The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-09-05

mains to be decided. Lately they have been
perfectly quiet-leaying to their friends 10
exercise their right Of voting as they pleas
ed-but waiting the moving Of the waters
and the proper moment 10 cure the political
leprosy of the times, the extension of a dam
gerous, grasping and dcmoralizing foreign
influence.
"There is a remarkable coincidence
between its THE Bees existence and that
of the country Iouisiana) itself, where
the French stock who created the colony,
sunk down in presence of alocal national
ity, which seemed about to get the upper
hand, and maintain itself, but now bends
and gives way before the food of Amcri-
cans.-There is another thing equally re-
markable, which is, that at the head of the
papers (the Courier and the Bee) which
remain the only defenders Of their Ian
guage, their nationality, and their inau-
ence, the Creole population no longer
counts one Of the children Of the soil.
Their cause is handed over to two French
mem.
"This is the more to be regretted as the
New Orleans journals have quite a differ
ent mission to fill from that Of the Ameri-
can papers. Their mission is not only
to protect but to propagate the idlon which
is the basis of their existence, and Of that
nationality whose organs they are.
We have said it--this nationality
grows weaker and weaker every day in
Louisiana, because it is there in the situa-
ton of citadel whose garrison is cut of
from all reinforcements, while the force
which assails it are every day increasing
in number and energy. The auxiliaries
to the American side comes from the
North, Fast and the West. Those Of the
Creoles come from a single source for
eign Immigrants. All the Spaniards, Ital-
ians and French in New Orleans will al.
ways prefer joining the Creoles, should
the latter open their arms to them-and
this arises from the affinity Of their char
acters, manners and languages. There
fore, it was profound piece Of policy
which created a Native American Society
i'll Louisiana. Everywhere else the Amer
leans favor immigrants, whom they look
upon as the alluvion that daily enriches
their country. In Louisiana alone another
policy is pursued, and wherefore be-
cause in Louisiana the influence of for
eigners is to the advantage Of a class MI.
merous enough to form population by it.
self, and remain without being swallowed
up. To cut off this class from all reinforce
ments was then the first step towards alb
sorbing them altogether.
Already has party been formed in
Louisiana whose watch-words are, the
exclusive idolatry of all born on the spot
The spirit of confined nationality, alike
distinct from former ties and future con
ncxions, formed barrier against new
corners from the rest of the American
continent or from beyond the seas
What course have the Americans pursll-
ed Not daring to attack a prejudice that
excludes themselves, they have not tried
to destroy but merry to widen il SO as to
include themselves. They have howled
with the wolf in order that, favored by
their joint cries, they might obtain IN OPP
portunity of deceivin 9 him. They have
got into the slleep-fold after having cum
ningly converted their natural enemies in
to allies. The victory thus gained by
stratagem IS the greatest triumph yet OBJ
tanned by the American domination over
the nationality Of Louisiana. They have
weakened the latter by joining it to an
element which must absorb it, and cutting
it off from those who were alone able to
defend it. For the French papers and
tho (rao1a ,,op,,l, tio,, r. s ,o,,, , 1,,,oet,.,,
Of life or death, and if the shout of Dassas,
I" Join me, Aocrgne, the enemy is here"
he not raised by some courageous head
and reach intelligent ears, the question
will be decided in less than fifteen years."
Wepublsh the above extract from " L.e
Courier DIES Etats- Unis," a French paper
published at NewYork.. 1t should be read
by every LoulSianian. 1t was published
In the Louisiana Courier on Thursday
evening, and receives from the editor Of
that paper an able and most spirited an
sWer. The article is rather too long for
publication in our paper. We will give
an extract from it:
"Again, what do You mean when cal.
ling the New Orleans papers which are
printed III French the organs Of nation
atty" which the Native Americans are
striving to extinguish ? There is some
obscurity in the whole of this extract
which theusual perspicuity of the French
language does not do away with; but i'll
allowed the privilege OF guessing, ii means
this: F'renchmen and French editors.
come to the rescue Of one Of the finest
colonies king ever possessed Unite
and do all you can to maintain the pre-