The native American., 1839-04-13

sense in which that word is generally understood.
We seek no political supremacy. We profess
no distinctive principles of government differing
from those of the political parties of the country.
We seek to enforce no such policy, other than
we openly avow. We only desire to carry out
the great undeniable, legitimate principle of all
governments that the native citizen shall have the
right to prescribe the terms on which others
shall be admitted to citizenship, and who shall be
so admitted; and to the citizens alone belongs the
rightto administer, directly or indirectly, the Go
vernment. We do not say native citizen be-
cause the laws have already guaranteed certain
privileges in that respect to naturalized as we'll as
native citizens; and we maintain the supremacy
Of the laws, and would vindicate every vested
fright granted by the Legislature. Nay, we go
farther; we protest against any interference with
an inchoae right in the alien to BECOME naturali-
zed. We are not party seeking political power
for our friends, and warning against all others
who do not subscribe to the tenets we profess.
Our only warfare is against those who, pre(erring
the foreigner to the native born, court the intro
ing party aggrandizement strike at the great
safeguard of our chartered liberties, the virtue
and intelligence of the people. Against these we.
have once and again, and do now declare a set
tied hostility, no matter by what political dstinc
ton they may seek to be known.
We appeal to every American citizen, whether
native or naturalized, whether for or against the
groundwork Of our Association, to do us Justice.
We ask nothing more. We disdain to court pop
ular favor by welding the energy of the associa-
ted natives to promote the interests of any popu-
lar party, parties are now understood to be ar
rayed. Our aim is the common good of our COM
mon country. We see and daily hear and feel
the evils resulting from the indiscrmnate offer of
our naturalization, to the noble and industrious,
and the base and idle the honest and capable, and
the vicious and worthless refugees by which our
country has been almost inundated; and we, speak
ing in behalf of our associated brethren, appeal to
every sincere and devoted American to unite
with u.s. and either turn back or arrest, or at least
ourselves. We want nothing. We hope for no.
thing beyond this. We will not even permit
ourselves to be driven into the arms of either of
the parties, the ms or the outs; and we warn the
American people not to be led away by the cry
that the Native American Association are affilia-
ted with either. We do this the more emphati-
cally because it will be an evil day, pregnant with
disastrous results, when we shall see the broad
line Of distinctive party drawn between the native
and the naturalized citizen-when the natura-
zed citizen shall control the desnies of this coun
try. And such, we greatly fear for time, would
be the result, if this unhallowed and monstrous
scheme of identifying the Native American Asso-
Citations with any great political party, shall ever
be effected. This is as apparent as any mathe
NAUTICAL result from ascertaned data. We know
the fantastic speculations of theorists in liberty,
would even annul the little restraint that our laws
of naturalization now impose on the alien, and
would, on his leaping from the ship which brings
him from palace or dungeon, from the hotbed
of legitimacy, or the stagnant pools of subjuga-
ted republic, hail him CITIZEN. In their latitude
nal exposition of the preamble to our great bill of
rights, that all men are born free and equal, they
would extend equal freedom to all men, on their
crossing the threshold Of their country. With
such enthusiasts or Missionaries, we have nought
to do. We require regulated liberty, and we
have been taught to believe that before the child
talks, it must lisp. But they 60 still further, and
not only invite all, but empower those who &C
cept their invitation, to invite all others. What
would be thought of the sanity of that man who
having garnered up with toll and care much pro-
vision, and having his barns and houses we'll filed
should go out on the way-side and call in all who
passed-the wayfaring and the felon-to
partake with him, nay, to give them the power to
dispose Of every thing he had thus laboriously
accumulated! And yet what are these men doing?
Worse, ten thousand times worse They not
only accord to them equal privileges with them
selves in the holding and disposng of property,
but by combining them as body, by arraying
them against the native, they are placing in their
hands the disposal of those chartered liberties,