Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-08-15
JAMES M. SMILEY, EDITOR.

Illie, MS fortune, ana MS sacred honor"
The children Of those foreigners who aidet
our fathers in securing our liberties, are nov
native Americans-but the descendants of those
foreigners who sought TO ensave us, are aliens
in distant land, and are now crowding hithe]
TO avail themselves Of the benign government
against whose institutions their ancestor.
fought.
Are we TO permit such as these to avail them
sel@ Of "their own wrong" and enter ou
country, unquestloned, unnoticed, and unop
posed, TO consummate by fraud, corruption
and violence the overthrow of thoN blood
bought institutions against the establishment
of which, in open war, their foreign father!
Vainly commended?
Even after the revolutionary war had termi
mated, the perpetuity and practicability Of ou
republic on so z igantic scale as was necessa
rily contemplated prospectvey, was consider
cd in great degree predetermined.
1t was indeed an experiment, and all foreign
ers who came among US, hazarded all their fu
ture hopes and prospects upon its success, anc
inasmuch as they had periIled their all upon
the Successful result Of the experiment, they al
so were entitled to all the rights, privileges
and immunities of the native born inhabitants
Of the soil.
These they have possessed, and their chill.
dren, and childrcn's children will continue to
enjoy them to the latest generation.
Not only have foreigners who aided our ia
theirs in therrevolutionar exertions, and those
who contributed to build up the incipient great
ness of our country but all other foreigners
without distinction, who during the last half
century, have fled for refuge from Transatlantic
despolism to this happy land, have enjoyed
the same rights, immunities and privileges also;
and almost every Office in our country, from
the highest to the lowest, has been filled by nat
uralized foreigners, Unfortunately, as by
native born citizens.
The engagements Of our fore-fathers with
foreigners (when they made this land an asy-
lum for the oppressed Of every nation, guaran-
teeing to them under certain conditions, and
after certain probation, equal rights, immnni-
ties, and privileges, with the native born chill
dren Of the soil,) have therefore been amply
redeemed, and they stand as ever spotless and
Immaculate, and no reflection can ever be just
ly cast upon their memories, if zoe their descen-
dants, deem it our duty for the safety of our
country, and her institutions, at This period Of
ttWt, W ChduSt lliS ullLutlOn laws JU JH~
Ere generations.
No,O when the permanoncy ofuur republican
institutions is established upon firm and i'm
muta6le basis, when our country's mag0fi-
cent destnies are beginning to be fulfilled,
when our power is acknowledged throughout
the universe, when we have nothing TO appre-
bend from comparison with any nation ofthe
world, when we are able 10 resent the aggres-
sions, or humble the arrogance of any extor
nal enemy VINO may, by unwarrantdble acts,
incur our resentment, when so abiding is the
attachment 10 our institutions throughout this
hemisphere. that every internal enemy which
has arisen to agttae the elements Of our holy
Union, has been laughed to scorn by the uni
ted voice of the whole nation,
Can foreigners who emigrate to this land,
under these propilious circumstances, not to
encounter periIs, but to reap the rich reward of
revolutionary sufforings, can those who nor0
come but to bask in the bright beams Of nation
al contentment, happiness, and prosperity, who
are permitted to reap in peace and security,
the rich harvest which our fathers sowed in
anguish, TOLL and blood, to enjoy the fruits of
our indugent institutions, and 10 sit under their
own vine and fg-tree, and none 10 make them
fafraid, can such as these, (many of whom
are the direct descendants of the very tyrants
against whose Vaccinations, our fathers strug-
| ged) -can such as these be permitted to de.
mand equal rights, privileges, and immuniiies,
or to accuse America, if she refuses to grant to
them, and 10 future immigrants, the same terms
of citizenship, which were permitted to those
who aided the revolutionary Patriarchs in their
unutterable yearnings after liberty, or who
pcrilled their all in defence and support OF our
country, when beset with every danger, and
encountered by external and internal enemies!
II No, it cannot be! Justice forblds it! Patriotism
forbids it! 1t is indeed setting too low an estl-
mate upon the blessings which the inexPressi-
BILE suferngs and privations OF our revolution
airy fathers have achieved for US, to render
them accessible TO cuery foreigner 'oHo 'Ot'' con"
descend to accept them.
We have received from our foreiathers a
sacred trust; our wsest and best have toIled
and struggled through every turmoil, danger,
and suffering to achieve it. A Washington, a
Jefferson, and an ADMINISTRATORS and sages
OF the revolution, have torewarned us OF the
baletul consequences of foreign influence IN the
United States Let US emulate their noble ex-
ample and strive I'd transmit those blessings,
which they have bequeathed to US, untarnished
and unendangered to future generations.
The next argument which is employed to de-
monstrate the necessity Of continuance OF the
naturalization laws, is that their repeal would
prevent immigration to this country, and that
we require foreign aid to cultivate our fields,
navigate our fleets, and give potency to our mil
itary establishments.
| To this we answer.