Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-10-04
CARROLLTON CARROLL COUNTY, OHIO THURSDAY OCTORER E

l Ahtas bAOfea Hishb De maue more Cpupittt Dl
adding organ grinders, slrolling mendicants,
and professional beggars; but Of these have
no reliable data, aud therefore pass them With |
the single remark that have never seen Ma
tive American who belonged 10 either class
These figures are far more conclusive than any |
language could be 10 prove the necessity Of ar. |
resting the tide Of emigration. Let every A.
merican impress them deeply upon bis memo. |
Try. 42,369 foreign paupers and invalids: e..
38l Lunaiics, anj e, ,229 criminals taxing the |
industry, and blighling the prosperity Of sin.
gle city. In chat list Of crimes is embraced
murder. rape, arson, robbery, perjury, every.
thing Ehieh y damhing 10 the character Of the
indiyidnsf, and everything which is niger.
Gus to.socieiy. In our section we see but little
Of the evils Of emigration comparatively few
coming among US, and those are generally of
the bes. classes Of their countrymen. 1t is not
as State that We suffer most, but as an inle-
gral part Of the Republic.
The crime, vice, disease, deslitution and beg
gary which flows in with every tide Of emigra-
tiOn aflcts US but little; in their capacity as
voters the curse extends itself TO US. When
thousands upon Thousands are carried TO the
polls and made TO vote in favor Of any man,
or any party for a shilling, corrupting the bal
: lot box, and rendering liberty insecure. then
we suffer-thensthe law of self-preservatiOn
gives US a right and makes it duty to inter.
pose. With such dangers thickening around
US the memorable order Of Gen. Washington
should be upon every mans lips. Put none
but Americans on guard tonight In time Of
peace your public officers are your sentinels.-l
Put none on guard whose bOsoms do not swell
with exulting pride at the mention Of Bunker
: Hill, Of Monmouth, Of Saratoga, or Of York
Town. Put none on guard whose national
traditions are not confned-to our own com.
3 mon. wealth. Put none on guard who can
dwell by the hour upon the eloquence Of Dan.
+ iel O'Connel, but have never heard the name
of Patrick Henry. Put none on guard who
turn with cold Indifference from the Story Of
Niagara, or New Orleans, to boast Of Marengo,
or Leipsic, or Waterloo. They do not love
your land as you do-they will not watch over
it with the same absorbing interest. Oppres.
sion, not choice has brought him here, and
though he may feel certain amount of graft
tude for the shelter be has found, be still looks
back to the green fields OF his childhood-he
remembers every stone upon the highways
he reads the history of his native land, and
partakes in the pride ofits great eVents-in bis
heart Of hearts he feels that there is his home.
and there his hoest affections are garnered up.
Fear, necessity, common sense, may keep him
here, but he loves not the land Of the stranger
q cares nothing for its former glories-shed no
tear over its former disasters.
With what reverence can the German regard
the name Of Washington when he remembers
that his pathway to freeeom was strewn with
the d sad bodies of German mercenaries? What
exultalion can the Brton feel in the fame o.
l. Jackson when he remembers that it was wor
by tramping the lion banner in the dust? i
or is not in human nature that they should fee
le as we do. and we are false to ourselves wher
ID eput them in power. or give them the direc
re ton of the law.
ID Perhaps no party in this country has ever
y been the subject of so much inVeOtive as the
n American Party. All the depth of the language
L have been sounded to fish up degrading epi
thets to be applied to men whose sin consists il
q loving their own blood something better thar
p that of the stranger. Practices which are il
daily use by other parties suddenly becomes
heinous sins when Tetorted to by the Ameri
6 cans, and Editors in the excess If their yea
v not unfrequently run into the most ridiculous
q inconsistencies
i have seen one column Of newspaper flleG
s with denunciations of the secret feature Of the
order, while the next not only purported to give
. . the principles of the party, but even the very
forms Of initiation. One thing is certain, eth
5, er those forms were forgeries, or all the indig
9 nant denunciations of secrecy which we have
! been favored, were hypocritical prstences, in
n no way ereditable to those who employ them
It All parties observe more or less secrecy in re
e lation to certain portions Of their tactics Tht
3 secrets Of the Democratic Caucus are as pro
] found as those Of Che Know Nothing Council
!. and the will Ofevery member is more complete
= y subjected To the control of the majority. 4
n Know Nothing, after his party has made
: nomination, may abandon this order, and thu
rid himself of all obligation to support it, but
}. Democrat who has once taken part in eau
= Gus, is held in honor bound to abide the decis
l ion of that Caucus, no matter how distastefu
~ y it may be- If the term Dark Lantern Party
" was applied to the midnight plotting of thos,
4. who manufacture in CaucuseS and Conventions
1t Candidates, without consulting the will of the
9. e People, it )WoAld be much more appropriate
> - The State and National Councils having bot
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