, lost, in writing the communication re-
ferred to. Our cause has not been kept in cor
ner. We have openly, fully, and iearlessly, dis
cussed It. 1t has received the Typographical I'M
press, thereby putting it in the most convenient
form. Our paper has been one year and hail
in existence, thereby giving access to all necessa.
ry information in the premises, and yet we are
wantonly opposed by some who never read our
naner. on grounds which they assume that we
occupy. Such appears to be the case with regard
to ..Republican." We have not exhibited our
selves to the public under some sudden and deu-
sive impulse, engaged in some inconcevable en-
terprise, without principles or objects.
Our principles are laid i'll the deepest founda-
tons Of the human heart, they are interviewer in
our nature-they are identified with the most ex-
alted pariotisn-and they are as inseparabc from
rational existence as they are compatible with
truth, Justice and enlarged philanthropy. Our
objects are few and we'll defined, and therefore
we name them first, to exclude all foreigners
from political power, by law declaring, at the
same time, all aliens, then in the country, natu-
ralzed citizens from the date of the enactment
of said law, operating prospectively upon all who
NAV thereafter come within our borders. And for
our purposes, we would define political po,cer to
be, the right of suffrage and the administration OF
the government. We would cut them off from
the ballot-box, and close the doors of Office against
them forever: these are the pedestal on which
the temple of liberty rests, and should be guarded
by the most vigilant and jealous care, and which
we believe call for speedy legislative action.
These the paramount objects we would ac-
compIish 'peaceably if we can, forceably if we
must"
If, then, our subject has been de!iberated-l,
moreover, we have printed journal as the med-
um OF promulgating our views (and that, too, at
moderate price, thus laying us open TO all who
can read, why are we misunderstood! Why
are we misrepresented! The fault is not ours.
We spread the information before the public eye,
though we cannot compel them to look at it.
In the hope that this may come TO the view Of
every one who may feel sufficient interest, in this
important subject, to inquire the why anu the
wherefore we take the stand we occupy, or who
may be disposed from any motive to oppose u.s.
we make the fair and reasonable request that they
will lay down the matter objected to, IN our own
language, taken from the proper source. Ihey
will thus have something tangible, and we shall
understand each other as TO the real points o
dispute, if there can really be any difference o