New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-20


or by means of the votes cast by men
.ndly ignorant of our language and of the
practical questions which govern our po-
itical divisions, 10 be- in favor of the larry
est liberty to foreigners but these very
men would see the matter in quite differ
ent light if the Foreign Vote were steadi-
ly cast against them, and they found them
selves from year TO year overwhelmed by
it. We appeal to intelligent and candid
Adopted Citizens for their own calm judg
ment on this point. Suppose you, Ger
mans. enjoyed in your own country nil the
rights that Americans do here and extend
ed those rights to all others; and suppose
YOU earnestly believed certain course OF
public policy essential to the welfare Of
your country; and suppose you were to
see that policy overbornc and defeated for
series of years by the solid vote. say of
two or three millions of Russians who had
recently come into your country. and were
for the most part still ignorant, even Of
your language, and were duped by dema-
gogues into believing you enemies Of
your own country and her institutions
would YOU not yourselves be tempted to-
wald Nativsm True, calmcr considera-
ton would doubtless suggest TO You after a
season.. These men mean well-they will
grow wiser in time aud cease to be dupeS
'and tools of the demagogues who now
control them-lct Us be patient, and labor
'to undecciyc and enighten them'-but
your first impulse would naturally be TO
question the wisdom of extending the
Right of Suffrage to a class whose unac-
quaintance with your country's history,
laws, language and policy. exposed them
TO such gross imposture and YOU to such
unmerited defamation.
Here, then, is the very head and front
of his offending Gcn. Scott, in season
of high political excitement, in view Of the
fact that large bands of foreigners, armed
with clubs had paraded our streets during
the three days Of a Presidential Election,
and that the almost unbrOken weight of the
Foreign Vote was cast against Gen. Harri-
son in 1910 and Mr.. Clay in 1914, was in
duced to believe and to say that he thought
the privileges of Naturalization ought in
future to be greatly abridged or altogether
Withheld. The letter to Geo. w. Reed,
dated Nov 10, lS4l, and published in his
name, is certainly forgery so far as the
date is cOncerned-he wrote no such let
ter in that year, and we believe none in
any year but 1874. He never was Ma
tive candidate nor cast a Native vote, and
the story now going the rounds of the
Pierce journals, that the Native papers in
1914 had at their heads For President,
Winfield Scott; for Vice President, John
Mclean is IA naked lie. One or two our
mails might have suggested such ticket;
but the Natives had no Presidential ticket
in "A, but majority of them voted for
Clay: the residue for Polk. In 1878,
they held Convention and nominated Gen.
Taylor for President and Gen. H. A. S.
Dearborn for Vice-Presidcnt as they have
this year nominated Daniel Webster for
President and George G.. Washington for
ce-President they never, either by
National or State Convention, nominated
Gen. Scott for any office whatever: and the
few adherents TO the Native flag are now
among his bitterest enemies. Part of their
leaders are out for Pierce and King direct
ly the residue are working for them with
more adroitness and efficiency by pretend
ing to support Mr.. Webster. At no time
have they even proposed to support Gen.
Scott.
In view of these facts, and of Gen.
Scots repeated, explicit declarations
against Natiyism, is it just to rake up |
against him opinions long since disclaimed |
and renowned, and which no man be-
lieyes him now to entertain! We appeal
TO Adopted Citizens to discOuntenance and |
put down this wretched attempt of faction
to fatten on their ignorance and their pre-
JUDGES. There never would have been
any Natiyism among us had the great body
of our Immigrant Population given both
parties candid hearing before deciding
between them and not believed the larger
half Of Americans by birth to be enemies of
their own country and her freedom on the
strength of their adversaries' groundlcss
calumnies. We trust there will hence
forth be no clannishness among Adopted