The native American., 1839-01-19


We have perused the Message of Governor
Seward of New York, to the Legislature of that
State, part of which deserves unqualified cen
sure. and we shall meet it out in due quantity
It's we'll known that New York is the great
mart of emigration from Europe, and is the very
hot-bed of foreign vice and crime. which show
themselves in frauds, riots, mobs, murders, and
every variety Of outrage against peace, morals,
law, and order. Witness the scenes that took
place during the late elections in New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, perpetratcd, as
it were, under the eye of Governor Seward, and
certainly within his knowledge. Accounts Of
the multifarious evils resulting from vile and
vicious alien population, come to us under the
sanction of names no less distinguished for re-
spectabity, intelligence and veracty, than that
Of the Governor Of New York. From his re-
marks it would seem, he does not consider this
state of things, as they now exist, an evil; nor
that the continued flooding Of our land with an
undis,nguished mass Of emigrants from other
countries. embeciles, paupers, convicts, and all,
is Objectionable So far from deprecatlng it, ne
encourages and courts it y! A thousand signs of
admiration would not signify our wonder, If our
knowledge of the politics Of the day did not fur
nish the explanation
lie refers to the surplus labor of European
states, and says: .'Ths is wealth; and the moral
energies Of those who bring it hher, are an ele-
ment of national greatness. 1t SO happens,
however, that a very large number of the recep-
taces of these ''moral energies from abroad, are
transferred to our poor-houses, and penltentlares
and ias. as soon as they reach our shores:
Another portion derives its sustaining stimulus
from private charities: Another lives by midnight
plunder: While yet another-lacking, at least,
physicd cnergies-perish in the streets and fill
thy novels Of our commercial cities.
Thousands upon thousands. it is true, congre-
gate upon the railroads and other public works.
in bands, where they sometimes labor on the
roads and very often be-labor one another as well
as our own countrymen (who have now, we be-
love almost abandoned those works on that ac-
c,unt), making it necessary, frequently, to call in
to reausi,ion the military arm TO sustain that OF
the civil authorities, de6ed and palsied by the
nhvs;cal superiority Of brute force. Does any
one want proof? Let him glance at the public
journals: and, above all, let him examine the sta
tst;cs of New York, and he will there find record
evidence.
Such characters, with very slight modicum
of respectable persons, constitute the modern
Goths and Vandals who are pouring in upon US
70 the well grounded alarm OF the rejecting pa
tr;o,. and who are invited to do so by the Gov
ernor OF New York.
These are the nsateriel in which exists the
..e,ement' Of our 'national greatuess!"
The following extracts--very pretty in struc-
,,re hut odious in sentiment-cons.itutc, i'll our
,,,;on. tissue of the idle and absurd notions OF
40 whose brain seems to be the sporting place
Of visions:-
Th.r . another resource which is ours, neither By
Inheritance, by purchase, nor py vioence nor "
a. Enronean States This is wealth. and the moral en-
ergies Of those who bring hher are an element o' ma
tional greatness. They come 10 US undel 'ie sae a
which controlled the coonsts III 'heT einS'a'io" az"
settlement here. They force themselves upon as eve"
though we inhosptably resist them.
.ihis tide is acquiring INCREASED volume an" e
locity from the reduction OF the distance between he mo
continents by Atlantic steam navigation lhey "no
ould roll it back, change not merely tne relations
.xs,nr between this country aud Europe but the cond
ton of society on both continents. They must reihVgo
rate the energies of Europe substitute democracies Tor
her thrones and religious oleration for her hielarchies
They must suhvet the institutions and reak down he
,ltas of liberty in America arrest the prosperity OF the
sstios, deprive enterprise Of Its uo'ves and deny oa