Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-08-27

For the Delaware Republican.
no TIE NATURALIzED VOTERS OF
DELAWARE
few truths to the naturalized voters o.
| ,nis State may prove acceptable and whole.
come. In order TO fully appreciate those truths
all prtjudices must be laid aside, and the in
quiring mind must be dive ested OF the bias in
cidental 10 political conflicts and psrtiEau
strife. 1t hos been too sommoA, in this coun-
try, to appeal to the passions and prejudices oi
| the maese5 rather than reason The naturalized
citiz ms have been appealed to as distinct class
| from the native born. Tie leading feature oil
| these appeals was that the Union party was
opposed to the foreigner voting and holding
office that " Americans must rule America r.
| Cpou the altar Of this falsehood churches have
been destroyed, asy lums for orphans have been
given to the flames, aud valuable lives have
teen sacrificed. The organization of Nativism
has passsd away Know Nothingism is among
tho things that were. Such is the fate OF all
illiberal organizations The Democratic party
| proclaimed itself the enemy of these narrow
miudGd institutions and made war upon them,
| and proclaimed itself the friend of the op-
| pressed OF all nations. When the late rebellion
broke out both the democratic and whig par
| ties were dissolved. The patriotic members of
:he two existing parties united themselves upon
| the platform OF the Constitution, and fought
| the battles oil the Union and put down treason,
and called themselves the Union party. On the
other hand, the unprincipled-th prohgate
and the base men-botn wings and democrats,
| banded themselves together and gave aid and
comfort to the traitors, retaining the clap trap
name Of democracy. Thus we have tine claims
| of the two parties presented to us. The same
Union parly--composed of the best men OF all
parlies--has nominated fer Governor, james
| Riddle Esq, naturalized citiz n. This NOM
iua,ion shows conclusively the truth OF the as.
sertion thai there is not the least taint OF Ma
| tivism or Know Nothinglsm in the Union or.
ganzation. On the other hand, AN not so
sure that the prejudice of nativism docs not
exist in the democratic party Of Delaware. 1t
| is g fact beyond contradiction, that the name
Of the Hon. James A. BaJ ard was announced,
| on large posters, as one of the speakers who
was to address the convention that nominated
| the Know Nothing ticket in 1854, and had it
not have been that press OF business at
| Washington, as he stated in n letter, prevented
it, he would have defined his position and
placed himself side by side with Cullen and
other Know Nothing leaders ia this State.
In the city of Wilmington nearly all of the
native born democrats belonged to that secret
organ alton. The author Of this article can
establish that fact beyond quibole; and an
other remarkable circumstance is that when
the old parties we're broken up in 1861, on the
Union question, nearly all the leading Know
Nothings and Natives left their old organiza-
tions and united with the so-callcd democrats.
Should this fact be denied list OF these mar
row-minded and selfish men will be furnished
the public through the press. On the other
| hand the URion party has given the very best
evidence that it has got rid OF these men and
| their one idea. During Abraham Lincoln's ad-
minstration every inducement was held out to
fJrt igner5 to emigrate to this country. The ad-
ministration even went 80 far as to establish
bureau OF emigration. This branch of our &C.
vernmsnt was intended TO give aid and en-
couragement to foreigners TO emigrate to this
country and t has and is now doing it, - T,is -.
sccounts for the large number OF emigraats
that have found their way to this country the
last three years. would ask tho naturalized
citizen what has the democratic party done to
aid their friends in finding an asylum from ty-
rany and oppression These doubtful patriots
ask you to vote for them because they are the
friends of the foreigner, Lettn ask how have
they befriended you | will answer: By ask
ing you 10 vote a ticket 10 break up the very
government that gave you an asylum and now
protects you protects your fireside, yonr reli-
gion, and everything yoa hold dear. Their
cold blooded friendship would crush out the
very liberty you came here to enjoy, and with
out III, least remorse, trample upon the dearest
ii shts o. freemen. Who advocates slavery
Au institution that deprves man of all the
ennobliDg attributes of the divinity, and makes
him little better than brute. The answer is,
the so.ealled democracy. When that great
aud god man, Father Matthew, declaimed
ngairs slavery, Who were the men that de-
nourced lin as Az internedler and an old de-
tqrd The answer 10, the democracy. That
good old man was cursed FROM one end OF this
h., hAr hfp IN Ua cd
to that internal institution, slavery. The great
man has pagssi q way, but his wish has been
accomplished slavery IL dead and the name
c: Father Matthew 70 immortal.
Let us take another view of this case. How
does democracy ard the naturalized citizen 7
This ia u question that comes home to us with
considerable force. Doea it give you superior
political privileges Would the advocates OF
human bondage--the men who have coined
the blood, the bone, and the brain OF the poor
negro to make them fortunes grant you any
more fagors than they have the poor African,
were it net to give them power and influence
by your votes Does it occur to your mind
that these great patriots, who irherit all the
defects Ct Andrew jackson and none Of his
virtues, would treat you any better than they
have the slaves, were it not that you are of
great beuet. to them on election day. Let me
ask you some serious questions, laborers OF
torelgn blfth. fOr Wnom 10 you TOLL anu VINO
pays you for your honest labor at stipulated
times2 Are they the so called democracy, or
are they men who compose the Union party
How many of you find work in tho shops OF
the democracy, and how many of you find
work in the shops OF tho Union men2 If you
ask for labor to earn bread for yonr wife and
little ones, do yon go to the democrats or do
you go to the Union men2 When produce
rises in price, do you go to the democrats to
raise your wagee to meet the emergency, or do
you go the Union men II one OF you are
sick and in want, to whom do you apply for
aid When you go to your closet to com
muuo with your God, answer these questions.
When you bow your knee in prayer before the
great Am, and supplicate his mercy, and
open your heart in simplicity and truth, what
will your answer be = When you call upon the
Most High to bless your bsnefactor--the man
who has stood by you through veal or woe
through prosperity or afaietion-will he be Il