The native American., 1840-09-19

oefS snail nave grown into concentrated ar
mics! They are opposed 10 the native pc.
pulation. because the native population is at
present in the ascendancy; and if there was
no foreigner in Office, the flame Of their hate
and envy would burn SO us to be seen by all.
At present they have been battered and re-
warded, and they are taking peaceful means
of obtaining and preserving in their hands all
power. This is no idle speculation, but ster.
ling facts, which we gather from observation
and from reasoning upon the principles that
sway mankind and it is to prevent the far
Their increase Of this natural element of oppo-
silion to American liberty and American law,
that the Native American population is arous-
ed. II is an inevitable consequence Of the
long peace in Europe, that pauperism and
population should increase and it is natural
that those Governments should ship them
over TO us--for England will not send them
to her Colonies, because she knows their deep
depravity of education and habit and are
those men, who were the paid soldiers Of
carnage, fit to be citizens of moral Govern
ment, and finally masters oyera nation, whom.
in former days, their fathers waded through
blood for seven years to conquer, but, thank
God, could not subdue We are contending
against this moral danger, which, ere long,
will find sincws and muscle and become ply
steal; and we find it already seated upon the
ermine of the bench--installed in Office every
where-and, wherever existing, opposed to
the true interests Of the country, from nature
and education, if not from will.
The inevitable effect Of the array Of foreign
publications in our country against our coun-
trymen, is to ALLEVIATE still more, if possible,
the feelings oft foreigner from whatever is
truly American, to rouse the just jealousy and
fears Of the natives, to foment enmities, to
produce separations, and 10 weaken and even
tually to sever the tie that binds us together
as one people.
Let not our fellow countrymen indulge in
self-delusion, and believe that there is an in
herent principle Of strength and stability in
our institutions which would necessarily de-
feat and PROSTATE the malign influence of for
eigners, without any personal effort of our
own.
There was time when the Romans could
have made such boast. But then all her
citizens were Romans. When she let in
others, she let out the palladium OF her EN-
re-self-government-an we all know her
sad fate.
By neglect Governments have been over
thrown--by neglect ours may share the same
fate; and if, with our greater light and expe-
rience, we permit it, we shall deserve to be
spurned for the little value we set upon our
best boon.
Let us swear, therefore, on the altar of our
beloved and common country, to fight and
win the second geeat battle for liberty and
ourselves. Deprive us Of liberty, and from
that moment there would be no honor in the
now proud declaration, am citizen Of the
United States. A people without liberty,
or an effort to gain it, do not deserve coun-
try. A people who haze country and will
not preserve it, are curse to that country,
and an incumbrance to the earth.
Hundreds Of thousands Of our people who
never heard of our paper and our objects,
cherish our sentiments, and deprecate the
evil which our exertions, yet circumscribed
and but partially known, are intended to re-
NEEDY and contemplate in passive solicitude
and alarm the fearful consequences which
threaten us from our objectionable federation
of the laws of naturalization, and If possible,
the more culpable apathy as to the dangerous
deluge Of injurious and degrading foreigners,
overwhelming us from all quarters with pau
pers, vagabonds and convicts. If it be suf-
fered to 60 on much longer with the progress
sive augmention, by which it has been mark
ed for some years past, there will not be a
mountain top to be seen above this food on
which the political ark can rest with safety,
for all will be in foreign hands.
This baneful influence is certain 10 end in
strife, in conflict, and in revolution, when our
National Banner will be torn stripe from
stripe, and its stars hurled from their spheres,
never more to cheer the eyes Of freemen, I'M
less those who are free are also brave, and at
once take measures to prevent this evil. The
tree of liberty itself will be exterminated
and the last hope of the world will vanish
upon the wings Of the eagle, in his fight to
unknown regions.
1t is not for us, who, steering between the