Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-10-30
Union of EOcOfocism and Native
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The returns from Pennsylvania render cer-
tion the election of Judge Woodward to the
Supreme Bench of that State. This has been
caused by the union of the Locofocos with
the Native Americans. That Judge Wood
ward is 9 Native American of the rankest
kind, will appear from the following extracts
from speech made BY him while member
of the Pennsylvania State Convention. and
then published: sa t1 a 5asa
+ I "Sir, i appreciate as much as any man liv-
ling, the many political rights and privileges
which /, in common with the people Of the
United States, am now enjoying, and it is my
honest impression that we do but squandor
I those privileges in confering them upon every
individual who chooses TO come and claim
them He knew that a great portion of
those who come among US from foreign parts,
consist frequently of the worst part of the
population ofthose countries, and they are
unacquainted with the value of the privileges
and that therefore they do not know how to
value them. think that in thus comforting
these privileges indiscFimnately on All we
are doing injury to our liberties and our insti-
tdtiohs; and believe. that if the time has not
yet come, it will speedily come. when it will
be indispensibly necessary either for this
body, or some other body of this State, or of
the United States, to inquire whether it is not
right to put this plan into execution, by which
foreigners should be prevented from CON.
trolling our elections. and brow beating our
American citizens at the polls!
"And what claim have foreigners from any
'country-aye. sir, from amy country-which
is strong enough to justify Us in prostituting
our political privileges, by eonferring them
carelessly and Unfortunately on every indi-r
vidual who may reside here for two or three
years, become nsturalized citizen, and then
command our offices? There are very many
OF these emigrants who know nothing of po-
iitical privileges in their own country before
they emigrate to this. The word is unknown
to them; or, if they hear of il ut al, they
hear of it as something in which they have no
participation. Is not this the fact? Sir, We
all know that it is; we know that very many
of these emigrants never enjoyed any polti-
cal privileges themselves; that they have no
knowledge of them, and least Of 8ll have 10
knowledge of our people, our government,
and our institutions. The requirement of
this knowledge is not the work Of day.
They have no sympathy in common with ua:
they have no qualifications to render them fit
recipients of these high political privileges :;
How Judge Woodwartl's views were regar-
at the time will be manifest from the follow
ing extract from speech by Mr.. Cummin,
an Irishman, and a member of the Coaven-
ton from Juniata county:
"The whole tenor of the gentleman's ar
gument went to cast reproach upon foreign
ers, and to show that they were not worthy
to be trusted.
."The gentleman reasons rather ou: Of the
book in one point when he says that the
time is now come when the United States
can do without foreigners-that there is no
necessity for !hem-that the people of the
United States are now able to fight their own
battles, and they can live safe and free with
out their presence. He Is mistaken. if he
supposes that he can find justification in
such reasoning as this for the argument
which he has offered There is no ground
on which it can be justified. hope. there
fore. that he will withdraw his amendment;
and that he will make an apology for what l
regard as gross insult upon the Irish and
the other foreign population of the State