Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-07

For the Empire.
The editor Of the dayton Wochenblau7
presents his sincere thanks to the "Germans
town Independent for his very compliment
tary notice, which is herewith republished
that the merits and demerits of the "Wo.
ohenblatt" may be tho'more widely known
DAYTON WooHESnLArr.-Wo call the attention
Of our readers TO the fact that this paper which at
first pretended TO neutrality in politics, Ia now
what we expected II TO be, Of tho dirtiest and
mesnest partisan sheets we ever saw. its at.
taoks upon the Republicans as yindictiyo as
thoy ridiculous In Its last ISSUE for instance
II grayely ondSavors prove that the Republicans
all insane, deserving to be shut up in Luna
tic Asylum, Now tho Wochenblatt has right to
be Democratic, and II Il were a descent paper Il
would be none tho worse for that, but il has no
right to sail under false colors. We do not object
to Its politics, but 10 the deception practicod upon
the American public.
Had our plan for the establishment Of n Ger
man Republican paper been adopted by the 9wiso
men" Of Dayton, the WocheRJiau could not SLAM
der Republican mon and measures with impuni-
ty.
Really, we thank the Independent fer its
kindly appreciation of our labors ia behalf
Of good cause; and we revere, 10 the iuners
most recesses Of our heart, such high toned
sentiments as our Germantown contempora>
ry 80 happily expresses, that the Wochen-
blatt is none the worse for being Democrat.
ic. And ip that human feeling of good fell
lowship, innate in us, we return the compli-
mont by congratulating tho Independent
that it u mono the better for being Black
Republican.
Had we controlling voice in tho School
Board Of our county, the first move wee
make might be to have tho Independent in
troduced into our schools as prime reader,
for besides the elegant style and tho choice
language of its politics-hterary department,
1t is always primod and goes off half cooked
Moreover, it would be an efficient bleans to
inculcate in the young shoots that love of
independence and self willod obstinacy,
which mocks at al authority, paternal or
otherwise, which delig hts in freaks Of pas
slonate indiscretion, and in reckless disre.
gard OF all law and decency. Our unso>
phisticAted forolathers, good old souls AZ
they were, knowing no better and fearing
no worse, considered such course as truly
lamentable But the enlightened philoso-
pliers of modern times have overturned the
old fashioned, and to them as it seems enor.
waited doctrines of right and wrong and
have elaborated new code of ethics which
in their mind overtops reason, Justice and
humanity. AMI our Independent coAtem-
porary has certainly claims to be counted as
among the foremost of this new school of
ethical tiHkers.
But the polite and erudite "Independenr'
seems to be sorely tronbled by tho straight.
forward course the "Wochenblattr seea 6t
10 pursue. lie seems 10 be in a continual
fret about it, and deeply laments that there
Is not German Black Republican paper 10
come to his rescue We advise him IA hide
his time. He may rest assured, that as sohn
as his close calculating party managers
who know how to turn a penny as well as
the shrewdest down-saster, may find that
such IN investment win pay, either po,i.i,
cally or psSuniarily, the "lndopendentS
VII NO doubt be accommodated with Ger.
Ilan edition. Nevertheless, it appears 10 us
but az another strange kink in tho logic If
the Independent that he should now Tins
loudly hAlloo for a German "supe" But a
short time ago he shrieked the loud est of all
that Americans shall rule America" and
true to his Know Nothing proclvities he
knew not but that the Germans and othe,
Immigrants were entirely unfit to be above
ed to participate in the government Of thsir
adopted country. Perhaps he wont even
80 far as to appland the sentiment so tersoIy
and foreibly expressed by the Hon. MIR.
Kilgoro-now u Republican member of
Congress-in the Indiana constitutional
Convention, that free negro was far better
qualified to exercise tho privileges of Anne,
riean 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 no is yet willing to approve Of and
support tho proposition 30 honorable to nat
uralized citizons, made in lS47 or AS by
'Vm. II. Seward of New York, to tho then
Governor of Virginia, to exchange for every
argo OF free negroes cargo Of Germans
nd lrish' who can easily be picked up in
he streets of New York And perhaps he
Iould even now defend and oxhonerate the
sason givel by Mr.. Seward for that truly
generous proposition, which was, that they
lad great trouble with these rascals, the
iiermanS and Irish, for whom they have to
rAise large amount Of money, and who still
vcted against them, but that they bod no
auch troabie with the negro population Of
Jew York. Perhaps the Independent has
leard Of and probably read certain book
allied gRspnbtieah Landmarks,7 published
. PhilaAs'phlA IN 1866, which BY the same