The native American., 1840-05-30

,rimes, is degrading to the character of Amer
can institutions, and threatens, sooner or late
bring the elective franchise into disgrace
md contempt. Many noisy clamorous ane
lnretlecting member of either party thinks N
las performed brilliant achievement, II
which he exults with pride, and for which hi
links he deserves the thanks and patronage
: II his party, by the successful preparation o
traud III depositing in the ballot box, Whlcf
=. 'u9ht to be the sacred receptacle Of the true
. nbllc sentiment of the country. an llega
I, .otc in favor of his party. Such disregard
| If our constitution and laws-such violations
| If the spirit of our institutions--o hy
I General consent, to be discouraged by all par
les The judgment of the ballot box should
! ,c as pure and untarnished as free from the
, suspicion of fraud and corruption, as the de-
! .rees of an upright judge from the bench.
! AS one means, at least, for protecting the
purity ofthe ballot box, and ofsecuring tothe
ionest public sentiment Of the country its de-
! erved weight in elections, and of guarding
h'ur institutions from the corrupting infiuen-
: es of fraud and perjury the Repeal party pro
/ oses Il total repeal Of the naturalization laws.
/; will hardly be denied, that the host of I'M
aturalzed, vagabond foreigners, unenlIght-
ned and almost nncivilized, as most OF them
+ undoubtedly are, afford the principal means
+, the frauds in elections which are SO loudly
omplained of in every quarter Of the country.
II New York city, from that fruitful source
lone, the whole amount of the frauds at every
lection is supposed to be equal to two thou
and popular suf1rages. Judging from the
lost of foreign immigrants arriving almost
very day at that point, and from the unscru-
'ulous mapner Of conducting elections there
we do not consider the estimate Of the frauds
t elections at all exaggerated. These frauds
lone, if committed wholly to favor any par
V would, at any election, be sufficient to turn
he scale Of triumph on the side of the party
east scrupulous i'll using such means OF sue
> ess.
Tito guard the sancity of the ballot boxes Of
, ur country from the fraud and contamination
VT illegal voting, and to secure to the real, up
right public sentiment, the influence it ought
to have in the determination Of all our polltl
cal contests, and thereby to preserve the beau
t1ul fabric of American liberty from the cor
roding influences of ignorance, crime and CO.
ruption which are gradually but surely under
mining the foundation of our freedom, be not
Of sufficient consequence to
induce every upright man, of every party, to
DIN the Repeal standard, we do not know of
;tny considerations OF importance enough to
enlist their feelings and their action in any
cause.
! There are many causes operating to retard
the progress Of the Repeal party at present.
The two great contending political parties OF
the country, after a long war Of ten or twelve
years for political power, are busily marshall
ing their forces, preparing their accoutre-
ments furnishing their blades, and combining
all the elements of their respective forces, for
the great battle in November next. The
men of our cause, thousands of Repealers,
having enlisted on the one side or the other,
for the campaign fthis summer and the great
struggle in November, cannot reconcile 1t to
their loyalty and honor to lay down their re-
spectivc standards, in the very midst OF the
war, and on the eve of a battle which is to de-
eide the fate and fortunes of the contendlng
hosts But the war being over, and the con
test ended, we hope to see our ranks crowded
with the enlightened and honest and patriotic
of all parties-from the victorious and the
vanqushed In the great cause of the Repeal
party they can bury forever their strifes and
chickering's and forget the animosties engen-
dered by an over-heated political zeal, in ma
king common cause "against the insldious
wiles of foreign influence
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