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l know not tl.at shall be considered,
in speaking Of Native Americanism, dis
interested witness: taking into view the
place ofmy birth. Yeti may remind you,
that am within the pale. No effort but
that which destroys your rights can dis
franchise me. And it is natural that
should desire to see SECURED to ethers the
same kindness and indulgence that have
beep extended towards me. That kind
ness-.that indulgence is registered, deep
in my remembrance. have little to give
in return; but, such as it is, freely and
from the heart is It given. Love to my
adopted country, devotion to her glorious
institutions; a spirit that stirs at revoln-
tionary story, and that secksto show it.
self, in such small services as il may be
able TO render, not wholly unworthy the
place my citizens have seen fiji to as
sign me, among the legislators Of Demo-
cratic America.


The doctrine of Nativism has of late as
sumed an importance not .intrinsically its
own, by the lamentable outrages which
have recently grown out of it in Phila-
delphia, and also by the foothold it is ob
tanning in Congress. Mr.: Archer, a lead
ing Wing Senator and Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, gave no.
tice from his place, on the llth Of June
last; that, if no one else took up the SUBJ
ject, he, at the next session, would intro
duce a bill, extending to tweniy-one years
the term Of residence required, before d
foreigner shall obtain the rights Of citizen
ship. The so-called Native American pa
pers commonly 60 further than Mr.. Ar
cher. From. one OF them, published in
New Orleans, I extract the following sum
mary Of their principles:


In order that we may not be misun-
derstood, we repeat, what we heve often
declared, and now again proclaim, that our
design is: s.e, ..s,s


'Fust.-To repeal the Laws Of Nat
uralization.


'Sscond.--To exclude foreigners from,
office. u


/ s7hird-To take from them the elec-
tive franchise. ...5.


! 'Fourit.-To establish and maintain q
National character by reliance exclusively
upon ourselves. - sl
'FJM.-To hold up to public indigna.
tion the prostituted politician, who shal
prefer, in public appointments, a foreigner
to his own qualified countryman.'


And, in order to do the thing effectually
this Native Party proposes, not only to re
peal the Naturalization Laws, but L
change the Constitution of the Unite,
States and the Constitutions of the severa
States, SO far as forever to exclude from
vote or office, all but native born citizens
Whether they propose also TO take from
the children and great grend children o
Aliens, the right to vote and to hold off
ce, they do not inform us.