Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-08-15
o become prematnrey infrm and unsubslan.

We not only receive into our country, horde
of aliens in feelings, principles, prejudices, anc
' habits of thinking, but through the instrumen
, tality Of our naturalization law, we endow then
5 with the prerogatve of influencing our institu
tons and decidkg on the future desinies o
f, our beloved coGntry,-can such men who have
} been taught from their earliest infancy to des
plse and abhor our. country. her inhabitants
: and her institutions (See O'Connel's speech
+ es)-men who have no idea of rational liberty
social virtue, or political subordination, excep
:, by the strong hand, and iron rule of Vcerega
: task maSters-nen Infatuated by education tc
tumut and instruction, and practically Iami
lar with the foulest actions comprised in the
dark catalogue ofcrlme.
Are such as these TO be depended on to pro
tect our country from foreign Invasion, when
perhaps one half ofthem are imbued with feel
ings Of superior loyalty to the invading enc
my, and devotion to their success; while the
remainder are utterly destitute of any moral
restraint, insusceptible Of military subordina
ton, and capable only of such degree of fdel
Iity, as they conceive to be Immediately condu
Give to their private and individual interests?
u What can we anticipate from such materials
as these, but a perpetual series of disafecton
mutiny, and infdelity, which would soon cor
rupt and vitiate our native American troops in
war, as their perncous examples and evil com
muncations are rapidly subvertng and over
turning our social institutions in peace.
A statistical investigation of the mutinies
and Irregularities on board of our various mer
chantmen, for the last fifteen pears, has salts
fed us that the various cases Characterization
efractory conduct, robberies and even muir.
ders, may be traced to the foreign proportions
of their crews. In the Navy Of the United
States, where the discipline is more severe and
proper subordination is preserved, foreign sea.
men are prevented from doing much injury
but even there the disposition to insubordina.
ton and maIevoent feelings is constantly dis.
played, and they are more frequently the sub
iects of punishment for offences than the native
born American seamen, and even there the de
moralizing influence Of their example is sens
BILE felt and appreciated by the officers of the
American Navy.
Were the naturalization laws repealed
foreigners would have no temptation to remain
in large cities, 20 be employed for political pur
poses, and were they influenced by desire o.
rendering any real benefit to the United States
they would accomplish that object most efectu
ally, by employing themselves in agricultural
pursuits, and if they are really in love with lib
erty and independence, and have actually cross
ed the Atlantic in pursuit of those blessings
they will find and enjoy them in all their pri-
meval purity IN the remote forests of the West,
where they can by a moderate degree of in
dustrious exeriions make the Wilderness to
blossom as tho rose-become the pioneers of
improvement, and rear up a race Of native
American yeomanry to add to the strength and
glory of our common country.
Let this country remain then forever the
asylum of the oppressed and prosecuted of all
countries, and let foreigners continue to enjoy
every privilege except that OF de'ermlnng on
our political questions, which should be reser-
we'd to those born on the soil, whose first breath
has been drawn in land oflberty, and whose
love of rational and constitutional freedom has
grown with their growth, and expanded with
their intellect.
Another argument constantly and trium-
phantIy urged by our opponents, and which
they seem to consider perfectly unanswerable,
is the lolIowing:-
"That although foreigners having no con-
troll over their birth place, have indeed acct
dentaly been born in another land, yet being
in every respect as capable and as mcrltorlous
as ourselves, and noe being only indebted to dc-
cident for having been born in the United
States, without any choice or volition Of our
own, while they have come here voluntarily,
and of their own free will and accord" which
assertion however, we might we'll deny, and
state that they have been goaded hither, by
pauperism, oppression and crime, that they are
as good and in fact better patriots, and better
Americans, than we are, and that they conse-
quentIy possess equal ifnot superior claims to
all the rights, lmmunlies and privileges which
emanate from the liberal institutions of our
country.
One would hardly suppose that such sophis-
tica or rather contemplate slang, would be
hazarded by any man, pretending to common
sense aud yet we have heard it over and over
again from foreigners who proIessed to be schol-
ars, statesmen and logicians. 1t has been reit-
Grated from the press, and re-echoed by the
discordant howl offoreign appreciation through
out the whole u. States.
| If this untenable and preposterous doctrine
we're carried out, the entire system OF domestic
relations would be broken up,--the legal pos,
session Of property, would be destroyed, and
there would be an end Of civil government
no local, social, or political Institutions could
exist throughout the world Tor single instant,
The whole earth would at once become one
universal spectacle of anarchy, rapine and con
fusion the serf would be entitled to change
conditions with his lord, at will, and beggars
would contend successfully with monarchs for
their diadems, TO be speedily resigned to the