The native American., 1840-05-02

OF SHIELDING OURSELVES FROM FoRElGN INFLUENCE
POLITICAL. COMMERCIAL OR IN WHATEVER FORM IT
MAY BE ATTEMPTED. CAN SCARCELY WITHHOLD
MYSELF FROM JOINING IN TIE Wish " SILAs DEANS
THAT THERE WERE AN OCEAN BETWEEN
THIS AND THE OLD WORLD "--Jttersoa.
Wheher successful or not succeedi.g generations shall
fnoe that noe understood Rights and Liberties, and
tcre neither AFRAID ashamed TO assert maini'a
Hfm and that ourselves muy has at least this
ISOLATION ~ our chains that mol through onr neglect
thai Mis People easared '-Instrcions of the PEG
pie of Lexington to their Representatives in the General
Court OF Massachusetts. l771.
In our last number we invited the attention
of our readers to the "objects Of tie Repeal
e's'-and we designed to show that the rapid
increase Of foreign votes demands the inmc,
ldiate consideration Of all who love the mst-
tutions of our native land. We Quoted, from
a New York Journal, the alarming statement
that tnenty-t,eo ha.nIreI fvrtieA"rs were
inaturalizad, in that city, during the week pre-
'cedng the late election. In confirmation of
the correctness of our remarks, and ia order
TO show tile great Importance Of a u;litcl,
vls!lant perseverlng oppnsilon 10 the evils Of
W 'cl We CO nplul, we now quote Z part Of
IAN Address, adopted Oh tle 17tn OF April by
the General Committee of d .nlocratic WING
Young Men, Of the city and county OF New
York -
" B It the Committee would direct attention
to another more grcvIous enormltv. praclised
- an extent that can be hardly credited bet
nv those who have Watched It's progress and
results They aIlud to the Illegal lIaturuIi-
-. Il 80,
lerlor local tribunal and in no sense such al
court Of record OF common law Jurisdictions I
as Is intended by the naturalization laws OF the
United States. This tliDutiul, in the opinion
of the Committee, possesses no constitutional
or legal authority to receive declarations oil
intention, or to grant the ultimate certificates
of citizenship; and yet these powers it has
usurped, and has been permitted to exercise
from year to year, with the most lnsolent dis
regard of the positive requirements of the law
and the decencies Of judicial proceeding.
"The Committee would interpose no obsta-
cles, other than those established Nv the laws
IF their country, to the naturalization Of for.
ign residents They would welcome to this
rec soil the Oppressed and afflicted of every
country Under heaven, and would admit them
% the fullest participation in the rights and
privileges of American citizenship, under those
statutory provisions which our foreign citi-
zens hay. aided to enact for our common pro-
lection. The committee are we'll persuaded
rom their own personal observation, that it is
lotthc desire OF emlyrantst to evade or overeap
he laws Their country; but that they are
willing to wait the due expiration Of the legal
'rm before claiming tn rights Of citizenship.
They are made the dupes and victims of de-
signing and profIgate men, who persuade
hem that they are entitled to citizenship on
heir arrival at our wharves, and who deceive
hem Into the commission of unntentonal
perjury, consummaed through the agency of
the Government Committee OF Tammany Hall,
md tolerated if not connived at and assisted
W the prohigate looseness Of judicial admins
ration.
"The Committee recognize with pride and
pleasure, among the warmest friends of the
Wing cause, hundreds and thousands Of our
,dopted fellow citizens and they know that
rom those friends at the recent election the
Democratic Wing ticket received the most
hearty and enthusiastic support. In justice
% those friends, and to remove all barriers
rom the naturalization Of honest ernigrantS,
he committee would suggest that memorial
should be Immediately prepared and forward
d to Congress- praying that all the fees which
lave hitherto been eXtored from emlgrantS
applying for naturalization, should be forth
with abolished. The citizenship which we
bestow should be a free gift TO all the children
Of the human race. 1t should not lie bought
and sold 1t should not be huckstcrcd and
prddled; : or made the means al judlciaitenp-
tation or corruption. The Democratic sever
eighty through the tribunals which its ordi-
nanceS recognize, should inlyart the seal OF
cllizensIip 10 all who tire entitled 10 its POS
session, WITHOUT FEE AND WITHOUT re
WARD.
"But the Committee UIdcalI the attention
of h If Democratic Wing brethren TO the fact
that on the day ofthe recent election, and du
ring the week previous, naturalization papers
were granted at the Marine Court, Oh ticket.
from Tamnuny Hall to an extent that WOu!d q