The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-09-19
EyASsvfLIE, INDIANA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 49, ls44.

AuSf dloO fVtCd 1Ok NIL AOutdu, tle WHY
candidate for Congress in The fourth Con
|gressional district, who by their aid was near
beating his Locofoco competitor the Hon.
Charles J. Ingersoil. And for some time
previous to the election the penny press was
circulating urgent and earnest appeals, adj
dressed by Irishmen to their co~untrymen, re-
counting the wrongs they had received at the
hands of the Locofbcos, and calling on them
20 vote en- masse for the Wing ticket. Their
opposition TO the Iocofoco nominations, as
was to be expected, brought upon them the
seyerest anathemas of the party. They hurl-
ed their denunciations against the foreigners
and especially foreign Catholics, on all oeca-
Isions, and at all times and places, during the
canvass, and subsequent to the election. The
breach was widened too far to be healed by
iovsyed words and fair promises, and enFag-
ed At their defeat, they let loose their pent
Up malignify and abuse upon the very men
whom they had hitherto so lavishly praised.
And the destruction of MIR. Clark's office
and papers during the riots, aye, in the very
COMMENCEMENT of the carnage and plumber
shows that their thirst for vengence had not
Iabaied; that, like Tam O'Shanter's vie,
they had nursed their wrath 10 kept VAIN.
Yes, the same men whom he had Frustrated
by joining the Wings destroyed his Office,
and scattered his papers to the winds. 1t was
their act, and theirs only: LET them have the
sole credit for it.
If further proof is needed TO show which
party, the Wing or the locofoco, furnishes
the most active and distinguished charac-
fers 10 the Native Americans ofPhiladelphia
il is easy of access. We find among them
Thomas D. Grover, Col. Lemuel Paynter,
and Lewis c. Levin, all of them ulraists a
mong the l~ocofocos. The former has ever
been one of the most prominent members OF
his party, and Col. Paynter has been twice
returned 10 Congress, as a representative OF
them and their principles. These men pre-
side At their meetings, and there is seldom a
gathering of Native Americans at which a
bevy of Locofocos do not figure as orators
and officers. There can be no mistaking
these things, neither do we -misrepresent, for
our Information is collected irom the most re-
liable sources, from gentlemen of both polit-
lical parties. So much for Native American
societies, Native American papers and Native
American leaders.
We candidly admit, that there are severai
wings who have espoused these principles
but that Native Americanism, is. either 10
or parcel of the Wing principles, we mos
ernphaticallydeny. The wing party neithe.
teaches nor recognizes any such creed. The
wings have no feeling of opposition toward
any class OF people, except the locofocos,an e
against them and their principles they are
aud will ever be uncomproinising in thei
hostility. With the Native American party
and lis designs, they have nought TO donor
are they for a~bridging in the least that free.
dom Of conscience guaranteed by the Consti
tuition to all, without regard to the doctrine,
they preach, or the alters at which they wor
ship. Fhey are the friends Of civil and re
ligious liberty. Between the native and nat
uralized citizen, they know no distinction
and the rights of the Catholic are as sacred
with them as those of the Protestant.
The wing candidate for the Presidency
has always been the eloquent champion o
universal freedom, and MS opinions are east
ly giyen-lhey are embo1iedin the Legislative
history of the country.
They show, that he is in truth, The greai
advocate Of civil and religious liberty, anc
that there is nothing lille or narrow minded
Iabout him. We shall give an extract from
a speech of his in the Senate, on the Sd o
February, 1882. Speaking of European emf
grants, Mr.. Clay said:
The honest, patient, and industrious German
readily unites With our people, establishes him
self on some OF. our fatlands, fills a c~aPaciou
barn, and enjoys in tranquility the abundan
fruits, which his diligence has gathered aroun,
him aIwaysready to fly TO the standard OF hi
. dopted country, or Of lie laws, when called b.
the duties of patriotism. The gay, the versatile
tue philosophical FRENcHMAN, accommodation,
himself cheerfuily 10 all the yicissitudes Of life
incorporates himself without difficulty in on
society But oEall foreigners, none amaigamat
themselves SO quickly with our people as III
natives oil the EMERALD.lsLE. In some OF the Wis
ions which have passed through my imagination
| have supposed that Ireland was originally par
aud parcel of this continent, and that by som,
extraordinary COMMISSIONS OF nature, it was tor,
from America, and drifting across the Ocean, I
was placed in the unfortunate vicinity. of GTea
Britain. The same open heartedness, the sam
ca Teiess aud uncaieulaung indifference abou
human life, characterIzes the inhabitants O
both countries. Kentucky has been sometime
called the ireland OF America And L hays
no doubt, that it the emigration were reversed
and set from America upon the shores of Eu
rope, every American emigrant to irelan'
would there find, as every Irish emigrsht her
finds, a hearty welcome aud a happy home. ,
Thus spoke the Great Commcner,' as IL
was named in Kentucky, because of hi
strong, manly and effective opposition 10th
Alien and Sedition laws passed under th,
administration of the elder Adams. And i
it not a beautiful tribute to the industry O
! tba (Terman and Triobro,n IN tha arni0raD
from every country aud every cline. Again
in 1889, on the 3Ist efJanuary, on present
ing the petition of Dr.. u. Theller, one oftht