The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-10-03

lSome OF the Digoted powers OF Spanish
origin, to expel and plumber some of their
best citizens, because guilty of the heinous
crime of having like our father, been per-
secuted and driven from their native
homes, and of having been born and edu-
Gated, like our fathers, with hearts and
souls that scorned oppression and resisted
injustice"
| This is an extract from an article in the
Washington Globe of the ED ultimo.
In the first place the article is headed,
A CANDID APPEAL TO THE MODERATE.
| Had the writer himself been "candid"
he would, SO far as the above-quoted ex-
tract is concerned, have headed it some
how thus
DELIBERATE LIE ADDRESSED TO THE
| IGNORANT.
| III this little space of about dozen and
a half lines, there are no less that five dis
ltinct, palpable, falsehoods, concluding
with most blasphemous dissertation of
the canonized memory of the illustious
dead. The editor Of the Globe is no ig-
noramus, He has read the federal Statute
Books. He knows what the "alien laws"
were. And he must and does know that
between the enactment of the alien law
land the repeal of the naturalization laws
there is not even an analogy. When he
published the letter of J. J. Reynolds, M.
&c. from Illinois, on which we made some
comments, he knew that he was giving
publicity to gross perversion of truth.
/ This is one falsehood.
i The next is, his assertion of the iden-
THY of the Native American or Repeal
party with the supporters of General Har-
rison. The editor of the Globe knows
that no such identity exists. He knows
that the former editor of this paper was
staunch and prominent supporter of the
Administration-that the 'sSunday Morn
ing News" of New York, advocates alike
the principles of democracy and the prin-
ciples of native AmeEeanism that the
ranks Of our party are filled promiscuous-
ly with Administration men and OPPOSE
ton men-that Mr.. Van Buren, has ex-
pressed sentiments as decidedly favorable
to our cause as those of General Harrison
or any other individual and in fine, that
there is nothing in our principles which |
has any cornexion whatsoever with parti-
IAN politics.
This is the second ,falsehood.
The third is to be found in the assertion
that our object is n,to prescribe every per-
i.son not native American" Out upon
the stale, oft refuted SANDER! Our object
! is to extend no more for the future, the
fright of suffrage to the foreigner. If by
a nice disquisition upon the meaning of
words, this could be called proscrip-
tion," is it not plain to common sense that
it is nothing but an attempt to create a
perverted impression of our true purpose,
by the application of an odious term?
Again, he. charges us with "designing,
like some of the bigoted powers of Span
fish origin, to expel and plumber some of
our best citizens" This is the fourth
lfalsehood-the gFossest and most ground
less of all. We.would not insult the in
|telligence of our readers by devoting even
a line to its refutation.
The fifth falsehood and the one in ut
tering which he insults, most impiousIy,
1.-THE memory of our ancestors, is where he
likens the immigrant hordes of the present
|day to our fathers of re, "persecuted and
driven from their native homes, born and
educated with hearts and souls that scorn-
ed oppression and resisted injustice" $50
to the emigrant laden ship as it is disgor
Lying its molly cargo upon our Shores"
and say then that such as these were the
heroes of Saratoga and Yorktown, the
sages of Faneuil Hall, and the bold hearted
and sound headed statesmen "who in the
times that tried mems souls" guided the
barque of our infant Republic triumph
antly to its haven of safety and glory
and if the dead rise not to avenge the in
dignity done to their memory, there would
surely be the hand of some one of their
descendants there to inflict deserved
blow upon the mouth that dared to utter
the base SANDER!
But we have perhaps already devoted
space enough to this puerile attack upon
our noble cause. We would conclude
with an old saying replete with truth, "a
great lie is like great fish upon dry land
1t may fret and fling and make frightful
bother, butit cannot hurt you. You have
only to keep still and it will die of itself"
The Law's Delay.-We learn from the
Dovor N. H. Enquirer that the court of COM
mons pleas closed its session at Clifford on
Monday the 25th ult. after setting three