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The following are the remarks OF the NATIVE CIrI-


ZEN (of Brooklyn, New York; on the Presentment Of
the Grand Inquest Of the United States in and for the


Southern District Of New York. published in our last


NATURALIZATION LAWS.


| The following presentment was alluded to in


our last. We are glad to see even this step taken


towards securing the purity of our Elections. But


the evil is not to be reached by any such halfway
measure as taht indirectly suggested in this pre-
sentiment. Nothing short of total repeal of the


present law of Naturalization, or such modif-
cation of it as shall make the term Of probation
Of the foreigner equal to the entire period Of mi
norty of the native, bring any effectual reme-
dy. And even then we shall want the additional
guard of Registration Law. There can be no
doubt, that in Brooklyn and in Williamsburg
alone, at the late election, AT LEAST ONE
HUNDRED NATIVE AMERICANS WE'RE
WHOLLY DEPRIVED OF ONE OFTHEIR
|INALIENABLE AND MOST PRECIOUS
RIGHTS by foreigners; that is, their votes
were entirely neutralized by the votes of ALI
ENS.--not of foreigners legally naturalized, but
of foreigners illegally naturalized or not natural
lied at all! This lost the office of Sheriff to one
who, it is confidently believed, received ma
jority Of the legal votes of the County of Kings.


Our people are Justly indignant if they are
swindled out of any oftheir property. If a bank
neglects or refuses to redeem its notes--if taxes
are extraordinarily hight an embargo or tariff
law seem to be oppressive-there is want of
excitement or denunciation, if nothing more Sc
rious occurs. But when right, for the attain
ment Of which our fathers sacrificed both property
and life, is invaded--when that which alone
makes us freemen, and which ever should be
esteemed most sacred privilege, is assailed and
wrested from us, by the ignorant or vicious who
have fled to our shores,--it seems to produce no
anxiety, no alarm, scarcely moments attention.
Suppose the Legislature of New York should
pass an act to deprive one thousand of our cit-
zens of the right of suffrage; would so gross an
outrage be submitted tot Far from it, and yet