The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-08
SENATOR WILSON AND HIS CALUM'
--.. ~ d .. MAJORS. -s..- XII.


The Chicago Tribune, with that
unblushing falsity that distinguishes
renegade sheets, publishes the fol-
lowing as the language of Senator
Wilson v
sIn the heart of the foreigner beats not a
single noble impulse, not one single throb
of patriotism He is so brutal and de-
graded that he has no sympathy for. any
thing but cabbage and lager beer, pota-
toes and buttermilk, or some other out
landish dish, fit only for hogs of the street
or the pen. All the oaths in the world can
not bind them.
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 see ray of intelligence in that
dirty, .di0tiC-looking face ofhis, show 1t to
me.
We must change the laws of the land,
and prevent these ignorant, degraded pau
pers here from voting and holding Office
villains and ruffians who congregste in and
around our villages and large cities, and
live by stealing and begging from Amerl-
cans Some say they have rights. So
they have-the right to live under our
laws, and till the soil, and do as we bid.
They are inferior in intellect and intelli-
gence to the Americans, and they must be
and shall be put down and kept down, If 1t
has to be done at the point of the bayonet
and with powder and lead"
This extract was called to the at
tention of our candidate for Vice
President. with others, and he
squelches them with the following
patriotic letter
NATIcK, Mass, July 80, 1872.
j. o. Culver, Esq, State Journal, Madi-
son, Wis: ..-
MYDEAR SIR-The mail has just bro't
me your note, and the extracts clipped
from various papers purporting to be
speeches made by me. In answer to your
inquiry have to say that they and all
thoughts and words Of like character
which have appeared in the papers are
mere inventions. forgeries and absolute
falsehoods. Never have thought, spo-
ken or written those words, nor anything
resembling those words, nor anything that
the most malignant could torture into such
words could not have done so, for they
are abhorrent to every conviction OF my
Judgment, every throb Of my heart, every
aspiration of my soul Born i'll extreme
poverty, having endured the hard lot the
sons of poverty are too often forced to en-
dure, came to manhood, passionately de-
voted to the creed of human equality. All
my lie have cherished as bright hope
and held the avowed, living faith of the
doctrine that all men, without distinction
of color, race or nationality, should have
complete liberty and exact equality of all
the rights asked for myself My thoughts,
my words, my heart, my votes have been
consecrated for more than thirty six years
to human rights. In the Constitutional
Convention of Massachusetts, eight years
service in her Legislature, in more than
seventeen years in the Senate of the Unit
ed States, in thirteen hundred public adj
dresses, in the press, in speeches and in
writings that would fill many volumes,
and make thousands OF pages, l have reit-
Grated and re-reiterated those rights for all
conditions of men. Is it not, my dear sir,
passing strange that partisanship should
blind men to sense, truth, justice, an fair
play, that they could forge and print alb
horrent sentiments, insulting to God and
man, and charge them on One whose whole
life has been given to the cause of equal
rights, and whose profound sympathies
were ever given 10 the friends OF liberty OF
all races and nationalities abroad?
Yours truly, -|E.-
HENRY WILSON