Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-01-21
6N FonEIoNEasIS Il l 4 srnE UsirsDssrArss'


We hays iately seen ii q let,sf. a tisrs
some years ago: by Prof: Lie6eT of ours
College, 10 "a. gentien1anS al tbes sorthS.
which mag be- nieresii9g 10 SONS az soiufs
Ireaders;, With reference 10 the questipn DC;
|Natiysismt before Co Congress. cnsi-.
|derstand abat tls 7siser saf iie letter his aa
mo objectior % lont pub ishiGgs & ,hie
|foliowingis fhas letter apos:d ri
You tell me that ovsi
friend ma nsei niil, some, pefha
6lEicnl ties ID swav Of BIZ BIZ
tapponlment, owing to tliE heiiDg Esisg
as :spssara
fof twenty yearZ citizen. OF iiIs' Uoitesl
States. Olherwise, Ne. y - readily 81,
lowed that he is the fittest person for the
place. = 10.
You remember the passage on for:
eisners in the 9nd volume:of my Ethics.
No one has ever spoken so unreservedly
on the subject as I'haye, and Istilt cav as
| then stated. if q foreigner arrives here,
let him make up his mind whether hs.t
will accept OF, the: !citizenphip offered tx
The laws Of the land, orprefsr;,o live as
an alien. But it, he takes the oath of .aIe
legiance, there must he absolutely an end
10 his acting in any shape or manner az a
foreigner; and. to conSregate .iu times Of,
election under the banners 1.-The - !TIues
Sons Of Erin" :or lhe-" Noble Some Of
Germany" as ] have seem nnyselE; or in
any way TO bring feeling arising out. Of
a common and foraigu extraction to bear
upon elections or other political subjects.
falls liule short Of treason against. ..ths
sovereign of the land, and is pasiiiyelv
rauk treason agains; the civic hospitality.
which This country offer 10 us as IlheralIy
as nature offers b6untifuliy, u1occupiea
land TO the people. And if the foreigner
is too humble in intellect to see tho treason
he commits, those native citizens perpetu-
ate for him the crime, against .lhe vitals.
Of: their own country, who: aauer, feast,
fuddle. bribe and seduce The needy for.
eigner OF stoIid pauper. ),
"If, however, any one were to imply
from this passage that mean 10 conn.en-
ance those parsons., Of the .Nutive party.
so.caled, whose whole doctrine may be.
expressed in this great dogma: Vast. a.
merica lay before US; re, a few. hasenea
,hilher, aud having arrived, want to loeA
the door behind us, agains, The whole ex-
lending white race, and in the teeth nf The
very law Of expanding civilization, " which
has ever beer that Of rolling population,
if any one were to suppose that feel the
least sympathy with these egotists, he
must have strangely mistaken my mean
ing. ! know but, one native party in this
whole country, which, without solecism.
might adopt the name Of natives--,he In.
dians. When I address an assembly in
this country, whom do SEQ around ma
but foreigners, or sons or grandsoas. OF
foreisners? think the lines of The nobls,
Daniel De Foe, 70 his satire, The Fbudl.
born Englishman, in which be lashod 1ie
English" na,ivism" running high, agains,
great William the Third, apply s,il more
TO Us:
But grantthe best. How came the change
10 pass;
A true.born Ensiishmaa of N6rn,sp raec9
A Turkish horse eaa shew moro history
TO prove his well descended. family = Z
In wha, consists tho .. native,a" claim
to this soil, this Land, shis conline1t4 In
what the superiority he assumes over the
red man, declasipg. him the occupant, iot1is io1ss
ly, but himself lhe real owner, beeanass
the Indian will mol, or cannot ,ih the
ground, il il rss, not in his very fossisns.
ship or EuropeaBhood (Lel nns mskss
words, SO that they tell You and ttiiS;
truth oven .leglliy acknowledged hs t9sS
of the greatest Jdtis,s this OF any ceantfy'
ever ,prQdueodGb!y; Chief Jdsiics liaraaafl.
10 the famous CASE Of Johusop, ~. Mstt