The American patriot., 1855-08-11

100000 Natives According to that ratio
there ought to be about seven Natives TO one
Foreigner in the Alms-house. Whereas we
lind more than three Foreigners to one Native
No wonder that people who nre taxed to sup
port such body Of paupers should be the first
to set about devising means to get rid of them
Let us pursue the record-the Bellevue Hos
pital, in the same City, there were 7O2 Ameri-
cans-4l34 Foreigners now the proportion ri
ses to nearly six to one. There were of out.
door poor,-that is persons who had some
place to sleep, but nothing to eat, and nothing
to make fir,-957 Native Adults, and 1O44
childrcn-3131 Foreign Adults, and 1929 For
eign children, or children born of Foreign pa
rents. This number were relieved during the
year with money. OF those relieved with fuel
there were 1248 Adult Americans and 1901
children 10,355 Adult Foreigners and IT,
e57 children. But the record is not vet COM
plcte--let US turn to the statistics Of crime. In
the city prisons there were during the year,
6,l02 Americans-22,2 ,229 Foreigners. pass
on to an abode even more gloomy than that of
the prison cell, and call your attention to those
whom God in his wisdom has seen fit to de-
prive Of the light of reason. In the Lunatic
Asylum there were admitted from the year
1S47 to 1853 779 Americans, 1881 Foreigners.
For the year 1868 there were "a Americans,
393 Foreigners. These tables might be made
more complete by adding Organ Grinders,
Strolling Mendicants and Professional Beggars
but of these have no reliable data, and there.
fore pass them with the single remark that
have never seen Native American who be-
longed to either class. These figures are far
more conclusive than any language could be to
prove the necessity Of arresting the tide of en-
igration. Let every American impress them
deeply upon his memory 42,369 Foreign
paupers and invalids, 1881 Lunatics, and 90
229 criminals taxing the industry, and blight
ing the prosperity of single City. In that list
Of crimes is embraced murder, rape, arson,
robbery, perjury, every thing which is damn
ing to the character of the individual, and ev-
cry thing which is dangerous to society In
our section we sec but little of the evils of en-
igration-comparatively few come among us,
and those are generally Of the best classes Of
their countrymen. 1t is not as State that we
suffer most but as an integral part of the Re-
public. The crime, vice, disease, destitution
and beggary which flows in with every tide Of
emigration afi1icts us but little; it is through
their political action in their capacity Of voters
that the curse extends itself to us. When
thousands upon thousands are carried to the
polls and made to vote in favor Of any man, or
any party for shilling, corrupting the ballot
box, and rendering liberty insecure, then we
sutfer--then the law of sclfpreservation gives
us right, and makes it a duty to interposc
With such dangers thickening around us the
memorable order Of Gen. Washington should
be 'upon every mans lips: Put none but
Americans on guard tonight" In time of
peace your public officers are your sentinels
Put none on guard whose bosoms do not swell
with exulting pride at the mention of Bunker
Hill, OF monmouth, of Saratoga, or OF York
Town. Put none on guard whose national
traditions are not confined to our own common
wealth. Put none on guard who can dwell by
a, .ns four lou. upon .ne eloquence OF uanlei oOon
n1', ou' nav never hc"ru 'ne name o. Iatrick
ilsay. us none On suaro wnU ~. turn WIN CO. Sold
Urleans, W, W Tuas' u Nia,cneo, Ut A'c'Ps'c' OF
w ""'ei'oo nney w. ~. rove your iana az you
uoy ".n NV "a.oH osol ~ WIN the same
so osJ.Ds .Is:.'S' opp,eSson n no. cn"lce
i"s oiousn' lin. lclo' anu ,'icusi "e may lec'
't"oum, M u eau'uIo ~, sie s'ie'.cr no
.ou,. ne sun ooAs o"oN W .ne green he'os
OF MS chl'dnood-he remembers every stone
upon tne hignways-he reaos tne history OF
HIS nA'lve 'ano' a',u p"lMkes IN tne priGe OF i!s
sreat even.sLih , MS hea,t OF he:rts ne ieeis
.na: .hcre ~ ms nome alu 'here MS holest al
lecuons are garnered up. rear, necessity,
common sense, may keep MN mere, out ne
.oves no. tne iaho OF the otrahger-cares noth'
ing y! lor us former elories--sheoS no tear over
us former aisasters
| win VIVA. reverence can the German regard
tne name OF washington wheh ne remembers
that ms pathway TO freedom was strcwn with
tne t. aeao nooies OF herman mercenares
What ex1itation can tne hriton ieel IN the
lame OF jackson when nc remembers tnat II
was won ny trampfng the non banner IN the
dust! IS not IN human nature that they
should ieei as we do' ana we are ialse 10 our
selves when we put them IN power, or give
them the urectioh oi the 'aw'
| Perhaps no party in this country has ever
been the subject Of SO much invective as the