The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-19
From. the .Ne.earIe Dqtlu .qdrertiser.

NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGNERS.
Are females naturalized No-whv be-
cause they not voters; they cannot help US in
our difficulty and our incapacity for self govern
ment. The fact that we naturalize males only,
and expressly because We want their votes, is
proof conclltStUe that ace are incapable of gou-
erltng ourselves. If we were capable of self
government we should not call in the aid of for
eigners. Perhaps after we have studied and
practised on our government little longer we
shall be able to get on with it, without much il
any foreign aid.
BY whom is all, or nearly all, the difficulties
made at our polls-tbe false swearing, the dou-
bic voting, the rioting, and forcing in Illegal
votes and keeping out the legal Almost ex-
clusiyely by the worst sort Of foreigners. The
native American, conscious of his rights and
willing TO respect the rights of Others is unifor-
mly peaceable and qaiet voter He knows
that on this depends the very existence of the free
institutions that he SO highly prizes. The for
| elgner, on the contrary, coming from a country
| where he never enjoyed the rights of freemen,
needs long apprenticeship in land of practi-
cal freedom to disentangle him from the errors
of early impressions.
Not improperly connected with this subject is
the inquiry, by whom are the pernicious doc
trines about the common right to property and
an agrarian system advocated? Almost invaria-
bly, by adventures from countries where the
estates, is lost IN remote antiquity, or traced
back to the conquest-the division of spoils
among his followers by some William of Nor
mandy. They have been taught from earliest
infancy not to respect such rights, and in land
ing here they forget, or, in many cases, have
never known the difference of our origin of IT,
ties. They view every possessor of real estate
as the descendant OF some follower of William
the Conqueror, and advocate the right to dis
and m 10 Ai1riciO ,f %ha
spois, or restoration, as they would argue, to
the descendants of the more ancient possessors
In this yvay, and only in this way can we. ac-
count for, the ineenSiary doctrines about the
common right to property and an agrarisn sys-
TEN. And it is from similar origin, and by the
same sort Of people, that the right of the old
thirteen States to the Western lands is denied.
tits the strangers settled in the Western States,
and in many districts making a majority, who
advocate this wholesale plumber. These are the
people whom we naturalize, because of our ina
bIiity to do our own voting, and because OF our
incapacity for selfgovernment!
: / am not for denying to foreigners any of the
rights of hospitality. would extend to them
full protection for their persons and property,
and all legal pursuits in which they might en-
gage, but here would stop. The time has come !
in which the native Americans, with the help of
those already naturalized, are competent to self
government, and when it has become dangerous /
to our peace, iflnot to the stability of free
institutions, to continue. the present system of
all that come
II am aware that among foreigners resident in
our country, and foreigners naturallzed, are
many worthy and good men; men who will not |
create riot, or oppose the law, or overturn or |
eRdanger the government. The writer of this |
numbers many such among his most respected |
personal friends, and some of them advocates OF |
a. long, probation to foreigners, before granting
them the privilege of debating to us who shall
be our rulers, or what public measures we shall
pursue.
= If the idea Of unpof alatity is supposed to at
tach to anY party who advocate a. long proba-
tfonary residence to foreigners, before granting
them the privilege of citizens, it may be imme-
diately discarded. The popular party and strong
party will soon be the american party, as con-
from the foreign party nor will
It be thought hardship that foreigners coming
here, unacquainted with our language, our laws,
our forms and principles of government. should
be required TO serve some reasonable apprentice
ship before assuming to dictate to US IN matters
Z A large portion. OF our own native born po-
eulatinn are forever excluded from, the right of
ioting. Is this deemed any hardship, or act of
INJUSTICE? No. g All females all MINORS and
al persons merely passing county line, with
tut years residence in New jersey, thought
'therways legal voters, are excluded from the
! All nations, sooner or later, have been, CONS
'elled to adopt and act upon the principles advo-
'ated in these ESSAYS, and no time. better than
he present for US; the recent election is par-l
ial triumph of the American party; it will be l.
complete If the reform here commended for can bel
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