The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-01-08
COMMUNICATION.
For The Cadir Ssahnsl
NATIYEHsM-

NAIIEEHSAs
Mr.. EDIToR;-I am surprised at the want of
forethought or lack Of patriotism running through
some of our influential wing papers of late
They seem inclined 10 favor, what should ever
be a nOndeScript with patriotic Americans-the
Native American Party. This Party had its orr
gin, | believe, in the city of New York. From
thence it was transplanted to the city Of Broth
erly love, where its legitimate operations were
most f~earfully tested, BY the disrupture of every
thing lovely and of good report. The horrible
scenes enacted in Philadelphia, having their orr
gin in the formation Of a Native American party
there, should forever deter the friends of peace
and good order from intending the sphere of It's
bloody influence. A more insane or worse move
for the stability Of our institutions and the pros
perity OF our common country, could hardly be
imagined. We as a people have ever held out
the hand of invitation to the citizens of other
nations, to come here and make this their home,
where they might enjoy the blessings of Liberty.
Our rich unappropriated lands have been the
hive to the landless abroad, to seek for them
selves and their rising families, competence and
a happy home in America. We have by our
constitution and avs Of naturalization, assured
them in the strongest manner possible, that after
they have passed their legal term of probation,
they may at will change their foreign character,
and identify themselves with us, as Americans,
with a right TO all The franchises of native born
citizens. How unpatriotic then, md ~unConsti-
~tutional for us native born subjects, to originate
a party having for its origin the exclusion of all
but natives of these United States, from any par
~ticipation in making or administering the laws
by which the naturalized citizens are 10 be gov
erned as well as the i" Natives"
In looking over the history of the Colonies
from which these United States have arisen, we
find it was the settled policy of them all, 10 adj
nit emigrants from other countries to the rights
oil citizenship, without denying 10 them the rights
to hold Office, or imposing upon them disabili-
ties unknown to Native Colonists. Our Pilgrim
fathers hal suffered too severely under oppressive
governments, 10 think Of forcing from naturalized
citizens obedience to the civil laws and military
exactions, without giving them the right of rep
resentation. The patriots of the revolution uni
Formly made taxation without representation the
burden Of their petitions and circumstances to
the Parliament cf Great Britain. They surely
would not have countenanced the one-sided and
unjust principles Of Nrtjpeism for one moment
Let US suppose that our Revolutionary fathers
had given way to their fears Of ruinous foreign
influence in our Colonial Congress, at the be-
ginning Of our war with Great Britain, and ex-
cluded all but native born citizens from any par
ticipation with them in their councils, OF in the
more dangerous position Of general officers and
commanders by land and sea. What sympathy
or aid could they have expected or hoped for,
from such as the Marquis LAFAYETTE, the young
and gallant Erenchman?-lIom Baron DE- STEU-
BEN, that fearless Prussian taclician?--from
Count PULASKI? that noble and distinguished
Pole, who, after making great hut unsuccessful
efforts for the redemption Of his own county,
offered his scrv ces to the United States during
the revolution, and was appointed a B.igadier
General in the American amy, and sealed his
love of liberty with his life blood before The city
Of Savannah, Georgia, in l77U, and from Paul
John Jones, that Fl .eating "Scotchman," who
came to America al the commencement Of the
revolution, and received a lieutenant's commits
sion in the navy, from which he was soon promo
ted to the command Of the RANGER, and after
wards TO the command of the BONNIE HoMME
RICHARD, purchased in France, in which he car
Tied terror and dslnay to the very shores Of the
British lsles-fought battles and gained v,cto-
ries that utterly asioundcd " the Mistress of the
Seas" and gained for himself and his adopted
country a reputation for skill, and daring intrc-
pidity throughout all Europe, seldom, if ever
equallnd.-and from a gallant hosts Of tried PA
TRroTs, foreigners, WHO SO nobly took part on
the side Of the weak and oppressed, in thor pro-
tracted struggle for AMERICAN LIAERTY.
Let US suppose again, that our patriotic chris
tan fathers had taken counsel of their fears from
ProteStanism In that case would Charles Car.
roll Of Carrollton, ever subscribed his venerable
name 10 the immortal Declaration of American
independence, he being a leading Catholic in a
colony first settled by a body Of wealthy intelli-
gent catholics under LORD BALTIMORE from Eng
land, or would the Catholic Marquis LAFAYETTE,
ever enjoyed the warm unvarying friendship of
our great Washington, or have been permitted
10 st with him, and our general officers in coun-
Gil, and to battle by their side for seven long
years, TO help TO secure to this nation its ctUij lib
Srty, which brought in its train religious liberty
to ALL, without any special regard to sect, creed,
denomination, or ism. The enlarged and COM
prehensive minds of our patriotic Fathers, knew
how to appreciate the value Of the fiiends of lib
erty to this country, in whatever cline they
might have been born. 1t was matter Of rejoi-
cling then, that SO many from foreign counties
were willing to come among us, and identify
themselves with US. Man wherever born, has an
mate love for Liberty. If he has been train
GU uhuoi ucSPou0 goNolhhlSHl ho may hhoW
that Liberty is the price of eternal vigilance; but
by the kindness and hearty good will of the sons
of liberty, with whom he has come to make his
abode, he will soon be led to exercise that lau-
dable selfrespect, and that watchlulness over his
own actions and the actions Of others, which will
soon make him one with the intelligent supper
tiers of the free institutions, and just rights and
interests of his adopted country.
| ask what inducement have the yeomanry
from foreign countries TO change or work the
overthrow of our government. They have
known and felt in their own governments, the