The Arkansas banner., 1845-03-12
,-,,1IzATIoN QUESTION.

s,nralized citizens III Boston, New
 pgba;ladelphia, and New Orleans, im-
 .llr after the late presidential election,
 's'' 'odsnring of exasperation and disap-
 a, S in their political hopes. Contra
 'a a;r firm belief and fond expectations,
 .', nle of the United States elevated to
 o?'G Jential chair a citizen, whose nomi-
 ,ssy treated with derision, and to jus
 an:elves m, to their European friends,
 a '5ey had grossly deceived, and by that
 :aa @ caused them loss of countless
 armoney, they cried out that the cleo
 J been lost through fraud, and anath-
 ,5 I inc whole body of naturalized cit
 % ss participants in that fraud. But the
 s, ~ the whig party in many parts of the
 .oceived more votes from that class of
 than the democracy. In some States
 big central committees publicly re-
 hanks to portions of the naturalized l 6r the efficient support given by them
 Clay ticket In Albany, the Irish l baoked-in Maryland, the Germans oje Island, another description of peo-
 bs irritation for imaginary wrongs in-
 mon them, by naturalized citizens, l bad nearly subsided in the north, is
 ;og at fever heat in the convention now
 a this city. It may seem extraordi- l and we are 10th to own it-but such is EaeIancholy fact. With some of the b5ers it is rabies, and they cannot dis { 5e rights which belong to their natu- ] spl brethren without evincing an uncon- Ebe anger-especially when any one ad- Ees the plain and apparently seIGevident fo,ilion that in fixing qualifications for l all American citizens ought to be placed | equal footing. As this question admits kclose examination, founded on the phi Eby of the human mind, let us try to Ess il.
 i he assumption is--that men will, under krumstances and in all situations, at all \ and in all places whatever, give the kpnce to the land of his birth over that
 $ adoption. The proposition appears Eland false in its very term, and is con ked by ten thousand well known histor- |cts. which 1t IS needless to mention Man is q being always in a greater or tegree governed by his own peculiar in- Is, and in general, sel6shness is his es- k characteristic. What Is 1t that so Div attaches native born American cit I 10 his country2 It IS the peculiar ad- gas and benefits which he derives from |nsiilutions. He is proud of the consti- and proud of the privileges 1t confers bim-he glories in his personal inde- |eace-he glories in his political rights bows that in the eye of the law he Is oany one, and that he enjoys as great Eree of personal liberty as may be com |e with the existence of society, while Ts afford him as ample protection for property, and reputation as is enjoyed citizen or subject of any other coun-
 No wonder, then, he is devoted to the Die and ready at any moment 10 die for Eeiy or her honor. But reverse this Fe-snppose this same high-mettled na- American ground to the dust by oppres- like the Irish and the people of some 'Eafopeaa countrles-trodden upon and led by naughty aristocracy and an es- he'd church-his proud spirit curbed ampeIlel to acknowledge dependence men whom he haies--suppose all this l without exploring the regions of fam l,ease, and extreme misery-what would he of his attachment to such a country contrary to the nature of man and of pto tosupPose that he could feel the slight egree of attachment to a spot of earth e he had thus endured wretchedness of Irest kind.
 first impulse would be to overthrow Inment whose indifference to the happi- of its people, or whose positive acts of ny had thrown these aiflietions upon
 Should he find such attempt hopeless, O1ld leave his native home in his mind d figure to himself the happiness he d enjoy in just such country as ours, le would fly to it on the wings of love. le principles of common sense, may we Emitted to ask-to which of these two b ke bestow the allegiance of his head country of his birth where 'lered miserics till they were no longer the country of his adoption z he found refuge from those miseries, e he found peace, safety, abundance of and equality of political and personal Tlth the richest and proudest of the Answer this question, ye who argue man born under another government, worthy of confidence here. Let expe- answer it-look to the annals of our ulonary war-look to the annals of the the dark honr when cen thousand veteran troops of England posted within six miles of the city of orleans-did any naturalized citizen at fylng hour prove treacherous or craven ? argument were sound, that was the oc- 'n on which il would have been proved U Il was not proved-on the contrary-- 'S proved that |" where a mans treasure Iefc Will his heart be also.''
 nat possible motive can foreigner, who oala Ut. rest and peace, and plenty, and in- auence' and happiness, and equal rights, 7lual privileges, in the United States possible motive can he have to prefer 'n @ country the country of his oppres- misery, and humiliation? It is contra teason' experience, and the nature of t sia' he should entertain such preference. lolon set forth in the convention of the ' 'lat natnralized citizen might, as Ai'ldfr ot the legion, as an officer of mi