The native American., 1840-05-02

OF applicants Tor papers OF cltlzenShip the re
tusal Of one OF the justices to administer tn
oath III the terms prescribed by the statute, tn,
transaction, with closed DOORS OF business tina
the laws require to be performed in opel
Court, and the incident haste, confusion and ir
reverence with which the naturalization oatl
is almost uniformly administered 10 a the
unmitagated profligacy developed in the pro
cess OF naturalization before this tribunal. il il
to be hoped that the attention of the Legisla
| ture will be early and emphatically directed
| The Committee are well persuaded that it has
| been mainly owing TO the agency Of this tri
bnna for long series Of years, that thousands
tollliegal suffrages have found their way iifto
! the Ballot Box
! The above extract clearly proves that these
" Democratic Wing Young Men" are young
indeed and that they ought % be kept away
from political meetings, especially those thai
are held after dark. Such juveniles should
be more carefully attended to by their mothers
and nurses and every evening, about sunset,
it would he we'll to have them led to their re
spective nurseries, washed, colnbed, and sent
to bed-ilrst changing their pettcoats for
good, clean, cotton nlght-goWns: aud ia sub
|stitutIon of the antitemperance "night caps"
which Judging from their late production)
they previously put IN, it might not be amiss
to provide more sultalle article to put on
their weak ard inexperienced heads. Let
these lads 90 to school, at least a few gears
.ougel. II they have capable teachers they
may possibly lean son3ethlng, (even lesson
in the science of political ecoAouy,) provided
they are not itretricvably dull of comprehen-
sion.
But seriously, let us examine what these
Young men slate, and what they propose
They assert from their own personal ohser-
vatlon that it is not the desire of e,ngrants to
evada or overleap the laws of their country
(HeW countryD but 'tiey are made,Iie dupcs
and victims OF designing and profigate men,
who persuade them that they are entitled to
on their arrival al our wharves,
ard who deceive them into the commission of |
nnintentiona perjury"
Here we per eve the fatal tendency of the
laws-those very laws which
the native American larty seek TO have re-
peaIed The vagabonds Of Europe are repre-
>ented lin the young Wings inconsistent, one
sided address as dupes and victims, whose
easy creduity, induces them to believe that
they are endowed with all the privileges of
native born citizens the moment they touch
our shores and their unhesitatiatg perjmies
are excused because of their gross a:ld un-
paraIelled ignorance!
If these foreigners are so ignorant as to be
persuaded that they haze renowned, uuder
oath, their allegiance to their native country,
when i'll truth, their tongues have never thus
bclied their hearts if their knowledge off
right and wrong is so astonishingly limited !
that designing and profigate men" can
readily tempt them to sacear that they have in
reality, been in the United States flee gears,
when, perhaps, but Il few months only have
elapsed since they were shipped, tile first time,
for America; or if. as is quite probable, they
are altogether reckless Of the laws OF God and
man, and have been recently brought iitller
at the expense of transatlantic Governments
to relieve European poor-houses and prisons
of their surplus inhabitants in either case
they are unfit to participate in the privileges
of American freemen, for their presence de-
socrates our soil.
And Yet, in full view of the revolving and
humiliating picture presented in the cad
dress"-in the face of the frauds and perjur-
les and "prohigate looseness of judicial ad-
ministration," so touchingIy portrayed by this
Committee of Wing Young Men, we find
that Committee recommending a petit
TO Congress spraying that all the fees which
have hitherto been extorted from emigrants
Implying for naturalization, should be forth
with abolished p Furthermore, the Address
continues, "tlle citizenship which we besiow
should be a free Gift to all the children of the
human race''" Surely these very young saen
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