The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-30
Judge Woodward and Foreigners.

prejudice voters against Pierce, may be e1pec-
ted to the same thing against Wood,eard, or any
other democratic candidate.
| Among the charges-or rather only charge
brought against Judge Woodward, is the old ex-
! ploded one of Nativeism, based on misrepre-
sentation of his course as member of the Con-
vention to revise the Constitution of the State.
| The Wayne county Herald in an article on
! this subject, says: Less than one year ago, the
Judge before the citizens of this place, fully
| explained the course he pursued in the Conven-
| ton this question, and his explanation was
I published in full in our paper, giving reasons
and facts sufficient to satisfy any but knayes and
fools that ahis proposition in the Convention was
| only intended to defeat worse proposition made
! by whig and when it effected the object, it
was promptly withdrawn and that the speech
q. reported by whig stenographer, done him
great injustice The off-hand remarks made at
the time, were not then supposed worthy of pub
Iication, and they never seen by Mr. Wood
ward, until they appeared in the published vol
umes of the debates, and then he scarcely re
cognzed in the alleged speech, enough to know
that he participated in its origin.
The following proceedings show that the Na-
| tire, charge promptly met and denied by
| Mr.. Woodward himself in the face of the Con-
vention that heard and knew the whole case. In
volume 10, page 33, while discussing an abol-
Zionist question: one Mr.. Earle, of anti-slavery
tendencies thus alludes to the subject
''Would it be right in me, who listened with
pleasure many occasions, to the most eloquent
| enforcement of sound principles by the gentle
man from Luzerne, to condemn all those princi
pies because he might err on one point. Ought
! to condemn everything coming from him, if he
| should offer resolution to exclude, by the Con-
stitution, the participation in voting, and in
holding office, of all persons born in foreign
lands?''
Here he was interrupted by Mr.. Woodward
and the charge fully put to rest until revived to
effect personal and political advantages
| ''Mr. Woopward explained that he did not
wish to be slandered by any reporter or misrepre
sented by any member on this floor, and he would
not allow gentlemen to impute measures and
sentiments to him which did not belong to him
! He said HE NEVER DID PROPOSE TO EX-
! CLUDE THE FOREIGNERS NOW IN THE
COUNTRY, FROM POLITICAL PRIVILEGES,
! NOR THOSE WHO SHOULD AT ANY TIME
I
| He presumed the gentleman alluded to an a.
mendment offered by him in Convention at Har-
risburg, which proposed nothing than an
an inquiry into expediency of preventing for
| eigners who should arrive in the country after
) 1851, from voting or holding office. That was
an amendment to proposition made by the
! gentlemen from Chester, (Mr. Thomas, sugges-
! ting inquiry into the expediency of exclud-
! ing foreigners altogether from out soil, and the
amount of it was to give the proposed inquiry a
! different direction from that proposed by the
! gentleman from Chester. The proposition of
the gentleman from Chester, being withdrawn
Mr.. Woodward explained that he Withdrew his
amendment.
1.-The gentleman from the county, (Mr. Earlel
should have represented him correctly on this
subject if he understood it, and if he did not
understand it, he should have informed himself
before he spoke of it,
There are, however, .facts of more recent oc-
currence which exculpate Judge Woodward,
most clearly, from the charge of NatiUeism, or
hostility to foreigners We here quote from the
Butler county Democratic Herald:
Judge Woodward, instead of being in any
wise tinctured with Nativism, he has long been
particular object of its hostility. At the ses-
sion of 1S45, our Legislature had a United !
States Senator to elect, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Mr. buchanan |
There were in the House of Representatives |
from the county of Philadelphia, eight Native |
Americans, who had been elected TO that body |
by the coalition which the Wings and Natives |
had formed the year before, On the final ballot |
the contest for Senator between Judge |
Woodward and Simon Cameron. Both candi- |
dates were addressed on the subject of Native |
ism. Judge Woodward replied unfavorably-
General Cameron replied favorably. Every Ma
tive American in the Legislature-and every |
Whig with the exception of Mr. Sullivan, voted |
for General Cameron. Now, if Judge Wood |
ward was Native American, it is somewhat
singular the Native Americans themselves did |
not know it.
Judge Woodward's nomination in the Con-
vention on the 26th of August last, was moved
by Philip Dougherty, Irishman by birth
and was seconded by William L.. Hirst, lead
ing and influential member of one of the Roman
Catholic Churches of Philadelphia
1t is well known that Judge Woodward was
the warm and efficient friend of Judge CAMP