Democratic banner., 1845-11-01
TIL E 3 A n E r.
NATIVE AMERICANlSM, AND
LAWHEAD. IT'S lTlNERANT
PREACHER.

This man, LduGedQ, recently VS.
tied Lincoln county for the purpose
oi enlightening its benighted citizens
upon the all-imPortdnt question OF
Native Americanism. He protested
20 have received his call 10 preach
from the Native American aSsocIa-
ton of St. Louis; aud 10 have been
hired and authorized by them TO
.pread far and wide, over our broad
and beautiful State. their peculiarly
liberal and plilanthropic notions
But liz Justice 10 the intelligence OF
that party. we think there must have
been SEINE mistake il the cgH. He
surely cannot be the organ selected
for the dissemination Of their doc
trines. An intelligent association
never would have CHOSEN one so en-
tirely destitute Of all information and
Of all decency of expression, 10 pub.
fish TO the world their peculiar prIn.
ciples. We feel assured that they
would not he willing hat an inieIll-
gent community should judge them
hy their agent sent amongst US; and
we have certainly more charity than
~ th,nk tina, tkev would send such
an i.noramus 10 preach even 10 the
most ignorant: for ii would be the
blind leading the lind" aud they
would certainly al fall into the ditch
together:
With the greatest earnestness this
L4rhead declared that Germany con
sained eighty millions OF inhabitants
that she annually sent INTO our
aeuntry, at least, One million of her
poor degraded and thlevInG pnpull-
zion, for the avowed purpose ci over
turning our Institutions. and destroy,
any our governnent--,hat thIs NIGH
~ influx was annually poured out
from the cells and dungeons OF Ger
mlny. iNe u swarm .rom . Z eat bee
hive, TO blackcn our country with
immortality and crIme-that they
were not only low and degraded, but
dishonest, and that they pad no
more regard - their Oalhs than SPIT
out of their mOu,hs-that they kne"
no other than selfish feelings; and l
they could make by swearing, the!
always swore TO the best advantage.
consequently a ST. LOUIS jury wa:
never known to pay attention to ;
Du,chman's oath, without corrobora.
ting :eS :an5nr.
Bat no, satisfied with lIUeliIng The
characters OF the men, he descende,
TO the most coarse and vulgar abus'
Of the females; said that they wer'
not only base, degraded and tishon
est, bat prostituted 10 the loves
crimes; they knew rot virtue.
These were his declarations pub
licly made from the rostrum, and w
are informed by those who hear'
him, that. in his street conversation
he declared that he did not beiiev'
that there was 4 Dutchman IN -
Louis, high or low, no matter "ha
his ~avocation, who would not SteH!
We say again that we can scarce.
believe that this man was sent on
by the St. Louis Native association
to dea! out such wholesale SANDER
upon any people. We cannot thin
,hat they would send forth, as an ad
vocatc Of their principles, a man VIII
was either SO ignorant or who ha
90 little regard for the truth as to de
clare before an intelligent audience
that the German immigration to thj
country is a million annually, whe
it is known TO all that the whole il
crease Of our population, native Dor
added to the German and every oil
er foreign immigration together,
scarcely a million. That Germany i
self contained eighty millions, when "
know that Austria, Prussia, Hollar,
Belgium, and all the little confederate
states together, inhabited by the Dutc,
scarcely contain SO great a populatio
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