The native American., 1839-09-14
From the N. o. Natipe American.
SECOND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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w men III the course Oh human events 1t becomes
necessary for PEOPLE to abolish the legal priv
ileges which mngle them with all others, and to
correct what they conceive to be the errors of
their early legislators, to the end that they may
preserve and hand down, unimpairea, to the Ia
test posterity the rich inheritance which was
bought by the blood of their fathers and to which
the laws Of Nature and of Natures God entitle
them decent respect for the opinions of such
of their fellow citizens as honestly differ from
them, requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them TO the separation.
We hold these truths 10 be sefevident that all
men being created by the same Almighty power,
are Justly entitled to equal political rights IN their
o,rn nafiUe land; that these rights are given
them by their Creator and are inalienabe; that a
mong them are life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness; that to these rights, laws are insti
tuted and executors of laws appointed deriving
their Just powers from the of the governed
that whenever any law or laws become destruc-
tive OF these ends it is the right of THE PEOPLE
to alter and abolish them, and to institute new
laws, laying their foundation on such principles
and organizing their administration in such form
as to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence indeed will dictate that laws long es-
tablished should not be changed for light and
transient causes, and accordingly all experience
has shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are suferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they
are accustomed. But when long train Of abuses,
intrigues, and clanish combinations, pursuing
generally the same object, evinces design to
reduce the NATIVE Sons OF AMERICA to a state
OF vassalage to IMPORTED FOREIGN HoRDEs, and
to extirpate las has been thrcaened) even their
Glands language it is their solemn duty to abol-
ish such laws and TO provide new guards for their
future security. Such has been the patient suf-
ferance Of the People Of these Uuted States, and
such is now the necessity which calls upon them
at once and forever to ABOLISH THE NATURAL
IzATIoN LAWS.
The history of large portion of the foreign
population of the United States, is a history OIL
intrigues, crime and pauperism; the first, having
in view the absolute control Of the sacred and
institutions OF our land, and the
two last tending to the disparagemcnt and degra-
dation of our character as nation
TO prove this, let facts be submitted to can
did world
They have landed in hordes upon our shores,
and without solitary idea of the principles Of our
Government-in thousands Of instances without
the ability to write, read, speak the language
OF constitution and laws, and with their shoes
yet soiled with the mud of their foreign birth.
places, have, through the medium of foul and
wicked PERJURIEs, attained to the high and clio
rlous privileges of FREE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
They have sold their right to vote, thus wick
edly obtained-a right the value of which they
have no conception-a right which our fathers
bought with their blood on many we'll fought
field, and on the wise and intelligent exercise oil
which, the stability Of our institutions rests; they
have bartered their right to vote in the public
market for mess Of pottage.
They have, at the instigation of political dem
agogues, banded together around our polls for the
purpose of lettering the aged and infrm our
gray headed sires who perchance crossed wea-
pons with their fathers when liberty lay bleeding
on the fields of Lexington Monmouth and Bun
ker Hill ;-they have banded together to deter
these fathers Of the revolution from exercising that
sacred right for which they had lazarled their
lives their fortunes, and their sacred honor
They have filled our land with crime, intem-
perance and beggary; our prisons and alm-houses
with criminals and paupers, and have garnished
our scaffolds with guilty sacrifices to offended
laws.
They have brought with them the local, Sec
tiona and political feuds Of their own lands to
outrage the public peace with riot and boodshed
They have through the influence Of their clan
ish combinations insinuated themselves into
large proportion of our offices of honor, trust,
and proit-in many instances even while ignor-
ant of our laws and language; carrying into the
discharge of their official duties the prejudces
and "insolence of Office" which are characteristic
of ignorance ''dressed in little brief authority"
and the free born sons of America are often sub
jected to the humiliating alternative ofseekng an
interpreter in order to explain themselves to some
foreign american functionary, here in their oaon
"natiue Land.''
They have nsolently rebuked us for abiding
to "Old England" as our "mother country"--they
have impudenty boasted that ere long the Ian
guage of Shakespeare and Of Washington shall
become extinct in land that our laws shall be
written in GERMAN TEXT that our national halls
shall echo to the jargon of foreign tongue, and
that the glorious fabric reared and hallowed by
the blood of our fathers, shall be riven asunder
to give place to New GERMANY, with its petty
States and petty princes.
We have not been wanting in attention to this
Subjective have warned the people from time
to time of the alarming increase of foreign inter-
ference. We have appealed to their native pride
to their love of country-to their jealous re-
gard of our character as nation--to the sacred
duty resting upon them Of transmitting, unbem-
ished, to our pos,erty, the rich inheritance be-
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