Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-05-16
An Artful DOdger.

In the course Of our editorial career We have
never met so artful dodger as our usighbor
ofths Gazette. In this regard, we cheerfully
accord to him the champions belt" il en-
circles his fair proportions, and becomes him.
Ne have not the slightest ambition to deprive
him Of it. Besides it is not to our taste.
We are 10th to recapitulRte, but in order TO
dispose Of this little matter Of dispute which
our neighbOr threatens to make the most of, we
will have to do SO, briefly. On last wednes.
day the Gazette apOlogised for the oct of its
Massachusetts, brethren in passing the "Amend.
nent," already sufficiently alluded to. 1t then
referred to the project Of Gov. Chase, for ma
king the period Of probation of foreigners three
years before naturalization. and then adding
two years To the time before they wonld be al
lowed the right of suffrage in this State; and
stated that he preferred this 10 the Mss.achu.
setts amendment. He also argued that II was
right; that oil foreign born citizens conceded
that such probation was Just. He dwelt pa
thetically upon the dangers which threatened
"our most sacred right" from hasty naturaliza.
tion; stated that we had luos, to fear from this
an srrant humbug; that it indirectly claimed
that those who came TO our country for the pur.
pose Of making il their home, were incapable
Of learning anything about our political eeon-
ony until after they had received their natural.
ization papers, thus making II necessary to
place them on further probation of two years,
wherein they could inform themselves sufi>
eiently we'll 10 enter upon the "sacred right"
and supposing that our nsighbor "spoke by tn
book" for the Republican party. we called at.
tention In the article as a"Republiean View Of
Naturalization. We did not state what zoe
thought about the question il was our neigh
boris position that we noted and we supposed
he gave Inference to the views of the Chase
wing Of his party.
He certainly spoke his own views plainly
and positively, aud we were asloAished the
next day to see that he had fatty conltadicled
himself, and we expressed our astonishIuent,
At the same time giving extracts from his anti.
elss Of Wednesday and Thursday to show ON
readers whst a marvellous somersault he had
made 10 one night. NO5. our neighbor says II
makes no difference what he said onsW ednes,
day We thought it did, or We should not
hpve paid any attention to il. We now begin
to think it makes little difference what he says
At any time. He has been striving for three
days to convince us Of this; we ought not TO
refuse his testimony. and we will not. The
pablie will. doubtless, agree with US in this
matter. The acknowledgment that ''ths con.
sislsney uf the Gazette Is matter Of small i'm.
POrtanee," /" has. we believe, closed the matter
10 far A. We are concerned. That WAS the only
point we desired 10 have settled, after its artful
dodge oflast Thursday.
The 0azstte assumes to give our position up.
on the naturalization question. We would
rather II would not. We have little confidence
in Its statements in this regsrd--the less conf
denoe. as We have not stated It oursslf We
claim only TO speak for ourself in this matter,
aOd will take an early opportunity to snlightsn
our nelghbOF ss 70 our views. ID the mesu
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