New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-06
y,,urarizatIon ard tho Pre.idenoy.

Naturalization aTu the
We have received printed sheet entitled J" a
Letter to the Candidates FOR the Othces OF rresi-
dent and Vice President of the Unlted states
concerning the Naturalization Laws the Nati'e
American Party, and the Civil and henei'us
Rights of Adopted Citizens With the genera
doctrines of this Address we heartily agree "'
more insidious purposes we must resist. III 'l'o
first place. we dislike the idea of calling upon
candidates for the Presidency in this way. Inc
object of calling them out is simply to give
direction to Public opinion. Nobody oeheVss 0'
apprehends that either OF the persons aooVe hd''',
ed will undertake to deprive Adopted CllizehS u
one iota of their Political. Civil or Religious
rights; the purpose Of the movers III TINS mater
is to arrest discussion and forestail opinion with
rcoard to the Naturalization Laws. Now we
believe the declared objects of the Natives are
wrong, the spirit in which they are pursued still
worse, and their attacks on the Religious Faith
of a large portion of our Immigrant Population
worst of all and vet it is clear to us that SO great
an agitation could not have been got up on basis
of entire injustice and error. We thlni-nay' we
knom-the way in which Adopted Citizens are made
here is not right, and We are sure lhe slgners Of
this Letter must think 50 too. That Political
party should be employed for weeks before an
Election hunting up regiments OF subjects of
whom TO make voters, and grinding than through
the Marine Court at dollar head, thereby car
rying the day-this is the cap-stonc OF monstrous
abuses Then the manufacture OF voters from
refugee thieves vagrants, drunkards, &c. is di-
recty in the teeth Of the intent and spirit of our
Naturalization Laws. They are right in the
main; it is the multitude Of rank abuses which
have grown up under them defacing and defeat
ing their most sautary provisions, which need
correcting, and which will have to be corrected
in order to prevent the tendency to Natlvism
which is cvinced in so many quarters. They are
not the true frends-at least, not the most intel
ligent friends-of our Immigrant Population who
arc willing to allow their adversaries any solid
ground whereon to build up party. Let all the
essential provisions of the present laws be re-
tanned but let the party manufacture of voters
by disbursements from the party purse be stopped ;
and let none be admitted but those contemplated
in these laws-namely, persons of good moral
character and exemplary department. Our Ma
tive Mayor had an excellent idea in his Message
viz that we do MT SO much need new laws as
| better enforcement OF those We have. He IS
not consistent enough to apply his doctrine to
Naturalization as well as Municipal Laws ;
zoe are rigid correction of Naturalization
abuses, now Aagrant and notorious, would soon
put an end to Nativism
But the gentlemen who have got up this Let
ter betray the cfoveH foot of Loco-Focosm In Its
manufacture. They have great deal to say Of
the Wings who foolishly aided the Natives to
carry our City last Spring and Of the silly Wing
paper that cackled over that baleful triumph, but
never whisper is breathed of the Tammany
Democrats who originated this very Native
party, and gave it most OF its votes last Fall =
The Wings who voted for Harper & Co. in order
to overthrow their old adversaries, are held up as
regular Natives; but the Locos, who started the
Native party and pushed it ahead for the mere
sake of Netivism, without hope of helping their
old party but intending to break it down, are let
off without a sour look, even! 1t did not need
this to convince us that the men whose names are
signed 10 this address are hardly its real authors,
and that the motive which lmpelled lis production
is not that avowed in its pages.
u The Brooklyn Eogle has column and
half about Henry Clay's Apostacy' which we
can upset in quarter Of the space. In the first
place, Mr.. Clay did not represent the State of
Kentucky in Congress in lS24-5, but the Lexing-
ton District which is not and never was for Jack
son. The Legislature had just the same right to
instruct him to vote for Jackson that our Regency
Legislature would have to instruct Messrs. Ph9-
nix and Fish to vote for Polk in case the pending
Election should go into the House. Which would
our Wing Members be morally bound TO obey
their own constituents, or those Of other Men,
bers I?
But hear the Eagle:
THE men whom the Tribune cites as voting for Mr. Caw,
| uOting for .qddms, is not at all to the purpose"
Nay, neighbor! we don't object to your def.
ciences of logic and grammar, but you certainly
ought TO know how to read. We cited the sup
port of MIR. Crawford to the last moment by
Messrs. Van Buren,, Macon, Ritchie-by Vir.
ginia, Georgia, the Democratic Members from
this State, &c.-not at all to prove that Henry
Clay did not desert his party in voting for Adams,
but TO prove that it could not be antI.repubcan
to vote for a minority candidate wao had 81
Electoral Votes, when it was perfectly Democratic
to vote for another who had but Al. You had as
serted that it was wrong in Mr.. Clay to vote for
a candidate who had not the highest number Of
votes. We showed you in reply that the mag
mates of your own party voted for one who had
fewer still. What do vou say to that?
| Repeal Meeting.
Notwithstanding the apprehensions, justified by
the fact, that Political Ward Meetings and thehe
of the weather would affect the Repeal Meeting
| tol1 l,st aren;nor et Tammanv Hall tho attend