The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-12
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Schuyler COlfax's Speech, made in 1856,
After His Return from the Know
Nothing Convention in Philadel-
From the vinconnos lind, } Sun.


From the Vncennos (Tud) Sun
An old Fenian friend, Of this city, has
handed US the following from his scrap
book for publication. 1t is an extract from
one among the many speeches delivered by
Schuyler ColtaX, radical candidate for vice
| president, on his return to Indiana from the
national know nothing convention, at Phil.
adelphia in 1855. Read it:
"SOme tell me that many for,
eigners are intelligent; yes, intelligent.
| How in the name of Almighty God can they
say it? Look at the Dulchmau, smoking
| his pipe, and if you can see a ray of intelli.
gence in that dirty, diotc looking face of
his, show it to me- Look at that drunken,
bloated lrishman, with his rotgut whiskey
| bottle IN his pocket, and he drunk, swearing
and Keeling, and show me in that polluted
face any spark Of morality, intellect or edu.
cation. The idea IS perfectly absurd il is
preposterous
I'VE must change the laws of the land,
and prevent these ignorant, degraded pau.
pers here from voting and holding office.
They are a set of unprincipled Williams and
ruiians, who congregate in and around our
large cities and villages, and live by stealing
and begging from the Americans. Some
tell me they have rights. So they have
the right to live under our laws and till the
the SOIL and do as we bid They are infe.
ror in intellect and intelligence to the
Americans, and they must and shall be put
down and kept down, if it has to be done at
the point of the bayonet and with powder
and lead. There is no use of talk.
ing mincingy or of fearing results
suits in regard to the matter, A great cry
has went up by old liners about the foreign.
err 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 bloat. |
ed, red viSaged, drunken brute of an Irish. |
man vote instead OF himself? See the |
wretch as he approaches ; his knees knock. |
ing, and the sIobber of tobacco running |
down his jaws, and as he comes you hear |
him "hurrah for democracy" and here he
comes, fresh from the boys, just one year
ago, and wants to yOte--and because the
boys cry 'move him" and he gets knocked
down for his impotence, great cry is made
about it by old line demagogues. | say it
is right-let them stand back.
Again you see lop cared, wide mouthed,
mullet headed Dutehman coming up lust
from some hut in the Land of Kraut with
the foam of beer still sticking in his horse
tail whiskers, and his breath smelling of gar.
lie and onions, enough to kill white man
300 yards, and before he can say anything
in the world but democrat" he must vote
and that vote counts as inch as yours or
mine. This is outrageous and abominGble.
These foreigners that have carried elections
for old liners will have to learn their places
They no more right to vote than the brutes
Of the field, and have not the sense af a good
Newfoundland dog; and God knows that
we're l candidate for any Office, would
ell these paupers and vagabonds, these vile,
iirty, filthy, degraded, idiotic foreigners, t
lid not want their votes, and if ever am y
candidate, I hope to God | never will get 5
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