Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-30
SCHUYLER COLFAX.

Schuyler COIfaN's speech, Made in
1878, After his Return from the
KnOW.NOthing Convention I'm Phil
Rd eIphia.
7 he Banner Of Liberty, published in
New York, says that "an old Fenian
friend of that city has handed it the fol-
lowing from his scrap-book for publication.
1t is an abstract from one among the many
speeches deliver ed by Schuyler Colfax,
Radical candidate for Vice President, on
his return to Indiana from the National
Know-Nothing convention at Philadelphia,
in 1850" Read it:
< "Some tell me that many
foreigners are intelligent yes, intelligent
How in the name of Almighty God can
they say it? Look at the Dutchman,
smoking his pipe, and if you can see ray
of intelligence in that dirty, idiotic face of
his, show it to me Look at that drunken,
bloattd Irishman, with q rotgut whisky
bottle in his pocket, aud he drunk, swear.
ing nd reeling--show me in that polluted
face any spark of morality, intellect or
education. The idea is perfectly absurd /;
it Is preposIerous
We must change the laws Of the land
and prevent these ignorant, degraded pau
pers here from voting and holding office.
They are get Of unprinCipled villains and
rutiisns, who congregate in and around our
large cities and villages, and live by steal
ing and begging from the Americans. Some
tell me they have rights. Some they ha We ;
the right TO live under our laws and .Tll
the soil and do az We bid. They are I'M e.
rior in intellect and intelligence to thu
Americans, and they must and shall be put
down and kept down, if it has to be at the
the point of the bsyonet and with powder
and lead. There IS no use talking min 9.
cingiy, or of fearing results in regard to
the matter, A great cry has went up by
old liners about the foreigners being driven
away from the polls, and not being allowed
TO vote. This, | suppose, is true in many
respects. Would you have the American
citizen stand back, and let a bloated, red
visaged, drunken brute of an Irishman
vote instead of himself? See The wretch
az he approaches; his knees knocking, and
the slobber of tobacco running down his
jaw, and az he comes you hear him "hurra
for Democracy" and here he comes, fresh
from the bogs, Just one year ago, and wants
him." and he gets knocked down for in,-
pudence, great cry Is made about it by
old line demagogues. Isay it is right-le!
them stand back.
Again You see a lop-eared, wide
m1uthed, mullet-headed Dutchman coming
up Just from some hut in the Land of Krout,
with the foam of beer still sticking in his
horse-tan whiskers, and his breath smell
ing of garlic and onions, enough to kill
white man hundred yards, and before he
can say anything in the world bat Demo
GRAFT he must vote, and that vote counts as
much as yours or mine. This is outrageous
| ard abominable. These foreigners that
have carried elections for old liners will
have to learn their places. They have no
more right TO vote than the brutes of the
field, and have not the sense of good
Newfoundland dog; and God knows were
a candidate for any office, l would tell
these paupars and vagabonds, these vile,
dirty, filthy, degraded, idiotic foreigners,
did not want their votes, and if / ever am
a candidate, hope to God will never
get them