The Evansville daily journal., 1856-05-13
Manufacturing Notes.-The six Months Law


The Old Liners manufactured si1ty Uotes at
Terre Haute. the day before the late city cleo
ton, out raw foreign material Not one of
these patent voters was citizen of the United
States, yet the votes of men who had lived all
their lives in this country, probably nearly all
their lives in the very city whose rulers they
were seeking to elect, were killed off by the
votes of men not yet citizens of the Republic,
and nine out of ten of whom were doubtless
ignorant of the first principles of our institu-
tions. This is done, under our rascally 'six
months iaVs'' which gives foreign born man
who has been six months in the State and
one year in the United States, all the privi-
leges of the native born or of the foreign born
who are Amerieanycitizens. The Old Liners
sustain this outrageous law, which is dis
grace to our statute books, and in direct vio-
lation of the spirit Of the Constitution. The
Americans and Republicans demand that this
law be repealed. Public. sentiment, justice to
those who are American citizens, duty and
decency, demand that this .odious law shall be
stricken from our statutes. There is no class
who more strongly condemn this law than
Anaersca1, citizens of foreign birth. They had
to remain in this country five years before
they could become citizens But under this
six months law, they see men WHO have been
in the country only year, enjoying all the
privileges for which they had to suffer five
years presation.
he ;Ic oft Iaxr foroihlU il1uctra
ted at the late city elections in this State
Hundreds and thousands of men voted at these
elections, and turned the tide in favor of Old
Lneisnn, who were not citizens of the United
States, and who cannot be for years to come.
Sixtysvotes made in one day at Terre Hautet
Three hundred more votes cast at Lafayette
thanthe5census taken just before the election
gaxe,to the city. And so we go. Every one
of these manufactured votes kills off the vote
of either a native born man, or of foreign
born man who had to remain five years in the
country before he could cast his vote. Now
are the people of this State willing to submit
to this odious voter manufacturing law any
longer? Are they determined to support the
party eAf1<fSd LhehAO IhAo law oA0 NAlSh W III
keep it a. law if they succeed at the ensuing
election. If there were no other reason under
Heaven. why every honest, intelligent, Auseri-
can citizen, should vote against the Old Line
party, there is reason enough in the fact, that
to vote against that party is to vote against
this.six months law. Upon this very law the
Old Liners rely more for success at the coming
election in this State than upon any other sin
gle thing. From this time till the election,
they will be manufacturing votes under it.
By means of this law, thousands of votes cast
by American citizens, will be neutralized by
the votes of men who have been but year in
the country, and who are necessarily Ignorant
of every principle and measure involved in the
contest, and of the very men who head the
respective tickets. Let those who are citizens
reflect upon this, and decide for themselves
whether they will vote side by side with these
unnaturalized regulators of our State policy
and government, and with those unprincpled
demagogues who fatten upon corruption, or
with those who are determined to uproot this
law and politically annihilate the party which
supports it.
IL