The native American., 1840-09-19
NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
OF THE UNITED STATES.

Preamble and Constitution Of the Natire american
Association of the United States.
WuxaEAs. tits an admitted fact that all Government
are not only capable, bu, boand by all the plinci
piles Of national preservation. 10 govern their AFFAIRS
BY the agency OF their own citizens and We believe
the republican form Of our Government TO be an
object OF fear and dislike to the advocates OF mon
archy in Europe, a. for that reason, if for none
other, in order to preserve our institutions pure
and unpolIuted we are mperativeiy called upon 10
administer peculiar system free OF all foreign
influence and interfereace. BY admitting the
stranger indiscriminatey to the exercise OF those
high attributes which constitute the rights Of the
native born American citizen, we weaken the at
tachment Of the native, and gain naught but the
sordil allegiaac of the foreigner. The rights OF
the American. which he holds under the Consti-
tuition of the Revolution, and exercised by him
rs the glorious prerogative Of his birth, are calcu-
lated TO stimulate to action, condensc to strength
and cement in sentiment and patriotic sympathy.
Basing, then the right and duty to confederate on
these hig truths profess other object than the
promotion Of our native country in all the walks oil
private honor, public credit and national indepen-
dence; and therefore maintain the right, in its
most extended form, Of the native born American,
and he only, to exercise the various duties incident
to the rami6catons Of the laws, executive, legsla
tive ministerial, from the highest to the lowest
post Of the Government-aEd to obtain this great
end we shall advocate the entire repeal of the natu
ralization laws by Congress Aware that the Consi.
tuition orbds and If it did not, We have no wish
to establish post acto laws the action we seek
with regard TO the lava of naturalization, is intended
to act in prospective character We shall advocate
equal liberty TO all who were born equally free ito
be SO born constitutes, when connected with moral
qualities in our minds the arstocracy Of human ma
ture. Acting under these generic principles, we
further hold that, 10 be permanent people we must
be united one, bound together by sympathies. the
result Of common political organ and to be nation
al we must cherish the Native American sentiment
to the entire and radical exclusion Of foreign opin
ions and doctrines introduced by foreign panpers and
European political adventures. From Kings our
gallant orefathers won their liberties-the slaves OF
kings shall not win them back again.
Reiigiously entertaining these sentiments, we as
so'emny believe that the day has arrived, when the
Americans should unite rs brothers to sustain the
strength and purity Of their political Institutions
We have reached that critical period foreseen and
pro ,hesied by OF the clear shtcd apostles Of
freedom, when danger threatens from every ship that
floats on the ocean to our shores-when every wind
that blows watts the ragged panpers TO our cities,
bearing in their own persons and characters the ele.
ments of degradation and disorder. To prevent
these evils, we are now called upon TO mite en- !,
erges. To fight over this great moral revolution,
the shadow OF FIST revolt Of glary, viii be the
duty of the sons Of these wars, and we must go
into the combat determined to abits by our coun.
try to preserve her honor free from casagion, and
her character as separate people, high aud above
the engraftmcnt of monarchical despotisms