The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-11-21


gogue--a Mormon 10 day, "A Muggle,onian
omorrow--professng all crceds aud prac'i-
Isl none! Seward, you are a precious
fellow! a Caleb Quotem in religion, and
Caliban in politics
Seward! do you seriously hope. by this
letes,able duplici!y and mockery of all reli-
gion, to banlboozle the virtuous Democracy
Of New York INTO support of your hateful
party? Ii so, your scorn of popular feeling
mus, indeed he as reckless as the hopeless
ness Of your exl cctalions. You know in
your heart you cannor. and you will ere long
discover. TO your cost. that neither the Metho-
dist, the Presby teran, nor the Catholic, is
the bigot you take him to be. But, Seward,
lie, me ask you upon what grounds do you
build your preiensions to the sutlragcs Of my
countrymen Answer me honestly: no
shufling. zone fact as 0 Connel says,
lis worth ship load Of arguments. An
swer me, say ]; is il upon the appointment
of Hunt, the president of The "Native Ameri-
cam Orangemen Of New York, to an office
nf 81 500 per year A munitirent reward,
truly, to wretch whose sole merit in your
eyes consisted in his billingsgate abuse and
dasardIy persecution Of my countrymen!
Or do you found your claims to The friend
ship Of Irishmen upon the passage Of the
Registry law! Is it upon your obfcial sane
ton Of that Registry Iaw-that ahominal law
which was enacted by Tory Legislature,
approved by you, and levelled against the
liberties Of Irishmen in New York, Just as a
similar. atrorious BILL lately introduced into
the British Parliament by Scorpion Stanly,
| (your brother in in(amy,) is lere|led against
the iber' les OF Irishmen in the land OF their
birth Kou hang do,cn yoW head-you
cannot a,s,oer me- Explain to my country
men. if you dare, the extraordinary coinci-
dence between the introduction of Scorpion
Slanly's bill into the House of Commons,
Legislature of New York. Has SCORPION
! from SCORPION SEWARD of New York!
You hang do,on yoW guilty heal, you Tory
ngHshman-you cannot aasUrr me. Sc
ward! you call yourself Republican,
friend to equal rights. Let me quote again.
O'Connell, in one Of his addresses to the peo-
pie Of Ireland, has given us his definition Of
liberty he says: "Liber,y consists in equal
and exact Justice reduced to practice" Sc ,
ward is it :'equal and exact justice" that
there should be one law for the Irish citizens
in New York, and another for the American
citizen in Albany that the Irishman in
New York should be subjected to vexalious
restrictions in the exercise of the elective
franchise, to which his American fellow-citi-
zen in Albany is a total stranger! Yom hang
dorm your guilty head, you "Native Ameri-
can rangenan--you cannot dnsrrr me.
Irishmen observe again the craven perfidy
and malignant rancor of this sasscndch to
our name and nation. In Ireland, Scorpion
Stanly's bill aUouil degrade and insult the
Irishman, by refusing him equal rights with
his Scottish and English fellow subjects. Bat
in New York, Scorpion Stewards bill ere.
cuies what The English bill only menace,t--
1t actually rojs the Irishman Of prive ,es
enjoyed by the rest Of his fellow-citzens
Seward | solennly demand, in the name Of
lrishmen Of the State and city of New York,
,he reason Of your protection of that lnn.-
nouthed calunnialor Of Irishmen, Hunt, the
President Of the .Na,ive Americans" of the
city Of New York. Also your reasons at
: large for sanctioning the scorpion Registry
bill. These pinching que tons have been
put to you again and again. You have never
condescended to answer them, because YOU
know the very attempt would brand vou with
everlasting infamay. Have you courage now,
on the eve of the Presidential election, to
show your hand! Y,n hing do'ca y,ur
guilty hcai. you, coiisbhodea Saron-you
cannof ans'ucr me. Seward, my abhnrrance
If your toryism scarcely equals my astonish-
ment at your brazen inrepidity in daring to
look an lrishman in the face.
The third worthy on the catalogue is that
shrinking. shiverng Shylock. Aaron Clark,
Of NV York. Perhaps ought to apollo
sise to my coantrymen for dragging before
their indignant gaze this disgusting mass Of
Federal putrelnclion and moral ,urpi,ude.
Clark is certainly very bad subject. 70
the full as noisesome as the other two. and
equally eaten up with the gangrene Of FEEDER
alsm. yet cannot, for The life of me. feel
the same disposition To apply the dissecling
knife. In tho two preceding cases, cW up
the great anaconda Of Boston, and the roy0i
tiger of the New York tories, the most
loalhsome of reptiles and the most ireache-
rous Of wild beasts; hu, now am forced to
dissect the vilrst ni animals. the jackall. In
graphing with Webster and Seward, | had
TO contend with the deep depravi,v and ,lcs-
perate energy OF great State Grim mails; but
in Clark's case, the meanness OF tho man
surpasses the malignity of the monster
This fellow, Clark, when Nave Of New
York, procured the passage Of an ordinance
by the then tory corporation Of that city, i'm
posing duty of ten dollars per head upon
every foreigner landing in the port Of New
York. This iniquious law, which placed
human beings on level with the beasts of
the field, was intended to operate as a check
upon the settlement Of Irish emigrants in the
cjty whose political bias was well known 10