Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-07-22

Messrs. CHAPMANs g. SPANN: Gents-In your
paper of the 10Th inst, furnished by friend,
find the following
"Judging from the boasts of Mr. McCarty's whig
friends, are compelled TO admit TO friends
Abroad that in Marion county, good many foreigners,
and laborng democrats, heretofore in the EN-
poyment Of Mr.. McCariy, or of his satellites, will
be kept so close to hear word of warning, and
be caoled and atered by those who formerly derI-
ded them, TO be induced TO cast their votes for the
wing candidate for Congress"
With all due Difference to your opinion and the
:" boasts of Mr.. McCartys friends" | beg leave Ia
differ from your conclusion. Can it be that any for
eigner would vote for whigl Can it be that my
own counrymen are lost to every feeling of patri-
otism and duty to vote for any man belonging to
the wing party-thus endorsing the ISLANDERS Of that
party upon themselIesi II cannot be. | cannot be-
eve that they have forgotten the foul aspersons that
have been flung at them from the highest to the low
est member Of that party; from the officiating high
priest TO the mercst subaltern who does the dirty work
of whiggery. What! an Irishman vote for man
whose political creed COMFORTS with that of the party
who, in 1874. not only burned their churches and de-
moshed the Catholic converts in Philadelphia, but
after these Outrages upon the rights of liberty and
conscience, leagued themselves together band Of
political desperadoes under the " holy alliance" cog
nomen of " Native Americans" and sought to ex-
clude, and still seek to exclude from the rights of
suffrage altogether the i'd Irish and Dutch -
Will my countrymen vote for any member of this
party-a party that have invariably advocated the
extension of the naturalization laws to twenty-one
years. party that have always been the sworn enc
my of foreigners-a party that have always been the
advocates of tyranny-a party that uttered and pub
llshed such bels upon them as the following from the
Louisville Journal one Of the leading whg papers in
the Union, a few days after the election in 1874
"We admit that they (the whigs) have many and
powerful to be Disguised with the influence
of foreigners in our elections. They have seen one
of the greatest men OF the age at crisis when ms
services at the head of affairs peculiarly impor-
tant, defeated by HOSTS OF BRUTAL and IGNORANT
FOREIGNERS LED On, OR DRIVEN LIKE so MANY CATTLE,
by handful of the basest native demagogues."
] might 90 and give other quotations from the
wing press, but forbear Irishmen, | sOlemnly ask
you. will you by voting for any of that party,
endorse the ISLANDERS of whggery upon yourselves
and your countrymen! No! You dare not The
spirits of the departed dead would speak in thunder
tones from the grave and cry out, fofbear, orbear
But let ask you who has always been the friend
of the foreigner! Who receives him, an exile from
bis " native land" with open arms and brotlerly
welcome! Who asks that he shall be entitled to the
right of suffrage and citizenship without the penance
and probation of tweniy-one years! Who but the
Democratic party! Who, when this same Wing and
Native American party have by brute physical force,
attempted to exclude the foreigner from the privilege
of casting his vote as an adopted American freeman,
has boldly stepped forward, and shoulder TO shoulder
with him. insisted upon his right to cast his vote at
the ballot box! Who but the democratic party =
Then lives there foreigner with soul so dead"
who can so far forget the indignities and damning
insults Of this wing party, to cast his vote
for any man in whose veins runs a solitary drop of
such proScriptive blood That like the savage who
roams the wild woods, untutored and uneducated.
reachery and ngratitude form part of his character
God forbid His heart is more noble than this
Those who have defended his rghts-those who gave
him welcome TO the land of the happy and free
those who encourage him to become political deni
of American rights-those whose hearts and
sympathies with the unfortunate Irshman, exiled
by unhappy fate from the land of his nativity-shal
receive the warm and heartfelt support Of every
true Irshman. AN FRESHMAN.