The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-12-07


"fhat miserable hambug, the Native American
Association Of New Orleans, has selected Hon.
John G.. Calhoun as the organ to present their
petition to Congress. Common courtesy may
induce Mr.. Calhoun to present it, but his lofty,
liberal and patriotic spirit would scorn TO adj
vocate or countenance such iWbcral and riiicu-
ioas doctrines
We extract this paragraph from the "Scntinel
and Espositor," paper published in Vicksburg,
Mississippi, by a foreigner, to whom the mistaken
policy Of our laws has extended the rights Of
citizenship. Short as the paragraph is, and I'M
potent is the malignity Of its style, we yet
deem it not altogether inconsistent with the
great ohje:ts Of this paper to take passing
notice of it,
The Native American Association of New
Orleans, exhibits upon its roll large majority Of
the citizens and voters Of New Orleans, amongst
whom is proudly displayed many of the most
talented and distinguished citizens of Louisiana.
Men who yield to but very few, if any, in this
country, in all the qualities that dignity and adoln
the patriot, the philanthropist and the statesman
whose devotion to the country of their nativity,
and Of their adoption for many Of them are Of
foreign bir:h) has been most strikingly exhibited
in their cultivation Of the qualities that illustrate
the peaceable citizen, and the cheerful endurance
Of the hardships and perils Of state of war.
The assembling peaceably together Of such men
to petition the government of their own creation
and the rulers of their own choice for redress of
grievances, is styledby foreigner barely tolerat-
ed amongst them, as haanbug, and doctrines
consecratea by the deliberate judgments of Wash
ngton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jay and
host of the other fathers Of our country and the
| fabrcators of our free form of government, are
stigmatized as ."iWberm and ridiculous," by
one, who owes all that he has Of liberty (even
the liberty of publicly abusing) to the liberality
Of the very men he thus impudently assails But
this foreign editor is not content 10 disgrace his
journal by the of such epithets but in the ex-
uberance of his lberality, he has the auducity to
anticipate the course of the distinguished Senator,
selected by the New Orleans Association as the
medium of communication with Congress. Ii
Mr.. Calhoun does not exhibit a proper degree of
contempt for this I'm warrantable interference, we
confess that we have egregiousy mistaken his
character. We believe that if any man spurns
the dicatioa of others, and especially the dicta-
ton of newspaper editors, and most of all, the
dictat;on of foreigners, John G. Calhoun is that
man. If he will, as he has promised to do,
examine for himself the merits of the question he
has been called on to support we have no fears
for the determinations of his enlightened mind
He confesses that, heretofore, owing to other
great matters which have fully occupied his at
tention, he has not given to the subject that full
consideration which its importance demands, but
he has promised to examine the Naturalization
laws in all their bearings and in all their proba-
bic effects, and support or oppose the prayer of
the petition, as his judgment and conscience may
ultimately direct. We ask no more from Mr.
Calhoun or from any man.. We have asked only
for the exercise of a pure patriotism and sound
Judgment, untrammeed by party preudlces,
uninlimidated by threats, and unseduced by flatte-
lry-especially such Aattery as foreigners and de-
magogues may lavish. In the truth Of our doc
trines, and the patriotism of our motives, we have
an abiding confidence. We wait the appointed
time for delverance from tn overshadowing evils
of population Of foreign outcasts, with patience
and steady faith in final success. The
season of party spirit is now at its most alarming
height, but for that very reason, we know that
its subsistence is at hand. When our country
men cease their lraernal discord, they will unite
in one common effort, to keep their privileges
from being pitched from them, 20 be lavished
upon those hordes, who know not their value, and
who only snatch them to destroy. Then, and
The time is at hand, our Cays, our Van Burens,
and our Calhouns, will once more unite to 're-
pair the waste places" in our Institutions, and
guard them from future injury and dissertation.