The native American., 1840-11-07

| luSfratlon OF all the Christian virtues
Ny countrymen, Chief Magistrate
the Union is OH the eve of election, aud
whetherior veal or for wo, the consequent
ceS Of this election must be transcendent
| ly interesting to the future welfare Of our
young Republic. 1t is not rivalry Tor
the honors and emoluments of Office
which has produced the tremendous ex-
element now prevailing the country. 1t
is something far more grave and impor-
tant; it is the mighty principles involved
in the coming contest. II is The question.
whether the rising destinies of this great
country are to be crippled aud crushed by
the insulting surveillance of the stoclljob,
bers Of New York, or the money-changers
OF Threadnecde street; whether we are
to become a nation of slaves, or continue
a nation of freelnen; whether we are to
govern ourselves, or become the degraded
serfs Of banking bashaws. 1t is ques-
ton of liberty or slavery question the
grandest, the most awful, that can COM
mand the energies, or enlist the faculties
OF man Ii is, in short, a me rial struggle
for political supremacy between the De-
mocracy of Nnmners and the Aristocracy
OF Wealth. The battle cry of the former
is, Independence ordeath! the war whoop
of the latter is, Bidolle and the Barings
foreuer!
On one side are arrayed the friends Of
equal rights, liberty, and law on the 9TH
err the pensloned partizans of banking
prerogativc, partial legislation, and plum
dering monopoly. The hardy laborers,
the enterprising mechanics, and the hon
est yeomanry Of the Union, who earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow, are
narShalled on the one side; while the
manufacturing nabob, the iordly banker,
and the rapacous Shylocks Of Wall street
are posted on the other-molsters whose
food IS the flesh of their follow man, and
whose drink is the tears Of the widow and
the orphan
The result Of this great battle for Dem
ocratIc asccndency and constitutional free
dom must be cventful to the civilized
world, and to no portion of it more deep,
| ly SO than to the warm hearted emigrants
| from the Emerald Isle. Since the days
of the illuslrlous Jefferson, with the ex-
ceptlon of the four years administration
Of the younger Adams,) freshmen in
America have ever found an asylum aud
home: a liberal course of policy to
wards citizens of foreign birth, has been
systematically pursued by every Demo
cratic Administration down to the present
time. "A course of conduct perfectly in
character with the benevolent features OF
the Democratic creed, which proclaims
kindness and love, peace and good will to
all mankind. But mark the contrast, let
/ Irishmen mark the revolving contrast be-
tween the divine benignity Of Democrat
cy and the blasting maligMaty Of Fed
eralism! Under the administration of
elder Adams, Federalism day called
Federal WhIgery; yesterday it was "Na.
tive Americanism )" and should this obi.
Gus party get into power, next year it will
be apprenticeship sooth, this English
Tory faction have assumed, within the
last ten years. so many names, to conceal
their hdeous detormity, and of as ludi-
crous variety, as there are colors in the
jacket of II harlequin-l say, under the
government of old John Adams, this har-
lequin Of Federalism, was III the heyday
of her power then was passed those fla
gitious "Alien and Sedtion Laws"-laws
as savage as they were severe, and equal
ly a disgrace to the age and an insult to
the nation. BY the former of these AL
gerine enactments all foreigners were LA
bic to be expelled the country, without
rhyme or reason, by the simple fat of the
President. This infamous edict was prin-
cipally leveled against the introduction Of
Irish emigrants, unhappy Ireland being
at that time (l79S) bleeding at every pore,
and drenched in the hest blood of her
children, fruitlessly shed in an ll-directed
attempt at the Liberation of their beloved
country from the iron despotism OF Eng
land.
Adams, a flaming patriot at the com
mencement of the Revolution, was at this
period, in heart and feeling, a thorough
paced Arstocrat. The writer's of that
day assign rs the cause Of this desertion
by him of his first love, the flattering re-
ception he met with at the Court Of
George the Third, on his presentation to
that blockhead of monarch rs the first
Minister to Great Britain from the then
infant Government of the United States.
BE this as it may, he returned to his ma
tive country a decided admirer of Eng
land and her institutions: and knowing
that Irish Democrats, of all other foreign
ers, would naturally become the most de-
cided oDponeutS of his hiuh handed pro-
ceedings, he prosecuted that liberty loving
people with the ferocity of Robespierre-
a persecution which has been savagely
continued by this same Federal faction,
and is in actire operation at this sery
moment.
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