The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-01
TazE REIGN VOTE.

per devoted to the Fremont interest, which does
not contain an appeal 10 foreigners, as such, in
some shape. In one it is in the form Of comments
on the Herbert homicide In another it is the
| announcement of the name Of some distinguish
ed German speaker that has recently declared
! himself in favor of Fremont and in still anoth-
er It assumes the form of a hyPocrtical eulogy
| Of the German character. The coolest and
most barr1aced attempt of this kind which we
/ have seen, was the announcement contained in
the programme Of the Know Nothing meeting
on Tuesday last, that Mr.. Neuber would ad-
/ dress the audience in the German language.
| When We reflect that the persons who make
such appeals, were mostly devoted friends Of
Gen. Scott four years ago. il is certainly not in
consistent that tkey should manifest so much
fondneSs for the g rich brogue and the sweet
German accent :" but unfortunately for these
gentlemen, the record of their political career
presents some few facts since 1852, that are of
some little importance in the question of the
validity Of their claim to the foreign vote.
In 1884 the secret political combination
known as the know-NothIug or American or
ganization sprang up in this country, ard grew
with astonishing rapidity The principles
which il maintained, were, in its own Ian
guage: hostility to foreign influence aud eccle-
sastical power; in plain terms, however, and
in point of practical operation, IFS avowed OBJ
jrctS We're TO increase the period Of residence
/ requisite for naturalization to tWenty-oue years,
TO exclude all nauraIized citizens from holding
otfce, and TO oslIaciSe all members of the Cath
lie Church. The first great achievement Of the
party was the election Of r. T. Conrad as
Mayor Of consolidated Philadelphia and gain
ing possession Of the municipal government of
that city. As Mayor Conrad is th" same per-
son who advocated the nomination Of Fremont
and Johnston lately in The New York Convrn-
ton, and who was announced side hv side with
the celebrated German speaker at thr AIleghe
ny meeting on Tuesday night, il may not be a.
miss to examine the record only two years back
and ascertain what peculiar claims be and the
party to which he belonged and still belongs.
can show upon the gratitude of either Irishmen
or Germans, arising out ofthe manner in which
the municipal government OF Philadelphia
administered.
No sooner had Mayor Conrad taken upon
himself the DUTIES of his office-no sooner bad
the newly elected city Councils assumed their
legislative capacity, than a wholesale war of
determination was waged by them against the
whole class of adopted citizens. Protestant /
rshmen as well as Catholic Irishmrn w-re de-
pTved Of the means Of subsistence. The most
petty Offices as we'll as the most elevated be-
CONF equally the subject Of Know Nothing pro-
scriplion. Adopted citizens turned out
Of places 50 humble that it might have been
supposed they conld have been made exceptions
to the general policy, and even poor girls were
driven from their situations as teachers IN the
Coumon-SchooS, by the relentless spirit Of
Know Nothing intolerance
But the triumph OF the Know Nothing party
dIh MOI stop mere: 1t Soon' by tremendous
maIorhE, elected It's candidate, a member ol the
/ order, Governor oi Pennsylvania. 30 NOR
/ ongh and 50 nniiorm had hrrn lhr manifestation
OF ms hoS'lity 10 adopted citizens, That having
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