The American patriot., 1855-09-08

our SCHOOLS, SenlnarleS, anu institutions for
the education of our youth, and the instruction
of the rising generation, consist Of foreigners
who have themselves been brought up in dis
and aspirations alien to our own-and who
cannot with the patriotic fire which burns II
the heart of native American, call their A..
tention and veneration to the deeds of their An.
cestors, who projected our happy institution
and the majority of whom should they under
take to sketch the outline Of a patriot and
statesman to their pupils, as worthy Of emus.
ton, would select as their beau ideal, the hesrt
less dcspot Meternich, or the beggarly agtator
Daniel O'Connell. 13ff
When we tell our countrymen, that many Of
the professors in our colleges and universities
are foreigners, and that the press, the great
moral lever of nations has almost been abso.
lutely monopolized by foreigners-for melan-
choly to relate, When aatire americans own
presses, foreigners are too eftea permitted 70
control Mem,-that presses whose whole Oh.
ject, aim and end is the establishment of TO
reign tone and feeling among the multifarious
hosts of foreigners now in our country, have
been quietly permitted to erect themselves
through every part of the United States.
When we tell our countrymen, that thro-
out the United States, in every city, town and
village there exist societies of foreigners, who
hold their meetings in great degree in secret
and their proceedings remain unscrutinized by
native Americans, and that although genenly
under the color of benevolent purposes, Their
objects may be political, or at least entirely
foreign. Nothing that could be beneficial to
our country can result from them.
When we tell our conntrymcn all these
things, and every native American heart re.
sponsive echoes the truth and justice of our
assertions let no native American hereafter saw
in answer to our appeals, "Oh a few foreign.
cas- more or less, can never do the United
States any harm"
The elder Adams whose perils and suferines
in behalf of American liberty and independ-
ence, enttle him the gratitude and veneration
Of posterity in all time, advocated law, hav-
ing for its object the protection of the United
States from indscriminate foreign immigration
and the obloquy which bas been heaped upon
his name by almost every foreigner for that
act, and which has almost succeeded in affix-
ing blight upon his memory, is not only
proof of the patriotism which dictated his
opinions and induced him to devote himselfto
his country's safety, but is a striking commen-
tary on the foreign feeling and foreign inAu.
cnce which pervades the United States.
| All his revolutionary pers, privations and
sufferings in behalf of American liberty have
almost been neutralized, and his good name
cast out as evil, because he sought to protect
his country from the dangers of foreign infu-
cnce.
/ Accused be the American citizen who would
raise his parricidal voice to join foreign cla-
NOR against any one of the fathers of our belo-
we'd Republic. ....
/ The next argument which is employed to
demonstrate the necessity of continuance Of
the naturalization laws, is, that their repeal
would prevent immigration to this country,
and that we require foreign aid to cultivate our
fields, navigate our fleets, and give potency to
our military establishments.
/ 10 this we answer:
/ II is not to benefit our country, that foreign
ers come amongst us, but to accommodate
themselves. But if it even could be substan.
tiated that repeal of the naturalization laws
would prevent immigration to this country, we
respectfully conceive that such circumstance
try's population to increase firmly, soundlv.
and radically although slowly, than by too
rapid, badly digested and excrescent growth.
to become prematurely infirm and unsubstan.
tal.
We not only receive into our country hords
of aliens in feelings, principles, preudices, and
habits of thinking, but through the instrument
tality of our naturalization law, we endow them
with the prerogative of influencing our insti-
tutlons and deciding on the future destinies Of
our beloved country-can such men who have
been taught from their earliest infancy to de-
spise and abhor our country, her inhabitants
and her institutions-(See O'Connels speech
es)--men who have no idea of rational liberty,
social virtue, OF political subordnation, except
by the strong hand and iron rule of viceregL
task masters-men habituated by education to
tumult and insulrection, and practically (ami.
lar with the foulest actions comprised in the
dark catalogue Of crime.
Are such as these to be depended on to pro.
tcct our country from foreign invasion, when
perhaps one-half of them are imbued with feel
ings of superior loyalty to the invading enemy,
and devotion to their success; while the re-
mainder are utterly destitute of any moral re-
straint, insusceptible ofmilitary subordinaton,
and capable only Of such degree Of fidelity
as they conceive to be Immediately conducive
to their private and individual INTEREST,"