Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-08-08

tor Daniel O'Connel.
When we tell our contryn that q large
majority of the Offices of homo ast, and pro-
fit, throughout our country al occupied by
(oreigners--that when young l. we Anier.
can changes his residence in pursu. Vt fortune,
he must carry with him from place = place
spotIess reputation, ard even then his per-
haps repulsed with cold and heartless il Sder-
ence, but no sooner does foreigner apps Uni
our land, than without any enquiry as Il VI
past history, he is grasped warmly by !
hand, and is surrounded by host OF trieno
and benefactors, and heaven and earth are mo-
we'd, until by dint Of irrepulsible and pertlna-
cious application he is thrust into some lucra-
| tive Office, to the exclusion oil native born
American, whose nicer delicacy or higher tone
of feeling, and greater refinement, have pre-
vented him from pursuing the same lmmodest
course, and left him TO pine in poverty and per-
haps in misery. Thus are the Official, Com
mercial, and Pecuniary power and influence of
| foreigners, extended throughout our country.
When we tell our contrymen, that many OF
the professors in our Colleges and Universities
are foreigners, and that the Press, the great
moral lever of nations, has almost been abso-
|lutely rnonopolzed by foreigners for melan-
presses, foreigners are too often permitted to
control them--lhat presses whose whole OBJ
ject, aim and end, is the establishment of O for
eign tone and feeling among the multlarious
hosts of foreigners now in our country, have
been quietly permitted TO erect themselves
| throughout every part of the United States
Presses which can perceive nothing vrtuous,
benfcent or admirable, nothing glorious, just
or wise, in the United States her institutions,
or her people,-but who shout p@ans of praise
and aduIation TO all foreigners and every cir
cumstance of foreign origin.
When we point our countrymen to the fact,
that almost the whole machinery OF our Crimi-
nal Courts, is sustained by foreign malelactors,
at great expense Of time, toll and treasure TO
the people of the United States and with fear.
| full deterioration Of native American manners
and morals.
| When we tell our countrymen, that in the
9 private and social circles, where foreigners
, congregate unobserved by the eye of the native
: American, that jbes, taunts, and insulting sar-
casms are heaped upon our country, and her
Y institutions, and comparisons the most appro
!. brious and degrading to US, are made between
r oar habits, manners and capacities, and those
q of the countries from which they have beer
transported or escaped for refuge to our happy
land.
When we tell our countrymen, that through
out the United States, in every city, town and
village there exists societies Of foreigners, who
hold their meetings in great degree in secret,
and their proceedings remain unscrutinlzed by
native Americans, and that although generally
under the color of Benevolent purposes, their
objects may be political, or at least be entirely
foreign. Nothing that could be beneficial toI
our country, can result from them.
When we tell our countrymen all these
things, and every native American heart, res
ponsve echoes the truth and justice OF our as
sertions, let no native American hereafter say
in answer to our appeals, "Oh! a few foreign
ers more or less, can never do any INJURY To-
the United States"
Even all these things we might make out to
endure but when we see the crime oil perjury.
so common of late as almost absolutely TO nave
ceased to awaken those feelings OF horror
which it formerly engendered in the minds oil
the American cdmn1unity--when we see the In
Fiction of summary and impulsive vengeance
substituted for the majesty olthe lee ScTtPta or
written law, to whose supremacy the people OF
the United States were formerly so proverblaI,
i ly subservent, and when we see the dreadful
deterioration Of manners and morals within
the last few years in the United States, amongst
our own countrymen, upon the broad, natural
and inevitable basis that "Evl communications
corrupt good manners" 1t is then that we
tremble for the blood bought Liberties of our
native land, and the purity and perpetuity Of
our halowed institutions. ...
Il Nor can we close our eyes to the tact, that so
powerful is foreign influence daily becoming
in the United States, that hundreds OF thou
sands Of our native born brethren, who feel the
same aspirations which animate us, are becom-
ling intimidated, and are almost ready to sue
comb to what they fear will be our ultimate
/ destiny. This Is no novel sensation amongst
our countrymen. .
\ During the dark period Of the revolutionary
war, the hopes Of many patriotic but timid splr-
Its, we're Frustrated and their eXertioHs parali-
ICED, by the conviction that all was lost, hence
they forbore to express their feelings IN rela'
ton to the then pending contests and thus their
moral influence was lost to their country But
. she survived. So at the present time, we dali
ly meet with men, who declare 1t as their set
tied opinion that foreigners have already &C
guired so much power in the United States
THAT no exertons Of the native inhabitants can
Clever procure repeal of the naturalization
law, and they are therefore disposed to shrink
/ from the struggle in ablect submission, bellev,
/. ing as did their pusillanimous predecessors OF
!, revolutionary times that "aH is LOST
But thanks 10 the All-wise disposer Of events,
{ that although the trainers Of the American Con
! s,itution empowered Congress 10 make uni.