Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-24

THE JUSTICE OF AMERICAN" ORATORS


THE JUSTICE OF AMERICAN" OkAloto
| Messrs Editors: Should any Q! our kuow. No.n'n-
fellow. citizens he in doubt a. to- the reai "utuot
the shameful rows by which the city elec'loi' ate
laily di.sraced they will perhaps have thrn eye
opened By the perusal Of the following brutal seun
| rnens, uttered by Henry Winter DAVIS al t.e s'e0
Fillmore and Dunelsun meeting i'll Phadciphia: ;,
| "rhe foreigners have only a secondary rIeh. ~
vote and their place is, # they ran get IN, after Tue
Americans have all voted. Loud applsusel They
have right to vote but when two rights come 'lo
collision. the natiye-bOrn must take the preceueneo
and if they want to take the precedence 'hth re-
mns jor y0u 10 settle the q"r'ti"n "h'cA Is t'e 0e'''
man." -, I,
Is the gallows bad enough for such a tlend A
member Of the Congress Of the United STATES
lawyer Of emnence from the city OF baHii'ole u.
using his eloquence, in the language oil 1he
street bully to stir up the worst passions Oh d GU
rabbe aud urging them on to bloody strife rs ne wouid
u pack of snarling ours! and for the av"weu pur
pose to prevent their exercising their CONSTITUTIONS
rights and doing their duty as American c'tzens'
People of Richmond, behold tho man recently inVi-
ted ln give counsel to the conservative, Union loving
citizens Of Vrginia-one Of the lieutenants OF tue
party, whose nominee we are asked to vote ior
as Washington.lke President! Has hatred OF
the Democracy turned the hearts of Christian geIlie
men into very stone, that they are willing ana anxious
to place in power party whose principles eiod save
the mark y lead inevitably TO such results whose
leaders aud expounders have so entirely thrown OH
every obligation of religion and decency aye oil CIV
ilized humanity itself
And will it be credited that these expressions were
uttered and vociterously appauded, in halt an hour
after the passage Of resolution TO this effect Ihat
deem il duty 10 secure TO every freeman the
full exercise of his right of suffrage" Mark you:
MIR. Davis himself admits that 1.-The foreigners nave
the right to vote" Now let US see to whit the posi-
ton of this American orator aud his crowd Of el'
dOrsers amount:
All fr,,,1,u shal be seclred the fnll exercise OF
their right of suffrage.
is "only secondary right" "ther place is, "If thy
get IN, after the Americans have all voted. ln'
ference: that in the estimation Of this American par
ty, Of which tho Washington.like Fillmore Is tho
great embodiment, the Foreigners ARE not, OUGHT
not, and, il We can he p it, SHALL not be freeInen-
they siares. State distinctly to the people
that the doctrine Of the Fillmore party Us c1pounded
by H. Winter Davis, is that our nsturazed foreign
fellow citizens, under the laws Of the land, "harc Tho
right of suffrage" but II We can prevent 1t, they
shall not to the polls at all; but certainly not
until sail the Americans have voted"
Now. if there's any "higher law" than this, 1t is
certainly not to be found in the boldes Sewardisn.
Immediately following Mr.. Davis bloody ha-
rangue, comes one from another Maryland orator,
who shows the Goddess stuff he's made Of, by such
blasphemous language rs this:
Like the great | AM, like Messiah himself, he
(Miilard FillinOre) said Peace be STILL aud those
rolling waters We're still'' (!)-God forbid that this
country should ever be under the domination OF such
a party as the SO called "Americsu.'
Yours, in haste, e. r. A.