The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-09-02
KNOW NOtLingEsm Revived.

Aboli,ionism and Know Nothingism are
essentially the same in spirit. Both had their
birth in Massachusetts, and are founded on
the rhar:saical idea that there IS no wisdom,
patriotism or sanctity outside of Massachu-
sets, unless it'came from there. No part Of
this county is safe for Il minute, unless it
is don,inae ed by Massachusetts ideas.
Since the close of our civil war, it seems,
foreign Immigration has increase F., and many
of these emigrants are going 10 Virginia
North Carolina, &c. They ar, nos,l Germans.
and he Germans lorthe astlew yeas, will! few
exceptions, haze trained meelly enough under
abolition whip and spur. But slavery being
dead and new political issues coming UP, it IS
more than likely that the Germans may find
many points of difference between themselves
and their late task masters. The truth is. the
ASSOCIATION hitherto Of the Germans and abo-
litionists has been most unnatural and ilegl-
innate The Germans were actuated in their
hostility to slavery purely by their love Of
freedom The abJlitionis,s. On tue contrary,
b. their innate spirit OF righteousness and
Intolerance. The Germans were humaata-
rians; the abo,tionists religious bigots.
But for this accidental and factitious associa-
ton, German liberalism aud Massachusetts
puritanis would naturally have been as OPP
posed to zach other as fire and water.
So evi1 entity thinks that new exponent of
paritan political and religious IDEAS ia Il e
west, the Chicago Republican. Thai paper
sounds the alarm in view Of the h.aVy Ger
mau immigration to the SOUTH and says
something must be done about it at once
These people, in a few years, will be r0teIs.
aud may vote wrong! And the editor modest
ly concluf lies, that if they can't be kept from
the polls. at least, before they can be allowed
to march up with the negro to vote, they
must be kept a few years under the tuition
of Massachusetts school mas ,ers and preach
ers That we may do the { iitor no injustice
III giving an Interpretation at once 50 impu-
dent and insulting to our German friends,
we c,py his editorial bodily as follows
European EA:GRANrs IN the SOUTH
Since The termination Ul the civil war Euro
Pean emigration 10 this couutry has become
ALTOGETHER uugrecedcnt u Ia lis y opJrtions
SeVe..i thousands OF these new Corners are
landed at New York every week. a great
many Vi these eniigrauts who haze recently
arrived in New IorS have b-en hired 10 20
10 Virginia and other southern states, ;hai
class oi labOrers being, Is II seems, preferred
by the rebels to those who have been residents
%. f4ar.
grafton Is needed in the south, and much as
II Is calculated u IMPROVE the condition OF
that unfortunate secIiJh OF our country, there
Is q public DANCER la the political use which
demag12ues u.ay make ia the south, Is form
erly Trey did In the nOrth, of the new settlers
from foreign lands, which challenges public
w lance. W uiie the d.er-lun ct southern
employers for iabvr-rs who have long resided
Ia tie northern state, r., Gals err dread Of
people to have learned 10 ioOk with con
ten It upon their hoasicl superiority, their
preference TOR strangers iudir.;es a dl-PJs,-
uJH to cyu;rJ. i:u woes OF these new iaDJrers
aud to use them Tor Lei. own political plr-
poses. Now there could be nothing more -
Tai to the welfare Of tle country Than "a re-
newal OF the Traffic in foreign votes, which
had contributed so much 10 consolidate
southern Iut.ae.c. In northern bar-rooms and
cOpperh-aL conventions, aui which las played
20 omiapus a par, in acc-.eratins lie expo
sion O: our evil var
Grea; a. the necessity is for the material
recapera,iou OF the soLIh, Ibis Will GeVerl1e-
less tail to secure the property Of The couu-
try unless it be made 10 90 hand ia hand with
political and moral regeneration.
We look with grave mIsgivlr.s upon the
advent OF the new European immigrants in
th Sc regions, unless ,hcy are also aceompa
MED BY enlightened settlers itom Inc tree
states. taking with Them the schooi-hoi.se, the
church, the newspaper and all the ide't OF
tree society. Thea they will beneti, them
selves and the country into which they emf
CRATE, without the danger Of supplying mate>
rial for southern GrmagoLues, and thus
cveniually iujuring the south a. much 20
h.ica('y rs their-hoacst la5ors will, no doubt,
pIolhtc is material advancement.