The native American., 1839-10-26
CoNyICTs SENT AMONG US.

more Sun of Saturday last, which will show In
what estimate the American people and their in
stituons are held abroad.
That European powers should transport their
criminals to our shores, seeing that we tolerate
all alike, the bad as quesoness as the good, does
not surprise us but that we should be weak
enough to permit such doings, is not only mat
ter Of wonder to the good citizens of our land, but
will be subject Of reproach 10 us as nation,
which we shall never cease to endure until we
outlive the great stock of viciousness which our
folly and blindness have allowed to be thrown
into our communities like cankerous metals among
the good, to deface that which once was pure.
There are hundreds of reasons why we should
not encourage immigration at all and even when
no objection is apparent, against foreigner,
there is always lurking doubt about who he is
and what he is, that keeps the mind always unsa-
tistied In family alliances between our own
people and foreigners they rarely ever turn out
well, and even when they do the families on this
side Of the water hardly ever know any thing of
those Of the parents on the other side, SO that
there is an uncertainty Of ancestry coupled too
often with the fears that knowledge Of too much
would prove too much, and that, therefore, in the
language Of the poet,
" Where ignorance is bliss,
lis folly TO be wise"
Besides all this, when whole families are cut
off from knowledge Of their progenitors, much
Of that honest pride Of character is prevented
which proceeds from noble desire to perpetuate
the honor, the responsibility, the integrity, or the
good name Of their ancestors.
We are every day through along course life
not merely subject TO, but actually suffering under
the consequences Of foreign impositions; for
there is not man out of a thousand who
comes to us that has the honesty to pass for what
he is-not one who, with the marks of Cain upon
his, front, and the very nteguments Of the prison
upon his back, that does not pass himself upon
our credulty as the impersonation Of chivalry
no. the humblest, from the plodding haberdasher
Of Cheapside to the rustic peasant from the out
skirts Of his lordshp's manor, who does not as
sumo new character, and perhaps a new name,
WHILE for the pretensions to better things, he
mi,s the unnatural crime of forgetting his own
parents, his home, his associates and country, to
offer to his discrimination and treachery.. This
is a shameful theory-shame(ul because Of the
change it puts upon common honesty, and because
it throws among us men who make our society
doubtful, and ourselves dissatisfied Numberless
reflections upon the evils of continuing the laws
Of naturalization will be suggested to any one
who will undertake to think upon the subject, and
therefore without digressiagg any further, we will
annex the extract from the 'Sun," about which
we first began.
FOREIGN 1Apos1r1oN.-The extracts given be-
low, from letters received in this country from
Europe, tell tale deserving Of consideration.
We pity the pauper, no matter what may be his
country, and we view foreign criminals as we do
our own-deserving the punishment affixed by
law to their crimes. But as we support our own
few paupers, and punish our criminals, without
troubling other nations with either, we think we
have right to ask reciprocity at their hands in
this respect. No person, OF any country, is per-
mitted, either by law or without it, to starve
among us; and while we consign our criminals
to the Jail, the penientiarv, or the scafold, for
the safety and publication Of society, we protest
most emphatically against the practice of foreign
authorities, which would appropriate aims
houses to their own use. at our expense, and
convert our free republic into penal colony, by
compounding with their convicts for a change
from the miasma of dirty prison in their own
country to the free air of this. 1t appears that
in sending criminals hither, the Government of
Hamburg allows them the privilege Of choice,
punishment at home or freedom here, as if our
freedom was theirs to bestow and having chosen
liberty instead Of prison, the said Government
very generously pays Sic head for their passage.
The American Consul at Hesse Cassel says:
"rhis price (Sl6) the Bremen ship owners
could only afford by always carrying large
number, to obtain which they had their agents
over the interior Of Germany, and induced the
lower class, which live in very impoverished
state, to emigrate, by making them believe that
labor was SO much demanded in the United States
that able bodied men could earn as soon as land
ing two dollars day"
A letter from Mr.. List, Consul at Leipsic, says:
mot only paupers, but even criminals are
transported from the interior Of this country in
order to be embarked there for the United States y
A Mr.. De Stien, formerly an officer in the SER