Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-09-26

For The Daily Empire.
Adopted ciuzens--A Mistake Corr
rootod

Adopted ciuzens--A Mistake Corr
rooted.
II is said that there is q Know Nothing
organization, re,vnmped and in active oper.
alton in this county with the view Of elect
ing the black Republican candidates at the
ensuing election. Should not tho existence
Of such an ascertained fact, operate as a
warning to those foreigners whose votes are
so anxiousiy sought after by the so called
Opposition2 Should they not recollect that
the very parties who are now 80 solcitously
in pursuit of their sufFrages, were not
long ago in favor Of depriying them Of the
privilege which they now wish used in their
favor2 There certainly is deficiency Of mod,
esty in asking the votes of that portion Of
the constituency whom they so recently tried
TO disfranchise, and it would argue an utter
savshness on the part of any citizen Of
foreign birth, to vote for a single member
Of that party. There is at least natural
pride which all men should possess, in the
absence of which they are "poor indeed. -
There certainly can be nothing oreditable
in a man endorsing the accusation of his
own mental incapacity especially when he
is fully up TO the standard Of to accusers;
and regard it as full endorsement Of oil
the charges Of the Know Nothing party, to
vote for u single member of the vile faction,
who have, without the least shadow Of rea-
son. and for the basest Of purposes, taken
aim at their fellow citizens In consequence
of their accident of birth, can conceive
nothing more humiliating than the bare com
temptation of such abasement--that of sup,
porting set of men who place themselves
in position antagonistic to the rights of
their fellow men, and that too to subserye
the mere purposes of party Men who
could be guilty Of such gross injustice, four
short years ago, would be willing to do it
again.. when actuated by similar motives. l
have faith in taking the fangs out Of the
mouth of the serpent; TO deprive them of
the power Of being unjust is to do them
service, as it will lessen the amount Of their
accountability on the great day, when all
men will have to answer for their deeds of
omission and commission With this posi-
ton fairly in view, would it not be an act of
charity to leave them at home, where they
belong2 Any foreign born citizen who votes
for any man on that ticket, writes himself
down--not exactly an ass, but slave.
] very sincerely hope that the result Of the
vote will show the fact, that men who did
not happen to be born in Montgomery eoun-
ty, are quite as capable of doing their own
thinking and their own voting, as those who
were born within its agreeable limits There
is narrowness, and if the word must come,
an unjust ignorance, in the assumption that
oil mind is confined to any particular lo>
cality, which is much more amusing than
true, and argues an absolute want Of the
very article, the absence of which is so
strongly charged npon theie unfortunates,
whose mischance it was, to be born across
the Atlantic.
This article would never have been writ
ten by me, had it not been requested by
most respectable portion of our fellow cit-
zens whom it is said certain gent can in,
fuence. have the strongest assurances for
asserting that his power of hurting the
Democratic party is numbered among the
things that were. Its very existence was to
me at all times shadowy, although extern
sively claimed and consider it as little less
than an insult to even intimate thatour Irish
fellow citizens could be influenced or led by
any man possessing so inoonceivably small
an amount Of that quality which must bo in
the possession of any man who assumes the
leadership of even 'corporals guard -
The Democratic party have nothing to fear
from this imaginative influence; the entire
thing is an impudent assumption, without
even solitary prop to support it, and is
promptly repudiated by the very citizens
whose votes it is supposed could be so easily
alienated from the Democratic party
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