The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-08-31
INFLUENCE OF OUR PRINCIPLES Upon POLL
TICS.


INFLUENCE OF OUR PRINCIPLES Upon POLL
TICS.
1t has been recently charged by the "Globe'
OF this city, and by other administration papers
that the election Of Robert d. Owen, III Indiana
was defeated by the opposition of the Native A.
merican party. Now, although we deny the i'm.
pHcation that because the native citizens would
not vote for thai foreigner they were therefore OPP
posed TO his poi'ics, yet we admit and proclaim,
that he lost his election by the hostility Of the
Native Americans for The reason that he is not j
nafive.
We not only acknowledge that much but we
go farther, and admit that the Association in this
city furnished materials for his immediate district,
to aid in the prevention Of his success,-and still
further, that we rejoice i'll the consummation Of
our efforts The sceplical upon the subject of
our neutrality need not argue from this that we
take any part or lot III the political conflicts of the
day, for if our conduct in this particular has dis
pleased the Democrats, we san assure them we
have aimed similar arrow at their foes, the
Wings.
Ii the good citizens would look round them a
little, and see what the industry and zeal Of this
Association have done within the short period Of
two years, in awakening the attention Of the pub
lie to the danger of foreign population to our
interests, they would not be surprised to hear that
the moving of a little portion of their machinery
in distant quarter, where patriotism is warm and
vigilance active, should put down the pretensons
of the emigrant and sustain the rights Of their own
countrymen If coming events cast their shadows
before this single instance is only small presage
Of the great ends and good we are about accom-
plisng for land that politicians of all sides
and their presses, from the great Globe itself,
and its mimic echo the g Metropolis" to the dis
tant alien, the 9 Louisiana Advertiser may know
and feel that, notwithstanding their attempts to
treat us as political faction, and small ntegranl
of some other party, we are, nevertheless, dis
tinct and separate body of men, apart from Wings
and Democrats, though containing the ingredients
of both. and are about to be acknowledged as that
teriuna quid which all, as mere politicians, will
either fear or court; that third something against
which neither the combination Of all politicians
nor the union of all the foreigners with their
friends, aposale from the ranks Of Natives, can
avail them any thing, in whateverit shall hereafter
meet and patriotic for that third party to do,
either in behalf of the Lap Of Naturalization or
the future administration Of the Government q
the United States. We only want men Of renec-
ton to look little into objects, scan our good
purposes clearly, and study out the necessity for
our being, in order to make our creed and ouI
numbers as resistless as the waves Of the sea
against the commands Of Canute
In order to take an early and distinct stand
we advise our friends throughout the country
to propound questions to the several Presidential
candidates as TO their views in regard to the repeal
of the Law of Naturalization, SO that we may have
direct unders landing as to our future action, and
in the neantn avoid denying or awarding credit
ignorautly to eli Their candidate, for his, as yet, on
this subject, und iscovered patrio tism.
The Associati on i'll Louisiana is particularly
requested to lake early measures in thi, behalf.