The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-01-18

lieve that if oug foreign-born population
will but "discard demogogaes from their
confidence" they would more justly appre-
ciate and readily acquiesce in the princi-
pies and measures Of the American party
Were it not for American demagogues,
who seek only to promote their own sell
ish ends, wc confidently believe thatnot
one foreigner in thousand would desire
to exercise the right of suffrage. What
are tho hopes and expectations which
prompt men to immigrate to this country
Tho German, who leaves his home on the
Rhine, or the Elbe, or the Weser, or who
ZONES from the mountains and hills OF
Switzerland, comes here not TO Uote; and
nobody, can honestly pretend that he sacri-
fees his own loved land (for who does not
love his native land?) for any such mag
'ination; but he sacrifices home, mother,
brother, sisters, solely to better his condi-
ton. He wants better wages, better bread
than he has at home, more meat, some OF
the luxuries of life, better clothcs--a SILK
dress for his wife; perhaps,or lace collar
it may be-but, above all, some necuriiy
for the future, that when old age comeson
poverty and penury are motifs attendants
The Irishman loves his hcnlo-it would
be scandal to say he did not, The green
hills and the green valleys Of Erin are dear
to him; and it makes his heart thrill, when
ever he hears of them; but lie is weary Of
his perpetual struggle between lifo and
dea.h-of his potato, AMI his potato only
his rents, that absorb all he can earn, and
his hut, half under ground and half above
ground His brother writes home, per
haps, that he can cara daily twice or thrice
as much in America as in Ireland-that
meat can be had here daily-that houses
here are of timber, or Of brick, and above
rround-and that he is sure of a safe, com
Portable, and, ifprudent and wise, almost
luxurious livelihood, Tho women send
back home to their sisters how well they
can dress, how well they can live in our
kitchens and Our chambers, and what high
wages they havc-and hence all Ireland,
and all Germany, not we'll OF at home, are
leaving to come to America.
But what do they come for? TO uote9
We never heard that reason given! Voting
IS luxury not thought Dion the Rhine, the
Weser, and the Elbo, or tho LilTey, or the
Shannon. Voting is the Grst lesson taught
foreigners by our dcmagoguos here. 1t is
the first prize held upto them when tEey
reach Staten Island, and It follows them to
Wisconsin, Iowa, and everywhere else. 10
Vo'c--to hold oGice,, they are instructed
fist to consider as Of more Importance
than holding property, becoming rich, or
improving their moral anlintelIealual con
di;ion-and hence, from the struggles Of
foreigners 10 extend their sullrages, has
sprung the opposition to them. To become
sovereign Instead Of a sa.'s;-to rule IN
stead Of being ralc2, ,isanoyc!y that strikes
and dizzies strangers, all unaccustomcd TO
such powar; ana hence it is, that often, in
the psssioaand phrenzy for that power,
tie widest American demsgoguos tl.a'
most cajoles the foreigner, exercises Tie
greatest authority over him.
American dcmagogucs have for years
and years been the greatest pests of the
poor strangers that land here, and they are
likelyto be, for years ana years to come
They are ten times more TO blame for The
excuses Of which Foreigners have been
guilty than The foreigners themselves
They not only began TO teach strangers Tie
moment they were landed here, they had
as good right TO this country, these in
stitu.ons, this government, and 10 its Gre
alton or overthrow, as have thosewho were
born here, but at one time they actually
went farther, in order to propi'iato and to
catch the Roman Catholic portion of our
emigration, nay, SO far as to tell them that
our free schools--our p, ide, our glory, our
all as nation-werc not good enough for
foreigners. but that foreigners should have
especial free schools, for their especial ed
ucalion, in their own way, and in their
own tongues also! A Governor Of New
York at one time actually urged upon the
Legislature the establishment of Just such
schools! Naturally enough, the American
mind revoltcd from the proposition; but
even in such an offer, the cup Of humilia-
ton was not sufficiently drained. A por-
ton ofthe Roman Catholic hierarchyof' N.
York desired to secure, in the mortmaiR,
all their church property,to to makeittrans-
missible from bishop to bishop, and so to
concentrate upon the bishop the great
wealth of the whole Catholic Church, and
many an American demagogue stood ready,
to make the sacrifice, aud to urge others to
self-offering. t''-
Reaction naturally has been created in
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