The native American., 1839-09-28
CRIML NAILS.

CRIMINALS.
From the Baltimore Sun, we take the annexed
remarks, which show what has been NANTES, 10
every one for the last fifteen years who would
open the eyes of his understanding to see, that
the European States are making use of US as
place of exile for their conyic's and as paupcr-
house for their mendicants. 1t is this, together
with the undue influence Of foreigners ia our po-
litcal system, that has given origin to Native
American Associations, and if misguided politi-
clans and party men would only remove the pre-
judice and apprehension that obscures their vision
upon this subject, and instead of looking upon Us
as opponents Of this set or advocates Of another,
would regard and judge of us by our motives and
the necessity for our action, they would, or those
of them who are Americans, would see, that we
are directing all our efforts, and calling forth
those Of our slumbering coantrymen, to the sup
preston of the very evil complained of in the
!" Sum- and that, as a body of men, we have no
more to do with party than we have with the az
fairs Of the Great Cham of Tarary.
Every one must admit that theBnted States were
neither intended, nor ought to be, the asylum for
those who flee from justice or sent to us upon
the score Of self-preservation, for those whose
communities they leave. At one time, the argu-
ment that we offered shelter to the oppressed,
was perhaps tolerant and reasonable; but that
time has long since passed: the improvement in
the estimate Of mans relative rights in Europe,
has abated much of the tyranny that existed in
former days-so that those Of the multitude who
are now the subjects of oppression, have little
claim to sympathy or an asylum abroad, when
the means and the capacity for redress are in their
own hands at home. If they have not the spirit
to resist oppression at their own fTesdcs, they
will be poor votaries Of Liberty here. The fact
that the different States of Europe have for years
been empying their prisons upon our shores, and
committing the punishment Of their elons BY trans
portaton here, has long been known to us, and
i'm al official communication from the Mayor of
Baltimore in 1898, to the Secretary of State, he
apprises that officer Of the arrival of three ships
lrom Bremen, freigh,ed with convicts. Some of
our Consuls abroad have also advised our Govern
lnent Of a system, in some of the Empires in the
North Of Europe, to disgorge all their redundant,
population Of malefactors upon us, and thus rid
themselves OF the cost Of their detention, as well
as of their depredations. We are, however, all
So much taken up with politics and speculatious,
and the increase of population, to carry out the
schemes of landhodcrs, that we could not pause
to invite the attention of Congress to this great
evil, which is sure, unless speedily checked, to
become monster, an incubus, a curse upon us,
that time will only aggravate, instead Of lessen
ing.
There has been recently, however, change in
our general affairs, which. though prodnetivs Of
painful feelings at first, may yield good fruits and
healthfulness to the people. The present suspen
sion Of credit bank accommodations and business,
causes all men to look round them, to compare
their former mode. of living with what il should
have been, to lay plans for systematising their
economy and restricting their wants, and in the
calculation Of individual circumstances, to COM
prehend occasionally that Of the coun,Sv and her
future prospects. In this examination, men begin
to see that the multitude of foreigners among US
in these days Of retrenchment are like guests who
remain after the banquet, and who, though well
come from the carelcssness which abundance once
gave, arc now trespassers when the feastis finish
ed. What remains is scarcely enough for the or
binary and natnral'members Of the family, and the
strangers who claim share are like pilferers OF
hoSx Il
that we have been precocous III our National and
domestic advances; that we have grown like the