The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-05

otherwise abused and maltreated, while their
houses were fred and churches burned
In November, 1874, the same operation
that took place in Philadelphia was re-
peated in New York. The wings 4and nas,
tive Americans formed q coalition. The
wing candidates that had been nolninated
for congress and the county Offices were
withdrawn in favor of the native American
candidates. The result was the coalitich
carried every native American congressman
and the city candidates in New York and,
IN return therefor, the native Americans cast
their votes for the whig candidate for presi-
dent.
+ The native American organization contin-
ned pretty active, though without accomplish
ing much except to get an Endorsement
from General Scott the wing candidate for
president in 1852 until 1854, when the op
sition to foreignerstoo the name of know
nothing. This organization took IN nearly
the whole OF the wing party and the whole
abolition party It's main features were the
repeal of all naturalization laws and the ex
tension of the term preceding the enjoyment
of political rights to twenty-one years. 1t
also demanded that none but natiye-born cit
izens should hold Office. Its motto was,
..Put none but Americans on guard This
party, being composed of native Americans,
wings and abolitionists, swept the northern,
or free states, for two years.
The reaction rgainst the odious organiza-
ton commenced in the spring of 1855, when
the democrats of Newport Kentucky, beat
the organization at the municipal election of
that city. Next came the democrats of Gin
cinnati, who defeated the order in April,
elected their mayor and other city officers.
l. &c
the able and gallant Wise, as the democratic
candidate for governor. Mr.. Wise made
opposition to the know-nothing organization
and its principles the main issue Of the can
Fass, and was elected by a handsome major
ity. The campaign of that year against
know-nothingism was closed in Tennessee
by the election OF Andrew johnson, the DEM
ocratic candidate for governor, who dealt the
dark-lantern oath-bound order sledgeham.
Iner blows. So
In 1855, Salmon P Chase was elected
governor of Ohio, by a coalition of know
nothings, wings and abolitionists.
In the year 1856, the whole know-nsthing
party met by delegates, in convention, at
Philadelphia, when split took place. The
split was not on any disagreement in opposi-
ton to fereigners-they were oil ofone mind
and in perfect harmony on that point-but
/ the abolition element of the convention wan
ted an anti-slavery plank put in the platform.
The abolition portion seeded, afterward
Joined in the movement of the abolition con-
vention that met at Pittsburg, and out Of
which sprang the present republican party.
And now since the Puritan and negro
have formed a coalition, the old native
American and know-nothing spirit begins to
show itself again General Lee, the repub-
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Ohio, in a recent speech at Mansfield, made
the negroes and citizens of foreign birth.
He said:
81 here make the assertion that the ! 500 men,
of twenty -one years of age, in Ohio, with black
blood, are better qualified, by reason of intell-
gence, to vote than $500 white men in diff
erent parts of the state, many times told
The republican candidate for United
States senator, Ben. Wade, and who expects
to be president in place of Andrew johnson,
| was even more insulting to citizens of foreign
birth than was General Lee. In his speech
at Marietta, Ohio, he said, the other day, of
foreigners
"They come here from foreign country, and
we give them the privilege to vote when they
know no more than the horse they drive.
IF you will take the poor Irishman or other for
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your institutions--if you will permit him to vote
after five years residence, then insist upon the
same right for this other class of persons,
As mass in my Judgment, they (the negroes)
are better. qualified to discharge their duties an
der this government than the great wass, equal to
them in Numbers, that we have always permitted
to vote. +" 3 am glad to say that these peo-
pie (negroes1 whom your Legislature has referred
it for you to say whether they shah be voters
not, are infinitely above the class {foreigners)
have alluded to. all that intelligence that quail
fes men to vote
He says that the German, Irish, English
and other foreigners who emigrate to this
country for home, "khoac no more than the
horse they dripe'" and that the negroes are
infinitely ADORE them an alt that intelligence
,chtch qualities me,, TO r0te. Should the COM
bination between the Puritan and the negro
be successful by the latter being made a vo
ter, the native American and know-nothing
spirit win again become a formidable ele-
ment in American politics.
1t is owing to the democratic party, to its
| long ascendency in the state and national
| councils, and to its opposition to the old fed
eral spirit against foreigners, and to the ma
tive American and know-nothing spirit, that
nine out of zen of the citizens of foreig birth
who now enjoy the elective franchise, can
boast OF that privilege. Had the opposition
to the democratic party had the aseendency
in the state and national councils as had the
democratic party, but small portion of oar
foreign-born population would be voters.
Soldiers Deserving the Radicals.