New-York daily tribune., 1845-03-24
= TRIBUNE.
The conr,sr and Nativism.

II may be that the Courier Is nShl IN sAyi"s '"">
II did not last fall propose 10 assume tie "o"e as
wen as adopt the principles OF the American ne
uubIicans.' so called. Our files were all burnt Blk
weeks ago, but we have distinct recollection oi
sseinp the name american Republicans printed
in eapi,aEs, and we believe displayed IN separate
line. in the midst of laudatory Editorial IN the
Courier. day or two before the Election. That
the Courier approved of the leading object of that
narty-rhe restriction Of Naturalization to persons
who have been twenty-one years in the Country
we believe Is no longer in dispute.
The Courier now asserts that the Wings are ID
favor of con6ning Naturalization TO United States
Courts aud prescribing that Naturallzed Citizens
shall be such one year before they can vote NOW,
without discussing the essential Propriety OF these
PROPOSITIONS. we do most decidedly deny that they
have ever been in any way adopted or counte-
nanced by the Wing party. And, farther, we chai-
lenge the right of any Editor or Editors to manuiac
ture such propositions and impose them upon the
Wing party as its principles. We are as deslrous
az those who make more noise about it to see the
gross abuses and epasions practlsed under our Nau
ral,zation Laws corrected and guarded against
But we insist thar this will best be accomplished
we think il can only be accomplished--by keeping
the subject of the sphere Of party politics and ap
pealing to the whole People to unite in protecting
their rights from invasion and the laws from cor
uption and abuse. But to make political hobby
orparty watchword of this before exhaustirg other
means of procuring redress, is suicidal. We shall
get no Reform Of Naturalization abuses if we press
il as a party measure if we urge it upon Congress
on independent grounds, keeping it entirely sepa-
rate from the notion Of restricting the profier Of
Naturalization now held out TO the immigrant, we
have sanguine hopes of success.
We will here repeat our protest against the gross
and mischievous assumption of individuals, wheth-
er few or many, editors or others, who undertake
TO promuleate their notions as Whig doctrines
We recognize no Wing doctrines but those which
the Wing party has avowed through its conventions;
we deny the right of any man to put forth any
other as Wing doctrines. If any body wishes an
article added to the Wing creed, let him submit it
10 the next National or State or City Wing Con-
vention if adopted there, we will recognize it as
Wing doctrine to the extent Of the authority of the
body procaimlng it; but we cannot have every
man who controls types or makes speeches altering
our principles Mt pleasure. He may say that ever
SO may people think as he does, but that is not au
thority. If the Whig party think so, they doubt
less know how TO proclaim il so that the world will
understand them.
The exhibitions Of bad temper and bad manners
made on Saturday by the Courier, especially in re-
peatedly charging DUDLEY SRLpEN with fasehood
in matter where a thousand witnesses stand ready
to sustain Mr. s., come in good season. That Jour
nal is now shorn Of its power to do mischief. Il
cannot come out two or three days before the Elec
ton and advise the Wings to vote for Harper, with
any hope Of misleading them. The Wing party
has been very generally aroused to its danger and
ls true policy, and we trust it will shub the former
and pursue the latter. The fraud of protesting to
support Mr.. Selden, yet regreuing that he is moi
popular, now stands exposed. The Whig banner
may possibly be struck down in the present une.
quail contest, but it will no more be furled at the
crisis Of the battle by reacheroas standard bearers
entrusted with its keeping. The Wings of the In
terror no matter where born, shall see that they
have pbalanx Of brethren in this City standing
shoulder TO shoulder with them, now and evermore.