The native American., 1840-09-26
FOREIGN OFFICE HoLDERs-THEIR DAN
GER TO OUR INSTITUTIONS.

There is MYSTERY which we cannot un-
ravel in the course of our rulers. Upon all
occasions, foreigners-aliens are preferred
over natives, where an appointment to Office
is to be made. The country is governed by
foreigners-for the minor arrangements OF
the Departments are those that conduct the
great process Of our system. The Secreta-
ries leave great deal to be done by their
subordinates-those subordinates are aliens.
Who do they prefer to see associated with
them in office? The question is easily an
swered. Ofcourse persons alike to themselves
in sympathies, origin, and views. The Sc
crets Of our foreign relations are opened to
their knowledge. They may not abuse the
trust, but yet they may. Devotion to
young and beautiful Queen, may prompt the
gallantry dwelling within them, to render her
Majesty service. Who is to prevent their
divulging the key to our diplomatic cyphers !
Then the whole secret correspondence be-
tween the Departments at Washington, and
our Consuls and Agents abroad, is made as
clear as MONDAY, to the spies Of foreign Cab
inets. America, then, can have no State Sc
crets-no secrets Of policy-for there are
secrets of policy as well as Of war. Sup
pose war was to break out between England
and the United States, how could we trust the
numerous British Office holders with our nu-
merous plans Of carrying on the war! And
vet you cannot remove them from Office,
where they could control our armies-c,t of
the supplies to the Quarter Masters-abort
the money-give false accounts to the heads
of the Departments-rule the Custom Houses
buy up for the enemy the founderies Of
cannon-and, in word, impede the progress
Of the war and accomplish our defeat. We
will be answered that all this is chimerical--
we have never seen foreign office holders
so abusing their trusts. We reply that we
are now arguing to prevent that contingency.
The list of Offices and Office holders has
been wofuly increased since the late war.
The long peace in Europe has driven those
who formerly were food for powder, to our
shores; they have become, through their ar
rogance and impotence, leading men at our
polls; they have begged, whined, and threat
ened our rulers into donation Of good offices.
The state of affairs has changed in the last
twenty-five years. The whole moral atmos-
phere Of Europe has been surcharged with
evil and crime, and we have had due por-
ton of the storm distributed upon our fields.
We have gathered up the scattered thunder
bolts, and planted them in our political firma-
ment. We have made gods of these out
casts--have knelt down and worshipped
them-and they may think that they can
serve the cause of their native lands, by ex-
ercising their offices in giving information,
counteracting our movements, and deranging
the general concerns of our Government.
How are they bound to their native soil As
the child is bound to its mother-as the heart
is linked to the loved circle of the parents
hearth--as all the sympathies of our nature
revolve round the magnetic IIome-as the
Esquimaux loves his ice-girt plains--as the
Hottentot boasts Of his country as the noblest
under the sums the dog likes his masters
house-as the horse his stable--as instinct,
governed and regulated by an overruling Pro-
violence, directs the wild beast of the field to
his native glades--in fine, as man loves the
home where he was born--where he tottered
as child, and where he struggled as a man.
1t is Nature, beautiful in all its attributes, but