New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-15
Lei us Consider.

4 cor,es,ondent (wiosc letter we regret we
have misIaid. but Of which we have retained the
sub,tance) argues very ably and plousbly IN favor
If voting The Native ticket this Spring. He makes
% much better fist of it than the Corporation or
gan that we shall reply TO his points and leave the
organs TO destroy each other. His leading Gopo-
sItions are
l. The Adopted Cticets md At'cns are '''0'fy
all hostile 10 The IYtigs.
This is a fact, and certainly seems 10 us ev-
dence of very imperfect information with regard to
our Political differences, and that obtained through
partial. prejudiced, and dishonest channels. 1t Is
great misfortune to the Adopted Citizens, as well
as TO the Country, that they have come 10 be gen
orally regarded as so much stock in trade OF one
Party, not voting one way or the other as an I'M
partial scrutiny Of the positions and arguments oil
the rival parties shall incline them respectively but
bllndly putting faith in name, and sustaining or
opposipg great measures of public policy as the
temporary or local inclination OF tins party shall
dictate. We admit, then, that the Foregn-oorn
portion of our citizens do generally side with the
Loco-Foco party, and on grounds which appear 10
us mistaken and delusive.
But is this error peculiar to our citizens OF For
eigu birth? Do not cur Natire citizens who are
'N'SN
son TO be satisfied Cor are unreasonaby dissatisfied
with their Social position, and especially those
who keep and those who mainly patronlze our low
grorreries. vote the same way! Are not nine
tenths Of all our grog-shors, including those kept
nv Americans born. Loco-Foco Remember that
II IS into these that Foreigners naturally thrown
when the, roach shores-that here they tlnd
Society, form companonshps and obtain such in
tim tha,, DDl,f
controversies. The logic, then, which would in
duce Wings to oppose Naturalization because the
Nalurazed generally oppose us, would require us
also to struggle for the disfanchsement of the igno.
rant, the destitute and the keepers frequenters
of porter-houses (Which Mike Walsh truly de-
clared the nurseries of what passes for Democra-
cy,) as we'll Native as Naturazed. But we man-
tain that TO deprive men of Political rights because
they unfortunate in other respects, Is TO take
hold at the wrong end entirely. Are any Igno-
rant Let us labor patiently and jealousy TO en-
tighten them. Are any so depressed and despair
ing that they induced to envy and hate the pos
SCISSORS of Property, and strive TO tear down the
Fortunate Let US devise and perfect the means OF
diminishing wfeichedness and well-founded dIscon-
tent. Let us devise the means OF securing En-
ployment and fair Recompense 10 all who will
labor, and thus Danish Social Anarchy and Hatred
OF Property. Let us labor to render every one
directly and palpably interested in whatever con-
duces to general prosperity and well.belng. Let
lis steadily diffusc Knowledge and incucate TEN.
peTancc, until Ignorance, Vice and Dissipation
shall be rendered rare possible, in view of hu-
man imperfection. Then we shall surely be
wellgoyerned and happy people, matter what
may be the name of the party ia power.-Such is
our idea OF the proper mode of combating the in.
fuence of Ignorance and Vice IN our Political con-
Germs. This may be- doubtless is, a slow process
but it is the only one which can ever be ehtctual.
1t is true, then, that MIR. Clay was defeated by
the votes of the great mass of Adopted Citizens
and that these votes We're given on other grounds
than these which should have been potential in de-
Gliding the Political course of American citizens
Bat was the fault all on sdel Clearly not, in
our Judgment 1t was hatred or dread of Nativism
that banded the Adopted Citizens so generally
against us and greatly swellcd their numbers.
Was this wrong on their part! To some extent II
doubtless was SO: but was II not very human
Here were perhaps Two Hundred Thousand voters,
forming peculiar class among Three Millions. If
they desired and sought TO forget their peculiarly,
Naiivism sternly forbade They We're sternly
minded that they were step-childrcn here, and in
danger OF losing the privileges of the household. Ii
was impossible for the mass OF them 10 make dis
tnction between u crusade against future and one
against past Naturalization; for the argument
which demonstrated that future Immigrants must
live here twenty-one years before voting equally
proved that the rule should haze prevailed from the
beginning The great mass of Adopted Citizens,
therefore, felt that their mos, cherished personal
rights were IN danger-that The prevalence OF Ma
tivlsn thought might leave them Individually The
privilege OF voting, would deprive that night of all
significance and force and they must be Iardoned
for regarding This as OF greater moment 10 them
than the more general questions which divided the
great parties. There was an unscrupr,ous Party
Press ready 10 tell them, and iuneran, demasosues
enough 10 whisper the tale In their every ear with
amplifications and exagserations, that the Haas
were all secretly favorable 10 NativiSnl, and would
avow i, as soon as Mr.. Clay'S election should be
secured True, they had been told this before but
now there were circumstances connected with our
Spring Election here and the State Election in
Pennsylvania which gave It colcring OF truth
Many Adopted Citizens who had for years voted
steadily the Wing ticket turned against us; thou
sands were naturalized expressly because they had
been led TO fear that they would be declared the
privilege if MIR. Clay was elected BY these was
Mr. Clay defeated. as he would not have been If
the Native triumph here last April had been pre-
vented.
-swell,' says Wing Native, that mischief is
done the Foreigners are all asains, us, and we
have nothing to lose and much TO gain by opposing
Naturalization
No, SIR: You are as much out of your reckoning
as when you voted for Harper las, Spring. The
Adopted Citizens are not all against us. Had they
been SO last Fall, Mir Clay would have been beaten
Twenty Thousand instead of Five Thousand in
this State. Had they been so, New-Jersey Ohio
and Tennessee would have gone asains, us, max