St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-07

that Democrats in Massachusetts, des-
pise and hate the Pats even worse
than Republicans, and that they Ia
bored secretly if not openly for the
constitutional amendment complained
of. Here are the figures.
Returns from 242 towns, embracing
nearly the whole State, on the Two
Years Constitutional Amendment, foot
up as follows Yeas, 1854: Nays,
l3,002 /? majority for the Amendment,
6,sl2 total vote 81, SIG. Now, the
Democrats cast 4O,24l votes for Bu-
chanan for President in 1856. 1t will
be seen that the opposition to the
Amendment is less than one-third of
the Democratic strength. A Republi-
can contemporary very pointedly
makes the inquiry, if the Democrats
were hostile to it, as their editors
falsely pretend, why did they not vote
against it? At least 10000 of the
negative ballots were cast by Rcpub-
licans. Where were the Democrats in
this emergency Why, playing the
ttypvorieo- --r-ets,.1iAs opposition. yet
secretly doing all in their power to in
sure it's adoption. Even the Irish de-
clincd voting against the Amendment,
in accordance with the private under
standing of their leaders, the grand
object being to attach the odium of
the measure to the Republicans. But
the knaves have ovcrreachcd them
selves, and will take nothing by their
trick save the contempt of the public.
Now, in the name of all that is
mysterious, we should like to know
what Iowa has to do with the political
affairs of Massachusetts. By what
sort of hocus-pocus can any of our
Democratic faglemen make it appear
that the Republican party of Iowa
are responsible for what honorable
men of all parties in Massachusetts
have found it necessary to do for the
preservation Of their political rights
in their own State? Here, Democrats
are appealing to German prejudices
in order to win their votes for the
support of that sum of all villanies,"
African slavery. In this effort of
theirs, they are doing our German
citizens Unreasonable injustice for
between the Germans of Iowa and
the low Catholic Irish of Massachu-
sets there is no manner of compar.
son, and il is an insult to their intell-
gence and good understanding to pre-
sumo thus much upon their prejudice
or their ignorance. The Germans are
the friends of free labor, and they will
never knowingly affiliate with par
ty whose only aim and purpose is the
spread and perpetuity of slavery-ex-
cepting, Of course, the spoils of Office.
The Republicans of Iowa have in
no instance whatever manifested de-
sire to restrict the rights of foreign
ers, whether of one nation or another:
out On an uocasruns, ny turIr Ieprv
sentatives in Congress and in the
State Legislature, and through their
public journals, they have shown de-
sire to grant them the largest priv.
leges and the dearest rights. 1t is
your Democratic demagoguc and pc.
litlcal mountebank who, while pratinc
Of " liberty, equality and fraternity"
would degrade the foreigner by ma.
slavery, and thus blacken-
ing this fair State of Iowa with the
unpaid labor of the negro and bring
ing his labor into direct competition
with that Of the German laborer whom
this housing Democrat affects to love
so dearly. Out upon all such hypo.
critics and knaves