New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-13
Native American Party.

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Native American Party of the City of New-York
ia. extending its -ss.sarizstion over the State.
Several Wing newspapers and mary wing poll
TEXANS have taken ground IN favor OF tAls enter
mise. There has never been an occasion as IA
yofabe 20 this movement as the present The
Experiment can now be tired with less injury to
othe. interests than at any former PERIOD Anc
as the experiment. must and niH be tired, we
shall offer no objections and throw no obstacles
IN its way.
Our o.n sentiments upon the question have
been frankly expressed. They remain IN
changed. Indeed. the reasons which now
prompt others to become Native Americans con-
firm and strengthen US against the movement
II is said tina. the State has been lost BY an en-
bldied naturalized vote against us. ms,
true, proves that the State would have been
SAVED ii se had not, by our demonstrations OF
political hostility against that class OF Citizens
driven them against u. The success OF the
Native American ticket in the city OF New I ofh
last spring was claimed q Wing triumph
Ire proposition TO extend the period ior natu-
raizaton to tweniy-one years was received WIN
favor by leading Waig statesmen and ne%spa-
pers. Two Wing newspapers IN this city have
labored pe,severingly for SIX months to array
Naive againe. Adopted Citizens. The intention
Of organizing Naive American Party II our
cities and villages after the Election was openly
and loudly proclaimed. We stop not now to say
whether all this was right or wrong but we ask
rejecting, rational men whether, with know,
ledge of these things, Adopted Citizens should
have been expected to vote the Wing ticket? II,
then, we have lost the State by course which
has driven Adopted Wing Citizens against US,
should we blame them or ourselves? While Ia
voring and uniting with the Native American
Party. was it reasonable to ask or expect those
whom that party proscfibes to vote our ticket -
It was believed, before the Election, that the
Native Americans in Ne~. York would give US
msiority in that City. Beguilcd by this hope,
the Wings abandoned their own aud adopted the
Native candidates. But Loco Focosm, true to
its instincts whether processing Abolition or
Nstiyism, generally adhered 10 the Polk Elect
oral ticket. so that instead of making any thing
bv the Native movement even IN New York, we
are no. certain that it did not repel as many
votes as it attracted. Some, indeed, say that the
number Of Adopted Wing Electors who voted
against us in New-York exceeded the number OF
Lsco. Foco Natives who voted for US.
There is large class of naturallzed citizens
in Ulster County, most of whom, as was the case
10 q greater or less degree throughout the state,
had abandoned Lpcu- Foco!sn,. These Electors
voted with us in November and IN April. With
them we had sure and decisive Wing majority
in Ulster. But by strange lntaluatlon, the
Wing Party Of Ulster, by an official declaration
of its Central County Committee, was dlsbanded,
and Native American organization recommend
cd, for the purpose, as would seem, OF punlshlng
Irshmen ior having voted the wing Ticket
simultaneously with the movement OF the wing
Central Committee i'll Ulster, its wing newsPa-
per broke ground in favor Of Native American
ISM Can we blame Adopted Citizens. under
such circumstances, for leaving US
1t has been supposed, most enormously, that
the Adopted Citizens were nearly all opposed to
US. That a very large majority of these Electors
were with our opponents, is true. But we have
fatal evidence now that we could not afford to
lose those who were Wings. We have been In
debted, in this county, for the last two years, TO
the votes of Adopted Citizens, for the maJonty
we obtained Colonel BARNARD and WILLIS
HALL would have been beaten in 1912, bat ior
the votes cast for them by Adopted Cltlzens
Sheriff BATrERMAN and MIR. STEVENS would have
been beaten in lS43, but for the same Electors.
These Electors have now, by the warfare waged
against them in two Wing newspapers, and the
avowal of our Wing friends that Native Ame
rican Party would be organized Immediately after
the election, been driven into the ranks of our
opponents And cur majority in the City has con-
seauen,ly been cut down from $50 to $780, and
our candidate for Congress IS defeated.
We have lost from thousand to fifteen hun
dred Adopted Wing Electors IN the city OF New
York from two 10 three hundred in each OF the
Counties of Orange, Ulster, Duchess, Albany,
ST. Lawrence, Jefferson, and Erie; and from one
10 two hundred in at least twenty other Counties,
making, in the State, an aggregate OF from four
to Ave thousand With majority of only 5000
against us, a change, of $500 votes from the
Wing to the Loco-F oco side, was sufficient 10
defeat Mr.. CLAY and 10 elect POLK. And yet
these $500 Electors, with as many more who be-
looced to u.s. had the Wing Party kept clear of
Naive Americanisln, would have voted for and
elected Wing President
The Naturalized Electors have nevertheless
voted against their own interests and the welfare
the country. But had they not better reasons Tor
doing So, and are they not more e1cusabe, than
the Two hundred thousand native born clnzens
wao have led for Polk. Free Trade, Texas and
Slavery What would the Naturallzed vote Tor
Polk have availed, had not more than two hun
bred thousand native born Electors voted with
them? And these natives have sinned against
political light and knowledge, while the class we
now seek to prescribe and punish, however wrong,
beliered themselves right.
But we are going farther than we intended.
Our object was only to say that inasmuch as
Native Amcrcanism must have its day, the
sooner it breaks out the better. We shall pursue
the even tenor OF our way, neither ]olnlng with
nor warning against those who thus embark. we
have long acted together, and while we are con-
tent they should pursue their course, we ask the
same privilege. The WING platform is broad
enough for US 10 stand on, and we shall trust to
its banner for protection. We are not unused to
political defeat. We have seen as dark day
for our Party, though perhaps not so dark for our
Country. as the present The Wing Party is
beaten II is true, but lis course Is as clear endl,s
duties as Imperative as If we had triumphed. We
can, by fidelity and devotion, restrain and check
the Desructives. Wo can watch, detect, expose
and rebuke misgovernment. We can turn the
edge and dull the point of the evils and miseries
with which we are threatened. We, therefore,
shall resume our watch upon the Wing ramparts.
We hsve seen Toco Focoism when SOARING as