Daily American organ., 1856-11-08
From the New York Times, Republican
The Foreign VOfe

The returns indicate that we underrated the
proportion Of the German vote which was cast for
Fremont in our paragraph of yesterday. In seve-
raj of the strong German wards of this city, prob
ably full one,thrd of the Germans voted with the
Republicans, and in Illinois and other Western
States we inclined to think the proportion win
he still greater.
No one, at all acquainted with the facts. can
doubt that there Il a wide difference between the
Germans and the Irish in regard to their particpa-
tion in politics The Gerspans at home are b<ster
educated, politically, than the Irish. They are
more familiar with political organizations, and the
manner of party contests, and have been in the
habit of attaching more Importance to principles
in connexon with then. They bring with them
to this country much less Of their home uuarrels
and domestic dissensions, and seek much less to
perpetuate our soil the wranglngs and snarlings
of political life at home. They read more, think
more, and are far more independent in their DO
litical action; and experience shows that they are
much more readily and easily Americanized-th
they identity themselves much more promptly with
the institutions and the interests Of this country
and take more intelligent part in connexion with
them than the Irish.
The latter are most undenably clannsh, ignor-
ant, reckless and blndly controlled by leaders and
demagogues in their political action. The simple
fact that they go together--that they vote in
solid body, is sufficient to prove this. No other
SAurb VI OuI NlAIoho So DCOLCu, TIE w olHIl,
the French, the English, never herd together and
go in focks with any particular party. They act
upon their individual convictions of duty and poll
cy. Each man reads and thinks and Judges for
himself The great mass of the Irish do not There
is no such thing as individual action amcng them.
They act in body--they go in shoals--and the
whole Irish vote is always cast in bulk Why
should this be SO? II could not be, if they acted
intellgently and independently lf their action
was decided by the reading, the reflection, the in.
vestigation of their individual members, there
would be the same diversity Of political sentiment
among them that peryades all other classes Of
American citizens. They do not act upon know
ledge or upon principle They are the tools of
dernagogues Their action is decided, not by ap-
peals TO their Judgment but by the orders Of their
superiora or the most dishonest appeals to their
credulity and their hatreds OF course all Irishmen
arc not to be included in this censure. There are
among the educated portion of them high-toned
and accomplished gentlemen, and they viii be the
FIRST to concede the truth of our statements in re-
gardto the great mass oftheir countrymen They are
the hardest material out Of which intelligent Anne
rican citizens have to be made.
We are not at all surprised at the existence Of
an American party Such a sentiment as that
party represents viii always exist and will be
powerful just in proportion as the political evils
which flow from the ignoiance, credulity and reck
lees political action of the mass of foreigners
among us are more or less keenly felt III the
leading men among the Irish desire 10 disarm
what they have me reason for considering a
hostile and proscrptive sentiment they must do
something else than denounce and complain OF it.
Let them remove the evil which creates it, Let
them teach their countrymen to become men, In
stead Of political tools Ito act upon their personal
convictions Of public policy, instead Of their clan
nish instincts and class hstreds. Let them cease
10 be herd---and become individual citizens
and they win dissrm and dissipate all hostile or
fscts .rmr0a f7