A A (.) (J 8 3 9 4 9 -1 4A>Ui.t: - r. c L r A nat-^vt: amf^ptcah assoctatton i^ev Orleans, ADDRESS wm I.OU ISI ANA WAwrya iisgnamgAisr Asst)gii\.a'20jM TO TIC CITIZENS OF LOUISIANA AND TIIi: INHABITANTS OF Til"- UNITED STATES. " Native American Anociatinnii lurr founded npon a den\n to trn- unetiJ'tiii^rrrJ.Uy |xj«trrifv, all tli'- V -»i:i"i v.-!iirh wr iTi;nv. T exrIuKivo l>y thnatc iintiir.i natiir.ili/atiuii lawn. W'l. Bhn!' ■ ■• . - - ■ . V Wll. pU. fuuiiy." rtUnTCD HT O. FELT » €«■ 1839 7'- UMV^R'^r via ADDRESS. The undersigned liaving been appointed a committee to prepare an address to you, on the .su!)ject of Foreiijri naturalization in the United States, have endeavoured to perform that duly wivh a deep and solemn rnnviction of tlie importance and responsibility of tlie trust which has been confided to their hands. In tliscussin:^' this niomentous topic, while we lutvc determined lu speak iioldly, freely, and unequivocally on a subject with which we believe the destinies of our beloved country to be bound up, and on the proper man- ni^enient of which we consider the duration of our blootl-boui^ht institutions in n !^reat ded by the whole Judiciarv, were to pa."»s any retro3pe<*tive or Kr pott faeln law. infringing in th« sli;jhtest degree the political rights guaranteed to naturalized citizens in the United States, that law whatever it niijtht be would be null and void in its very essence, and it would be the preroga- tive of naturalized citizens to resi.>cree the political rights, im- mUiiilics or privileges of naturalized American citi/ecs. We consider them politicallj- as " Ihjne of our bone, and flesh of out flesh," and we are ready as sii'ch lo give them ihe risfhi hand of fellow- ship.' We avt ready also to a-var I the meed of gratitude to the memories of those noble and ga'.'ant spirits, who durin^^ the incipiency of our repub- lic, " hurri >d from other lands, to moisten with their blood, the tree of American Liberty." and to all other naturali 'ed riii.'.en» who haTc con- tributed to establish the unexampled greatness and prosperity of our beloved country, up to the present period But we can <;o no farther: — The calm and unruTled streamlet which formerly meandered almost imperceptibly through the field of the husbandman, irrigating and fertilizin-T the soil, and producing a luxurious and benificent harvest, when converted bv elemental accumulations into the raging torrent, may sweep away and destroy every vestiq^e of his labours. Such it may b' said is the present condition of our beloved counlrv. — so lonT as foreigners entered in moderate numbers into the states anu terri- tories of the United States, and became imperceptibly merged and incorpirated into the great body of the American people, and were gradu- ally imbued, and indoctrinated intD the principles of virtue and patriotism, which formerly animated the whole yVmerican community, so long iheir advent was an advantage and a benefit to our country, but when we *ee hordes anc' hecatombs of heings in human form, but destitute of any intel- lectual aspirations, — the outcast and otTal of society — the pauper, the vagrant, and the c mvirt, transported in myriads to our shores, recking with the accummulated cimes of the whole civilized and savage world, and inducted bv our laws, to equal rights, immunities, and priviliges with the noble native inhabitants of the United Slates, we can no longer contemplate it with supine indifTerenrg. Wo feel constrained to warn our countrvmen, that unle.^s ."»ome steps bo speedily taken to prottn-t our insti lutions from these accumuli\ted inroads upon our nitiooal character, frotr the indiscriminate imiaigration. and naturali/uiiion of foreigners, in vain have our predecessors whether native or naturalized, toiled and suffered, and fought and bled and died, to achieve our liberties, and establish our hallowed institutions. We consider the cflTorts which are now making in the United Stales, to procure a repeal of the naturali/.ation laws, as having a direct tendency to secure the permanent welfare, happiness and liberty, not only of our own descendants, but also of those of natiirali/.ed citi/.ensand even of aliens and forei^-ners : and although we occaijionally meet with a bas«! and selfish spiri? whose motto is " Let future generations take care of themselves," yet we believe that there is no more sacred or more universal principle im- planted in the human bosom, than that which animates the parent, and the patriot, to transmit unimpaired to his posterity ihc^sc institutions which ministered to, or fulfilled the measure of his own ha^)piness. If our apprehensions of the dangers from foreign influence in the United States, be founded in sound reason; — and the wise, the just and the good, of every political party, are daily becoming more and more convinced of ■its correctness, and our opinion is rapidly becoming universal throughout our country; then, not only our posterity, and the posterity of naturalized citizens, biK even foreigners who may desire to emigrate to our happy land, lo the end of time, are interested in the accomplishnuinl oi our wishes, viz, the repeal of the naturalization laws. For if it be admitted that the participation in our political privileges of the ignorant, the corrupt, the perfidious, the vile, the seditious, and the hostile foreigner, may event- ually warp, distort or overthrow our republican form of CJovernment, then those benign features which at present characterise our institutions, being destroyed ; Anarchy, confusion, and eventually despotism must iosvitablY ansus, b«uc»^ lh« benilicent peculiarities of our country w;lj 5 Uecotn* «xUnct, ai J lliur tijj* la«t aivluin ol lli« opprciiod and Bfrtt^itJ lor relief aiiernlive assaults on those native Americans, who foresee- ing the dangers which threaten their country, have availed themselves of a right guaranteed by the cunsiituiion to every American citi/en, and hav« petitioned Congress on this subject, but the design has bet-n openly avowed in the following handbill which was liberally circulated in the City of New York, at the late Charter EKclion. It is in these words : — *• lIUSll.MKNtoyour post, or you will lose America. Ey persevc vou may become its rulers. liy negligence you will become it" .*> S'our own country was lost by iubmilling lo ambitious m- beautiful country you nn'm by b« ing firm and uniti d Vote ALEXANDElt SlKUAlli'. Alderman. EDNNAIU) ri.A.NALiA.N, r.r Assessor, both true IKiSllMliN " Here, says a recent report of a special commiaee of its own body to l.ougress. — •' Here you have the objects avowed— the subversion of your Government — and a revolution contcmpluied. " Mark the language of this apj>eal, and remember that it was made to Foreigners, in the City of New \ ork, at an election for officers of thu City (.tovernment, within which they number more than one hundred i/ufusand Fortt^ners. An eloquent and powerful American writer, in treating on this subject, thus feelingly remarks. "The political seer in casting the horoscope of our country's destinies, is frequently compelled to cover his eyes w itii his hand, in order to con- ceal the sln-ams of blood which roll bflore him." The object of the present undertaking is to aid in arousing bur coun- trymen to a keen perception of the dangers which threuien them from f>)reign influence through the suicidal process oi indiacriminaic foreit^-a naturalization. Much has already been said on this subject, but much more remains lo be said, and we are iletermincd in conjunction with the I spirits, who are now employed in the same great caus4-. far and wide, until the American p< ople have been aruu-sui : lethargy and induced to think deeply and solemnly on this i. subject, until everv city, town, viilige.ind hamlet. it our c< shall respond to our warning cry. ami shail len • < in the c . tlon of this great ai^d incalculable evil. It is only ne.iefsary that the Americ.m people should reflect, to caH?e ihena to aci prom]«ly, powerfully and cdoctua'ly in this matter, and iu 6 order to induce them to reriect, their attention must bo awakened l.j fon- stant and spirit stirring appeals from those who have thought, and thought intensely and profoundly on this subject. When previous to the Revolutionary war. a triflinc: tax was laid upon tea, which probal)1v would hardly have been noticeorn popu- lation in the United States, l>ore a proportion to the native of about " one to forty," and that now the proportion is aU^ut one to five or six, and that from two to live hundred thousand foreigners arrive annually in the United States. When we trll our countryman, th.nt tln>re are now (l\c millions of individuals of foreign birth in the I'niled Slates, or about one third of our whole population, of whom abont 70.000, nre |M»upers and vagrants, .supported at tliu public cost, at an expcn.se to tin- .\ineriran people and their governmi-nt of two millions and a ipi.-irter of ilollars annually, or a sum about etjual to the annual cost ol the whole American navy. When we tell them tliat among these paupers and vagnints, are the vicious, — the illiterate and the insurbordinate, — the lelon. — the inceinliary and the alil.iist. who have fled or been transported, to our young, pxire and beautiful republic, reeking with the perfected ami lini.shi-d proliciency in vice, — graduates in the school of crimes, uhich have been maturing in degree for many centuries in their own native lands, ami that thistransporta- tion of paupers, vagrants, and convicts to the United States is rapi«lly becoming an established sy.slem of i>olicy by foreign irovernments. An English gentleman, recently stated that he had seen the poor inarched in droves from the Poor houses to the ships, which were to lake them to this country, accompanied by the superintt udent who setlhd for tluir passnces, and it is only a few days since that in the city of New York, a nun! . r of paupers were landed in their foreign Alms House uniform. The London Encyclopedia, urges the British government to ."«rnd out a million of emigrants a year, until a proper depletion is made of th» swollen body of their pojiulation. The mayor of Hallimorr, the lion. S. Smith, recently forwarded to the President of the United Slates, a German newspaper containing the follow- ing paragraph. "A transpfirt of inmates from the house of correction in Gotha, will sail from hence to Bremen, under the escort of a Police oflicer, and from thence to America, cither to New-York or Baltimore." The same gen- tleman in a subsequent communicaticm to the President of the United Stales, informed him that fourteen convict."?, had actually arrived from Bremen, who were landed with the other passsengers. They had been embarked in irons, which were not struck off", until near the Fort. When \vp It'll our conntrvmen, that such as these nre the very elements with which civil commotions arc elTected in their own lands, or as they have been not inapily termed "the blood lappers of revolutions." who havtiig^ no foiu't'iuiiliiy o( rcclmt;a, iniortsta, or o«|)irations wiih oursrlvcf, — destitute of |iriiicijilfs. — c*lural«-d from tlnir tnrlicft iiifjiiry in k-mh — hmwU — luiiiults mid iiisurrectioH!«, and w ho ore liuhle :ii niiy time to l>c wifldfil \>y artful dfinaj:<»jjUfP. inciiured l»y fccli'siaMJciil fulininalions, or bouL:)il with iMonry to itlrikc thuir dai^'^'crs dct'|) into the iiistilutiunii of thu (ouulrii-.s wliich ^uvu them birth, but tuiw inucii, oh ! how much moru readily and \villin<;ly iiiiu our>', for which thuy have no symjMitbief, and which they despise and ubhur. Yes, they have hitherto de.spiseil our country, for her easy credulity in admitlin^' ihein, to eijual rights with her native citi/ens, ujHjn the llinisy bu>is of an electioneering oath, and now they abhor Uh because ihey pi-rceive the first kindlings of attention to this subject, wljich teaches them that the day of our hallucinaliun has already jiassed away. When wo tell our countrymen, that suih arc the hordes of foreign mechanics, and artis^in:*, now congregating hitiier from other lands, wh») by underbidding the native American mechanic, have almost monopolized the whole mechanical business of the United States, — that hosts of foreign merchants have congregated in our cities, and obtained the control of almost all our commercial and banking interests, and operations, — that every dej)artmeiit of I^w, Science, aiul even Divinity is being rapidly overrun, ami absorbed by foreigners, and foreign influence — thai two thirds of the teachers in our schools, seminaries, and institutions ftir the education o( our youth, and the instruction of the rising generation, consist of foreigners, who have themselves been brought up in distant lands, — embiifd with feelings, prejudices and aspirations alien to our own, — ami who cannot with the patriotic lire which burns in the heart of a native American, call their attention and veneration to the deeds of their ancestors, who projected our happy institutions, and the majority of whom should they undertake to sketch the outline of a patriot and a statesman, to their pupils, as worthy o( emulation, would select as their Uau ideal the heartless despot Meternich, or the beggaHy agitator Daniel O'Connell. When we tell our countrymen, that a large njajorily of the ollices of honor, trust, ami prolil, throughout our country are occupied by foreigners — that when n young native American changes his residence in pursuit of fortune, lie must carry with him frtun ploce to place a spotless reputation, and even then he is perhaps repulsed with cold and heartless inditlerence, but no sooner does a loreigner appear in our land, than without any en- quiry as to his past history, h<- is grasped warmly by the hand, and is surrounded by a Jiosl of friends and benefactors, and heaven and earth are moved, tintil by dint of irrrpulsibleand pertinocious application he is thrust into some lucrative oiJice, to the exclusion of a native born Ameri- can, whose nicer delicacy or higher tone of feeling, and greater re/inc- ment. have prevented him from persuing the same immodt st course, and left him to pine in jtoverty and perhaps in misery. Thus are the OHicial, Commercial, and Pecuniary power and inlhicncc of foreig^ners, extended throughout our country. 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 absolutely monopolized by foreign- ers, for melancholy to relate, when native Americans own presses, foreigners are too often jn'miilted to control them— that presses whose whole object, aim and end, is the establishment of a foreign tone and feeling among the multifarious hosts of foreigners now in our country, have been ipiietly permitted to erect themselves throughout every part of the United Slates. Presses which con iKTceive nothing virtuous, benificent or od- minible.— nothinij glorious, just or wise, in the United Slates'.— her institutions', or her jwople. — but who shout p.T.Tn!« of pmise and adulation to all foreigners and erery circumsrance of foreign ori^tn. When we point our countryinon, to the fact, that almost the whole machinery of our Criminal Court?, is sustained by foreign malefactors, at a great expense of time, toil and treasure to the people of the United States and with a fearful detcrioralioticf native American manncra and morals. When we tell our countrymen, that in the private and social circles, where foreigners congregate unobsirvt-d by the eye of the native American, that jibes, taunts, and insulting sarcasms arc heaped upon our country, and her institutions, and comparisons the mo5t opproliiuus and degrading to us, are made between our habits, manners and capacities, and those of the countries, from which they have been transported or escaped for refuge to our happy land. Whm we tell our countrymen, that throughout the United States, in every city, town and village there exist ^ocielios of foreigners, who hold their meetings in a great degree in secr«.t, and their proceedings remain unscrulini/ed by native Americans, and that although generally under the color of Benevolent j>urposes, tluir objects may be political, or at least be entirely foreign. Nothing that could be beneficial to our country, can result from them. When we tell our Countrymen, all thi\se things, and every native American heart, responsive echoes the truth and justice of our assertions, let no native American hcrealier s.iy in answer to our appeals, " Oh ! a few foreigners more or less, can never do any'injury to the I iiiied Stales." Even all thesie things we might make out to endure but when wc see the crime of perjury, so conmion of late as almost absolutely to have ceased to awaken tho.M* f-elings of horror which it formerly engendered in the minds of the American community — when we see the intliction of sunnnary and impulsive vengeance substituted for the majesty of the lex scriptd or written law, lu whose fupremacy the people of the United States were formerly so proverbially subservient, and when wc see the dreailful deteriMratiun of manners and morals within the last few years in the United Stales, amongst our own countrymen, upon the broad, natural and inevitable basis that " Kvil comntuuications corrupt good manners." It is then that we tremble for the blood bought liberties of our native land, and ihe purity and perpetuity of our hallowed institutions. iS'or can we close our eyes to the fact, that so powerful is foreign influence daily becoming in the United States, that hundreds of thousands of our native born brethren, who feel the same asj)irations which animate us, are becoming inliiuidated, and are almost ready to succumb to what they fear will be our uilimate destiny. This is no novel sensation amongst our countrymen. During the dark period of the revolutionary war, the hopes of many patriotic but timid spirits, were prostrated and their exertions parali^ed, by the conviction that all was lost, hence they forbore to express their feelings in relation to the then pending contest, and thus their moral influence was lost to their country ; — But she survived. So at the present lime, we daily meet with men, who declare it as their settled opinion that foreigners have already ac(piired so much power in the United States, that no exertions of the native inhabitants can ever procure a repeal of the naturalization law, and they are therefore di.sposed to shrink from the struggle in abject submission, believing as did their pusillanimous prede- cessors of revolutionary times that " all is Irsl." — But thanks to the All-wise disposer of events, that although the framefs of ihe American Constitution, empowered Conuress to make a unilorm law of natiirali ation. they did not render it obligatory on that body *o to do.^hat th»y Beilijer eouimaiidcd thf> permanent eoniiisuancf of nnturali' station \tim, nor prohlbUcil OiHtfroac, frum ri|>uttiiiig itivni iu loio, vrbcu- ever it iuif{'iil think propor so to Jo. Ilnd the «xiHtriic« urnnluruli'a(i<>n Inws b«'Cn posilivfly and pcrmnnrnt- ly enjoined upon (^un^rrsM, wiihuiit qiiolilicatiun hv the «'onstituliun of the United Statfs, so jMUVfrlul have we iilreadv ; • ' ' . , fUienciMo become in our country, that wv luliove wt- :.oir of ihc republic." — Voa, — iflhi* constitution of the I mi' mcuL, in order to obtain u repeal uf the n ' wishes ami aspitationa of the wlioje native American p-jpulalioa, as wc have often heard foreiifner!« boast could nut obtain it. If. therefore, as wo have reason to believe, foreiirners hnve already obtained such |x»wer in our country, whut have we not to apprehend from their future inMuenct*. This should stimulate the real patriot to rc-double Itis exertions to achieve this g^reat r»'formation ere the increasing power of forei^jners in our country, renders it forever impracticable. The Patriarchs and Sa),'ea of the American Kevolution, saw with an eye of prophetic dismay and apprchcu.ortations of foreigners as po-wible. But is this foundocrhap», are more peculiar than those of any in the Iniverse. Nothing can b« more opposed to them, than the mnxims of monarchies ;— Y«t from such n-earoto expect the greater number of immigrants. 10 They will bring with them ih« prim:iple«» ol govornincnl ihev haro Jnibibed in their early youth, or if able to tlirow ihein 011", it will be in cxchancre for an unbridled licentiousness, passing as is usual from ono extreme to another. It would be a miracle, were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. In proportion to their numbers they will share with us the legislation, they will infuse into it their spirit, — warn and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incorherent and distracted mass. I may appeal to experience for a verification of these conjectures. But if they are not certain in event, — are they not probable? Is it not safer to wait with patience for the attainment of any degree of population desired or expected ? May not our government be more homogeneous, more peaceable — more durable, «&c." In May 1797, when the first law of naturalirjition, had not been in prac- tice seven years, JetFerson, speaking of the people of Europe, again said, "that even the factorage of their affairs here, i.s kept to themselves by factitious citizenship, that thrse for,-\gn and false cili/.rns, now constitute the great body of what arc called our tuTrhnnts, — fill o\ir sen-port» — are planted in every little town, and district of the interior country, sway every thing in the former pl.toes by their own votes, and those of their dependants — in the latter by their insinuations, and the influence of their ledgers, that they arc advancing fast to a m Emerald Isle, who would never quit il under all his wroni;s. real or imaginary, if he could live there comfortnlily, and we find this opinion borne out by the numbers who an- nually rctiirn home, with the proceeds of their earnings luadc in the L'nitcd Smifs. And if t!if immii^rant could etitirrly cn?t ofl'his love of country, which gave hini Lirlh. ho i '.-•...:.. '. ,.^',i 1 I . , .1. ., ;,,,»: Mi,- 1 ^^ Ii.> would nt'v.T m:»lvO • na(-i-''=' ■•■ ■• ' , .o ....- po^ 1. " --• "• gci and o:'.! ■■ ' I :i r i;,' .: '-.ii.' - ren ift; '.heir posterity with thr I il affairs, is a boon whicli \ The I K who hnvinjr a larp^c ants, — but none but a inad man era fool wouli until tho wh Ae do iiain was ab.sorbed,and hinibuii utid his ciitldrcu rendered penniless." Tile next prominent nrcrument with '" 1 of the nuturali -.alion lawy, and the oiu , , «• debt of gratiiude to those foreicrnera who aided us in our siru"^:i • for liberty, dnrin? the war of the Hevolulion. They say that to cltse the door of naiurali'ntion now, would be an act of ingratitude to thern in the persons of their descendants. To this we have but a sliort reply to make, and that to our consciences, and our judgement, is perfectly sausf.ictory and conclusive. If we owe a debt of gratitude to for> igrners for aiiiing us in the preserva- tion of our liberties and institutions, to whom are we indebted but to forei<,'ners, for the desire and attenijit to enslave us? At the time til Mlie Ainei ioan Revolution projected the wise, happy and induh . nment uinler which we live, they did so xMxier circumstances of i,'rLul ami unpreced' uted peril, and every fon'i;;n?r who was willing' to cast in his lot with lliem, had to jeopardize in cmnmon with our fathers. " h; forltiue. and his sacred honor." The cliildren oflh.. kT" ^v!;M ni;elvcs of "their own wrong" and enter our country, un, cd. and unopposetl. to ron- sumate by fraud, corruption, and violence thcovtrthrow of tbosr !> d boutjht lns ..^ upon its success, and inasmuch as they had perilled their all upon the successful result of the experiment, (he^ also were entitled to all the rigjhts, privlegca, and im- munities of the native born inhabitants of the soil. e 12 These they have possessed, and their children, and children's chil(!refl will continue to enjoy ihem to the latest generation. Not onlv haveforeii^ners who aiiol o.ir fathers in their revolutionary" exertions, and those who contrilmtcd to build up the incipient greatness of our country, but all other foreigners without distinction, who during the last half century, have fled for relu.re from translnniic de^potism to this happy land, have enjoyed the same rights, immunities and privileges also; and almost every office in ourcounlry. from the highest to the low- est, has been filled by naturalii^cd foreigners, inJiscriminaiely, as by naiivo- born citizens. The engagements of our fore-fathera with foreigners (when they mad« this land an asylum for the oppr. ssed of every nation, guaranteeing to them under certain conditions, and after a certain probation. e«^ual ricnts, immunities, and privile^M-s, with the native born children of the soil.) have therefore been amply redeemed, and they stand as ever spotless and irn- maculale, and no rcilection can ever be justly cast \ipon their memories, if i/'(j their descendinis. deem it our duty for the safety of onr country, and her institutions, al this period of ti ■>!•', to change iho naturalization laws, for future gfur rations. Now when tlie permanency of our republican institutions is established upon a firm an: i our country"? niagnificenl destinies are beginnin;,' t > nver is ;iokno\vledued throuehout the universe, wlicu uc h.r.e : bend from a . .11 with any nation of tho worbl. u • to resent tli. >ns. or humble the arr v who may, by uiiu.irrantable nets, incur 0111 >»? is the attachment to our institutions thruij-i«^"U ; ' ry internal enemy which has arisen to agit.ne the • ' 'no". has been laughed to scorn by the united voice ul ; u. Can foreigners who cmi iid, nnder these propitious cir- cumstances, not to encount P the rich reward of rcrc^- luiionary sutrcrings. can tb but to bask in the bright beams of national contentm ^ t,, r.ur inilitnrv i-fnKlisIi. mcnls. To this wf answer. It is not to benefit our country, that foreigners como amongst us. but to nccommwinte thenisolvca. But if it even could }«• ■ ' " ntiated that a rt'pcal of lh«^ nnturali/ation hiws would prevent imi a this coun- try, wc rf^ix-'-tf-illy conceive th;U ''uch a cirrun • .'mh.I not prevent it. It i.'«1)et!e traced to the foreign proportions of iheir crews. Ia the Navy of the'Lnited Stales, wlicre the discipline is more severe and jiroper subordination is preserved, fon irn ?-enmen are |)reventcd from doing much injury, but even there th )n to incuibordination and malevolent feelings is constantly d :•'' ''" v are more fre- quently the subjects of punishment fir 'ive born Amcri- tcan seamen, ond even there the demoi their example is sensihly fell and appreciated by theothcers of the American Navy. Were the naturali'ation laws repealed, foreigners would have no temp- tation to remain in large cities, to bo employed for political purp<»ses, and were they inlluenced by a desire of rendering nny real benefit to the Inited States, they would accomplish Ihtil object mote (feet ua II v. by cm- ploying themselves in ngriculturil pursuits, and iftiieyare really in lore with Id^erty and independence, and have actually crossed the Atlantic in pursuit ofthose bh ssin::s, they will find and enjoy them in all their primeral jiurity in the remote forests of the West, whc-rc they can by a moderate degree of industrious exertions make the wilderness to blowom as the rose — become the pioneers of improvement, ond rear up a race ofnatiT* Anierican yeomanry to add to tho strength and glory of our common country. u Let this country remain then forever theasylinn of the oppressed and persecuted of all countries, aul let foreigners cnntinue to enjoy every privi'.eje except that cf di'tcrmlriin r nn our v.'-'tl q-t^?'ion5, v. hich should be reserved to tl. "> drawn in a land oi" libi 'i freedom lias gruwn witli wiiii lijcir uiicli«.vt Another argument coil , d by our cp|>onenls. and which they seem to consuier perlccuy unanswerable, is the fol- lowing: — "That although Foreigners having no control over their birth place, have indeed accidentally been I oru in another land, ycl boini: in r\try respect as capable and as meritorious as ourselves, and vce y indebted to acci>lent for having li.-irn in the I nited Stnt' . it any choice or volitioti of our own. and of their own freewill " '■ -^ • well deny, and state that • prcssijn and crime. th;ii w. i)ctter Americans, than wc ; if not suprrir -'■:•- • ■ -' emcnale Ir On. slan . , we l.'i . • II sell..! anl lb.' V. .-i.ir' -men •r nil ami ordutil huwi ul luicij have come here voluntarily, ..rtinn however, wc might r, bv pauperism, op- ■A ' .■• >ii|i. I'i I » lit k >-a <> iiiC U i cr rather contemptible to common sense, and yet - uh<> profeBSid to be latrd Irom tin- press, ;:i approbation throughout o were cnrri< ..on up. — the woidd be nn t li'i i>i ci\A gov- ..alions could cxi.A throui;liout erniiu-'it ; — u resigned to tlie next aspirant nial f.i'.iie, and allh hi-* >iij'. rior, in ever_, ...... i. partici 1 iiion in the paternal ii of his older brother for any pcMi •: W»)uld he be considered as hi rlaim lo rq '■-■■• brotlier by ;i — that he (i;i" tion and capari bettor than his i" :• •: ijioin-jr .' \V K,.r,i s,in inherits the entire patrimo- r maybe his equ.il and indeed , mity, yet he is excluded from . and dependant tipon the generosity t-^aceeds of the succession, lished a valid and satisfactory tinfl pririlfcvs, with his elder icrely the lirsl born by accident in fact superior talents, educa- the est ite as well and indeed 1 lie not on the contrary, be laughed in scjrn, for his ri.liculous presumption? — But if it so happened that this claimant fjr equal riu'lus wiihtlic lirsi born son were not only a junior but mero'.y en ahptcl c lihl, and that he was fully aware of the fact when he ins'l'iitod his in.^olent claims, would ho not be despised as an impudent proi nlor- fort'iwiih cjerti'd from the estate, and probably severely pun- i>lied for hi.s airo^Muce and impertiiu-iice ? We are the elder born in this happy land — our fathers have struggled in ancuish, toil, and blood, to acquire lor their posterity, all those blessings which con.^tituie tlie native American's rirk e$tntc, and this precio ),.; -.< v iluy liivvc Kt<|intilhid lu u» ond lo uh < '■ ■ : • .' ..M . >•. I ) \ nn I Ht (must bk-HMil) we Qic lluir »onB, yet ut iiii- ii(;h(liil and only just iirojiriiiorn of llu» ^- . we cUoostj Id wijhl»«)lil or bcslow ai»y jioriion of our iiil . ho lonu' aiiMii'' 11^, it is uur riuhlful |)i<)n llic gfounvl lii^.i \vc uic lacfeiy native AiiiuiKatui by accident. Wo wonM siii^'-.fest to tl; ! tho as- tonishin^ ami proluiind j)rt.^ -■ mtrc- ly tilt; result o\ accident, and that tncif uri itly <«jti.i I lo tliem — and to the ij^norant herd who lm\i _ tluc. liim.: .-^^^i' tion, lo write on to their friends aliroad, and tell them that il is useii&a lo take the trouhle lo cross the Atlantic inpursuit of wealth or political power, — that nohility and even royalty itself are nierely the uecidental result of hirtli, and that consequently \i they assume these distinctions voluntarily, whereas their present possi ssors merely owe them to acci^/r/i/, that Mry h.i\ e ns '^'^(jod, and in fact, a hitter riijht to wealth and power — to be Nobles, I'liiK-' and Kiiii^.s, than ihusr who now occupy llmse hi','h stations. I'ell ihrm tht-rcfore lo tMiter, and take immi-diate jmssessionof the ti- tles, estates and crowns in their own huuls Tell them to do tliis, and if they act upon tlu' sii'^'t'i'stion, they will soon belauyht a lts.>*oi), \\hi«h will probably render their demaiuis" more moderate, should they survive to honor our country with their presence. \Vt\ thereinre, the native born citizens of the I'nittd States, acknoxvl- ediMug no Prince, power, or potentate, except our own sovereign will and pleasure, as delineated in the constitution and laws of our land are the II' i ity — the liloud Royal of America, and we .•^honhl consiJer as a I' i>on.iblc act, and should res it to the (hath any attempt lo usurp, or even claim (Utr lineal titles to the undivided occupancy of Auieiican rights, imnumilies and j)rivile<;« s, jjpon the auatchial and agrarian petexl that wo merely owe iln m lo "accident." ,' Tl.o present I'xeculive of tho State of New York, Governor Seward, in his recent inaugural message, says: — "There is another resource which is ours, neither by inheritance, nor by purchase, nor by violence, nor by fraud. It is the labor, the incalculable surplus labor of tho European States." TIjc truth oft his statoment every native American is prepared t<> admit — it is indeed by theii labor, ami by that only thit foreigners render any service to the United States. :nnl it is the duty, as il is the just preroi:ativc of the Ameri'-an people lo conline ihemto this, their only proper vocation in our country. They come liither to n . and ir« < • rn to ac- complish that (»bject,by g. -i-i th- ti«!,nnd we reward them libernily I i ui es. I le. for tho obligations and atlviM nuitual ai. 1 ivc not herelof)ro remunerated tii.ni adequately, lei us i!i em higher wages, but in the name o( reason, justice and con i us no longer trallic our bloodboui^bt and inherent rights, \or fficir labor. — To do so is to emulate the gri»ss enormity of the scn.'-ual and besotted Esau, and barter our birthright for a mess of pottage. As well might the hireling who receives his stipulated wages for his daily labour, demand equal proprietorship, and an equal division of the proceeds of the soil, 16 v\-^ich ho bas assislcJ to cultirafc, as a forvij^er to demand equal H^hts with m, titt natural proprii-tor's of onr couiitr}-'s insfitiitinne, brcaiis*- Iuk labor has coiitnlxited to render it more valuable by difrirmij canals, or builduig rail-roads, aAcr hariug been alrtad}- paid a pecuniary cquivaJeiit for liiH MTvicea. It IS a source of (if »p and j>i)ii:: ■ • .' - \ 'leanR wbo have re- fleeted deeply on tlii^ .-'utijeei, that i ^r will not notice the signs ofihetimo, or that "s<.; : _ ^ aliyss to which our beloved country is ra[>i(ny hnrryintr \' • strides, tlirongh the inthience of in> /iiseriminjite foreifrn inuiiicrrnfi"-! nriH •;! — I'l-'f eiir from ap]in'lu'nsion of diminished po| III 1.1 \ to promote the in* l< rests of their r. -oil, they will con- descend to trarkli .<> ■ ' " '• ■•■' to the galling fettern of !■ ' e, and ascendency in m: , . ^ Aar political triumphs umIcsm, auii bur^' ail Aiuvricau iiaiiti-*, UisliiicUuit iinU pajtio* ui uiM common niin? Party divi' * " ' . arc now destroy in jf it, — somcf" Is it not .i Americans, whoa* patriotic siren iia'. ■ '.■■» of their country, and \vhos<' jin ri- I, whilst contending against a fi'' !'!i':mi influence of jiartvspirit, ^I'wite |>olitical o|iin;i'ii-, ■• . \'. '..'■ tliry L'lari will, :iis, lnjrd'-.-.t" U!.'..- ■_■■.■.:,,■'■ w itit paramount |»olii: of i>owcr Utwecn lliem. It is at <• (hat their |H>pu. larily couhl '■ ■.n laws ; — on the ( iiulite ; — they known.'i i • i; ..•.miiv on thia Riibject, — the chi! rit under Egyptian bondage, than il' I : , i ■;ii' iieo. We entreat you liy all you eouMii'-r iiio! mi "f < ::« which they indiired to achiova your HIh rty and hap])iiu si, — by tli«ir |' ''I in their coimtry'a caus4' — we your native eoiinlrymcii, \v ''••' to party pr^'dilic- tions with yourselves, and w ' . -i . /.;, „f the great political jiarties of our country, — we ( Mine, the violence of party dia. sentions, anil lend your mutii.i ms*- in whieh we are engaged : — or if you must iiniiate the e..ii«iiict .■( ilit ain;uia .1 :• nders of Jerusalem, »-ho divided into two parties, wageii the fieri^. st ami ino«t bitter cnnllii-ts between tlieins«dve« ; at least emulate till-Ill in till- w' ' . who when the enc-my was tliundering at their gates, united 1. re- htv, and a eoncientious cb-sin^ to take a correct view of this subject, and todu fair and even handed justice to alJ, fullllled the task confided to our hands. We believe that wc liavc endeavoretl without equivocation, or mental reser- vation to state the truth, tin- whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and wc would now ask in conelusion wlnit just or reasonable causes lu.ve naturalized citixeus, to object to a rejH-alof the naturalization laws. Whatever naturalizerraluilou»ly all th« benefits that our constitution can confer, and stand on an equal footuig with the naliva born inhabitants of tin- land ; and irhat rii:ht harr thry In require more i Is it that some of them have friends and relatives on the other side? of the Atlantic who may at some future day desire to vsi-^t our eoniitr}', and partake of all her privileges 7 — Or is it that they have some ulterior object in view, and di-sirc the door of citizenship, to remain open until they can acciuaulatc a sulBcicnt force to predominate and rule ovar our country ? This should he considcnnl a test question. The naturalized citizen who feeling no gratitude for the privileges and advanta^'es which our country, through her iiLstitutiona has already gratuitously besto\V(-if-«» any •«lvsnl»p«^ wl«{rli ttmM jt m m M r *''^-nm I '•'■••• .til I titr . .^ ••'"■«r IK. ,.. law., I.n: I, i; f .,,.,1 .! - .,f a r,to nit •lid , aiul in eiiiitl< AM a fiiiitlaiiu'iii 1 i ' UI uitlniiiuaJ uwra a natuiiiii iiii'l l» .-|>- Uia -, m wliirh li<- Wiui boru ; «iiJ tlx'tn. t.Mi. i> irxi '' • • '■ ■ -"ff ' c-n. « - ■••1- (li'iiiiiatiuii aiul ; ' .it Urilaiii fr«m a ' j. . |iArU')I, IN Hot ■»tlir», 1 It in \. 1.. i; ■J . \ n.a:., ItitUM iK.I n r, .1, aii 'I ( iiai't >^ n 1 1 . ■, i . -MNt ami iM ■ 1 I, IIIU if . • ru to in. '•r tntiii a \< X'% to Uu : _ r< I J HI all tii(< II J' nliluti.iuji uf t'v 1 "- i;iaii.-.- Will j liy tin ir ii.r • ' n '•■' -^'^ i.aim c<^Ki-:i. .., i.j [«. luij' t u> c-'iultmuaUou, anJ Uk i^».>H>- 111' i.t .It. • '''".• .. ,, . ; .'" ••'* -"-'••••■" •— ''"-'. .-o,.nlJT. roonllM. atnouul o M..-1 a,..l Irra. . ,„, ,„ u» |«, w^ with r;r»-al Ilnfain, W9« Ih. »,■ ' r, ■ ■'' 'I'n ptt's» ;. !ii ..!i l»anj tiftntz \ iM-nraa • jcct ap. alia hinurir. haa rrc««tljr dtath OH lU g,^mtd ''iTnpn of t imcwhat the reverse of that of , . ', uiio ha^t l>een recently hanged in I . the prcpoiittToua injunction that the I,, ' i«, or wha' -1" of our rnii' ■ • t'> 1) •'"o!" ■•' for-tho . cvi,ry lj-iHi; who luay ha,<;>ja to cunio am > :i;js; us Jrom every • • • ■- :■ • -..":.: . • ..■:-'. -;i i'- .....•-. ^'-i',-. ,v,,-l,| on ml. toru:- '"> ;, '. ho ..ry ,.., ,.. -• -,, ---^on, whoii ""• I,, I nrt a passport thrmijrhout the wurlil, hill . inls'ontinuo much longer the naino '>f«'i — a scorn, a hissing and a rrpr":i ' " ' "il ai; ' ■.• : :i. Ui ! nior« to to <:) — the Creoles of LotiUiuia, and wc have don< . Ho Sta' T" '""U- encn as 1 ' Hxf «■ oven' rea> , ^Vlijl ^ 1)1 Ins rhild. and hy y , M !.. (Ill Willi liorior s of !•-'■ . : . ""^ rili/cn J'roiu birlii ii> m , .isnl Ik ii. ' hy hi.x hrethriyil. J, , •■■•<. iinHT \\\<' acT> of tliirty or iut iy > i of naturnli/atinri n '"*' niorl ■ ■' <-"''y< '■■■'.>. .• .' ■ *™« (ij. , ,, nrrci:;;uit and presumptuous for- ciij.u , , .. ,. • . L;^.l ^\^. ir ir;illantry, patnot- iam,and>-.. r . v,l. while it inyct in their p...v» r ^o to do, ' "f'^^'ng their beautiful S'.alo oven tlnir sub- stance, and inn; I ' ■'.'"^^■,, , We will nou ' '"■' onalteraUle de. termination n. A _ . : i„ susiKjud our effort* until the natiirah/.alion laws are n p( ali-d. If in striving to oMnin 0\':- h'Av nW^rt we are mmivlled to mifl'i-r from the disappro. bation of onr IV _ ToUioscnai; ,. eorrer ne,* of onr opinions, ..r .„. , ..,., -^ ., ■ ■ - -" nat«ral'^*t>oa in future, wc can on \ language of the Patnarch, "1^ there be no strife be- twccn n?, for we ari ^ . « • , m -i But to those iiatnr.ili/Ad riu^ns who lotjking with thr < vc of the Patriol, llm 1 hiloiM*. pher, and the Philanthropi«f , lw>v,ind th.' tl.otinir an.l transitory circnni-.tanr<« of" the present momrnt, have c • • .- ■ ■ , ■■ , :-•' ■■li.,.,,. of free- men yet iinhorn. to whc: , ' ""' '" *" their original purity to III. . - ilionsare calculated to sustain and pirpctnal. uti.m.H— and who burMimu' wiUi a ni*lo effort of magnanimity the flimsy sha. judice or misrepresentation, have aided lis by their councils or Bustaincd us by thou approbation, wc tender the mood of our heartfelt gratitude. 10 It ia when tha enthtuUatlo and drvotrd lorer of hU counirr, - IUf>i tntt f^it I thiuiifiil lli^i 'A > art- •lriv'ijii( (a |K'r;i. ;ud'.< t'l '. haa Ixv-n traiinMiitU'ti to ua. — tho cliiliin'ii of ■' m ,,.... 1 1 ■ • licarU, to Uiisik liiai \% . ;ri ,f yvw<^ri' h r fly Trrt 1. A . . '. -•.-. I -.'••,-, I..! \ ,••■ .. . -^ ,■-.■.., prepared l')- ' „ rnimificctit ai i , . bclicvo that our UIkj.-m uiil ho iu vai:; — i!: aJy am hcfrinninir to bo roiiacd to tho ncrr^sity of tM* i»Tr«l : Si' I-ikc» to the Sca.lxur.!. Ill raU, "roptraJ iljc nat : ij 'I'll' ir uiiitcti voice mint and will l>" li'-inl, p t ami wi!! Im' prolrcioij frotn fonij.i inllucii ■' by a i, juiJ naturalization of forciuncni. Tlic-n will orir couiilry Ix! rcatorrd to licr prirtino c^nry — then trill aho ahino forth eon. ■picuoiuly before tho worM, aa the real Atvlum of tho oppn-aacd, and tiio polar >tar of ciril and rcligioua liberty, to all tho nalion.i of tite cartli. Isaiah Doanr, C. A. NViirlleld, Isaac Hridije, IJi'Vcrly Chew, AMjali Fisk, L. U. Gaionnic, J>. B. Morgan, Sainuol Tlioiiipson, T. II. llvde, ScthW; Nye, E. II. Barton, AVilliain Christy, Jacob Wilcox, A. r. Crav, Tiiomas 'l'<»by, Li. L. Fcrriere, Jcdcdiali Leeds, Cm. Dorscy, Wrn. R. Barrow, Albert G. Carter, Eslis Hill, J. B. Bailey, E. 11. Tookor, F. Gaiennio, Walter Brashcar, John Briscoe, Thos. Green Davidson, Truinan Tliclps, L. A. Finlov, J. Calvif Clarke, W. IL \Vheaton, B. C. IClIioft, Jos. Webber, Jr. J. A. Burn. Henry E. liawrence, W^in. Howard Watson, C. F. Gaudy, James Ross, J. (;. Blair, J. W. Stanton, J. Baldwin, J. B. Wakon, J. Ti layer, Georj];e Bedford, A. M (;rifrnii:. Cijarles DeBlanc, S. (f. Blanchard, William Deacon, C. C. Williams, A. K. Van Keiisj»elaer. G. W. Clark, John Goodin, Daniel Dana, G. D(> Feriet. J. "Monro !Mackie, Sheldon S. Clark. 20 J. S. >I<^Farl)ne. A. W. ScatC5. Lewis Ogicr, Samuel Locke, J. Lovell, John I^IcCIucr, Chnrio^ Cardiner. Jame.i Armor, W. T. lionp. Theoilore LUiute. J. lierry, And row H. C lay ton, Samticl Crans, W. Ilwir.g Joli:. ton, L. II. Gr.ionnir. N. Holmes "NVilliai!! Froret, G. IJ. Bow/.iich, INI. Hernandez, J. J. Hall. W. N. iMailin, W. S. Waterman, William Malcolm, Jos ph Hise, J. A. Amelung, John Leeds, J. II. Vicnnc, S. Aldrieli. Daniel Clark, Jr. Calvin T\ ler Mavnird, Jof-ej)li Cockayne. James 3Ioriran, J. Walter ^Slillwcll, I), a Hotchkiss, M. U. WiL'jJ^intcn, Wm. P. >le:Veill, G. K. Uocrers, L. C. liaeon, Thomas J. Durant, IJalic Pevtfjn, Charics Al. Kandall, D. H. Twogooil, K, L. Tracy, H it. '1%'ltlMV THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Sanu Barbara THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAS I DATE STAMPED BELOW. @>L.7?r^2 5()m 3,'08 ( Htt242*« ) W482 SPE EDY RINDEI i^^ Syfotvi*. N y. AA 000 8 f i)