Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-09-14
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hh' EDiioK'-l 1--we " Iedu newspapers
especially on the eve of Presidential elec
lion. Political papers are SO hot about these
times that never wrap them around powder,
or use them as waddng for my shot gun. |
see that Democrats accuse Wings, and Wings
accuse Democrats of originating the unhappy
prejudice now existing in many sections of the
Union between Natives and Foreigners. The
missiles which the parties use in this contest
is the cotted gore shed in the Philadelphia
riots. The Democrats throw this blood en-
masse, in the face of the Wings, and these
hurl it back in the skirts of their opponents.
There is not an upstart political editor from
Maine to Georgia but that is supplied with
tar kettle full of this coloring matter, with
which to besmear the faces of his antagonists,
and am credibly informed that 10 some parts
The Democrats use it as a substitute for prin.
ter's ink. And there is the unsocial, selfish,
Unlocking Native American Parly-Whigs
and Democrats run from it, lest they should be
charged with its parentage. They run from
it like sin 'heeled it from her son Grim Death.
Squire Goodhue would use figure nearer
home, if not so homely. and say, they run from
i. like our town castle run from Mr.. Morrsons
beligerent he-goat. However guilty Wings,
Democrats or Liberty men may be in his
matter, will assert my own innocence; not
drop of my blood runs in the veins Of the Ma.
tive American Party 4 party that would
sunder the New from the Old World, and
split the globe if they could-who would
swartwout with the American sun, and earth
and air and liberty, and run away with them
from the world, or hide them under bushe-
who would surround American privileges with
wall so high that the exiled foreigner mus;
toll 81 years TO scale it-who would erect an
inaccessible paradise TO aggravae The poor
to Dives in Tophet: for such party, have
no mere sympathy than | have for the dog in
manger. Still. Mr.. Editor, question rises
in my mind like majestic sawyer looms mp
from the bosom of the Mississippi TO take
telescope view of matters and things in gen.
erai-a query as 10 the guilty authors Of this
prejudice. Political writers are SO intent on
manufacturing political capital, that have tot
seen one candid, truthful exposure Of the prn.
cipal, real cause Of this hostility. so anamaI-
Gus in American character. Sir, the feeling OF
na,ivality is one of the mightiest insiiRcts Of
our nature-it has existed among all nations
aud all men. Nations are, and should be, rea-
sonably Jealous of the terms on which foreign
ers are admitted 10 participation in The pfiyl-
leges. Ofice-seekers and vote-huntels have
with one foot kicked at our Constitution, while
with the other they have tfampled upon the
feeling Of nativaliy, and the nations heart.
The moment the foreigner lands on our shores,
they have Jumped him over our Naturalization
Laws, as Remus leapt over the walls Of Rome,
and led him to The polls to decide American
politics. Who does not see the inevitable
consequence The feeling of nativaliiy has
been aroused like lion flom his lair, and be-
come in carnate in the thousand-legged, thou.
sand-headed proscrip,ive Native American Par
ty-now the very fathers of this party dsown
it. The Democrats have sworn it upon the
Wings, but the latter strangely 60 in for 'repu'
da,ion.' The Wings have sworn it on the
Democrats, but those declare they have broF
forth nothing fol the last eight years but ll'-
ter of hum-bugs. What party has held up
our Naturalization Laws 10 the eyes of foreign
ers as oppressive and unjust-what party has
courled foreigners as such! The Native A.
merican monster is the fruit of this courlshP,
and that party, Wing or Democrat, must faith
er it. In former times our fishermen caught
cod fish. shad and herring 10 the Atlantic, but
now political adventures use ii 10 catch votes
10. The emigrant before he reaches our shores
is hooked by one party or the other, and being
hooked, he is hauled in to the polls. Why, It
such conduct does not sir up native Jealousy,
il must be that Americans are as far as angels
above human passions, or as low as braies be-
low them. When il was reported that ST.
Paul had introduced an uncircumcised Greek
iuso the temple, all Jerusalem was moved TO
fury; not Jews alone inherit The heir loom Of
nationaliiy-it is interviewer with every fibre
ofevery heart, and be who ireveFenily Tram
plies upon it will arouse the indignation OfbOh
man and his Maker That such conduct has
produced the present wide spread prejudice a.
gainsl foreigners is proposition SO clear Ihai
sun light is shadow compared with II. Ba'
| beseech my counlrymen no longer to wage
an unjust war upon the innocent foreigner ha'