The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-24
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 60, 1866.
The Democracy Deserving Our Adopted c,,,zen,

The Democracy DESERVING Orr Adopted Citizens
The recent contest in New York, and the
result of the State Election jast held there
affords an instructive lesson to great many
people; but none should profit more from i,
than our Irish and German fellow citizens
They there behold the whole Of the Seward
AMI Greeley branch of the Whig party unit
ing with the old Silas Wright Democrats to
form a new party called Republican and
pledged to maintain the equal rights of all
men, without regard to birth place o. creed.
They fina the old Democratic party that
they have so steadastly clung to, dwindling
down to scarce onc-Gourth the votes of t.
Empire State of the Union and when they
ask what has become of the Democratic
voters, they are astonishcd to find that the
mass of the Democrats have united with a
few Silver Grey Fillmore Wings to form
what is called the Know Nothing party,
which modifies the creed of the Republican
party in this wise, viz: call men are equal"
except Foreigners, Catholics and Nggers.
Between these two parties, the Republi-
can on the one hand and the Know Nothing
on the other, the late Eastern battles in New
York and Massachusetts, were mainly fought.
The Democratic party came out third best
in both States, Notwithstanding all foreign
born citizens in each State gave it their
united vote-a vote so large that it may be
safely estimated to be two-thirds of the
whole ballot for the Democratic candidates in
these important States, while the Rum in
terest furnishes about the other third.
Should this result not set the Germans
and the Irish every wherea.thinking? Should
they not begin to ask themselves what use
there is in clinging to the dead horse of De-
mocracy when the American portion of its
bowels have escaped into the mud of Know
Nothingism, and is there engaged in flinging
dirt into the faces of the Republicans, who
alone of all the living parties seem to possess
the power, with the will, to defend the
rights of every human being, no matter in
what land he first saw daylight ? ;.
Now, though we said these elections in
New York and Massachusetts should teach
our adopted citizens a lesson, scant indeed
are our hopes that they viii learn much
from it. In regard to the Irish. it seems
folly to expecl the scales will ever fall from
their eyes: especially as the Republicans
disdain to coax them, or any other nation
ality, for their support. The Republican
party will make no appeals to Irish, or Ger
mans, or Norwegians or Sweeds, or English,
or Scotch or French, as such.
But, if sinking, abandoning, casting loose
all their old national prejudices, modes of
Thought and modes of acting, they choose
banding together in small bodies, and become
thoroughly American citizens, the Republi-
can party invites them into it's ranks, as it
does all Americans, to sustain the great
principle of the inherent rights of man to
the enjoyment of life in his own way, the
possession of political liberty and equality
with his neighbor, and the pursuit of hap
piness under the protection of equal laws
and equal privileges. Liberty, Equality
and Fraternity" are the talismanic words
inscribed on the Republican banner; and it
will as stoutly oppose the Know Nothings
who cry down with foreigners and down
with the Pope, as it will Democrats who cry
down with niggers, and who oppose free ter
ritory for free white laborers; while to those
foreigners who band together as foreigners,
and vote against the friends of humanity, it
will present stern, uncompromising front,
coaxlng none of them, begging none of them
for their votes; but full of pity for the ig-
norance which refuses to adapt themselves
to the institutions of their new cotintry-
and of pity for the blindness which makes
them indiscreetly give aid and comfort to
those inveterate enemies by 1leelecting to
help those who alone can stand between
them and harm, to wit, the great Republican
Party of the land. With these remarks, we
call attention to the article from the New
York Tribune in another column, headed
"The Moral" Read it.
NAvrcAT1oN.-It looked more and more
yesterday as though this agreeable seven
months annual visitor was about taking his
leave of us for this year of grace. The
Falls City, Fanny Harris and Alhambra
arrived on Sunday night. and the Time