Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-09
DAILY EMPIRE.


town Independent for bis very compliment
tary notice, which is herewith republished,
that the merits and dement's Of the "Wo-
chenblatg' may be the'inore widely known
DAYTON woonESBLArr.--Wo call the attention
of our readers to the fact that this paper, which at
Grat pretended to neutrality 10 politics, Is now,
what we expected II TO be, one Of the drtiest aud
meanest partizan sheets we ever saw. its at
taoks upon the Republicans ore as vindictive as
they are ridiculous. In its last issue, for instance
II gravely endeavors to prove that the Republicans
are all insape, deserving to be shut mp in Luna
tic Asylum, Now the Woohenblntt has right to
be Democratic, and " II we're q decent papor il
would be none the worse for that, but IL has no
right to sail under false colors. We do not object
70 It's politics, but to the deception practieed upon
the American public.
Had our plan for the establishment of a Ger
man Republican paper been adopted by the "wisc
mon" Of Dayton, the Wochenbiau could not SLAM
der Republican mon and measures with mpuni-
ty.
Really, we thank the Independent for its
kindly appreciation of our labors in behalf,
of good cause; and we revere, to the inners
most reeesses of our heart such high toned
sentiments as our Germantown contempOra,
ty so happily expresses, that the Woohen-
blatt is none the worse for being Democrvh
ic, And in that human feeling of good fell
lowship, innate in us, we return the compli-
mcnt by congratulating the Independent
that it is none the better for being Black
Republican.
Had we controlling voice in the School
Board of our county, the first move we d
make might be to have the Independent in
troducod into our schools as prime reader,
for besides the elegant style and the choice
language of its politics-literary department
it is always primed and goes off half cooked
Moreover, it would be an efficient means to
incucate in the young shoots that love of
Independence and self wiled obstinaey.
which mocks at all authority, paternal or
otherwise, which delights in freaks of pas
sionate indiseretion, and in reckless dsre-
gard of all law and decency. Our unso>
phistcated forelathers, good old souls as
they were, knowing no better and fearing
no worse, considered such a course as truly
lamentable. But the enlightened philoso-
piers Of modern times have overturned the
old fashioned, and to them as it seems ener.
waited doctrines of right and wrong, and
have elaborated a new code of ethics which
in their mind ovortops reason, justice and
humanity. And our Independent oontem-
porary has certainly claims to be counted as
among the foremost of this new school of
ethical tinkerS.
But the polite and erudite "Independent"
seems to be sorely troubled by the straight,
forward course the "Wochenblatt' sees fit
to pursue. He seems to be in q continual
fret about it, and deeply laments that there
is not German Black Republican paper to
come to his rescue. We advise him to bide
his time. He may rest assured that as soon
as his close calculating party managers,
who know how to turn penny as we'll as
the shrewdest down-caster, may find that
such an investment will pay, either politi.
callY or pecuniarily, the Independent'
will no doubt be accommodated with Ger,
man edition. Nevertheless it appears to us
but as another strange kink in the logic of
the Independent, that he should now thus
loudly halloo for German "supe" But a
short time ago he shreked the loudest of all
that Americans shall rule America" and
true to his Know Nothing proclivities he
knew not but that the Germans and other
immigrants were entirely unfit to be allow
ed to participate in the government of their
adopted country. Perhaps he went even
SO far as to applaud the sentiment so tersey
and forcibly expressed by the Hon. Mr.
Kilgore-now a Republican member Of
Congress-in the Indiana constitutional
Convention, that free negro was far better
qualified to exercise the privileges of Anne,
rican citizenship than immigrants from Eu-
rope, and that the foreigners should be but
the horses to draw the burden, and the
Americans the drivers to hold the reins.
Perhaps he is yet willing to approve of and
support the proposition so honorable to nat
uralized citizens, made in 1S47 or 48 by
VIM. II. Seward of New York, to the then
Governor of Virginia, to exchange for every
cargo of free negroes a cargo of Germans
and Irish, who can easily be picked up in
the streets of New York. And perhaps he
would even now defend and exhonerate the
reason given by Mr.. Seward for that truly
generous proposition, which was, that they
had great trouble with these ra calls the
Germans and Irish, for whom they have to
raise large amount of money, and who still
voted against them, but that they bod no
such trouble with the negro population of
New York. Perhaps the Independent has
heard of and probably read certain book
called Republican Landmarks published
in Philadelphia in 1856, which by the same
line Of argument advocated nearly the same
doctrine; and if he has read it, we doubt not
that from his then >know-nothng proclivi
ties he certainly approved of it. Hence ii
appears tou US to be strange kink in his
logic, that be should now be 50 clamorous
for German "supe."
But our Independent contemporary seems
to have very imperfecty read and not al all
understood the remarks of the "Wochen
blatt, when be charges it as endeavorinp
to prove that the Republicans are all insane,
deserving to be shut up in a lunatic asylum.
We applied the remark to only a portion of
the most excitable and irritable material of
the Renublican Marty. bnt Wa did ,,oJ ~,