The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-06
THE JOURNAL

In the Evansville Enquirer of Tuesday,
Sept %, there is an editorial headed "Mr.
Jones' Speech which purports to be a sort
of report of my speech at Apollo Hall on the
previous Saturday evening. The editor says
he did not hear the speech, and believe him.
His inauguration may be sufficiently fertile
to create fiction more monstrous even than
his editorial, but with knowledge of the facts,
charity would suggest doubt of his ability to
pen such an article, One who could do it
must possess super human'power flying.
He says 1 claimed that "this country was
''ours" and that eve" have right to do with
it as we pease-that we have right to ex-
clude foreigners if we like, and that we have a
right to the Offices"
He no doubt intends to represent me as
having said that we have a right to drive out
of the country foreigners already here. said
nothing which was capable of any such con-
struction. l did say ''this country is ours and
we have the right to prevent any more for
eigners from coming here. or to permit them to
come upon just such terms and conditions as
we choose to impose, and whether we do the
one or the other no foreigner has any right to
complain"
l repeat it, and add, that 7, as a member Of
the American party, propose that henceforth
the United Stat. shall select the guests to be
admitted to the enjoyment of the rights and
privileges of the great American family, and
require better evidence of fitness for admission
than our laws now require.
The editor futher says I claimed, "that it
was the duty ofevery American citizen to vote
for native born citizens to fill the offices, to
the exclusion of foreigners or the sons of for
eign born citizens" L said no such thing.
said nothing about voting for the sons of for
eign born citizens. l said that "as general
rule natives should be voted for in preference
to foreigners-tnat where native and a for
eigner are candidates for>the same Office and
are in all other respects equal, the native
should be preferred, but that if the foreigner
were superior in talent and virtue, he should
be preferred
The editor says that alluded to the cleo
ton Of the Justice of the Peace and a consta-
bic by Democratic party. who, he says, were
not naturalized.'' I did allude to the justice
and constable, but 1 did not say the Demo-
cratic party who elected them were not natur-
allied. The fact is that all but about twenty
six of them are naturalzed.
He says ''this same charge Chat the justice
and constable were not naturalized when cleo
ted) has been made long time ago in the
Journal, and a long time ago had been proven
false, which we think ought to have been suf
ficient guarantee to Mr. Jones not to repeat it,
have no recollection that the charge was
ever made in the Journal. 1t was certainly
never proved to be false, for the records show
that the election at which the justice and con-
stable alluded to were elected was held on the
first Monday (the 9TH day. of April, 1856, and
the order book of the Vanderburgh Circuit
Court Book 1, pages 142 and LA, shows that
the constable applied to that Court to be ad-
mitted citizen on the 18th day of April, 1856,
and then and there took the oath Of allegiance
| to this government and renowned allegiance
to 'the Duke of Nassau of whom he was here
tofore a subject And that on the 10Th day
of April 1856, the justice alluded to applied to
the same court to be admitted a citizen and
then and there took the same oath Of allegi-
ance, and renounced allegiance ito the Grand
Duke of Hessen Darmstadt, OF whom he was
heretofore subject l said that the election
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spectacle standing, and as we'll if not better
qualified for the Offices, was shame and dis
grace; and have no disposition to retract or
qualify the expression.
When American citizenship ceases to secure
to native born Americans rights and privileges
superior to those possessed by the subjects of
"the Duke Of Nassau" and ''the Grand Duke
of Hessen Darmstadt," every true hearted
American should renounce the name of amer
can citizen" and blush for shame when stig-
| nsatized as an American, even by renegade
Red Republican Dutchman.
1t is the height of impudent presumption
for an alien to become a candidate for an office,
and such impudent presumption is equalled
only by the corruption of the party that by
encouraging such impudence, seeks to make
dupes and tools of foreign born citizens.
The editor says that forgot that and my
party ran Adlersberg's brother, who was
then unnaturalized, against A. f. Whittlesey,
native of Vanderburg county, for County
Surveyor"
Most Of US knew bat little about either Of
them. Prima facie In all cases, the nominee of
the Old Line Democratic party is unfit for the