New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-10-18

troll your political action by selfish considerations
You would then with unclouded minds have
looked upon the political questions of your ADOPT
ed country like ell other c.tizens, and have taken
sides az they hed done, some On the one side and
some ON the other. Divided thus between both
parties, you would be an object Of hostility to
neither. On the contrary, you would haze en-
loved the respect of each. Neither would have
had an interest in Expressing O, insulting you
| Both would have desired, ss il would have been
their equal advantage, to protect ron in al! the
nights of free sod faithful citizens. Bat this
plain and Prudentl course was neglected In an
evil hour The great body OF you became the over
jealous allies OF one party and exposed yourselves
as en- almost necessary consequence, to be the
target for the political malice Of the other.
And now, With all the experience of the past
and the present to learn from, shall this policy
Which has proved TO be so full of peril be still
perssvcsed In? The time is at hand, it is al
ready come, when you must decide upon this
questlon-and the consequences of that decision
will long be felt. Never before were you 50 beset
as you now are, by men who, to promote their
party purposes, would excite you to act as
Adopted Citizens " and cast your votes at the
Polls under The influence of the passions and pre-
JUDGES which may be stirred up ia your bosoms
as such. The came system of tactcs-the
same style and character of solicitation that
have before noticed and reprobated are ap-
piled to you now. You are not asked to look
at the questions at issue between the two
great political parties, or TO exercise your Judg-
ment or your common sense upon them. On
these points Others may be reasoned with but your
passions and prejudices it appears are solely be
appealed to and infamed. In the Albany Argus
of the 18th instant, the leading Loco. Foco Jour-
nal of this State, we have specimen of this sys-
tenn Of tactics and Of the line of argument which
it thinks suited TO the capacity and spirit OF
Adopted Citizens. After referring TO the alleged
union of a portion of the Wings and Natives at
the late Election in Philadelphia, it exclaims-
Democrats be up then and doing Speed the intelligence
Of the coalition of the WING party and the natives through
and county village upd hamlet from Name TO louisa
Ireland IN ohio Announce To- bsm the i result IN phi i
pba Place the simple facts before them. and they viii 90
en- rnasse Tor the democratic candidates
Democrats Of Jaryiand among your Catholic popula
The facts and tbsy can 1 n ~ vy gG"t z b r lem
the mob which descended their an and their
Democrats Of Indiana. TO among Swiss and Germans
and The Irish o. state Speed The of the coalition
Democrats a he Empire State The great duty rests upon
you we have c. least seventy thousand voters within
country as any within borders. Among them speed the
ss1 IN phladelph,a snd they can meyer ally themselves
Such is the argument, and the only one which
the Argus thinks efectual with the class for
whom it is intended.
But the evil does not end here At the cor
ners of streets and by the way side we are, all Of
us, met by men-adopted citizens and Catholics
some Of them, perhaps, well meaning though
weak or ignorant, but more of them designing
knaves or braiIless zealots-and the question is
solemnly put to us, "Will you vote for the
Church. burning Wings Z" Friends. the men
who appeal 70 you rs above, or who put such
questions TO you, are either ignorant of what they
DO. or careless Of your welfare, and design to
iplure you. What, will ask, has the question
oil Nativeism, or OF sect or of creed, to do with
the election Of HENRY CLAY, or of James X.
Polk7 Nothipg-absolutely nothing. And 10 1t
| NOT obvious to the most common understanding
that Adopted Citizens and Catholics should be
the last to drag these questions to The polls or 10
stimulate the agitation of them The Wing
party have oisclal,Ded all connection with such
questions. Why then should we strive to force
them into it Is it 80 agreeable or profitable to
be assailed and prescribed that you will insist
upon the whole Wing BODY of the Union becorn.
| ing party to such intolerance7 If the Wing
party say land they do say SOY that e Nativism
forms no part of their political creed, why not
eaveitsol Why create prejudces against your
selves by running about or giving ear to and fol-
lowing the lead Of those who run about retailing
the faisehood that "Nativism " is one Of the
Wig principles What end can you accom-
plish by this but to excite llbood between your
selves, and the powerful party that IS enrolled
! under the Wing banner The Native faction is
dangerous and troublesome enough, one should
| suppose, without any effort being made on your
part to swell its ranks by Islander and abuse Of
the Wings and thus compelling them If you could
to lend hand to the "Natlves." Fellow citl-
zens, is such conduct the conduct of rational
menu Ought you not especially at time like
the PRESENT. be glad to diminish the agitation OF
the subject, keep it out of politics ana away from
the ballot boxes, and SO long as neither OF the
great parties of the day chose TO adopt the bigo-
ed and illiberal side OF it, to be careful not to
force it upon their adoption by any injustice, OF
any incorporate course of conduct on your part I!
Fellow citizens! look at this calmly and say
whether the men who would seek to rally you at
the coming election upon this dangerous ques-
ton are not either dishonest or infatuated or your
deliberate enemies.
But the last Spring Election in the City and
the recent one in Philadelphia are pointed to as
If thew furnished evidence of the allegations
made by those who would excite your prejudices
and peryert your understandings. Yet at the
worst what do those elections indicate Sim.
gly that in certain districts of Philadelphia IN
y Which the wings were in minority, and in this
City also where they wore in minority, and
were hopeless of electing their own candidates
majority of their party cast their votes for the
representatives of the Native" faction, in order
that if beaten themselves they might likewise
secure tho defeat of their old and inyeterate ad-
yersary. This it is true, was all wro1g-i' was
worse-it was a base desortion of their own can
didates and an outrage upon the true American
nr;nciples. of the Constitution-bat It did not
argue the adoption by the Wings OF the ploscrp-
tive doctrines OF the Native faction. Whatever,
too. was the infsmy of the aci it was local. The
Wings of the Cities of New-Yc and Phladel.
phis, though numerous, form but tfaction OF
the million and half and upwards of Wing
voters Throughout, the Union; and for their error,
the whole party should not be heldsssponaibls-
Rnt IN reference to this particular question the