Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-07-12

ton. for few Of our WOULD BE leading locofo-
cos about town, whose stomaehs are so naus-
eous, that they are ready to emit acrid matter
frOn their "internals" every time the phrase
Know -Nothings. or Natives are sounded in
their lengthy suditOrs'-It is true, we don't
claim to be "much of Doctor" but we can
prescribe with much assurance for a 'ut sick
Pierceite, proslavery lOcofoco.
The Inconsistency Of LOcOfoCOism in its
Pharisaical howl about Nativeism.
Since the opinion became generally preva.
lent in this country that None but Ameri
cans should rule America and orders were
said to have sprung into existence intoxicating
this doctrine, the old bunker administration
presses have been generally regaling their
readers with the most lachrymose and mourn
full articles in complaint thereat and in denunci.
alton thereof.
In Ohio IN particular, the LocofocO editors
have been haunted day and night by the shirt
less ghost OF Nativeism, and have seen its face
in running brooks, and trees, and every thing,
till they have been able to speak, or write, or
think Of nothing but Know Nothingsm so
much that their papers contain this reflex of
their mind, Know Nothing:sm,' and no moth
ing else. Hence. goblin damned, why inva-
dest thou our presence
Let us see if this Nativeism is not really an
evil spirit Of their own creation, and hence it
preYs upon their minds and they cannot get rid
of it il they would.
Being something Of an antiquarian, we have
been searching among lot of 'old documents.
and find in them some cause for the ANXIOUS
solciude and anguish OF mind of the Locofoco
clique. From the multitude we extract the
following food for reflection: Wilson Shannon,
of Belmont County, was nominated for Gov
ernor at the Locofoco convention in Columbus,
January 8th 1888: A committee was ap.
pointed to prepare an address to the people of
Ohio Said committee was composed Of the
leading spirits of the party at that time, and in
a very lengthy address they set forth reasons
why Wilson Shannon should be elected Gov
ernor, among the foremost Of Which was the fol-
loving:
'INMr. SHANNON are centered talents of a
high Order and that attachment to the institu-
tons ofIhis State which the son feels only for
the parent of his BIRTH
He is native son Of Ohio, born within her
limits and reared amid her greatness.
In the original address the words he is a
native son of Ohio, are italicised and this
was during all the exciting campaign, the
great arguments in favor Of the man of Leath-
erwood's electon-'the Growing glory, of his
| life,' that he was a native b o-rn =
Again When DAVID ToD--lhe Tod i'm.
mortaliSed in Poet song, was member of the
OhiJ Senate, aud chairman of an important t
committee, he could not refrain from boastng
of bis native blood, in she following chaste man
neE
Before closing this report your committee
cannot torego expressing the proud satsfac-
ron they enjoy in constituting the first stand.
ing committee of lher branch of the General
Assembly composed entirely of ker native born
sons.
We have other evidences of like character
which we shall produce from our file of musty
documents, all going to show the ardent and
burning affection entertained in days gone, by
the revilers OF the American party fer natives
Of the soil
Do not these facts, fellow citizen., recall 10
your mind lhe old fable Of the rogue who
raised the cry of stop thief that he might
himself escape detection with the evidences of
his villainy upon his person.
But we don, t intend to let these hardened
sinners who first set the ball of nativesm in
motion in our State escape notice by their own
loud cries and the much of noise and confu
sion, they may create.
Remember citizens, that IN the Gubernato
rial contests for SHANNON, as also in those for
TOP, the cry was constantly rung in your ears
that they were better qualified to preside over
the State Of Ohio, because they were NATIVE
BORN.
The men who now denounce Americans as
being proscriptive, when they take into their
organization all who were born upon soil over
which the American banner floats in protection |
themselves sought to prescribe the honest
Republicans, the men Of Connecticut and all |
others who we're not born within the State lin
its Of Ohio. Themselves the advocates of the
most narrow contracted Eatiyeism now seek to
array hostility against Americans
Ifthis is any thing terrible and alarming and
disastrous in the garment Of Nativeism they are
entitled to it hgitimately. They have made
The shirt and if it contains deadly poison let
them wrap it closely, for, like the poisoned
ghirt of Nessus IL will stick IN tboro co.a,ox