The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-11-07
ATTACK OF THE "GLOBE" UPON IT'S
OWN SOuNrRYMEN.

VIC PuoilSH W uaJ, run tile Oiooe,
another essay from Foreigner, under the
signature of " Gr.ttan," addressed to the
Irishmen in the United States. Perhaps
nothing can serve our cause so we'll in
double way, as the course pursued by the
Administration on the one hand, to strength
its cause. no matter by what unrighteous
means, and by the vindictive Foreigners on
the other to marshal themselves into band
against lis, under the patronage of the pre-
vailng powers, and the tolerance which fac
ton temporarily gives. In the one case, it
will be seen, that what the patriot John Jay
wrote to Washington in 1880, was true-that
there was no such thing as honesty among
politicians and hence the necessity that the
people, and particularly those of the Re-
peal party" should extricate themselves from
such influence and on the other, that For
eigners are naturally and habitually Foreign
ers through all time and all places. That the
agitation of the Repeal Of the Naturalization
laws, though in nowise affecting those here.
has, nevertheless, to some extent, drawn forth
their slumbering and concealed hatred, and
though they do not, as separate array, come
now to the onset, they do under cover Of our
countrymen, shoot forth their poisoned ar
rows at us, behind the name Of party. The
termination of the present Presidential con-
test will put an end to this cloaking of their
hostility, and henceforth in questions of great
national concern, the settlement, as to the
will of the people, must be determined by the
Americana or by the Foreign party. We
rejoice at this approaching state of general
policy; and hope the temper of the times
will enable the public to decide the issue,
calmly and periodically, without those evil
adventurous influences of faction, ideal phil
anthropy and Executive patronage, which
have always disturbed the country in con.
tests where the ambition of man was the ex-
elusive motive of action. Hereafter i, will
be contest between Americans who love
their country, her institutions and brethren,
above all others, and the host Of Foreigners,
aliens and merccnaries, whose numbers in
spire them with the hope Of triumph, and
whose vi:iousness gives employment to their
energies. ... r..
Let the good citizens only look around for
moment at the vast accession to our popu-
la,ion yearly from abroad, and the rights
which that increase acquire let them but re-
fleet that 1000 inhabitants may immediate
ly, upon the adoption, in form, of a republi
can constitution, become sovereign State,
and that sufficienl number reach our shores
every year to form tUo States, so that in four
teen years there may be more States in the
Union composed of Foreigners than there
are now as composed Of Americans, and they
will see how much they have to dread from
the issues of this alien population upon us,
with all its physical force, its moral evils, and
its prejudices. II behooves every good man
therefore to take part in this measure which
we advocate. II. is not our cause alone in
which we struggle, profi'less to ourselves, but
il is that of all Americans who wish to avert
evils while the power is within our hands.
1t has been deeply Notifying to US to see
the leading paper here Of the Administration,
lend itself as a vehicle to pour out the unmit-
igated venom Of the Foreigners upon our
own people; to traduce, in set phrases, and
unmeasured words the best patriots and pures,
men, here and elsewhere, who are engaged
in cause apart from party, and with a con-
viction Of the honesty Of their purpose, as
deep as that which inspires the most right
eous hopes and the purest acts.
How these men can justify themselves be-
fore wounded and insulted public we know