The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-05-18
Politics OF the Enquirer.


FRIDAY MORNING:::::::::::::MAY Is.
Politics OF the Enquirer.
Our amiable neighbours delectable news.
paper % has, during the brief period of its
spasmodic existence, undergone SO many
novel, funny and inconsistent phases, that it
has become quite problem what its present
politics are, and it is so long since it has adj
vocated an affirmative measure of any des-
cription, that one would incline to the belief
thst the editors conscious inability had in
dueed him to eschew politics altogether. He
makes an occasional master stroke at person.
al sbuse, but his victims are invariably
elevated in public estimation thereby, while
be continues to sink deeper and deeper in
his shiny wallow. His wanton attack upon
Mr.. Cook, as Chief of the Fire Department,
illustrates his base insratitude to personal
friends and former liberal patrons, as well as
the extent to which he will permit his disap-
pointed political passions to lead him. The
height of Mr. Cooks offending. in the eyes
OF Mr.. Hall, is, that the City Council, saw fit
to appoint him to an important, but arduous
and thankless position in the City Fire De-
pertinent. The appointment of Mr.. Cook.
involved the leaving out of Mr.. Hewston.
one Mr.. Halls kidney in politics, very
worthy citizen. bat under whose administra-
ton the Fire Department had gone to decay.
We charge no fault to him, however, but We
have the best assurance that Mr.. Cook will
not be long in making the Fire Department
of our city what it should be. This vein of
vindictive Misrepresentation seems to run to
every extremely of the Enquirer mans sys-
TEN, az well in political as in social and local
affairs. HIS feeble efforts to misrepresent
the political position of the Journal, will only
have the same tendency, and the same ulti.
mate effect (if it has any,. that his libels
have had upon individual character. The
public will not look to Mr.. Hall to define
the Journals political character-nor for
any other information, where truth and light
are wanted.
We have fearlessly and from choice advo.
Gated such principles of the American party
~ in our judgement. propose to correct the
abuses and maintain the integrity Of the
American Government. We prescribe no
foreigner because of his nativity or his re-
ligion, except so far as foreign influence has
been dragged into American politics by cor
saPt and designing American demagogues.
" ko1 ~v:th nho- of sct al
iigent adopted citizens, that the naturaliza-
tior laws of our own and many other states
are radically wrong. and exceedingly danger.
Gus to the experiment of seif-government,
and in violation Of the spirit and letter of the
Constitution of the United States. We re.
gard the boon of American Citizenship, too
precious to be indiscriminally bestowed up
on every foreigner. who shall not have been
in our midst long enough to have acquired
some knowledge of and affinity with our in
stitut;ons. We would exclude no foreigner
from holding Office whose capacity and de-
votion to American interests qualifyI him
for such position under our Government
Our neighboAcharges us with advocatinga doc
drine ''that would forever exclude foreigners
from voting or holding Office" Such state.
ment is as false as the heart of the man that
utters. it. We know that alarge mass Of
our adopted citizens respect our political sen.
timents and regard with just scorn the mis-.
cradle toadying, lying twaddle, with which
the Enquirer abounds.
1t is not the object of the American party
to prescribe any man, but il, in carrying for.
ward the work of reform, some foreign Office.
holders, and native demagogues lose their
political heads, it will be their own misfor.
tune in occupying positions which they are
not deemed worthy to fill.
Mr.. Hall labors to impress the idea upon
his readers, that the great American party
is to be judged andstigmatized blythe conduct
. ofa few unprincipled spirits who may chance
to belong to or sympathze with il its move
ments. He may strive to make the fanatica
and intolerant Crusader its chosen organ
and the orthodox exponent of American
principles-but he knows far better. Ths
"Kno,c Nothing and Crusader" and the cree,
il advocates, are no more the opponents o
the American doctrine than the billingsgat'
bad English of the Enquirer would have beer
therepresentative Of the.Great Democratic pa
~, when it had an existence. II mat
ters not by what standard our neighbo
may choose to Judge US. We have no re
gard for his opinion or his publications s.
long as he continues to rattle his poison be
ore he fastens his feeble falgs.
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