The native American., 1839-03-09

vagrants or Of the enormous amour. Of foreign
IcoDvicts in our pehiteniiarfas ald State prisons
Lie makes no illusions TO he Riots ani loss oi
life ocoasioaed By their Interference in oar la
nestle and political concerns, and wond cntleavor
Ito persuade us that an immense influx of foreign
egs is i:.setiie promised effect Of Bantijns bill! and
| General Jackson's measures, which were to pave
our way with gold; while we proronacG, unh ST.
a,ihgly and nnqna'ifie,ly, that. like thcr, it will
prove runuils and disastrous, rend lis asuncr by
fierce political divisions, and. change oar demo-
crazy, bad as it is, for a foreign nlobocraey. He
IcannGt. surely, be unaware tliatle present hxty
Of moral and political integrity With which the
wing and conservative parties charge the ltrcoio-
cos, has been introduced by foreign ra,scais,
whose own couetry has. cast them of, and'w
have come here 10 sow the seeds CT fsisidcli;y-
agraTianisin ard reYolul;nH, which have produced
such bitter fruit, and which already. hold in
tempt every thing secured by the law ard sancti-
fed by the constitution, Foreigners aee: ne from
an underlined aud irrational idea Of liberty; and
as extremes meet, they associate despols;n il tie
oil world with righteousness in tie United States,
and are precisely that class, generally speaking,
of whom we can never make good and useful CT
items. We are in favor Of requiring twenty-one
years residence under the Jurisdiction Ct the
United States, before foreigners are atowedto ex-
ercise the RICH. of suffrage, the mast inra'Uahse
privilege Of an American citizen, and which can
not be exercised in an intelligent manner but by
foreigners becoming identified with the land Of
their adoption, in thought, habit, feeling anal in
terest. There appears to rs also IN he something
peculiarly indecent in the haste with WHICH The
Governor has sought on opportunity, and logged
in, it were, by the head and shoulders, an at
tack upon olr city authorities Tor. enforcing the
,t,nti ,T,E
foreign ,enigrants for if il has any .Nusion at
all, it must b. to The increased amnunt ofcommn-
tation demanded By our authorities to save our
city from taxation Tor the support Of the inmates
Of foreign hospitals, poor-houses ana prisons,
which have Of late years been cast upon us by TO-
reign nations, with the double view Of relieving
themselves from the bunhen Of their support and
concentrating republican prncipl by tic conta-
gion of bad example. The Governor must also
have been aware that the subject had excited so
much attention in the United States as to have en-
gagged the action OF Congress- and thatreporis and
had been introduced into the House of
on the cxpediency OF extending
the term of Observation-Disclosures mass OF cvi-
dence has been accumulated which will, no ,'onbt,
shortly be made public; and is tho naturalization
laws are solely in the hands Of Congress. il APP
nears to us that the Governor has stepped ont of
his sphere of action in interfering IN a matter in
which he had no direct concern. One thing we
will venture to predict, that the Governor has
played. a false card, and that he wall lose more
popularity than he will gain by the experiment.,
and that large and highly Influential portion Of
his fellow citizens will abandon the support Of a
man whose first act has heen desecrated By Sub
serviency to foreign domination. We cal! il do
lnnation, for we find it al our very doors. at our
nominations for office, at our election polls, and
in. the temples of in6delity reared among Us by
foreign radicals but the subject is so fertile in
remark, that we are satisfied III merely abiding TO
this more than political bhlniler in our new Gov
crnor, intending 10 resume tho subject"