New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1859-08-27
STATE ISSUES FOR THE STATE CANVASS!

We admonis!s the people of Iowa not to allow thei,
through the distracting influences of national questions
Let the State issues govern the State canvass!
TIE MASSACHUSETTS CONSTITUTION.
While the Republican press of Iowa.
very generally Know Nothing in its an.
tecedents and proclivities, sustains the
Mass. Amendment which places the Con.
SO negro in advance Of the Anglo Saxon
foreigner who seeks the shores of the U.
S. for his home, and their laws for his
protection, it is worthy of note, that the
Democratic press not only condemns the
principles Of the amendment, as eminent
ly Anti Democratic, but as absolutely
wrong in principle, and dangerous in
policy. Dangerous in policy, because, if
II danger exists to our institutions, from
theinflux of the foreign element, the true
principles of action as has ever been pur-
sued by the Democratic party, is to con-
fer political rights and immunities upon
them, and thus identifying all their in
terests with ours, confirm in them, that
respect which our system of government
receives and to which it is so eminently
entitled.
When the Republican press of Iowa
can stoop to the depth of meanness, ex-
hibited in the following extract, which
utters the sentiments of that party and
its press generally, is it not truly surpri-
sing that they should have the assurance
to raise again the eternal cry of sNigger,
Nigger" hoping thus to delude the for
eign-born into their party for the double
purpose Of eleyating over his head their
eternal make-wright to Abolitionism, and
Its putative progenitor, Know Nothing
ism!
when it is understood that a constant food
Of the very drcgs of Ireland-creatures whose
intelligence is scarcely above that of the lrutes
has tor many years been pouring into Massa-
c~husetts; and that these creatures, notoriously
ctanish, arc the sport of knavi ii politicians who
lead them to the polls as so many cattle; no hon
CRADLE man will object to any wholesome regu-
lation by the sovereign State which shall prom
Use the protection and safety of her political
rights."-M. Charles City MteNigencey.
In charging these as the sentiments of
the Republican party, we feel fully iusti-
fled. The author Of the above is now
member of the State Board of Education,
and in such elevation has received the en-
dorseulent Of that party beyond that usu-
ally given to a member of it's editorial
corps. He speaks for the party by au-
thority, Of that endorsement, and cleo
ton. And after using such language as
the above, the arrant knave pays the Ger
man foreigner a compliment more high
ly deserved, than sincere. One would
really suppose on reading the Intelligen.
Ger that this hateful Massachusetts res
friction excepted the German, from its
p%roscriptive influences; yet such is not
the fact. They, like the Irish, are by its
provisions reduced below the status OF
the negro; and the Intelligencer, by en-.
dorsing the law, sustains the influences
1t must exert, whether Celt or Hibernian
be its victim. In fact, by the provisions
OF that amendment, the foreigner who
has brayely fought and nobly struggled
to redeem his native land from its thrall.
dom, and failing in that, has sought the
protection of such institutions in the u
$. as he failed to establish at home, must
remain in the U. S. and in Massachusetts
six years longer than is required of the
pure negro-for if the negro is stolen
from the coast of Africa and put upon
a southern plantation, and Immediately
stolen from there by one ofthese Repub.
lican-know Nothing patriots, and by him
brought to Massachusetts,, the negro il
invested with all the rights of citizen
ship in one earthereafter, while the for.
eign-born white must remain two wear: