Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-20
a Forerhadowing Of the Futnre

uO NOicat VI buc DiaCh hcpubuCtns mas
driven them to the necessity of concocting
plans to retrieve their fallen fortunes. The
leading journals of the party are laying down
programmes upon which its future operations
are to be based. To give success to these
operations, the party is to be reconstructed
and re-organiked. Aboltionism and Know
Nothingism are to be twin planks in the plat
form, and those who rally under the new erii-
famine are TO take the imposing name of
-AnaericaT-R Republicans, and are to be the fu-
iure antagonists of the Democracy.
The New York Times, which is the first to
lead Off this institution Of "a new order of
things" says that the great mass of the
American and Republican parties viii now be
consolidated. The leaders Of both may re-
sist Bat the conviction of common defeat,
the sense of common danger, and tne feel
Ing that Substantially and at bottom their prin-
eiples Of public policy are the same, win over
ride all the dictation of leaders and all the
intrigues of designing men,"
The Courier and EnQuirsr and other lead
ing journals of the opposition come to the
support of the Times, and already the Amer
ioan- Republican party may be regarded as far
advanced in its embryo state.
Germans. Irish and all other foreign born
citizens are, of course, to be excluded from
the programme. a party which formally
and deliberately weaves into its platform the
great distinctive principle of know nothing
ism, can hold no further communion with
those whose misfortune il is to clothe their
words in the ''rich Irish brogue" and ''the
sweet German accent" If Sambo goes into
full and unlimited partnership with Sam, no
man who cannot write upon his brow the
word native" will be allowed a seat at their
table.
The Black Republicans seem to have made
their last demonstration" upon the Germans,
and find them wholly impracticable. Hence
their willingness to send them adrift, and
form a league with the the know nothngs
for the next campaign. The Times issues its
card of dismissal to this class of our citizens
in the following terse and epigramatic style:
ain. the first place, the whole foreign vote;
Irish and German-has bsen cast for Buch-
anan There may have been here and there
some scattering German votes given for FIRE.
mont In this city and one or two of the
Western States this mas probably been the
case; but, on the whole, we do not believe
one tenth part of the German vote has been
given to the Republican ticket As for the
Irish, they have gone in a drove, as they al
ways do 60, fol- the regular Democratic ticket.
They will probably never do anything else
as long they remain Irish, and il takes at
least two generations to convert them into
Americans. They seem to lack the faculty
} of individual action, or of exercising a per
sonal judgment on public affairs. They vote
in herds, and are, of course, managed like
other herds, under the control of skilful and
experieIced drivers.
In our political contests they neither read
nor think If they attend political meetings
ii is TO hurrah 10 order-not TO listen or 10
learn They follow throughout their in
stincts, their prejudices, their hatreds, and
their leaders.
Undoubtedly the German vote, in the late
elections, did not come up to the magnih-
cent expectations of these Black Republican
4. gentry. But what oft ? Are they any the
less the "fne fellows and good citizens"
which they were pronounced to be? These
: German fellow-citizens' are the same "Ger-
!, man fellow-c;tizens" since the election that
they were before. The Black Republicans
confidently anticipated and openly bossted
! that their increased strength from this source
: would alone insure success. Instead Of finding
e their expectations and their boasts realized
theywake up to the conclusion that nine tenthl
ofthe Germans voted for Buchanan and thu
;. contributed largely to their defeat They are
therefore, to be abandoned as worthless mate
rial, and their place is to be supplied by NOR
powerful and effective force from the Know
Nothing ranks.
Time will determine whether American
Republicanism viii succeed where Black Re
publicapism so signally failed.