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To the Editors of the Natire american:
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To the Editors of the Natire .4nericnn:


GENTLEMEN: Like thousands of others had long
looked with dread at the accumulation of foregn-
ers upon our shores, and with still greater dread
upon the facility with which they obtained the
legal right of intermeddIing with our elections,
but almost despaired of any thing like concert of
action for the arrest of the evil, until accidentally
met with a number of your paper. Hope was
at once awakened, and felt called upon by every
principle of patriotism to lend the cause my feeble
aid, at least so far to become subscriber to
the paper; since which, as my thoughts have been
oftener turned to the subject, the more alarming
has our situation as people appeared.


| recolect, in years long passed, to have heard
the warning voice of some of our revolutionary
patriots, urging their children and countrymen to
reflect, before it should be too late, upon the
dangers which would arise from a TOO great in
tlux of foreigners; or if still permitted to come and
enjoy the fruits of the land whose freedom and
peace had been purchased by so much of priva-
tlon, of toll, and of blood, at anv rate not to allow
them to participate too in the election of its
rulers. And we'll do recollect the oucrv which
was raised against these patriots by every seeker
after popularity. Over many of them the grave
has long since closed, while the remainder, finding
no journal Independent enough to give utterance
to their views. have been compelled to weep in
silence over the delusion of their countrymen
STANCE, strange deluson And yet history is full
of warnings against it. In almost every page we
read OF nations, divided by parties, arrayed
against each other, and each inviting foreigners
TO their aid, until those foreigners have become
strong enough to assume the mastery; the only
difference being, that there the weapon has been
the sword, and here, thus far it has been the
vote. But will it be the vote twenty wears hence
II we do not arouse to sense of the danger till
then!


How cheering then it must be to everv lover
VI MS country, to witness the success of the
Ndtaoe .7mertcdn .4ssociation and to find
among It's earliest and stanchest friends, the
Intelligent Mechanics Of our CITY, Independent,
high-souled, not wishing Office, and not to be
frowned into silence by the possessors Of it. thew
will continue to memoralize for change of the
Naturalization Laws, and call upon their brethren
throughout the land to join them in it, till thai
change has been effected There is every reason
to hope, too, that our farmers, who equally pos.
sess all these high qualities, may be induced Ia
come with their all powerful aid to the rescue
before it be too late.


Let none be restrained by the oft-repeated sen.
tlment, that this country should be the s'asyum
for the oppressed of all nations'' .asyl,.n, we
are willing it should be, but we are not willing