Daily American organ., 1856-04-12
You Don't Saw So.

You Don't Say So.
The Pennsylvanian Of Monday last, in refer
ring to the primary elections, to be held in
Philadelphia, for delegates to Democratic
Convention in that city, called for the purpose
Of making nominations of Democratic cand-
dates, makes use of this very remarkable lam
guage 1t says:
s"Tbe two prominent causes which led to the or
ganization of the Native party, and gave 1t great
strength, were the placing Of candidates in nomi-
nation, who possessed no one prerequisite for
office aud the Indignation occasioned BY the moy--
ing Of large gangs Of nnnataratixed persons from
roll 10 poll TO rob, By their votes competent citi-
reas of their rights This latter evi zoe regret to
say still erists Wehave been Informed that is the
intention Of esO depraped and worthiess members
Of the Domocaatio party, to practice this great
outrage at some Of The polls Tonight. If such
great wrong be attempted, 1t should be resisted at
every hazard. The Democratic party cannot be
kept intact If the legal voters attached to II are to
have their votes rendered nugatory, by the intro
duction of fraudulent tickets into the. lot-boxes
voted by aliens. We should have bonestyat our pri
mary elections, and wherever an alien attempts to
vote he should be prosecuted on the charge of incl
ting to breach of the peace. We hopethat all good
Democrats will resent the degradation that must at
tach to our party, If unnaturalized voters attempt
to control our delegate elections"
Isn't this rich? And it comes from the big
anti-American gun of the Buchanan Democra,
cy of Pennsylvania paper so long con-
trolled by one John w. Forney--the paper
now ostensibly sustaining the claims of the
Hon. James Buchanan for nomination Mt the
forthcoming Cincinnati Conventionl "We
should haze honestyat oar primary elections"
quoth the Pennsylvania; we must not cheat
each other, says the Pennsylvania, but only
cheat the Americans
Honesty amongst thieves" is an old max
i'm, and We are not disposed to doubt the pro-
priety Of its adoption by the anti American,
pseudo Democratic party. But why is it that
the Buchanan men are now preaching Ameri-
eanisna by unfolding the evils resulting from
"the introduction Of fraudulent tickets into
the ballot-box voted by aliens2" Why, it is
their or that is gored nou by the foreign on
Let us look at the condition of this quarrel.
Mr.. Buchanan, in 1915, delivered an grafton
at Lancaster city, Pennsylvania, in which he
said:
Above all, we ought to drive from our shores
feeling, Foreign influence has been in every age
the curse Of Republics-her jaundiced eye sees
everything in false colors. The thick atmosphere
Of prejudice by which she is ever surrounded, ex-
Guiding from her sight the light of reason"
Now, this was an honest, truthful and pa
tiotic declaration--it was made before Mr.
Buchanan had become politician, and whilst
his heart was fired with patriotism and love of
country. 1t has been recently published
throughout the country-our readers will re-
member an article in our columns on this sub
ject few days ago, in which we complimented
Mr.. Buchanan for these American sentiments
We'll, Mr.. Buchanan, at the recent dinner
given by the Lord Mayor of London, declared
in his speech made on that occasion, thus !:
Wherever the English language is spoken,
there political slavery could not exist" Now,
lnt this and that together, and it does not
please the Irish population, who dislike both
the Anericanism of the oration, and the anti
Irish sentiments of the speech The Irish
American, "a queer name,) published in New
York, says of the speech at the Lord Mayors
dinner, thus:
"We trust this fatal sentence may not have
been spoken. If the report be correct, we cannot
any longer uphold the claims of Mr.. Buchanan to
the first Office of the Commonwealth. We hope
such language may be satisfactorily accounted for,
explained, or withdrawn. Otherwise, let us have
Know-Nothing President rather than toady oi
England" 4
But tn,s is not the worst of the assaults
n~s apon MT Duea.anan hv The irish press.
John Mitchelps C1tsson says or Mr. Rn-
chanan as follows:
In view Of the fact of his being candidate
Tor the Democratic nomination for the highest Of
nee IN the country and considering that the votes
OF the American Irish and the Germans are ne
cessary to his success in the event of hs obtaining
sne nomination and considering further that the
irish race with but few exceptions detest The
British government, regarding that tyranny as the
empire OF the devil; that in many instances there
IS more freedom where the German language is
spoken than where the English is the mother
tongue; and, finally, that the native-born Ameri-
can people have but little love for John Bull; we
are at loss to account for the extraordinary course
pursued by our minister at the Court of St James
had he been the nominee of the Know Nothing
faction, or aspired to that honor we could readily
understand his fattery of England and her institu
tons, and his bringing Republican freedom to the
same level with monarchy in which the people
who pay the taxes are mere ciphera. and in which
an oligarchy Of despots work their wantoncss ID
form OF law"
IL will thus be seen that Mr.. Buchanan has
arrayed against him the 9hole Irish party,
and in the election of delegates to the Phila-
delphia City Democratic Convention, his friends,
speaking through the Pennsylvania, utter the
sentiments and language contained in the ex-
tract above copied from that press, With piep
% Prerent the Irish Of philadelphia control
t'ng the Contention Of that cityi If the Irish-
men, now resident in the United States, aban-
don Mr.. Buchanan. yber. ,,;,r 49,, D..