Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-03-05
SOMETHING FOR FOREIaN BORN oITI-
ZENs TO READ.

The Rock Island Union and the party il
represents, has long admired Schuyler Col
fax, Vice President of the United States.
In he year 1855, Colfax delivered an ad-
dress a, V,ncennes, Indiana, and German
citizen of Rock Island has preserved the
following extract from it, which be desires
us to republish, in order that our foreign
born citizens may see what kind of senti-
ments are entertained IN regard to them BY
the great moral Republican party:
"Some tell me that marv for
eIgners are Intelligent; yes Intelligent
How IN the name of Almighty God can they
say 1t? Look ct the DutchmAn, smoking
his pipe, aud If you can see q ray Of intelli-
gence IN that dirty, idiotic looking face Of
nls, sho~It to me Look at thai drum zen,
bloated lrishmaD, with his rot-gut whiskey
bottle in his pocket, and he drank, swearing
aud reeliDg, and show me in that pollu ted
face any spark of morality, intellect or edu-
cauon. The idea is perfectly absurd it is
reposterousl
I'VE must change the laws of the land
and prevent these ignorant, degraded pau
pers here from voting and holding office
They are set of unprin cipled Williams and
rUthans, who c0DgregAte in and around our
large cities and villages, and live by stealing
and begging from the Americans. Some
ell me they have rights. So they have :
tbs right to live under our laws and till the
the soil, aud do as we bid. Tney are infe
rior 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 bsyonet and with powder
aud lead. There Is no use of talking
mincingly, or of fearing results in regard
to the matter A great cry has went ID by
old liners about the foreigner being driven
away from the polls, and not being allowed
to vote. This suppose is true in many
espects. Would you have the American
citizens stand back, aud let bloatsd, red
visaged, drunken brute Of an Irishmsn vote
instead of himself? See the wretch a. he
approaches his knees knocking, and the
slobber of tobacco running down his Jaws,
aud as he comes, YOU hear him "hurrah for
democracy" and here be comes, fresh from
the bogs, just one years ago, and wants to
vote--snd because the boys cry ''move him. y
and be gets knocked down for his impud-
encs, a great cry is made about it BY old
line demsgogues. Issy it is rig ht-let them
stand back.
Again you see lop cared. wide mouthed
mullet headed Dutchman coming up Just
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
garlic aud onions, enough to killa white
man 800 yards, and before be can say any
thing in the world bat democrat" he mus,
vote, and that vote counts as much as yours
or mine. This is outrageous aud abomina.
BILE. These foreigner that have carried
elections for old liners will have to learn
their places. They have 10 more right 10
vote than the brntes of the field, and have
not the sense of good Newfoundland dog
aud God knows that were / q candidate for
any Office. would tell thess paupers and
aud vagabouds, these vile, dirty, filthy,
degraded. idiotic foreigners, did not want
their votes, and If ever am q candidate, /
hope to God / never will get them"