Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-09-03


In 1854 the Knownothing party consisted
as well of Democrats as of Wings and the
former even preponJerated sometime. The
nownothing or so-called American party
in the very essence of its motives and aim
was then Union party although by its
prejudicial attitude towards foreigners, in
dividually, net an absolute unconditional
but conditional liberty party. Want oflruc
ofgeneral republicanisni proved its death
self deservedly and long before the ascend
ancy of the Republican party. When the
crisis came, when the Unien was threat
ened by secession, am confident every
national Democrat, in 81 Knownothing,
was necessarily war Democrat. Every
Democrat who in 1854 was a knownothing
denounced the war measures to suppress
the rebellion as unconstitutional, endorsed
the Chicago platform OF 1864. Which de-
clared the war a failure, and proved by his
opposition TO the abolition of slaveryI by
his opposition to the reconstruction policy
of Congress giving universal freedom, that
the unjust and prcjudicial attribute of the
former Knownoihing party towards single
foreigners or bodies of such found spon-
taneous echo in his heart upon the ground
of personal feeling merely against the for
cigners not as a political but civil person
age. This feeling was generated by the
greeneyed monster jealousy, in view of tne
prosperity of foreigners, by an assumed
personal superiority but not by an unselfish
patriotic anxiety FOR the welfare of the I'm
ion and The principles she stands upon.
The MAJ who to-day as principle de-
nounces. Justice in moral concerns TO
which political matters also belong, to all
mankind" man, who denounccs the acci-
dental abolition of cast, because rs he says
in the Democrat, ..the Southern people
were wronged by the abolition of slavery
IN as much as they had to rely all their
lives upon the labor of the millions of their
negroes, and who consequently en-
dorscs the Southern maxim that capital
should ownl labor, such man rerifics him
self 10 day also and truly RS what the for
cignsr formerly understood by Knownoth-
ing. as champion for difIerential qualifi
cation in principle.
| And If he does this with reference to a
people living somewhere close, ,(slayery--
black codes for negroes property qualifi
cation for poor whites--as in the States
before the war; and if he docs so as a
matter of principle, he does SO also here in
the North with reference to people not his
own cast, qualification by property or intel
ligence or nationality. This desire for cast
in principle for acknowledged superiority
or at least distinctivencss is sc strong as il
that of the barons Of Europe, and he is
certainly as INSCRIPTIONS as to the person
upon which to rest his feet. Some Germans
may be deceived, others are not. We are
aware of the proverb, siraws slIow which
way the wind blows. reftls -
Whenever Mrs. Democracy wishes to
undertake a Campaign against the poor ne
gro down South, the good Germans and
Irishmen are mustered into service. Once
they are told that If the negro is set free
they would all come North and take the
work away from foreigners, but these for
cigners are not told that slavery in Itself
means the lowest grade of wages In compe
tition with free labor. At another time
iaese good natured Foreigners are told how
insulting it was TO them, 10 give tue negro
free condition, to make hun equal in po-
litical matters. Superiority and infcrieriiy
are involved. And why "DiUielc at I'M
pcrd-disturb the peaceful harmopy and
govern. With vanity uround, these for
eigners march into battle End subdue the
negro Little do they think, to-day it is
your fate, tomorrow ii may be mine. Lit
tie do they think that their native leaders
in the battle of suppre ssion dcspisc then
at any other time than election, and that Il
they cannot subjugate them as they had the
negro, they do at least the next best thing
hey use them to the best advantage and
for their own benefit Influential Offices. y
How disgusting TO see these men support
ing inequality and cast, aristocracy in
principle OH the che side and on the Other
to see them undermining the very funda-
mental interests of the people whose vote
they solicit by appeal to passion and vani
tywhicb both exclude an inteiligentunder-
standing. How deep do they not place
the foreigner thereby.
How is it possible that party which by
the distribution OF influential and high off
ccs demonstrates that the foreigners as
mass represent sufficient Intelligence ant
integrity and sufficient confidence 70 hold
higher Offices than those of local impor
tancc, ask, how is it possible that sucl
party, the Republican, be the knownothin1
party. To say that the present Republican
party con sists Of the former Knownothint
party, while by its principles and their ap
plication raising even the negro it goes tc
a lower level of political society than th,
European foreigner, proclaiming universe
freedom, while the Democratic, like tn,
American party, is in principle for unjusti
fable distinction, distinctions as inimicabl,
to the interest ofthe laboring foreigner a.
the negro, and while the Knownothing
formerly comprised asmany or more Dem
ocrats than Wings (the Republican part,
not existing them, is rather imposing upoI
the crcdulity of confiding foreigners. 1t i
the thief who cries stop thief.
t History slows that in every instance o
democratic republic, for reason of human
) selfshncss, elements ofdiscord and destruc
: tive changes appear. If ever a republi
perished, it was because demagogues un