The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-08


document, which was circulated among
the Germans ofthis county, upon the day
of the democratic mass meeting.
The Natives and General Taylor
Our German fellow-citzens should, be-
fore they cast their votes for the next
! President, reflect that the Native party
was the first to nominate Gen. Taylor
for the Presidency and that he accepted
she nomination and continued TO be their
acknowledged and selected candidate,
until the Wings resolved to 60 over to
. the Natives and make common cause
with them in the Presidential contest
AS is known. the Natives held their
Convention, in Harrisburg. long before
the Wings. and that they held large
Ratification meeting, in Philadelphia, the
day before the meeting ofthe Wing Con-
vention, to which (the Whigs) were invi-
ted and thus compelled TO do publicly,
whaiihey had long done privately express
their hati ed of European Emigrants.
Twenty four hours before this meeting
the Wings we're still unwilling to coaesce
with the Natives. preferring their idol,
the Sage Of Ashland, as they call him,
preferring him as a statesmanto all others;
but then came the Natives, and the wings
could not hel . themselves in any other
way than to turn Natives too, and take
the candidate of that party-What we
have to say to this is, it becomes them
well. Another class ofwhigs were there,
who preferred Gen Scott, because they
looked upon him as great General and
great whig; but the Natives wanted Tay.
lor, TO which the Scott men had to agree,
and thus bite into sour apple. In this
way, Gen. Taylor was made not only the
Native, but the whig candidate. The
Natives were cuuning-they knew which
side their bread was buttered."
After the wings had drank brotherhood
with the Natives, the latter got drunk
with joy and pride, and Immediately at-
ter the whig Convention nominated, they
held great Native Ratification meeting,
at their headquarters in Southwark, by
firing hundred rounds upon the spot,
where four years before, they burnt
churches and drove the poor Irish and
Germans out of their houses to dog them
like wind beasts. Yes, Natives, rejoice
over General Taylor's nomination aud
your triumph: but be patient, The last
man has not get fred. The Natives are
cunning (sly), and their leader. the Jew
Levin is still more cunning. They think
first to put down the Irish, in order to
finish the "dumb Dutchman," as they
call us, more readily. The Dutch are
not SO stupid as they believe AID will not
he so easily entrapped. The Germans
have nothing against Taylor, who is good
General; but il is not becoming twas not
handsome) in himto accept the nomination
ofthe Natives;for if an angel were to de-
scend from heaven & ask the Germans to
vote for him, they void not do itifhe were
a Native. What would it profit them to
vote for such man? For after his cleo
ton he would take the Natives under his
protection, and cast off from him the Ger
mans. No! the Germans are not so stu
pid as to vote for one who is the friend of
their deadly enemies, even if he be hon
est and has drawn his sword in defence
ofhis country. And what do these Ma
tives waull Nothing other than to de-
prive you Germans of all political privil-
eges-to prevent your participating in
all Legislation f0recr! Yes, hear it,;
forerer. At first they only required ten
years residence to entile you, the Irish
and Germans, TO cilizenship-now they
require twenty-one years. In twenty
one years, The inborn American citizen
is entitled to the privileges of voting, and
this time is required from you before you
can vote. By this the Natives declare
that the German. no matter how long he
went to school, nor how closely he APP
piled himself, knows no more of political
rights, than the newborn Native child,
and therefore requires twenty-one years
to get as much sense as the child from
infancy to manhood. 1t is remarkable
that thieves, rogues s,robbers and murder,
ers are sentenced to the Penltenliary for
a few years, whilst man in Europe
shall be deprived of all political rights for
81 years The Natives know no great
er shame than to be born in Ireland or
Germany, orto have any connection with
such people; therefore they believe in
foreign nobility, and look upon all foreign.
ers as pebeians and low born: that is, a
kind of worthless mass to be deprived of
all legislation and political privileges.
And from these people GeneralTaylor ac-
cepted The Presidential nomination. To
vote for Taylor under such circumstances,
would but confirm the natives in their be-
lief, that the Irish and Germans are fool
ish and stupid people.
| A pretty Nobility this of the natives
a nobility that persecutes defenceless
men, women and children-that burns
churches and defaces tomb stnnes--an
unenlightened mob led on by fanatics aud
scoundrels--lhese are to be preferred to
the quiet, still aud ind lslrious Germans
and these are the people with whom
Gen Taylor corresponds, such the crea.
lures from whom he accepts nomination
and thanks them for it. And by all this
the Natives are jealous, aud unwilling
that General Taylor shall be the whig
candidate-they want him all to them.
selves. Gen. Dearborn, of Boston, would
not accept their nomination, whilst Fill