Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-23

the right Of suffrage Is it not a little remark
able that she should be willing to see negroes,
ignorant and degraded, many of them, acting
as peers to the proudest citizen, in the politi-
cal arena, while the refined and educated, of
Caucausian blood are made to dance attendance
for a term of years after naturalization DIR.
Solger and Prot. Agassiz must stay at home,
while Sambo and Cuffee, their boot black and
hair-dresser, march proudly to the ballot box,
and deposit each the vote of freeman!
Justice to the foreign-born citizen is about
the only principle approaching Democracy
that remains to the Democratic party and it
is fair to suppose that this party will maintain
the ascendancy which it has hitherto kept
over the naturalized vote in New England, un-
til its opponents manifest some greater sign of
good sense than is evinced by the passage of
such enactments as we are now considering.
If the party which pretends to represent free
dom, adopts despotic regulations and enforces
civil disabilities against foreigners it must ex-
pect the permanent hostility Of those whom it
seeks to Cypress. If, on the other hand, it
shows the sincerity of its adherence to liberal
opinions, by the adoption of liberal measures,
if it thus proves itself the true Democracy,
and the so called Democracy the sham,-it
may look for the widest reception of its prin-
ciples among the refugees of foreign despot-
ism. But, even were the prevalence Of a lib
eral and equal policy toward naturalized citi-
zens, to carry with it the permanent aseenden-
cy of the Democratic party it would still be
none the less our duty and their right. Prin-
ciples are more important than parties, and
justice more urgent than expediency.
An editor in Minnesota, writing to mem
Der of Congress in this State, says:
'Ifthe Republicans of Massachusetts, do not
promptly and boldly and Immediately disavow
and put down that two years after naturalza-
ton movement in your State, expect to lose
the entire West from the party, and do not ex-
pect to see two Congressman and one Senator
from Minnesota as the result of the next fall
election, which you otherwise may expect. The
Germans are going from us hook and line"
An ex-U. S. Senator of Connecticut also
writes thus to member of Congress in this
State
"The unfortunate action of your legislature
was greedily caught up by our Buchanan
Democrats and piled with damaging effect to
the Republican cause in our recent election.
In New Britain there were Republican Ger
mans enough scared into the ranks of the sham
Democrats to have defeated the election of
Loomis, had they not been induced to support
him while voting otherwise the Democratic
ticket. If such is to be the action of Republi-
can Legislatures over the country, we shall go
into the next Presidential contest with the
dead certainty of being beaten. We must
have the German vote or suffer defeat. 1t will
cost us from fifty to seventy-five thousand
votes, enough in several of the Northern and
Western States nearly balanced to destroy us.
am sure if the Republicans of Massachusetts,
could foresee its fatal tendencies, their patriot
ism and brotherly feeling would dissuade them
from such action"