The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-11-09
THE NATIVE AMERICAN.
From he " q. Marie .4afiicaq.

the institutions Of our country, and desires TO
transmit them unbemishea and unimpailed to his
iposterity--can look upOn the immense immigra-
lion OF foreigners By bitll and aliens in feeling,
to our country, which is now going on-ail oil
whom are, in few short years, To exercise =
direct influence on our institutions we say we
have often thought that real lover Of his country
cy.sld look upon these things, and not feel the
same emotions of horror which affect us, when
We contemplate the terrible precipice on which
Cur country is slrmhcing
| According to all haHsaa probability, and indeed
Judging salls,ically Of the future tom the past.
there will be in twenty years or less, from this
time. a majority of naluralIzed citizens liz he
United States Indeed, we DO not out..t!nbcr
them much a. this time. When that period ar
rives, and our countrylncn fnl themselves cat
numbered at the ballot-hoxcs trough o0tli'c whole
United Staies,-whcn they sec new t@at"rcs
stamped upon our institutions. aad new and a"ii
American principles and practices Instituted IN
our countryside glorious constitution which we
have been taught to vcncrajc, discarded 10 give
place to foreign cngrahtnen;s By ricc"meal The?
will tie American people awake from their ft.a}
Ilellargy then will they sec and feel tho justice
of the warning which ", have 81 of repeated t.
| their inaen,ivc cars BIZ! il Will be too late.
They will then learn That they have mad, her,
tered their sacred rights tor foreign labor MD
that the alien and the stranger 20 whom t'lrF 'I@"l
thus prodiraly bestowed their inexhans,ibIe pre-
negatives will NOT be disposed to reinlEiSh ';'2..
Iheh, when the desnes otour country re- Wi;l
those who have no coDgenlalitv Of le>Hg "23
ourselves, peradveniure the noble spiri, ofo"rt
,'ers may rally in the bosoms OF lh't deg '...":,
ted sons, and an effort may be made to recover
oar prcrogative-but it will be too late-anh 49,"
Iaticmpt TO retrieve their forfeited rights, u.
lge our country in blood !-Ihen, when many
years Of civil war have weakened their oys "".
and ihnned their numbers, the accommodating re-
crus from foreign lands, will eventually >"5H-
gate our native sons and after long a2ts oil
sorrow, suffering, slavery and military msrn'e ,a
Our children, under some future victoroa* lst"
tian, new dynasty will arise, and o;tr Wretche,>
posterity, like the Saxoas Of old, will become eN-
'nct as nation; and the last glorious experiment.
Of selgoycramen. in the wof!t, will haze filled
forever.
This is no fancy picture. In Gneon wears .lonn
this period. if immigration continues in the ratio
in which il has hitherto progressed, il viii BE ont
Of the power Of the native population Of the UNI
It'd States 10 repe@l the naturalization laws, II thev
would. What patriotic native American can de- /
sire to see the political deslinies of his beloved
country conidcd to a heterogeneous mass Of for
clgners by birth, and aliens III feeling and cduca
llon-be they ever SD virlnouso What patriotic
native American does not see in embryo the in
evitable destruction, that awaits the sacred insti-
tu;lons for which many nlartyrea patriots
poured ont their LIES blood!
In FIFTEEN YEARS FROM THIS PERIOD, Will
BE OUT OF THE POWER OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN !
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, TO REPEAL
THE NATURALIZATION LAWS, should foreigners
tlsen as they are now, lie opposed TO the ar'.
Even at this time an intelligent foreigner, and ouc
who understands what he GAYS. has hallv arnw- !
cd that 1T IS ALREADY OUT OF TIE POWER OF
THE NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION TO RfPEAL
THE NATURALIZATION Laws ~ Any party, he
says, 10 remain i'll power, is compelled to depend
upon foreigners for support
let the statesmen, the politician and the pyiI
vate citizen, ponder ever these things!
When in sober seriousness we contemplate the
direlul fact, by rigid statistical ,alcuaton tina. IL
jff.eea gears r:om this period, the object Of ali
the tolls and struggles Of the revelation. will have
been defeate, that our country will have to dc
pend for the safety Of her liberties, and the Sc
car,y Of her institutions. upon thu mercy of the
alien and tic stranger; that the srr.tg will have
Idepartcdtrom the American Judah, and the law
g.@cr from between his feet we are ready.
lihc the prophet Of Jerusalem, previous to der
obstruction, to rush through the land. aul cry
{" OF, woe = to our country!
We sometimes dcspondingly as! ourselves,
Can such an humble instrument we are. ever
sacceea in awakening this widespread people,
with SO many diversified, and even conflicting in
tercs:s, to sense 0: their danger, and iA,!ucc
them u wire on the only subject which can cX
tend their na@a! existence for even one ccnt,ry
from its birth, viz:"a repeal Of the Naturalza-
ton Laws, ard the arresta!ion Of indiscrimina;c
Immigration" And when we contemplate he
magnitude Of The task and the apathy Of the
American people, we arc almost ready toahandou
the cause in dspair. Indeed, nothing bu. he-
lief in the goodness of that Pn,saence vh", ..;aS
50 manfcsily watched over the dcstInics 81 oar
country uplo this period, sllstains Us.
The lion may be entrapped IN the tolls Which
have beer laid by lie hunter but The insi~}>'fl,
cant mouse may gnaw the mcshcs Of "" net
which binds him down, snl eAec! his DE- ~
ancc.
Appealing, lhcn to the 5elrche. Of hears for
the rrc,i:udc Of Intentions in whose h"n''.
the weak may be made might to save we ~',att
prosecute Our labors, regardless Of the SCOTS.
sneers and frowns Of The enemies of our country: