The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-08-24
NEW ALLIES IN THE CAUSE.

We observe that the principles of our Associa-
ton are spreading wide and far, and besides the
mullitudes of individuals who respond in unison
to our natural feelings, there are number OF pa
pers who advocate our cause with talent and en-
ergy. Among those who have recently thrown
themselves into the arena upon our side, are the
Savannah Republican and the !" Lafayette Ga
zette,' and we cannot refrain from expressing our
gratefulnessfor the spirit and manliness with which
they defend our rights and attack our adversaries.
We tell the people, we mean the actual American
people of this country, that the struggle for power
for the last ten years by opposing political parties,
has been between the men ofthe soil on the one side,
and some of the men Of the soil and the foreigners
on the other; and we tell them, not in the spirit
of a. pretending prophecy, but in that certainty
of prediction which speaks OF results from present
facts, that in very few years, unless great activi
ty is Immediately used to avert it, the future con-
fict regards the administration of the public af
fairs of this country will be between all the fine
ricans on the one side and all the foreigners on
the other, with this painful reflections that doubt
rests upon the issue. With three millions Of
Germans spread over our West, and two millions
of Irish in our cities, it is quite problem to
who will control our destinies, when the contest
shall have assumed the character Of National dis
Effectiveness among the people. To this point it
will come. The increase of the American popu-
ation by our internal and natural MEANS is not so
great as that of the naturaized citizens, who come
to us daily by hundreds, the majority Of them
males and at maturity while our natural aug
mentation is accompanied with the impediments
Of infancy, and the proportion that female births
bear to the male.
When the foreign classes shall have grown SO
strong as to make them confident in the success Of
/. their undertakings, is there any man SO blind, or
so weak or so deluded as not to believe that they
will consummate their wishes, whatever they may
be, whouregard either to the feelings or the rights
Of Americans? Power, then, with them will be
right, as it has been in their countries, when
temporary revolution has given the ascendency
over established order; and they will enact here
the same scenes that have marked their progress
at home-scenes founded upon private aggrandise-
ment at the price Of private plumber and in the
riot of Righteousness, the sacrifice of patriots and
Natives in the pretended cause of liberty. We do
not hold these things up as phantoms arising from
prejudice to any man or men, only because they
are foreigners--to frighten the weak or to reani-
mate the infatuated-but as things that are now
visible in the seed, are growing, and will be
felt in all their fruitfulness ere many years.
Instead Of the great labors Of editors and writer's
of partisans and patrons in the efforts of parties
to defeat each other, were wiser to dissolve that
warfare and throw all that wasting strength, that
misplaced zeal, and those talents, into the greater
the nobler effort, to protect ourselves, as Native
people,. from the strangers who are among us, and
to build up an American party, to keep the gov
eminent, and our disputes about its management,
entirely to and among ourselves. Who that be-
longs to either of the present parties feel much
exultation at its success when, upon examination,
it is found that the credit of the victory belongs
not to Americans but to the preponderating indu-
ence of half million of foreign votes. No one
that loves his country more than party can rejoice
much at such state of things, and less SO when
he reflects that the means which gave him triumph
today, may give his adversaries victory tomorrow.
Put yourselves therefore, beyond the reach Of this
unnatural, this detested influence, and as band
of brothers, take the country and its destnes en-
tirely in your own keeping. Foreigners who
come to this Union, have no knowledge whatever
Of our institutions they cannot have-frst, be-
cause they are not understood in the land which
they come from; secondly, because they are only
learned from practice. They comprehend indis-
tinctly that Republic is the converse Of Mon
archy, and therefore make up their minds that
the best way to manifest an attachment to the
principles of the former, is to unite themselves
upon their landing here to the party of its admin
istration hence it is, that at this day, whatever
administration prevails, is likely to be continued
by the universal and unanimous strength of the
newcomers, and that too not because of any at
tachmen to its or hostility to its opponents,
but because, with all foreigners, it is the natural
track into which they necessarily fall, in order
"a manifest their admiration of old devotions and