The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-24

hnoWUon III answer 10 charge lllauc tiut ho
asserted at Oregon City that foreigners could be
purchased at the ballot-boxes for GLASS Of
WHISKEY. He does not deny the charge, but
substantiates it by the following extract from his
communication published in the Register Aear
him:
"When we come to those men, who
are excavating our canals, and building
orr railroads, it cannot be, that in so
short a residence as six months in our
country, that they are otherwise than I'M
acquainted with the principles of the two
great political parties; that influential
men of their acquaintance were apt to
WELD them and wend them as they pleas
ed 4; that it was not to be wondered at,
that some of their votes, under such cir
cumstances, WERE SOMETIMES
BOUGHT WITH A GLASS OF
GROG."
Do Foreigners want further evidence that the
Wings are opposed to their best interest! If
they do, here give them the opinion of the New
York city wings. Hear what the "New York
Courier and Enquirer" leading Harrison pa
per in that city says about the "O'Conne
Guards military company in that city, and one
of the hanlsomcst and best disciplined in the U.
States:
From the New-York Courier and Enquirer.]
"THE O'CoNNELL GUARps.-No great
er insult was ever offered the American
People than the arrangements now being
made for raising in this city an Irish reg
iment to be called the OCOnneH
Guards" Such a corps mould soon at
Tempt to enforce arith the bayonet achat
too many Of the misguided and ig,aor-
ant Of the foreign roters already boast Of
the complete subsection of the Natiue
citizens to their dictation."
| If further evidence is wanting to show that the
Wing party dcspisc and hate the Foreigners, let
them read the following extract from the New
York Express, prominent wing paper in the
city of New York Hear the editor:
From the New York Express.l
"Om population has among its men,
bers emigrants from all European nations,
as also large numbers from Canada. All
appear respectable and prosperous, EN-
CEPT THE LOW AND UNEDU-
GATED IRISH, to whom the soil and
climate appear no way congenial. They
no sooner arrive here, than their moral
anG mental faculties are thrown into great
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ALL AGREEMENTS, WRITTEN
OR MISUNDERSTANDING THEIR
NEIGHBOURS PROPERTY FOR
THEIR OWN; and when they think
themselves free from all restraint, run
rapid career of vice and wickedness, end
ing in poverty and disgrace, Care ca
nuna.'
If you are not yet satisfied that the Wing par
| ty are your worst enemies, | ask you to read the
following language of Mathew l.. Davis, one of
the editors of the New York Courier and En-
quirer." He used this language after the Demo-
Gratis had defeated the Wing party in the city of
New York, and he attributed the triumph of De-
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Wings failed to gain the influence of Foreigners,
and they saw that they yet belonged to the Demo-
cratic party, he made the following declaration;
| take this extract from the New York New
Era Democratic paper published in the city of
New York. The editor says:
"Boys, DO YOU HEAR THAT ?'-Mat-
thew L.. Davis, better knowna as the "Spv
in Washington" publicly declared in that
city, that as went the city of Newly DIRK,
so would go the State but on the receipt
of the news of the great democratic VIC
tory, also declared, whilst standing on the
piazza in front of Gadsby's Hotel, in the
presence of sundry persons, as follows !:
" Had | the power, | WOULD ERECT A
GALLONS UPON EVERY WHARF IN THE
CITY OF New York, AND HANG EVE
RY DID FRESHMAN AS FAST AS
THEY COME ON SHORE"
Here ieilow-countrymen is picture for you to
look at. Here you can see the opinions of the
Wing party. They always have been our worst
enemies and they will continue to be such as
long as we are members of the Democratic party.
1t we were to Join their party, they then might
profess great attachment for u.s. but in their hearts
they yet would despise us. I therefore call on
you, in the name of Emmett, Curran and O'Con-
nell-men who always sustained the best interest
of lrishnen, and at all times were opposed to OPP
preston and bondage, to rally around the " old
Democratic Ship" She never will go dawn
while Irishmen remain true and honest to tina,
party who have always sustained our rights.
: Remember, feow-countrymen, that we are not
voting for MEN, but we are voting for the