The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-10-23
TO AMERIC READ AND RE-
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We sonietime stink TINT it u impoasi1le
any American, be lie native OF ilnfuralix
who loves the institutions Of our country,
and. desires to transmit them 0nblemished
and u1impaired to his postefity can look
upon the immense immigration Of foreigners
BY birth, and aliens in feeling, to our coun-
try, which IS now going on-all Of whom
are, in. y few shot years, to exercise 4 direct
influence on our institutions we say we
have often thought that no real lover Of his
country could look upon these things, and.
not feel the same emotions of horror which
affect Us, when we contemplate the terrible
precipice on which our country is slumber-s
ing!
According 70 all human probability, and
indeed judging statistically ofthe future from
the past, there win be in twenty years or
less, from this time, majority of natural
lied citizens in the United States! Indeed,
we do not outnumber them much, at this
time. -.
When that period arrives, and our coun-
trymen find themselves outnumbered at the
ballot-boxes throughout the whole United
States, when they see new features stamp
ed upon our institutions, and new and anti
American principles and practices ins.itu-'
ted in our country--the glorious constitution
which we have been taught to venerate, dis
carded to give place to foreign engraffments
by pieccmeal-then will the American peo-
pie awake from their fatal lethargy then
will they see and feel the Justice Of the
warning which we have SO often repeated
to their inattentlye ears: but it will be too
late.
They will then learn that they had mad
ly bartered their sacred rights for foreign
labor, and that the alien and the stranger to
whom they have thus prodigally bestowed
their inexhausttble prerogatives, will not be
disposed to relinquish them. Then, when
the destinies of our country rest with those
who have no congeniality of feeling with
ourselves, peradventure the noble spirit Of
cur fathers may rally in the bosom Of their
degenerate sons, and an effort may be made
TO recover our prerogative-but it will be
too late-and any attempt to retrieve their
forfeited rights, will deIuge our country in
blood! Then, when may years of civil
war have weakened their exertions and
thinned their numbers, the accommodating re-
cruits from foreign lands, will eventually
subjngate our native sons land after long
ages Of sorrow, suffering, slavery and mill
tary misrule to our children, under some fu-
ture victorious Chieitain, new dynasty
/ will arise, and our wretched posterity, like
the Saxons Of old, will become extinct as i
nation; and the last glorious experiment o
selfgovernment in the world, will have fail
\ ed forever!
] This is no fancy picture. 10 fifteen year
from this period, if immigration continues Il
the ratlo in which il has hitherto progressed
it will be out of The power of the nativ'
population ofihe United States to repeal tn,
naturalization laws, if they would. VIVA
patriotic American can desire to see til,
political destinies of his beloved country con
fded to heterogeneous mass of foreigner
/ by birth, and aliens in feeling and educa
tion-be they ever SO virtuousP What pat
riotic native American does not see in EN-
bryo the inevitable destruction, that await
the sacred institutions for which so man.
! martyred patriots poured out their life
blood?
In FIFTEEN YEARS FROM THIS PERIOD,
WILL BE OUT OF THE POWER OF THE NATIv
AMERICAN POPULATION OF THE UNITE
; STATES, TO REPEAL THE NATuRALIzATIo
LAWS, should foreigners then, as they ar
now, be opposed to the act. Even at TIL
time an intelligent foreigner, and one VIII
understands what he says, has boldly ayov
g ed that ssIT IS ALREADY OUT OF THE PowE
Q OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION I
REPEAL TINE NATURALIZATION Laws" An
party, he says, to remain in power, is, con
PEELED todepend upon foreigners for supper
Let the statesman, the politician and d
y private citizen, ponder over these thugs.
When in sober seriousness we cOnten
plate the direful fact, by rigid statistical ca
cnlation, that in fifteen gears from this pei
cd, the object Of all the tolls and struggle
of the revolution, will have been defeate.
r that our country will have to depend for q
safety other liberties, and the security
her Institutions, upon the mercy Of the alis
and the stranger; that ssthe scepter will hal
2 departed from (the Amerlcan) Judah. q
q lawgiver from between his fee; v
I 4e ready, like the prophet Df JerusaIei
s pfevions to her destruction, to rush throul
= The land, and cry sWoE, woE! 70 our cotlntr
II We sometimes ponderinglv ask ourseNe
stCan such an humble ihstrulnen ut as we al
ever succeed in awakening this wide-sprel
people, with SO many diversified, and evl
conflicting Interests, to sense Of their ia
tel ger, and induce them 20 write oil the %
subject which can extend their nationaf !
istence for even one century from its t,irl
viz: g repeal Of the Naturalization Law