Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-03
THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1856.
The German Vote.

The German Vote.
= The Fusionists are laboring with great in
dustry to wheedle the German vote into the
] support Of AbOlitionism aud of Fremont
They assert and pretend that the Germans
are at heart Abolitionists, and that they will
naturally Join the party, and vote with them
to slect their President. The inconsistency
of these Fusionists, who are Know Nothings
and Abolitionists, is so marked and very dis
tinctthat even the most simple and honest
hearted German must see through the ne
farious and hypocritical designs of these
healthy swindlers.
In 1854, every class of foreigners came
unSg the persecution and abuse of these men.
The Catholic and the Protestant were alike
the object Of their hatred and the victims of
their deadly assaults. The Turner'S Society
was denounced as being composed of Infdels,
- Red Republicans, as Servants of the Pope,
aid as enemies to America, and to American
Institutions. The peaceable aud unobtrusive
German citizens, who made no noise about po-
[. litical or religious reforms, but who attended
ind austriously to their labors and their business
were, with the Turner'S, driven from the cleo
tion polls, by brute fOrce-the ballot. boxes
in which they had deposited their votes were
burht, broken up and destroyed, and several
Of the voters beaten, abused, and shot, by
these sane scoundrels who would now at
tempt to persuade them to vote for Fremont
against BUCHANAN
These late repentant Know Nothing and
Abolition Fusionionists would now tender
their professions of liberality and brotherly
! affection for the foreigners, who, eyea less
than year ago. they forcibly drove from the
slsction feld-whose houses they burned
those children they mangled-whoss wives
hey butchered, and whose property they ex-
willingly destroyed.
Will German and Irish citizens so soon
forget the first Monday in August, 1855,
] ~nere bloody murder, rapine and conhagra
! ton marked the steps of the men who now
j pretend to wish to hug to their bosoms the
men whom they then so wantonly and bru-
1 tally abused and scorned? The dreadful
scenes of that period, and the name of Louis
1 vile, can scarcely be so soon erased from
ktbeir memories. These Abolition hypocrites
no to the German voter and tell him that the
Democrats are in favor of extending slavery
into Kansas, and therefore as friends of lib
srty. they, the Germans, must vote the Abo
litiot. ticket While they make these ap-
LrOaches and assertions, they know they utter
falsehoods, and are attempting to deceive
No Democrat in Indiana wishes to see Kan
sas made slave State. No Democrat here
urges the extension Of slavery into any State
Territory. They are willing to let the
ems of the States and of the Territories
that question as they think most
10 them; and they are ia favor of
ming law and order against the rebel
Ls and reasonable designs of disunion
bolitionists. We are neither pro-Slavery
nsn Eor propagandists Of slavery. They
IDEAL in falsehood to deceive.
The great effort Of the AbOlitionists has
been to buy up the presses and leaders of the
4 German population, and through them to
auborn the German vote. They think that
/ Germans ara so easily led and so easily de-
ceived, that they will suffer themselves to be
sold and transferred like flock of sheep or
drove of cattle or swine. This shows
Let estimate they place upon the virtue,
Intelligence, and the honor of the Ger
man citizens. Such men as CHARLES REEM-
ELM and HAssAURsK are used as decoy-ducks
| to entrap German votes. Such venel and
! self-abased presses as the Peoples Free Press
at indianapolis, are hired and paid for the
same purpose; but we are proud to say that
our intelligent and honest German citizens
fully understand these miserable and villain
oas efforts to deceive them and to transfer
aud sell them to the uses of their enemies.
There-are some few aristocratc, dogmatic,
egotistic individuals, who are Germans, in
indianapolis, who fain would force their
nountrymen to do their will, and vote as they
may direct; but we are again happy in the
belief that they WELD very limited infu-
hence over the men whom they attempt
10 force into their views. These men cannot
be coerced, but will manfully and indignant
v repel all such attacks upon their liberty
md their rights as freemen.
We are advised by ourregular, staid, sober,
1 industrious, honest German friends, that
there is no cause for apprehension on the
part Of the Democracy, that they viii lose
the German vote. They are pleased with
nhe nomination of Mr.. BUCHANAN, and will
A.e for him. They have too much self-res-
pect to aid, cemfsrt or support Know Moth
ings under any petence or false color, and
they will take all fair and honorable means
to secure the success of the various Demo-
cratic nominees, as we'll on the State and
county as on on the Presidential ticket.
n-Lr- the ,Lo,fT,21l thinks that If the FIRE.