The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-08-31

uOhoof thelT ancestors, themselves, anu " tHel
posterty, to preserve the land and the free inst
tutions of the country from the concentrations o
I the refuse wanderers from the old world. We
war against no man because he is a foreigner; WI
contend merely for ourselves, because we are IL
danger. We oppose no party because il is a.
gainst or with the administration; we only resis
the encroachments of politicians of whatever side
who endeavour to employ the accidental influence
Of foreign emigration for personal advancement al
the hazard of the principles and strength Of our
own people. 1.-THE metropolis instead of cry,
ing IN It's hungry appetite like Moloch for daily
victims OF ITS own countrymen upon the altar of
party sacrifice, would Gull out from the ranks Of
public office the multitude Of foreigners who are
'at'enng upon the credulity of both parties;-
Who replele with prelensons, and in the mos
instances wanting in the ordinary capacities, are
IKE slo'hs under the great tree of patronage, en-
Toying It's shade and consuming its foliage while
they yield no valuable return;-if it would do this
and I'LL their vacant places with the deserving peo-
pie OF our own land-aye, with democrats if you
piease, and those too Of the most ultra creed
though they should be Jews or gentiles; those
editors would in the eye of their own brethren
and IN their own consciousness, meet more ho-
norable reward than now attends them in the cha
riy donations Of the clans who have bought them
up with the thirty pieces.
we have no objection that prevailing party
should desire to have the majority of Offices in
the public government, but let them be of oar
sefces. DO not denounce citizens who have
through a long life shown devotion 10 the country
in peace and in war, because they are not OF you,
iath, and at the same time elevate the fawning
foreigner of yesterday, whose deeds in his own
land and even whose name are sometimes ne
cessary secret to his well being here. The phren
sly Of faction has the same influence upon the So
clal feelings that continued inemperance has up
on the physical system; it produces faulty that
blinds the eyes of the understanding and leads its
votaries to wound the virtuous and deserving
while they think they are only furnishing the bad
Some OF our opponents are under the hallucna-
ton produced by this state Of feeling; and though
they DO us much injury, their condition is Far
more pardonable in moral sense than that o.
some others who like other Arnolds would barter
away our birth right, as they do their own, for
mcre.
Besides attacking the 9 Native Associations y
the metropolis" makes an indiscriminate war
upon all ncumbents of office, who have been de-
nounced by some anxious expectant as not be-
longing to the democratic school. We can tell
these writers, many of whom are new corners,
little known and Of less value, that some OF
those same men whom they have aspersed.
were democrats an action long before the names
Il these libellers were heard, and that some of
those who are now raging in all the virtuous ebul-
lihon OF ultra radcalism were few short years
since deep dark specimens of the elan denomina-
ted Hartford Conventioniss. We do not seek to
make distinctions between our own people though
we admonish the Metropolis" when it under.
takes that task to remember that it requires short
exercise Of memory regards many of its guam.
dun friends to draw their frailtes from thei,
dread abode
We wish we could in the spirit of humanit,
pelaudut Hle conductors OF mat PRINT to look OH
from behind the curtain upon which they arc
enacting like figures in the Italian shades, .
their gambols of political denunciation and they
would see the indignant countenances and hear
the reproachful language Of their most respected
fellow countrymen of all Sides who with the fin
ger Of scorn point at them as assassins of the pub
lie peace. Surely this condemnation would turn
their course; and if it would Motif neither con-
viction nor the impulses of patriotism could re-
deem them, we as Native Americans, throwing
aside all anger, and exc cising the sympathies OF
our nature, should express our pity that few
hungry fellow counlrymen, too weak to be hon
est, too unuckv to succeed in office, and ouos-
lied by the aliens, should be compelled like Bel
sarius to cry out tlafe oboie Beiizario, and thus
live from day to day upon the penny contributions
of their enemies.
| FOREIGNERS IN OUR INTERIOR CITIES.
/ Wherever our own people have built up large
communities and established all the muniments
Of living and motives Of industry, there you will