Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-17
Trouble in Camp.


We stated yesterday that we had receiv-
ed paper, numerously signed by foreign,
en Of this city, in which they declare tnelf
finn determination not to vote at the en-
suing electiop--as We were reqees'ed W
publish it here it is:
awa the updesigned, natufalized clti-
nam. ~ The city of Cleveland, have here
tofore cbeerfuliy supported the Democratic
80. from the fact that we were innocent
enough to suppose the party was liberal in
"a views and opposed to Know Nothing
;sm: but, from recent developments, we
are satisfied the party only, wishes to use
US merely as @hewers Of wood" and draw
ers of water treating US kindly before cleo
tion, and kicking US afterwards. We,
therefore, pledge ourselves to abstain from
voting at the coming election for the fol-
lowing reasons:
.lst. A majority Of the officers hold
ing Office under our Democratic President
are Know Nothings.
s2d. Several individuals on our State
ticket belong to the order.
we have heretofore, by our votes, built
up the Democratic party, and in return fol
our suffrages, we have received nothing but
contumely and insult. We do not wish ii
understood that we leave the party, but
only pledge ourselves to abstain from ouI
rights as citizens, until those rights are
properly respected. We leave them there
fore, in the language of Harrison to do
their own voting and their own fighting
The list of names appended, is too long
for our columns.
We copy the above from the Cleveland
Leader Of Wednesday morning. 1t is q
very important document. Heretofore, the
naturalized votes has made the Democratic
msjorities; should the party lose that vote
they are gone shook, line and sinker.-
That they will lose it or majority of it
we have no doubt. We were told yester
day, by naturalized German voter, thai
he knew, himself, of fifty Germans in this
city who never had voted the Republican
ticket, who would vote for Governor Chase
this FALL The Germans begin to see that
the Locofoco party is the worst enemy they
have, and that their professions of love fol
the naturalized citizens are false and heart
less. Look at the Ohio Statesman, which
has been edited for the last year by gen.
tleman who acknowledged that he had
been in the Know Nothing Lodges, and
that he would not tell what he there saw
and heard. Look at the Know Nothing
Convention which met on Saturday last a
GAINESVILLE and adopted the entire Locoio
co State Ticket rs their own!
Look at the adjoining county of Madi
son. The Locofocos and the Know Moth
ings by arrangement held their Conven
lions on Saturday at London. The Know
Nothings went into their Lodges and made
a ticket for county officers, which ticket The
Locofoco Convention adopted as their own
and now the two, tie Locofocos and the
-Nothings, are supporting the san
county ticket, every candidate on which be
longs TO the Know Nothing Order.
We are credibly informed that the Mil
lerite county ticket in old Franklin, has
men on it who heretofore acted with the
Know -Nothings.
But the principal feature in the picture
we wish our German fellow citizens to OBJ
serve closely, think about 18th is, the chic
orator of the party in this city and county
Who=is hel Why, General Joseph ID
Geiger, who has heretofore been one of tn
most active and influential members of tn
Nothing Order, and who, two year
ago, and last year, in the Fillmore cam
paign, spoke of the ignorant Dutch, an'
the low Irish in precisely the same term
that lie now speaks ofthe 'niggers.' lfw
are not mistaken, in some of his speeche
then, he gave the preference TO the negroe
voting, over the foreigners. Now, thl
gentleman, without having recanted-wlth
out having taken back one single word Q
depunciatiou and abuse of the DID Dutch
and the sbloody ftlrriners,' is taken into ful
communion with the Locofoco church. an
is Immediately made a political exhorte
for the benefit of this miserable stuff the
call Democracy General Geiger does nc
pretend that he has changed his politics G
his principles. 1t is the Locofoco part
that has changed, so he says, and ne
about half right. The party has come t
him, not he to the party. We put thes
facts to the naturalized voters of this cour
ty and State, and ask them how long the
will rote with such a party.-O. S. Joa'