COMMUNICATED.

"I do not like you, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, cannot tell,


But l. don't like you, Doctor Fell"
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Since the establishment of the Native Ameri-
can Association, its members have been the OBJ
jects of the most vehement and unceasing abuse.
The lowest and most vulgar epithets have been
applied to express their hatred, and the vocabu-
lazy of billingsgate has been exhausted by every
class of Foreigners, learned and unlearned refined
and vulgar, from the inmates Of the halls of learn
ing to the frequenters of the lowest description of
tippling houses, to excite i'll will towards the As


sociation, and cover the individual members of it
with odium. And what have the members Of the
Association done to excite this bitter hostility =
They have chosen to consult the permanent inte-
rests of their own country and their own country
men, in preference to those of foreigners. They
have sought to place the institutions of their own
native land in a condition of permanent security,
by entrusting the elective franchise to those only
who are under natural obligation to preserve it
in its purity, or who have given au1eq1iUocal
proofs of sincerity in their adoption of this coun-
try as their own. They believe and have avow-
ed, that no man of foreign birth ought to be fully
enfranchised until he has lived as long under our
government as those born within our territory.
At taUe,aty years of age, an American is not enti-
tied to the right of suffrage, matter what his


learning or wisdom, no matter what the amount
of his stake in the commonwealth, and no matter
what his sacrifices or how great the services he
may have rendered to his country against its for
eign enemies. Still he must wait until every
day, nay, every hour of his tUenty-one years has
rolled round. We believe that foreigners should
be subject to the same law. We say that it is
not only unsafe to institutions, but un Just to
our own people to provide more favorable or
more intlulgent rule for them than for ourselves.


We have repeatedly called upon those opposed
to us, to forbear their vituperaon and discuss
the question-to meet us in fair argument and


vanquish us if they can Still they decline the


encounter, and vile and unseemly abuse is the on


ly argument resorted to. In truth, they know


that we are .arm'd so strong in honesty


our cause is so Just, that no argument can be


found to overthrow us. They hate us, and they


know not why; and all that can be said by them,


is said in the quotation at the head of this article.
AMERICANUs.