The native American., 1839-11-02
REJECTS or FOREIGN JEALOUSY UPON THE
ADMINISTRATIONS OF JUSTICE.

rrrEcTS or FOREIGN JEALOUSY UPON THE
ADMINISTRATIONS OF JUSTICE.
We have often witnessed or read Of the general
excitement producel by the great body Of foreign
ers, in cases involving the pnnishment under the
law Of any ono Of their own countrymen. When'
!, few wears ago, the mail robbers were convicted
in PHILADELPHIA, the whole community was thrown
into commoon at the exercise OF the Executive
clemency in pardoning an American under strong
nrea,s from the citizens and the proof Of greatly
mitigating circumstances, and because the Euro
,,o.n IN whose behalf not one redceming trait
coul,l he urged, was allowed to expiate his mortal
ofrances under the last sacrifice of the law. 70
nular as the then President was, the sternness OF
his instce lost him many OF his alien friends,
,,,ho had worked his name and actions up into
sort Of party property which, IL their view OF o.
Eoat;ons. ought always TO have supported the
faction and its members whether right or wrong
Tn several of the States, similar scenes nave oeeh
.,ac.cd--the Governors have been suPpllcatca
f,r c,emency, not upon the score o. merit or o.
;,st;ce. but by reason of the long train OF num-
Lors who have clanored for their countrymen.-
1,o.son has sometimes been substituted Tor policy
an, where neither sympathy nor application pre-
valedhc ear Of the pubic Anchonayy ana MS iears
have been directed to the power OF the aVenglhg
n,,,,,;nde, whose "clans,'' ifthey could not COM
,,,so mercy. could at least promise revenge
whv ;s it that these foreigners should entertain
his eyclusiyeness Of feeling for those OF their own
,o,,a when, at the same time, they profess to De
An,ercans? The answer is plain; 1t IS an ema-
nation from nature, and proceeds from that ihdel-
7;b]e sympathy for the kindred OF our hsarsh ana
- which is intcrmixed with our being and
strengthened with our years The law whlcn
wakes i foreigner an American is an aruhciat
,naraton--a nero fiction as to trulh-whIle 'ha'
which made him what he first was by birth' was
tho elaboration, by the Divine spirit OF true anu
.a,,,l son and yotary Of the soil. The first IS
mere dresS-a statutory charac'er-which men
mi IN and off at pleasure being, though yester-
d.v an alien-today an Amercan-and tomorrow,
why tomorrow again an alien! wen may
with US, use us as they please. Now one IS the
oh;ef &c orr Engineers, and another our " Geolo-
oist:'' and anon the one goes back TO MS toyal
Master to act against as Minister Of War, while
.ho ether who has scarcely spent the last quarter
&c his American salary in England, comes back
in speedy mission to purloln, by knowledge
,,,;,od from our own archives, as much OF our
Eostcrn domain as her British Majesty may think
she oughtto have.
The other class Of subjects, constituted such by
the ties Of nature the love of country and the OBJ
lipa,ions Of patriots, arc those who, though they
nav all lose the rewards Of Office which the Tor
cigners have so long enjoyed, will nevertheless
he the true men to defend the country-not only
from the invaders from abroad, when they 90 come
Int from the enemy already at our hearths, aohe''
the distant enemy approaches, to claim their CO.
operation.
They were always enemies in disguise, though
clothed with your own clothing, and having most
,,nnaturally, the name Of American citizens =
thew have neither hearts nor feelings in common
with us, though they take "part and lot IN our
inheritance and hence it is, that when the clles
&c one Of their own countrymen are heard their
hearts go back i'll reyerson to his cause,and though
Stepped in malefncton '
Deserving Of ten thousand deaths
he becomes in their eyes the martyr of all flghte-
business, and the law, reason and justice, must
give way TO their demands.
Far be it from us 10 accuse any men, as class,
with the ;ntention in the first instance Of adopt
;ny the name of "American," to carry out
tie preiudices, or consummate the interests OF
their own country. We speak now not OF lndl-
yitlual acts-for although there are many mission
aries among us in behalf Of foreign monarches,
who are rewarded with caresses by the people,
and with Office by the Observation-Disclosures are
,,nsan,.s, nay tens Of thousands, as in charity
We hope, whose designs are as favorable to the
honor and welfare Of the union as il is possible
that strange hearts can entertain. We speak,
therefore, in general sense, Of the influences OF
nature, and the attachments strengthened by gene
ra,ions which, in conflict Of rights or interests
between the country Of the European and our own,
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