The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-06-15

Sergeant Denman, formerly of the British Army,
land Editor of the Truth Teller! as printer Of
THE Board of Assistants, and Richard Adams
Locke. ESQ, of Lancashire, England, author of
.the celebrated moon hoax, and Editor Of the
New Era, as printer to the Board Of Aldermen.
If there be any of our Swiss friends, or others
from abroad, who have kindly volunteered their
powerful aid at the late charter election, who are
yet unprovided for, we beg them to come for
ward without delay. The New Workers have
kindly consented TO postpone their claims until
next spring. Several little bits of patronage are
yet to dispose of. Tiuant Req ct Regina.
New York Erening Star.
From the above extract it appears that the cor
|rupt fashion Of buying up and rewardng noisy
Foreigners, who turn politicians without knowing
any more of the why and the wherefore than that
their own interest leads them, prevails not only
with the States, bat in the municipal governments
ot the cities of our Union
We should perhaps be conented if this evil
extended no further than Towns and States; but
unfortunately it pervades the Federal Govern
ment itself; it has entered into the policy of the
very Administration, and through its instrument
tallty become part of our now prostituted ma
tionality. Who is it, that as an American, feels
any pride in being admitted, after tedious appli-
cation and the influence of many friends, to
hold an office under this Government? No one.
On the contrary, at best, he is placed only upon
the footing of the successful foreigner who per-
haps has succeeded some months before him in
attaining the same grade. ! he greater chance
however is, that while he is admonshed to wait,
or mayhap is entirely rejected, he hears at the
same moment that some refugee outcast from
another country has been rewarded for his COM
pulsory peregrnation to this, and is enjoying the
place that the native Or hundred natives had APP
piled for in vain.
There is no fancy in this: look at the two late
appointments in your Marine Corps. There
was multitude of good and respectable citizens
applying for those vacant Lieutenancles; and there
were also two foreigners, and only two of those
applying; and who, would the American people
suppose, ought to have got, and who do they
think did get them? Why, the hundred and odd
native applicants, with their port folios full of
letters, and as many certificates of responsibility
as would have placarded the Presidents House,
were considered as nothing, and the two foreign
ers were considered every thing; and therefore
'Mey were transformed into the more worthy pa
uiots, better to be trusted with the command OF
our own citizen soldiers than our own natives
themselves.
Such things as these-such lavishing of honors
upon such objects and for such purposes-make
1.-THE American blood boil and the heart revolt.
So, too, some months ago the Public feeling
was equally insulted, when the son of this Eng
Iish Sergeant Denman, who is spoken of in tn
extract above, was appointed Cadet at Yves
Point, while dozens and dozens of applications,
by the sons of our wor,hiest citizens for tn,
same situation, were laying UNDECIDED in I!
War Department.
If this is not illustrating the evil of public pa
tronage for party purposes, we know not wha
lis; and therefore we do hope that if we are t.
continue to extend our offices to foreigners, ant'
ito allow ourselves to be excluded, we shall
least make some show of consistency, and no
keep up Marine Corps to fight foreign enc
|my, or support West Point Military Academy
to raise native officers for that enemy; and yet
lin time of peace put the foreigners in the pay
land command of the one, and as scholars and
cadets in the other.
LABORERS UPON THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
We noticed hand-bill pasted up in various
parts of our City, calling public attention to the
injustice Of giving laborers employed upon the
Public Buildings only one dollar per day, while
the mechanics in the same service are allowed q;
great deal more. We concur in the Justice o.
the complaint in some respects, but condemn the
mode of endeavorng to enforce it by combi-
nation among the workers to strike for higher
wages. We think it is in bad taste, as well as in
bad spirit, to initiate the conduct of the European
workmen, who, instead of appealing to reason,
resort to the machinery of clans, resolutions and
factions to procure by threats and intimidation
that which ought to be yielded, if at all, from
sense of common right and justice. We have Of
ten thought, that in this neghborhood where every
thing as compared with mere northern places is
very high the per diem Of one dollar was below
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