Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-05-30
From The Cincinnati Gazette.

The Philadelphia MOb.-.We have
stated what we believe to be the immediate
origin Of this Phladelphi mob. The true
cause lies deeper; and we must look it full
in the face, and master it, or it will master
US. We may shirk it for time; we may
trim, and by resort to expedients, check
its effects; but they will break out, and del
uge our country with misrule, if not destroy
our government, unless we root out from
among US that cause itself.
Whence is it that foreigners are so often
led into these ARRAYS? Why are they inso-
lent, or lawless, or revolutionary in SPIRIT
disposition with them. In their old homes
the ma orty of them had no vote /; they
knew not there what their government did,
and never, If they were thus informed,
thought Of interfering with, or questioning
its actions How comes it, then, that all OF
a sudden, they are thus changed, and filled
with an arbitrary, mobbish and sanguinary
temper? The reason is ths--that the deml
gogues Of the country, N1tiUe americans,
too, not caring fig for their substantial
Egood, but wishing simply their votes. fawn
upon and fatter them in every way, until
they are taught to think that they have a
full right to say and do as they please. Nor
have they stopped here. Who puts it into
aliens heads to obtain by fraud right to
vote? Who arouscs their hate against one
portion of our people? Who, by falschood
and trick, and downright political knavery,
makes them believe that while one party is
their protector, another party is seeking to
rob them of every personal right they en-
Joy. and to degrade them as serfs in this
free land9 American demagogues do all
this, and il the bolt of Indignation could be
made to fall, as it ought, in the right quar-
ter, it would fall red hot, and with rcnding
! effect upon them. They are the source of
these evils. From them alore, they spring
The naturalization laws may be defective j;
but were it not for these demagogues, and
the ha teIul, reckl less, partizan feeling which
they create, in order that like scum they
may rise to TIE top amid a prevailing agita.
ton, we should not feel these defects. nor
the alarm we do at the increase of the for
eign vote. The alien has no bascF foe;-the
/ country no direr curse.
| Nor is this all. Though the evil of their
action is felt just now more wildly in the
secondary cause, yet it is by no means con-
iined to tie aliens among us. Our breath is
rank with the foul poison Of a lawless par
tlzan spIrIt-the very spirit on which dema-
| gogucism hrcathcs and lives. For what is
!
sequence, at this time? Why, for the last
twelve years this partizan spirit has been
growing and swelling, until nor it has spread
! IN every State, and fills the Halls Of Con.
gress and the State Legislatures converting
our government into mere machine to up
hold aud advance the interests, not OF the
country, but of 4 particular set o. men or Of
IA party. This IS the effect of it. Laws are
made or set asdc-measurcs passed or re.
! jected-the tariff, tie currency, slavery,
anything aud everything tempered with
/ Just as they NAV promise to advance some
] partznn end. The real business of the
State or OF the nation is not cared for Bus
/ mess men at home and abroad do not feel
that there is safety, or stability, or practical
wisdom i'll our legislation. Nay, SO far has
This spirit been carried, that the present
! House Of Re representatives. of Congress, a fit
edu tor OF n.obs, has dared to violate law
which every sane reasoner must regard as
constitutional, and the present Executive
to sell the patronage of Government to the
highest bidder, and solemnly to propose to
The Senate the violation oi Treaty, the
sdcrcdncss of which no honest man can dis
pute, Here is u lan' icssness and corruption
a the fountain head. That it should sprea {
wide and deep should surprise none. Yet
4
at the story of the Philadelphia mob-oniy
one symptom Of a ride spread diseaSe--as max
rated, and lip forth their denunciations as
! if behind ,hat--at the heart of our nation,
and in the nation itself-tae ercess Of party
spirit-TiIE RULE or DEMAGoGUEIsN--Was not
he source Of that evil; and of all the evils,
moral and political, which have bcsct and
borne US down for the lat tWe.yc years.
We speak that which every man knows.
the root O! our State and National Difficult
! ties of reputation, Of mobs, of reck less
! legislation, OF the want of honest business
men in our legislative halls, of the growing
immortality which SO shocks parent and pat
rio.--lies in the extreme partzan temper OF
our people. Moral essays, preaching, pro
tests, advice will do no good, unless the
people themselves have sense enough and
! honesty enough to look, as they do in all
private matters, to the character Of the in
dividual voted for-to spurn the miserable
spawn who fiatters them, and promises
them largely, to get Eat Offices, and high
places-and to brook no set Of men who
seek to blow up their prcjudices and pas
sions in order that they may ride them boot
ed and spurred when and where they please
Were they thus resolute, was this their tenn
per, could we have party legislation! Were
| this their spirit couid the EAecutiVe, or
congress, or the State Legislatures make
playihings of the business of the country!
Could there be, in such condition Of the
public mind, mobs, lawlessness or reckless
ness, or instability in legislation, or such
wide spread immortality The remedy
then. is with the VOTERS Of the country
Let them elect honest, capable men, and we
shall haze good la,os, good public system q
good administration Of the affairs Of the State
and Mutton good spirit among the people
and progress as lueU as permanency. This
is what we want, and all that we do want
tomake all classes in this land smile with
content, and alien alike and native know
our Government only through its protection
and its blessings. :,
The truth, and the whole truth. should
be given, not merely injustice to foreigners
and catholics, but to the country. mob
of the character of that in Philadelphia-so
fierce and bloody-is enoug h to alarm sober
minded rejecting men Of all parties, and t9
unite them, be their differences OF creed and
opinion what they may, in solemn deter
mination to ferret out, and remove the cause
If religious intolerance-if excess of party
if growing immoralty-if one or all these
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