The mountain Democrat., 1863-08-22
Hypoerlsieal and DlsAonsst.

can party profess 10 beufriends and admi.
rers Of adopted citizens, but always im'
mediatrly after abuse them 10 set terms
and persecute them. Why is thisI II
is beca"se, almost invariably, the for.
eigners, the Dutch and Irisb," IS they
are termed by EOAlwOushed AhO'Si,inm
lists, vote the Democratic tiCket-vOte
with that party which has, at ell times
and under all circumstances, stood true
to them-that party which has fought for
their rights, and defeated and annihilatetl
9 party which was organized expressly to
persecute and insul; adopted citizens. All
the leading Know Nothings are now
prominent members Of the Abolition par
ty. When DOwney, Weller, Bigler and
Whitesides were contending for the rights
Of adopted citizens, Low, Highly; Shan.
non and Cole were denouncing them.
These unscrupulOus partisans and malig.
nant prosecutors Of foreigners" have
not changed their creed. II the Know
Nothing party were to reOrganiSe tO.mOr.
row they would again embrace its creed
and become leading members Of it.
We could fill our columns with extracts
from Abolition organs, abusive and de-
nunCiatory Of adopted citizens; but We
shall, for the present, copy but one Of the
many before US. The Norwich Connect.
icu) Courier, a leading. influential, &C.
knowledGed organ Of the Administration,
thus insul,ingly speaks Of foreigners: !:
"NAruRALIzATIoN.-T Democrats are
aware that the annual election is at hand,
and are preparing for It in the usual way.
by the WHOLESALE manufacture Of Anmri.
can citizens. Son thirty or forty DEX
OcRATIc CATTLE were made voters in the
Court at Bridgeport lately"
What do our Gureign.bOrn citizens think
Of n party whose organ StigmatiSes them
as Democratic cattle! ?" Have the AbO-
li,ioniSts either sympathy or respect for
them? Have they ever manifested either :?
Have they not prescribed them in numer-
Gus instances! How did they act in
Massachusetts, the birthplace and strong
hold Of Aboliti0niSm? 1t is a we'll known
fact that the Republican members Of the
Legislature Of that State, passed law to
prevent naturalized citizens from voting
until two years had expired after the date
, their naturalization papers. The few
Democrats who were in the legislature
spoke and voted against the illiherAl. pro-
scriptive and insulting bill. Remember,
it was passed BY a Republican lesisla-
ture and approved by Republican Gov.
ernor, and sanctioned by the Republican
party. Look at the infamous Law. 1t
places the white citizens of German.
Irish, English, Welsh and Scotch birth
upon a status Of civil inferiority to me-
groes, who arc full citizens and voters in
and eligible to Office. The
persecution Of foreigners, the oppression
of poor white men, who have, in number
less instances, been thrown out Of em.
plOyment for refusing to vote as they
were ordered by tie Abolition "lords Of
the loom" Of New England. and the eleva.
lion Of negroes, are favorite tenets with
lhem. The same spirit animates that
party everywhere. Let them secure a
majority in both branches Of our LcgiSla-
ture and they. will carry into effect their
shameless boast, Of granting the elective
TO negroes. We ask the foreign
born citizens, and the just and liberal ma.
live born, to mark the doings Of the Abo
itionists in those States where they have
acquired power. There the nndying ha.
tired the leading AbolitioniSts entertain
against foreigners, manifests itself in obi
ous Legislative enactments and petty per
unworthy the age.