Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-08-17


"If there can be more striking
proof Of the foreign despotism which
through party spirit rides "rough shod'
over our otherwise free and happy land,
than the silence of the general Press
on a subject of such vital Importance,
as a repeal Of the naturalization laws,
we cannot imagine it.
Americans!-Countrymen9--
burst your letters and hold up your free
hands, as your fathers did. Declare
your unshackied opinions: say,--are sOe
right, or are ace 7orong?'-.NatiDe Ameri-
can.
The annexed is from the Savannah
Georgian, whose editor, WILLIAM II.
Bullock, Esq. is a NATIVE American.
He has "burst his letters" and their
clankinging will crate harsbly on GER
tain ears
NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOCIA-
TION
The receipt ola pamphlet, stitched
in blue," purporting to be an "Addrcss
from the Native American Association
of Louisiana to the citizens Of the Uni
ted States,'' has caused us to reflect on
the subject Of the naturalization laws.
In the work before us, the most pre-
posterous and anti American doctrines
are promulgated-t:lc most unblushing
assertions made BY men who themselves
have not whit more interest in the
Constitution than those they would ex
ciudc.
.Natioe americans Why, Black Hawk
or Tecdnseh, Oseolao or Alligator have,
or had. much better claims to this cx-
elusive name than Mr.. Bale Peyton.
or Mr.. Wigginton, members; or Col.
Chris:v, the president of this new asso-
citation, which prcsumes to amend the
Constitution, and drive all foreigners
cut Of the land.
Mltins .Amsricans,! Seventy years
have not passed away since we became
d nation and could use the proud name
Of American ritizens-and the men
that accomplished the liberty Of our
couatry, and cmancipated it from for
eign lhraldom, never cloggcd than en-
yiablc distinction by the epithet NATIVE
mo, they left that for the wise men
of sew Orleans, who arrogate to them
selves tta right Of revising the natd-
raza.ion laws!
.r-."-, .4mer3cansH! Who was
Washing on. the saviour Of his coun.
try: TIE h4trument Of Divine Proyi-
dence for mighty purpose? Who, we
ask again, was this great man; who
commanded The respect and admiration
of his enemies, and who was indeed
s.lhc first among men?' Geo. Wash
ington was the great grandson of an
English country gentleman. He first
dew breath on the banks of the Potc-
mac, and in his early days he was cal
led Virginian. 1t is true his anccs-
tors lived in Virginia for three genera.
lions; but will any man take it upon
himselfto say, that Washington would
not have been as brave, as wise, as good,
had he been born in the country Of his
ancestors, and cmigrated hither, as he
was though all his life! Certainly not.
Did HE ever make any distinction be-
tween the BRAVES that surrounded him
and who hocked to his standard from
transatlantic climes9 Neverl He knew
The temper of their blades, and that the
foreign arm was as ready to strike for
the freedom Of America as those of her
own sons.
NATIVE AMER1cANs!!! Who we're
the officers to whom the immortal
Washington confded some of the most
hazardous enterprises during the revo-
lutionary war; To Steuben; to Stir
ling; to Lafayette. Yet these brave
men. whose blood was shed in accom-
plishing the freedom ofthis country, in
giving birth to that liberty which this
PSEUDO American Association would
desecrate; these brave men, according
TO NATIVE American dogmas, had no
RIGHT to unsheathe their swords-to at
tempt to free America, until they were
tlcs,,tg one years in the country! Oh, alb
surdity! Oh nonsense! Thy name is
NnrvE American Association; and thy
home is New Orleans!
NATIVE AMERlcsSsl!! In the hour
of trial, was there a man more ready
to do his duty, than he, who loving
csaado,v with his whole heart, even bra
we'd the dangers Of voyage across the
broad Atlantic, to intermingle IN the
strife? No. When the fate Of this
great nation was decided by the ever
memorable Declaration Of Indcpcn-