New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-18
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a Few Plain Questions.

JHesSTS. Edtt0fs-l feel grateful for the
prompt and decided manner in which you replied
to the interrogatories that Ipresented the other.
day
Your conclusions are the natural and ineyita-
BILE differences of reason, justice and common
sense, and regret that the party whoinficted
the just vengeance Of an outraged community,
has considered it necessary to avoid recognition.
1t is a sacred duty of the American population
to protect those who protected them on that
occasion.
Permit me to ask o few more questions: Who
constituted the mob that entered the election
Precincts, Furnishing their shilelahs, and cry
ing out, g down with the damned Americans i?
for that was the very expression they used
outside of the house (whatever they may have
said inside), and can name the very man who
uttered it most yocferously. But ask soho
comprised the mob We're they Americans, or
Englishmen, or Germans, or Frenchmen, or
Spaniards or Italians? Was there one American
Englishman, German, Spaniard, Frenchman or
Italian amongst them | We're they not all Irish
men fthey were all Irishmen, who delegated
to them the authority to right the wrongs and
redress the grievances inflicted upon all other
naturalized citizens by the oppressive reformers,
Natives or Know-Nothings. Who constituted
them alone the champions Of the whole natural
lied citizens Of all countries in the United States?
Is there no correct understanding of their polit-
ical rights by the English, Germans, French,
Spaniards, Italians, ETC., in the United States !?
Is there no chivalry amongst the thousands of
worthy naturalized citizens of all these nations
now in our country Is all the knowledge of
their rights, and the desire and determination
to maintain them, confined to IRISH naturalized
citizens
If such be not the fact; if the German
French, English, Spanish and Italian natural
lied citizens Of our country, understand their
rights, and are satisfied that they enjoy them !;
by what authority do the Irish on all occasions
thrust themselves forward as if they were the
chosen champions of the entire natnralized citi-
zens of the United States, to redress certain
imaginary grievances, to create riots and to
hurI anathemas upon the native citizens Of the
soil. and when repulsed, to endeayor either to
make common cause with all other naturalized
citizens and thereby provoke commotion or to
fall back upon the hacknied ditty of g the op-
! pressed emigrants from the unfortunate ISLE
Is it not spirit of dictatorial arrogance,
rather than a patriotic desire to maintain the
just rights Of naturalized citizens, which ami
mates them.
4 What native American wishes to Cypress an
Irish natnralized citizen more than an English,
German, French, Spanish or Italian one
Let not other naturalized citizens, therefore,
who know and appreciate their rights, and who
are fully satisfied that there is no desire on the
part of the Reformers to curtail or invade them,
I be seduced into combinations with that portion
Of our population who demonstrated so plainly,
in the late so-called democratic nominations
that if it were in their power, no English,
French, German, Spanish or Italian natural
lied citizen, nay, not an American, would ever
hold an office if they could prevent it.
Was any naturalized citizen of any other
country put on any ticket in the late so-called
democratic nominations where Irishmen were
enabled to exercise controlling influence
Is not the conclusion, then, inevitable that
they We're not striving to maintain the rights o.
other naturalized citizens, but to absorb eueYl
hing for Themselves? MORE ANON.