Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-05-04
From the Cincinnati Enquirer aud Message
The Whigs and Germans

| From the Cincinnati ,Rnauirer aud Message
the wings and Germans.
What wonderful change has come over
the federal wings in very short time, in
relation to their opinions Of the Germans
and the Irish. The New York Tribune.
the 6Eeai champioqnf Clay humbugs gen.
orally in the Ease - IN article, on the
18th ult., which 6oH1Ssts most strangely
with the sentiments u other leading coon
prints, expressed e an earlier period, be-
fore the necessity Of gaining the voies Of
foreigners was SO apparent, for the success
Of Mr. Clay and his partisans. We will
clip many sentiments Of this Tribune arr
dcle and contrast hem with some others.
that the diffefencsn he seen and the
Hypocrisy Of the object understood.
Says the Tribune:
There are at this moment IN the United
States more than one Hundred Thousand
Legal Voters Of German birth, and their
number is increasing at the rate Of thou
sands per annum. Some Of them are re-
markably intelligent, others comparatively
ignorant, but the great majority are an hon
est, industrious. frugal and peaceable Peo-.
pie" u III .s-s l1loJl
I By the side. Of this we viii place q bar
agraPh from the sBacyrus Democrat Ia
wing Clay paper, printed in 1912 in Craw-
ford county, Ohio:
"The GROCERIES are an kent bv the
DIRTY DUTCH, who are unfit for any
thing DECENT Our coun.
try is cuRs D Or 4 Homo or FOREIGN
BEGGARS, THE FILTHY OUT
pDuRINGs on BESoTTED GER
They come among as a. BEGGARS.-
Show me Dutchnnan If Won car, who il
in favor ofany GOOD. Not one! They
are all enemies Of our GOVERNMENT
unfit for any thing moral DEB.HUCH-
ED D UN'KHRDS. A PEST TO
SOCfETY-letihem be KEPT DOWN.
That's contrast enough to satisfy the
appetite Of almost any wing for defama-
ton. asaa 2y9 N
Again the Tritane says: Ill IF !.
"Unhappily, great part of these voters
have been thrown into the wrong scale by
fortuitous circumstances. The nanse Of
Democracy has caught the thousands with
whom names are things; the grog-shops
and low taverns into which immigrants,
however temperate, are almost always
thrown on entering anew country, are
nearly all nurseries OF Loco Focoism, and
thousands more are thence misled and per-
verified. Thus the great majority of the
German voters stand at this moment ar
rayed against the measures on whose main
tenance the due reward Of their Labor and
The security Of thsir prosperity depend
Asut tt'is Srsass<y >r- 4h:--,,--
continue; il may Be changed at once, If the
Wings will but do their duty, AMI BY uni
form kindness, BY personal exer;ion, BY
the diffusion OF correct information, re-
move the unjust impressions which have
been artfally engendered." Ae
To this we will append sentence from
the Inaugural Address Of Gov. Seward,
Of New York, the very persona.ion of
great mnn and a good whig, in the estima-
ton Of this same Tribune; he said:
at j, by their LABOR. and by THAT
ONLY that Foreigners render any SER
VICE to the United States; and It is lust
prerogative Of the American people, 10 con-
fine them to III stheir My p opcr rocah IN
ur country" Viii
But Matthew Z. Davis, the eulogizer Of
Aaron Burr, the bosom-friend of Henry
Clay, equal in influence with the Tribune
editor as a leader, would moi. allow the for
eigners even the privilege Of lab ring for
the country. He said in. a public ha.
rangue to mass Of his brethren:
aHAD l THE POWER, L WOULD
HAVE A GALLONS ERECTED ON
EVERY DOCK, and HANG EVERY
DID FRESHMAN THAT ATTEMPT
ED TO LAND" s'as eiiai
The Tribune once more: It remarked,
in following UP the design to invciglc the
Germans and other naturalizcd citizens Ia
to the wing ranks: i'sa Za a9 'sts
TN Germany, the whole ground now in
debate here has been fought over within
the last twenty years, and the result is an
overwhelming and irreversiblc verdict in
favor for Protection. The effect Of this
cannot fail to be felt n our utare elecfi rs,
if the understanding Of this great and p 70
er II class be reached BY prescntment Of
the right issucs.''' 1F '
Now, this the wings have perfect right
to do,-lhey have right to not only pres
sent the fright issues' to this 'sgreat and
powerful class, but they have right to fol-
low the further advice Of this charlatan
coon print, in its urgent appeal for The
support ofthe German wing press. Itsays:
a, .srhere is now printed 1t Cincinnati a
capital German Wing paper, the "German
Republican" BY j. c. Schlndt. tits near
" or quite the only one in the Valley Of
the Mississippi, where there are half . dox-
en- German Looo Foco papers, and at least
$1,000 German Voters. This paper ought
to have . circulation Of five thousand copies,
though every one wei . given away. And
yet We learn casually that it has 4 meaxcr
list, is barely existing from day to day, and