The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-31
THE UNION.


That exclusive Farty "natives,'
Why should any American in this country claim to
himself the inherent right OF making the land of his
birth political tea2 We treat the native American
party" would treat any other faction among us.
We speak of them other than guilty concave,
with an intent and purpose hostile TO institutions, and
waIrlng everywhere against popular rights and demo
cratic privileges And why set up nvdious distinctions
In nation whose proud boast il is be 'the asylum OF
the oppressed" of every kindred and tongue Why APP
proprate to ourselves the exclusive control OF public
measures in which all made equally to share Why
send around the annual gatherer with his ndscrm
mate enistments and exacons, if a naue born citizen
is to possess rights not common to all Why claim
elusive privileges for ourselves because may happen
to have been born this side of the Atlantic The
public revenues of the country bear ear-marks, by
which the money of the "natipe which goes to the sup
port of the government be distinguished from the
money Of the foreigner All have to contribute they
may possess And how long is it since venera-
ted fathers fled from the desolaDg scouge of foreign
desposm to this land of liberty and equality And who
they who seek to pull down those sacred barriers
which the patriotic descendants of ancient parent
stock the sealed with their blood in the
dire struggle of the revolution! Who among the bold
champions of this native American dynasty would strike
out single line--change single word-or blot out
single syllable letter of the sacred instrument that binds
us together The motto of the whole country is, and
has BEEN that all made participants of its bless
ngs and its bountes who have sworn to support it, and
thereby placed on constitutional level with each
other amenable alike to the laws, and liable to punish
ment for every infracton This great fundamental truth
should have been sufficient OF itself to have restrained
the crazy efforts of native Americansm from offering
rude hand crush and PROSTATE so humane and noble
provision Of what conscious error have our foreign
population been guilty. that they should be thus thrust
aside and efectually off from the rights of
American citizens Do they not pay taxes and bear
their proportion of the governmental burdens Are they
not equally liable with the nativeborn be called
defence of their adopted country, to fight battles
to peril life and fortune in the of American lib
erty? And when invasion lifted its hydra form among
U.S. when the clangor of heard most furi-
ously around us, who stood up faithfully firmly
amid the din of the conflict in aid of your Washington
and your Jackson than the brave foreign patriots who
bled and fell by their sde And who they who would
now rob their and descendants of the proud honor
of such legacy9 Our position this subject is that
of every honest patriot of the land"lst those yho
compelled to fight be permitted to vote."
THIS is the popular doctrine of the public suffrage of
the day, and it finally everywhere prevail State
after State is coming to lis adoption with certain limited
qualifications and it will probably go on until shall
fragrant and unnatural war is waged upon the poor
foreigner under the new anAmerican lest established
by "the ve-American pary' Can that party much
longer succeed in deudng the of the people
within the limited space-a single city-to which it is
now confined
few years since, it had temporary existence away
in the far West but the popular Indignation rose in re-
belion against its authors, and it strangled in its
cradle and will not the good sense the calm and DELHI
crate reflection Of those engaged in unfolding and
disseminating the principles of this of modern
growth among bring them to the honest determination
to arrest its further progress miserable innovation
upon the constitutional preogaves of our free and hap
py and' Can they longer turn cold hand, an unfeel-
ing heart to the poor oppressed Irishman the down
trodden German, the iberty-inspired Frenchman, the
exed Pole the expatriated of every cime-those who
have been driven away from early home, from the iron
despotsms that held them in chains to breathe the
pure air of American liberty and TO bask beneath the
bright sunlight Of American peace and plenty-can they
bid them go back to the country they have left When
nearing our shores, who has the heart to excIam Stand
OdCk ye We tCTGCfed 27ef-
iopers. We haze no soilno country-no home for uou
here Go again and Hue and suffer- and languis arere
monarchy had its BIRTH and liberty found its Craze W.
natire-born csens and, blythe privilege of our birth
enjoy rights here that you share" Imagina
ton paints a scene. We see it now before us. The
| picture should be drawn.
We behold assemblage of 'the native American
party and the old Hall of Independence is made to echo
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birth. stately ship is announced as Just entering the
harbor The native American jubilee comes to halt
"The queen OF the waters" slowly up the Della
ware The stars and stripes floating over it, and
thousand sparkling eyes visible in the distance
They about to set foot in country of freedom The,
are coming to settle soil, to level our forests
improve our farms, and to "buid up our cities
Their eye is the far They come to anchor ant
then the comminged shouts of welcome !-companion
long separated meeting and inquiry takes its round 70
'faher, mother, children, and friends" One is bount
for the far West another for the South another North
some for Ohio, some for Pennsylvania some for tn,
lower Mssissippi-and all in search of land for ;
comfortable home. The "natve- Americans"-thos
who have lately much distinguished themselves as
mere mongre faction in this country-stand aghas at tn
scene Their hearts revolt the sickenng sight ant
deep groans and mumurings are to be heard as the,
wend their way back to the Hall of independence" TIT
wild Irish and the black Dutch are down upon us, de
termined to take the countryn