Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-05-18
AMERICANS RULE AMER1CA-IliE CokN
ACKNOWLEDGED

N.ssrs. Editors IL see from the perusal o! the
Penny Post of the LIST inst, that 1t admits that tho
statement published TO the world IN that paper s"t
weeks since purpor,ng to give the true number OF
natives and foreigners in office III Washington was
furnished it by correspondence and was sncorrecf.-
Now from the official statement, 1t il not only moor
rect but grossly as no doubt many o'her VI II,
statements would turn out TO be- il they were prooed
IN tic botton-pnrcularly the one III relation 10 he
p QUO Know No,hiugs in Nrginn; Tor II II was as
easilv taken in by this onr correspondent III giving
the number of foreigners i'll ohce when II WAS
very easy matter to give the rlsU' s'a'o'nei'' NV
nncb nore .asv is il to DO imposed upon hy MS nun
dr.d. uf correspondents from er"rv county III tue
S,ut. and how much more difficult Is II i"r liien'
tbrv really wished to give tile c"rrcc' h"Inoei VI
now. Sulhjnu. To ascertain H. scattered ns theH are
over the whole Stnte, from the A'"n'Ic 10 w. o.o
II il necessary to cite only two cases 10 snn" i's guar
mr. uacrurocy as YOU have before published inc oi-
aciul statement and they are far specimen Oh the
rest: , p.,,, o.o,o
LIST. Interior Department-Pcnny fos,s stare,
,,ort 5DU FOREIGNERS, when in tact mere are
nnIv a. Cd House Of Representatives. fenny
Posts statement, 40, where there 10 only one To-
reirner. What um | to think OF th''' hnssIS' hu.
tors And in this connection Who' psaJ' '''i'e
ever ruled America but Amerlcnns anu ""' n,,"o
cratic AmericanR And, Messrs. EDITORS, this Demo-
r,0ic american rule is the tre secret OF lie "pPo
si,ion and not any foreign rmL; for we nave never
baJ II. nor ever will. They may bonst ana cry, let
Americans rule America, but their reni oSJec'" e'
IrTcfUI
They are making great b"ass over their acressIoN1
in old Louisa. Now, have seen persons from every
corner of the county, and they MI agree Tint our ma
iority will be increased usteud OF diminished Us thcy
would have you believe. OF the lower end partcu,
larlv the 1t district can testify; II is recfnS nc"rm
know personally nearly every voter i'll IT. and Whilst
can name every disaffccted Democrat, | can also
nnmo nearly, if not quite as many Wings who are
Will MS and who together, with the fully aroused De-
n,ocracv will increase maiorlty-whlch was, ut
the Ius election, 50-takiIg Judge Cn.kIes ana Col.
oIemnp's vut. the test-t0 at least - anu propa
bly 100 think, too they will find themselves mis-
INK on in one Democrat, whose name thry nave ne
rulded forth as another Better, "Ono Of hams' &c;
I moan Dr. A. Anderson. | think know him well
cnnush to saw that no is not with them that lie IS
now; and ever hns been, strict .igcrs0n'an Dt'HD.
crat from pr.nriplr, aud do not think he can or VIII
touch their ticket but tho other hand he goes to
tLc rolls will vote for ut cast ono OF ours VIZ: MI
Hontav and am in hopes he will n"'r, before the
,ection decide to resume his former commanding pn-
on in the Old Guard and give our entire ticket his
influence and vote. Itwoud be- hailed by the Demo-
rrucy of tho whole county twho love hun with JOY
~ ,yould the return Of some Others could name, VIII"
bav, from some cause seen fit TO separate from us.
In that county it is q great iss'lo-the know-No-
things striving to do what! To see reed shaken by
th.I windl To put Mark Downy out OF the hsh ill.,
sprcurs office, and to prevent j. Nugcnt Callahan,
foreigner, from voting, who has been resident OF
Iar;s, f,r twenty years JURY.