NATTvE AME7iCANi0M
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~. sleeeos with lis attendant ram o.
| .ssee ns and excitement is now past. and
re are once more permitted to turn our at
tenlion to subjects OF general interest which
have no connection with the politicaltopics
of the day. The first in magnitnde and
importance is the proposed change of our
naturalization laws Although we have
said nothing. we have yet deeply sympathi-
sed with the Native Americans in this great
cause. We are anxious to enjoy natlon
alitv-to be knoxn as Americans and no
longer 10 be designated as the Irish or Ger
mans ofthe Union. We claim as an act OF
sheer justice to ourselves that every foreign
er hereafter settling amongst US, shall be
subjected to the same probation which is
demanded of cur children. The prejudices
of education are eonfessedly strong-In our
children they are favorable, and in foreign
ers anfavorable to our institutions. Our
children at fourteen years Of age can better
appreciate the SPIRIT of our Institutions
than foreigners ahera a residence of offveyears,
and vet the latter are voters, whilst the for.
mer are extended for further term Of sew
en- years


We further believe that Aliens should rest
satisfied with the protection of life, liberty
and property. which is here afforded them.
and not altemptto change the policy and in
stitutIons of our country, since most of them
were SECLUDED from any voice in the gov
ernment of their own. But we do not in
tend to 60 into an argument ofthis question
at present, but will hereafter give 1t that at
tention and support which it imperatively
demands at our hands We throw open the
columns of our paper to the advocates o. a
radical change ofthe present laws upon this
subject and invite communications from The
pen ofthose who are able to give informa
ton and instruction upon this great national
question. We are unreservedly the advo-
cate of 2 restriction of the present law, and
contend that residence oftwenty one years
should hereafter be demanded Of every for
eigner before be is either suffered to vote
or hold Office in cur government.