The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-24

A few Friendly words to our foreign born
Citizens.
The late election has developed some GU
rious facts, as well as some instructive les
sons, if people would heed. We published
a little item last week stating the fact that
only nine of the 241 votes cast for McClel-
Ian in this city, were cast by native born
citizens. Nobody was more astonished at
this fact than the foreign born citizens,
themselves Several of orr most respects-
bic citizens of foreign birth have called up
on us andexpressed, at first their unbelief, and
when convinced their astonishment at the |
fact. They could not believe that they had
been SO unwitt;; lgly led by a few political
demagogues into an almost unanimoua for
eign born party. Of course we do not pre-
tend to say that no adopted citizens voted
for Lincoln, for there were many, we are
happy to say, who were among the strong
est supporters of Lincoln and the Union.
This peculiarly of the vote of the foreign
born citizens is not confined to Kenosha
city or county. We notice the same thing
has caused remarks and statements similar
to the one we made last week, in many of
our exchanges. All over the country, al
most the same unaniniity of the native born
population for the candidate of the Union.
party is exhibited. They voted for the up
holding and petpetuation of the free institu-
lions and the free government under which
they were born They could not be cheat
ed by the promises nor threats, nor the
Misrepresentation of ambitious politicians,
into vote directly against their most Vi
tai interests. We write this in no spirit of
complaint or i'll will toward adopted citizens
but to show them that blind attachment
to the name, Democracy, is not always the
part of enlightened citizens. The men who
took the lead of the opposition to the Adj
ministration, under the name OF democrats,
cared very little for the principles Of Democ-
racy. How much they care for democratic
principles may be gathered from their course
since their late defeat. Many of the most
influential papers of the mis-named democ-
racy, have been urging their friends to mi
CRATE to Canada. They have praised the
soil, the climate, and above all the govern
ment under which the Canadians live; not
because there is more democracy there, but
because the ruling power there is above and
independent of the voice of the Masses
Toey do not hesitate to declare that con-
stitutional monarchy is far superior to
democratic Republican government. Our
adopted citizens might, if they would, derive
great lesson from this election. The can
didate of the Union party has been elected
by at least half a million majority on the
popular vote, and this majority has come
from the farming and laboring population.
The large cities have almost all given ma
jorities for Mcclellan, New York taking the
lead and giving him almost 100000! ma
jority. That the great bulk of the vote
given to McCIellan-say at least nine tenths
of it-has been given by adopted citizens,
there is every reason to believe. We fear
it was not altogether an enlightened appre-
citation of democratic principles that infu-
enced the greater share of this vote. But
there was toomuch heed given to the frothy
declarations of political spectators, who
were anxious to get into power, and used
the worn out and much abused name of de-
mocracy as about their sole stock in the ven
ture. There has been no appeal to adopted
citizens as such, to vote for one candidate,
or to native born citizens to vote for the
other. There has been no Know Nothing
effort made, and yet, if that had been the sole
question at issue, there could hardly have
been closer line drawn in this respect The
Union canvass has been conducted oply on
the ground of restoring the Union, crushing
the rebellion, and preserving the Liberty,
the Free Government under which, as a ma
ton; we have so wonderfully thriven, grown
and prospered. On the other hand, the OPP
position started out with platform that few
could understand, which they claimed
meant suspension Of hostiIities, and car
didate whom they claimed would be in ia
vor of a prosecution of the war until the
rebellion was suppressed, and they christen-
ed both, platform and candidate, Democra-
tic. Our adopted citizens may well believe
that the great majority of native born citi-
zens are attached to the free institutions of
their country; that they are not going to
conspire together to destroy those institu-
lions and ensave themselves or allow 9th
ers to do that, and if at any time they are
at a loss how they should vote, we believe |
they would be perfectly safe in finding how
a majority of native born citizens were go
ing and fall in with them. 1t is hardly
fair to suppose that our adopted citizens,
many of whom have been in this country but
a few years, are better qualified to Judge of
men and principles than the great majority
of native born citizens, and when they see
the great body of the native population go
ing one way, even though they may not be
able to account for it satisfactorily, they
may set it down as perfectly safe
to follow on the same way.
The New York Tribune speaking of this
matter, says:
''We know an election district in West
chester County wherein Mr.. Lincoln gains
twenty-five votes, in good part by CONVEX
sions, but these gains were balanced by
twenty-six naturaiizations, mainly of labor |
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