The native American., 1839-01-26

II IS an old saying, founded in justice end pro-
priety, that "chari,y begins at home.''
| In the inserted article, from the National In
telligencer, touching Senatorial proce edng. a
law Of Congress is referred to. by which the prn-
ciple of this adage is reversed. That law. the
offspring Of spurious sympathy towards the exiled
Poles, is, we think, as impotic as it is unjust.
Let il be known abroad, that to excite our COM
miseration, is TO secure to its objects liberal do
nations of choice land; and when should we cease
to be importuned with the pitiabe plea of, poor
eriles?
| 1t is lure to the worst classes of foreign COM
munties to come among MS; it is, in effect, an
incentive to avarice, and reward to Incidence;
Just as the prc-emption laws contain within them
selves the principle of sclfdesructon, by con-
ferring benefit upon their violator. So much
for the policy.
There are in some sections of our native State,
Nd, number Of laborious, honest farmers, equal
doubt, would be very glad to erile themselves to
the West, for the same or similar advantages;
nor would they, as it appears these foreigners
have done, verify the provcrh that ''proffered ia
vors smell unsavoury.'' These have not deigned
10 accept the boon--thereby showing that they
could do without it, and that it was little needed
and less deserved
But why should our Government extend its
kind and paternal care, its special charities and
benevoience, to aliens, in preference TO those per-
haps more needy, and certainly more deserving,
who have helped to make the country what it is.
eyen born upon the soil, and whose claims there
fore are innate? The same reason probably, GER
tainly no better one, that David had for taking
more delight in, and being more generous to, his
prodigal spendthrit son. than he manifested to
him who had served him faithfully and mnstered
consolation to him in his troubes-partiality.
We hope Congress will never hereafter be lef.
to act in similar case from the momentary inn
pulses Of their generous hearts, unrestrained by
the popular will. or by policy.
These eXiles, to a man, as far as we have
seen, possess at least physical ability; and on
the day Of their arrival here in good health, they
were on equal footing with thousands Of our coun+
trymen who commence the world at the age OF
puberty without cent without trade, wthou
experience, and under all these. disadvantages
make living. Let all OF our own people receiv't
attention who might justly claim it, on the grouns3
Of disability, physical and mental, first; and the,'
we can have some excnse for appropriating ou,
surplusage to ungrateful foreigners.
AS the case Of the Scotch paupers is OF so re
cent date, and Of character SO well calculates
to prove to the satisfaction and full conviction o
any person not wilfully blind the operation of y
general system established and carried on il,
foreign Countries, designed to purge and unbur
then them from their worthless and DEGRADED
population, we think it cannot be too well i'm
pressed on the public mind.
We therefore present to our readers anothei
version Of this case from the Sunday Morning
NeWs.
This paper has entered more into the minutia,
than the N. Y, Express, from which we quoted
in our last; in doing SO therefore we are onl,
fulfilling the avov ed intention of our paper Il
present this subject to the public, in every pos
sib!e view and in all its bearings, in SO far as thu
U. States are concerned : and we think it will b.
readily admitted by every man whose opinions
are not warpedby The mostunaccountab obliqui
ty, the actual want Of sense, that, far thh
system is to be Judged Of by US and acted on il
view Of its baneful consequences to our country
i, is high time that something done, if not to
rid us from corroding ulcer Of the body polite
at least to vindcate us from an egregious insult
which if longer submitted to will stamp will
stupidity, as we'll as weakness. We honestly
believe and declare that we see or,think we seh
just ground for the imputaon, that our politicians
are to too great an extent, tmeseryng ofiic"
seekers aud office holders, and ready therefore t"
throw any rubbish into their scale that will give
it preponderance; hence it may be said that we al
people if not overawed by, are under the in
fuence of an alien population.
| The Fardounians and Corkonians recently ha,
tremendous pickaxe, hoe and shovel fight OF
the canal near Chicago, ILL., 1t all arose from