Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-20
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1Ol NASSAU STREET, New Y ork,
.ssz,s7 May 3Oth, 1856.
Gentlemen-A word spoken in time is
said to be worth more than gold, and
beg to offer you such word, by favor. of
the Cincinnati press. You will have at
your door, l still hope not on your bench
es delegate from California, (AIr. Her
bert on whose hands yet smokes the blood
Of a poor eountryman of mine by birth
lately murdered in the public hotel at
Washington. address YOU simple
straight forward question-do YOU mean to
admit this man to seat in your Conven-
ton? hope, sincerely hope, you do not
He Is now under heavy bonds to stand his
trial for tho murder of Thomas Heating,
and if he has not decency enough to stay
away, you. knowing all the insulting and
Ijustifable circumstances of the case, ought
to have feeling enough to keep him out.
am known to several of your number,
and though never personally engaged ii any
Presidentil canvas, of the three / have wit
messed in the United States, there are
those with you who can certify that all my
preferences have hitherto been democratic.
my action accordingly. In 1852, I was
among the first the most earnest and I be-
lieve not the least efficient in resisting the
artful attempt to make Mr.. Pierce answera-
Bile for the Catholic test in the New Hanp-
shire Constitution. The campaign publ
cations of that day issued from the offices
Eof the Boston Post Albany Argus and the
Washington Union have recorded how
ready for the maintenance of a great prin-
ciple, in common with the class of citizens
to which belong, was then found to OBJ
literate the memory Of individual wrongs.
Precisely in the same spirit, I non ask
for Mr.. Her6erfs exclusion. Since 1852
a fierce social war has been made on the
adopted citizens. So long as it was con-
fined to sectarian presses and midnight
mobs, we endeavored to resist it with a firm
forbearance. But when a Democratic mem
Der of Congress and Delegate to your Con
vention, shoots before breakfast, working
man, because he resented being called "a
damned Irish son of a b-h," it is full time
for us to ask you, do you mean to separate
that man from your ranks, or to overlook
all notorious facts, or to vindieate the equal
ity of all classes of citizens, high and low,
native and foreign born, in practice as in
theory? Looking anxiously for your decis-
ion in your proceedings,
Iremain, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS DARCY MCGEE.
Why Mr.. McGee's letter was not present
ed by the presiding officer of the convention
to Chat body, we cannot say, but it is fair,
to presume that the opinions held by Mr..
Buchanan in relation to foreigners, had
something to do with the ominous silence
which prevailed generally in regard to
adopted citizens, and particularly with ref
erence to the Heating murder and Mr..
McGee's letter.
In Fourth-ofJuly Grafton, some years
since delivered at Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Buchanan in speaking of the Demo
cratic Administration of James Madison,
held this language:
We ought to use every honest exertion
to turn out of power, those weak and wick
ed men who have abandoned the political
path marked out for this country BY Wash
ington, and whose wild visionary theories
have been at length tested by experience
and found wanting.
And then Immediately following this
denunciatiOn of the democratic party, and
as climax to the above, Mr.. Buchanan
spoke of foreigners thus:
ABOVE ALL WE OUGHT TO DRIVE
FROM OUR SHORES FOREIGN IN
FLUENCE, AND CHERISH EXCLU-
SIVE AMERICAN FEELINGS. FOR
EIGN INFLUENCE HAS BEEN IN |
EVERY AGE THE CURSE OF RE-
HER JAUNDICED EYE
SEES ALL THINGS IN FALSE COL |
ORS! The thick atmosphere of prejudice,
by which she Is forever surrounded EX-
CLUDES FROM HER SIGHT. THE
LIGHT OF REASON.
Judge White, of Salem, an old man
whose memory runs back to the times of
George Washington presents the following I