Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-09-23

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Coos 1875 $50 a.
Total 10000 $500 12og2
II viii be remembered that Catholic Fmancina.
ton, which was before submitted in the same a
Tpendment with the Property Qualification. was
| here submitted alone and as Mr. Chamberlain and
other true friends OF the measure had foretold was
I mere worse defeated than before. And the Prop
erty Qualification, when relieved from the burden
of Catholic toleration was carried by tyyo-,bir5s
ana VIII De IN force part Of the Constitution as
soon as the Governor issues his proclamation an
nouncing the fact. This he should have done in
June last, but his New Hampshire Locoiocoisp
seems to regret that property should not continue
10 make The man, and therefore he Is silent hith.
erto
/ But though the amendment 10 abolish all Prom.
/ erty Qualification was repealed Catholic Emanci-
patton had fewer votes than 1t had one year before
! In 1891, II l3.575 votes and in 1852 il had only
s'9oo BY forcing II upon the people again too
soon, IN spite OF Mr. Chamberlain wise counsel
and by separating it from the Property Qualifica
ton, II has received such fall that the friends o.
Caholc Emancipation in New Hampshire heSi-
tate not 10 say that there IS no chance of its pass
/ ing for fifty or hundred years il Pierce is not
defeated
Bur the hand of Pfovilence sometimes works
mystenously. A set of wire.pullers have nut up
Tor President OF the United States the leader ri
New Hampshire Locofocoisn perhaps the most
bigoted lump of cupidity in the Universe The
question of Catholic Emancipation comes M, on
| appeal from the Democracy Of New Hampshire
/ 10 the people of the United States Every man
who votes for Pierce votes for his party and votes
10 tasten the stigma forever on the Catholics
Those who vote against him vote for Catholic
Emancipation, That's just the question at the
next election
Well. now in place Of its being defeated for
( want OF a two thirds vote, Catholic Emancipation
did not receive one sixth Of the votes cast for The
Governor. The vote for Emancipation thro out
the State was only 9,566 and OF these do not
thiuk more than about 900 were OF Perce's par
ty. appeal TO tIe record
We are told that Pierce Is of an Irish family
MS IS another ialsehood In the life of Franklin
Pierce IN the New York Herald of June g. and
endorsed by Charles OConnor in Tamanv Hall
The same evening, We are told that Benz. Pierce
" was born at Chelmsford. town near Lowell m
the commonwealth of Massachusetts. in 1857 -
lie was descended from a respectable Irish family
who originally emlgrated with MANY other Irish
emgrauts from Loudondarv, IN the North OF Ire
land, and settled IN New Loudondarv, New Hamp
shire ne stupidity OF this fal>ehood NAV be
seen al glance. when we remember that The
Londondary settlement left Ireland only I'm l7IS
which was less than thirty years before Benz ,mIu
Pierce was born, and his father was an old resi-
dent OF Chelms ord, where no LOniondary or Irish
settlement was ever made. Nor is the name OF
Pierce found IN a list of the Londondarv colony
On monument in the Woburn, Mass burvng
ground, near Chelmsford find Benjamin Pierce
died 1913, who was Gov Be j Pitrces grand
father, and died nearly five years before the Lon
dondary colony left Ireland
The truth Is simply that Franklin Pierce is
descended from an old English family, and will
therefore, be the more acceptable 10 those who
think that nothing but Anglo-Nagon mind should
rule IN this country, and that distinguished CeIt
like Gen. Winfield Scott. descended from Scotch
ancestors, people OF common origin with the
Irish, has no business TO expect honors here
God forbid that | should condemn man on
account OF MS own birth place. much less on ac-
count OF the birthplace OF hls father Far be II
from me % hold man responsible for the acts OF
ms father. Far be II from me to need essv insult
/ the memory OF old Revolutionary John Adams
I but when The l.ocofocos taunt US with being de-
scendants oi the FedeTalIsts. we may well remind
/ them that the father OF their leader was one
/ When they ring the chrages on Alien and Sedi
ton Laws, we may tell them that the father OF
their candidate voted for it, and stands recorded
while the Republic shall last as voting for il =
and when they tell us the falsehood so imsy and
/ transparent, that the Pierces of Chelmsford and
Woburn. in Massachusetts, were the posterity Of
/ the Londondary settlement, may be permitted
/ 10 tell them that Sir B Roach long ago informed
such bockheads that posterity could not mean
those that preceded us In fact the friends of Mr.
Pierce, finding that majority of the American
people, born IN the country intend 10 90 for Scott
hope 10 carry some naturazed citizens TO vote
against their best friend and they think no false
hood too ridiculous. no humbug too transparent
10 deceive us We thank them for their compl-
ments, but we have eye teeth cut and we can
I judge between right and wrong, truth and false
hood.
/ There is bat one other New Hampshire Loco
I foco insult to lrishmen which wish to refer to-
In the Spring Election Of 1888, the Pierce party
/ OF Concord was afraid that they might lose the
town OF Concord in the Election of some munici-
/ pal officers. So they ruled that the foreign born
/ inhabitants should be allowed TO vote for town
officers, whether they were naturaiized or not
Accordingly some g Irishmen were admitted TO
vote, but II out OF the % voted for the Whigsto
show their contempt of the Pierce party, that had
/ so long oppressed and nsulted them.
/ The Pierce party grew Infuriated at this that
they passed BILL that very year, &" 10 regulate
the night Of suffrage, and the following is Section
II, in full which copied from the official record
/ SIC. 2. .4nd be It further eaacted, That no Alien
shall be entitled TO vote at any town meeting
/ This law passed. and the record stands thus
Approved, July 1888. Isaac HILL"
/ had intended 10 dwell on the insult offered the
/ Naturaiized citizens OF this State by the Locofoco
Delegates from this State, with others, who voted
for William l. Marcy, who gave up the Bambers
/ TO the tender mercies of Great Britain, when he
was Governor. II GOyssHunt should now seize
Thomas Francis Meagher alsdshand him over TO
/ the British Consul. aud the Wings should then
nominate or vote for him, for President. we would
hear some Loco:oco music but this is what the
/ LocotocOs did 10 US with " l.. Marcy!
+ And now felow-citiZens. here ! am at the end
Of my time aud your patience, and not one word
about ~Oid Chippewa and -Cherubusco" must
only reserve my fire on that subject for some 9th
er occasion. l can only say that all efforts to
misrepresent him 10 the naturslized citizens oi
this country Will fail.
The letter which they attribute 10 aim as writ
ten 10 Geo. ". Reed, | know those VINO publish
II know II to be a forgery. / have tor several
weeks past, had put up fifty dollars on the truth
Of my assertion that Il Is a forgery They have
sent deputa1ions 10 Geo. - Read and have failed
10 get OF produce one particle Of evidence from
him that Scott ever wrote that letter. They hail
up some old anonymous article signed Americas
said to have been written some eight OF ten years
ago, and attribute II TO Gen. scott
/ Now, why all TINS nonsense v ho cares 10
know that about the same number of years since
smith O Brien Tory Ali his friends are