Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-08-23
FACTS AND FIGURES. .

born citizens holding Office under our Govern
ment, which has been pronounced ssas far from
/ the truth as one zone is from the other -
(Which, by the way, cannot be very far, as the
zones happen to be very sociable and conve-
nient neighbors, lying, as they do, side by
sde,) and we now desire to place ourselves
! ''right upon the record.'' We observed,
sometime since, in certain Democratic papers,
| an estimate of the number of foreigners hold
/! ing office at i01, to 1908 Americans We
knew this at the time to be incorrect, but as
we did not wish to follow in the wake of our
/ Democratic neighbors, and ssinsult the intelli-
| gence of our readers by attempting to practice
| upon them SO barefaced deception we for
bore to notice it, until we had obtained the
correct statistics, for the authenticity of which
we could vouch. After careful examination
| of all the tables, lists, and estimates that we
could obtain access to, on the subject, we came
| to the conclusion that the list published last
week was correct, not from the fact, merely,
| that it was taken from q neutral paper. dhe
Harrisburg Borough Hem,) but because the
result of our careful examination proved it to
| be accurate in every particular. BY that list,
| instead of 4O1, we have thousand four hun
dred and eighty. four foreigners, to seuen hna-
| dred and sirty-seren Americans In the Gus
tom House, in the different States, we find
employed 1887 foreigners to 2l5 Americans!
Having used every proper precaution in OBJ
| tanning this estimate, We defy any one to show
that it is incorrect in any essential particular.
So much for our side of the case.
The Locofoco list estimating the number of
foreigners at 4OI, also processes to be taken
! from neutral paper, the Baltimore San! 1t
exhibits very singular kind of s'neutrality,'
however, when it uses the following language
"a portion of the comments published with
the list :--ssCan sufficient cause be found in
this to aim at the destruction Of the Democrat
ic party9 Can any democrat annul his ancient
ties to unite with such allies, the head and
front of which at least is tohiggery, Sc.'' If
this is ssneutrality'' then the Washington
Union, the organ of the present Administra-
ton, is the most neutral paper in the United
States But what farce to attempt to palm
off on an intelligent community the Baltimore
Sun as a s'neutraf' paper, when every onc
knows its columns TO be tinctured with the
same spirit of locofocoism that characterize
dent papers of the same stamp
The employees in the Mint are numbered in
this list at 81 AmericanS-no foreigners. Now
it is well known in Philadelphia that there are
II foreigners in that establishment 1t was
charged boldly in the American Banner, and
other papers, and has never yet been satisfac-
torily denied. The Banner even published
their names, and called upon the Democratic
papers to show the contrary to be-the case if
it was in their power. 1t has not, and we may
reasonably presume cannot be done. And if
their list be thus false in one particular, may
we not safely cast it aside as incorrect in all,
because 'sthe facts are easily ascertained by
any person making inquiry at the proper place.
Hence there is no necessity for any person be-
ing deceived or attempting to deceive others,
for detection and exposure must foliotc.''
In conclusion, what ssfood for ref1ection''
does this estimate, of whose correctness there
can be no doubt, present to every American
citizen A party, calling itself Democratic,
and protesting to be the only true lovers of
their country and its institutions, thus pam
dering to an influence whose tendency is de-
structive to every principle of American Lib
erty Truly may we call 1t sEsteallng the
livery of the court of Heaven, to serve the
devil in 20
The Borough Item, commenting on the dis
parity between foreigners and native born cit
izens in office says
ssNow Will any one have the effrontery to
say that such disparity as this, (taken especi-1
ally, in connection with the fact stated by us
yesterday, that the foreign population is but
as one to ten in the Union,) is the result of an
open undisguiscd effort to secure themselves |
position. Certainly not and we must refer
this strange discrepancy to its true cause.-the |
existence of hideous foreign order, who |
work darkly for the advancement of their own
peculiar views which involve the destruction
of everything dear to Americans. Now, who |
can gainsay the right of the native-born-of
the sons and grandsons of those who perilled |
their all for liberty--to countermine for the |
destruction of this insdious foe ?''