The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-09-27
Germans and Irish Read

State of Indiana, selected at Indi-
anopolis on the 22d of FEBRUARY,
1860, in speech says:
"In the heart of the foreigner
beats not one single noble impulse ;
not one single throb of patriotism.
He is so british and degraded that
he has no sympaty for anything but
cabbage and lager beer, potatoes
and buttermilk, or some abomina-
BILE and outlandish dish, only fit for
the hogs of the street or pen.
lie said, further:
Some tell me that many foreign
ers are intelligent; yes; intelligent:
How in the name Of Almighty God
can they say it? Look at the
Dutchman, smoking his pipe, and
if you can see ray of intelligence
in that idiotic looking face Of his,
show it to me.
You see a lop-cared, wide mouth
ed, mullet headed Dutchman, COM
ing from the land of Krout, with
the foam of beer still sticking to
his horsetail whiskers, and his
breath smelling of,garlic and onions
enough to kill a white man three
hundred yards, and before he can
say anything in the world but
'Dimiccat,' he must vote, and that
vote counts as much as youas or
mine. This is outrageous and
abominable. These foreigners that
have carried elections for old liners
will have to learn their places
They have no more right to vote
than the brute of the field, and have
not half the sence of good New
Foundland dog; and God knows
were I candidate for any office, !
would tell these paupers and vaga-
bonds, these vile, filthy, dirty de-
graded, idiotic foreigners, I did not
want their votes and if I ever am q
candidate, l hope to God l never
will get them"
If the foregoing extracts are not
sufficient to disgust our German
fellow citizen with the Republican
party, and the men who act with
that party, we cannot imagine what
will disgust them. The Republi
cans may tell you they are not re
sponsible for what John NJ. Wilson
said. Then ask them why they
placed him over the Republican
State ticket, contingent elector
Ask them why they have selected
him to canvass the State in assist.
ance of their regular elector?
In the same speech, Mr.. Wilson
pitched into' our Irish fellow cit
izens in a similar stile to wit:
"Look at that drunken, bloated
Irishman, with his rot gut whisky
bottle in his pocket, and he drunk
and swearing and reeling, and show
me in that polluted face, one spark
of morality, intellect or education
The idea is perfectly absurd, it ii
preposterous.
We must change the laws of the
land, and prevent these indolent
degraded paupers here from voting
and holding Office. There are a Sc
of unprincipled Williams and rufian'
who congregate in and around ou,
; large cities and villages, and live b,
stealing It 1ap,.; g.. and begging from tn,
Would you have the American
citizens to stand back, and let :
bloated red visaged, drunken brut,
ofan Irishman vote instead of him
self? See the wretch as he ap
proaches: his knee knocking, anc
the slobber of tobacco running
down his jaws, and as he comes
you hear him hurrah for Dimocracy
and here he comes fresh from tn,
bog, just one year ago, and want
to vote-and because the boys or,
move him. and he gets knocked
down for his impudence, a grea
cry is made by the old Line dema
gogues. l say it is right, let then
stand back"
l Republicans tell our German an
Irish citizens that they are nc
: mixed upwith the Know Nothings
a The fact that Jno. NJ. Wilson, VIII
: uttered the above outrageous sen
:, timents, was Know Nothing il
1855, and stands out now as one O
e the leaders of the Republican par
e ty, is incontrovertable and suficien
= evidence that they are Know
3 Nothings yet. They even selected
their Township officerc in an OBJ
scure place, without giving q wort
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