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

Messrs. Editors Il last week saw published in
the Free Trader, petition presented by the Hon,
JOHN r. STEWART, member of Congress
from this district to the National House of Rep
resentatives, in February last. The petition is
signed by upwards of fico hundred individuals,
nearly all of them being members of the present
wing party.
understand that great effort is made TO estab-
i;sh the petition as a forgery, and emanating
from the Democratic party. can assure those
individuals, whose rights and privileges are at
tempted to be taken from them by this petition,
that the document is genuine, and is now on file
in the Clerks office of the House of Representa-
tiv,s in the city OF Washington, and defy the
combined forces of the Wing party to prove it
forgery. Look at the petition, and attached tc it
you will find the certificate of the Clerk, HUGH
n. GARLAND. Look at the names attached to
the petition and you will see that they are men,
bers of the Wing party, and reside in the city of
Chicago.
Here is the petition, and the names attached to
it, together with the certificate of the Clerk | say
again that the petition Is GENUINE, the as
sertions of Wing orators and petitioners to the
contrary notwithstanding:
To the Honorable the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentQfies Of the United States Of America, in
Congress assembled.
ow-CtrIzEys-Ihe petition Of the UNI
dersigned citizens of the United States and of
the state OF Illinois, respectfully shews, their be-
lief at he fin IoI tho oh,a b,I
in view, by our fathers, at the period of adopting
the Constitution, when they gave to Congress
the power of passing laws for the naturalization
of FoREIGNERs-and your petitioners also shcw
their belief that the further admission of Foreign
ers, to a participation in the political rights of
NATIVE AMERICANS, would be hurtful to
the interests of our country, and if continued
will sooner or later prove destructive to our Re-
publican institutions.
Your Petitioners, therefore, ask the attention
of your honorable body to the various petitions
for 0 repeal of the naturalization laws which have
been formerly presented to your honorable body,
and they further ask your honorable body to re-
peal entirely the laws which now exist in regard
TO the Naturalization of foreigners.
= Signed by
r. H. Kenicott, Jos. Z. Kennicott, Levi Ken
nicott NJ. S. Trader, J. Jay Stewart Ira B. Eddy,
J. 7. Massey, John Oldham Swcetzcr II. G..
Wells, David Hatch, John b. Weir, John r..
Temple Sheldon Peck, G.. f. Peck, George w.
Snow, Z. Taylor, VIM. H. Taylor, l.. G. Osborn,
Stephen Gale, Arthur G. Burnley, w. II. Adams,
A. d. Higgins, w. Fitz Randolph, c. G. Wich-
or, John II. Phelps, H. II. Yates. Jas. II. Collins,
George N. Pathim, Charles b. Pathim, II. II.
d. Walcott, John II. Foster, &. o. Merrill, l.. w.
Raymond, George Chucksfield, Edward Wolcott,
o. H. Thompson, Tuthia King, Alexander, VOL
colt, l.. b. Goodrich, II. c. Wolcott, David Hun
ter, E. ID. Bates, A. Calhoun, S. b. Cobb, j. b
F. Russell, L. NJ. Salisbury, Jonathan Kencott
Moyan Stocking, G. A. Robb, Geo r. Ramsey,
Vim. H. Stow, j. w. Hooker, n. J. Cox, NJ. N.
Sawyer, there follow ia names all of which
with the exception Of are persons, who are
known to be as decided wings as the names
above transcribed from the petition.
House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,, L. Sd
Washington, June 81, 1910.
This is to certify, that the foregoing is a true
copy Of petition of citizens of the United States
and state of Illinois, for repeal of the naturali-
cation laws, presented to the House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States, on the 9th OF
February 1910, by Mr.. Stewart, member of said
House from the state of Illinois.
This copy made and given at the request OF
the Hon. k;ch ii NJ. Young, Senator for said state.
HUGH N. GARLAND,
Clerk of the II. Rep. United States.
Notwithstanding this petition, have other evil
denco in my possession to show that tho Wings
are hostile to Foreigners, merely because they
arc opposed to them in politics. To oubs,antiate