The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-10-03

A few weeks since the Jackson Patriot
charged "our Blair with altering senti-
ments unbecoming politician, to say
nothing Of gentleman, towards adopted
citizens in general but Germans in partic-
ular, on the evening after tho Charter
election in that town last spring, The re-
publican presses through the State howl
ed bideously at the falsehood, but the last
Patriot brings forth witnesses to substan-
tiatc the charge, and since then the ne
grophilists are dumb on the matter. In
proof of this crushing charge, the follow
ing appears in the Patriot:
Observing in your paper, under date
of August 20, 1860, an article in which
Mr.. Blair was charged with uttering GER
tain words in regard to foreigners, at a
meeting held on the square last spring; |;
and also we noticed that the american
Citizen of last week denies that Mr.. Blair
ever uttered such languages, anywhere or
at any place.
"The undersigned state that they at
tended a meeting in Jackson's new build
ing, OH the evening of the charter election
last spring, that Mr.. Blair was there and
made the following rewarks:
That the Democrats went down, on
Sunday night, among The dirty Dutch,
and that he was proscriptive enough to
drive all that class Of citizens out of this
country. Now that Col. Berry is elected,
he hoped that he would put that class
through, and give them no more work on
the Streets
"The above are the words used by Mr..
Blair, and we do not decline TO sign this
statement, and give you the liberty to in
sert it in your columns.
JOHN r. EvERARD,
ID. A. SHUMwAY,
G. RATH.
"I was present at the meeting above
alluded to, for short time, and heard the
above remarks of Mr.. Blair in reference to
Col. Berry. J. B. EATON"
Jackson, Sept. 10, 1860.
This fully sustains the charge, and we
produce it in our columns now because we
are convinced of its truth, which we at
first hesitated to believe. What do the
Journal, Homestead Fecht, High Tariff
Bloynk and the other blind worshippers of
Sam and Sambo, say to this? Are they
going to add injury to insult by allowing
their honest and credulous followers to
vote for and help to elect such a MANI
Will they lay aside all party ties and par
tizan pusilanimity, like the lashed hound
kiss the hand that applies the scourge to
their backs, and tell thom that he would
drive all of them out of the country p
They may support him if they will; they
may be all right" anyhow; they may
continue to glory in their own shame,
trample on their own manhood and stife
within their breasts the Indignation that
the perusal of this will justly beget in
them-they may do this and forget all
but those whom they go with, in support
of one who could thus insult their intelli
gence and character, will agree in the
opinion Of their adversaries, that they de-
Serve dH-that there is no loVer deep to'
them TO plunge, and that tile intamy o
their maligner as unequal TO their debase
ment.
We hope our central committee viii
see to it that tho VolksbdH and ZeitunS
publish an essay on this matter, and cir
culate them in thousands throughout the
State, giving one to every German, Higl
and Low Dutchman, for if they be no
hopelessly and incurably PROSTATE at th'
feet Of their unscrupulous leaders, they
will rise in their might and resist this fla
grant insult. II will be of more effec
than thousands of your Washington doc
uments, for il is inambiguous and easil
understood. Det. Guardian.
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