The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-24
HIT HIM AGAIN.
Il it q Crime to be . German I

To j. N. Edmunds, Esq, Chairman
Of the National Republican Erecu-
the Committee, Washington, D. G.
DEAR S1R-Having been Repub-
lican ever since the present Republi-
can party was formed, and having
never voted any other Federal ticket
than the Republican, claim the right
to call your attention to a matter
which lies within the control of your
committee, and which threatens to
injure the Republican party by all
enating from it a large mass of its
supporters.
I have been so unfortunate az to
displease the central and chief or
gan of the Republican party-the
Washington National Republican
by some letters in the New York
Herald containing tho results Of in
vestigations into the political and
industrial condition ofseveral South
ern States and your organ accord
ingly informs its readers, in an edit
torial article, which has just come
into my hands, that ought not to
be belicved-not because 1 have
mlsstated facts, or am an incapable
or inaccurate ebserver-but on the
ground that: I am a Clutch Jew"
"Dutch standing here, of course,
for German. l have noticed that
ignorant Americans commonly call
the German " Dutch"
Now, if l were, in the Organs
elegant phraise, "Dutch Jew" l
don't see what that has to do with
the credibility of my statements.
l am, in fact, a German, and am
proud of my descent from people
who have been the faithful support
ers of liberty on two continents. l
am not Jew, but if 1 were, | should
not be ashamed of it for the Jews
in this country are an intelligent,
Industrious and peaceable body of
citizens.
But the Organ thinks differently.
Speaking in the name of the Repub-
llcan administration, whose mouth
piece it is, it has the folly to assert
that if a man is German by blood
he is therefore not to be believed
if he is Jew by religion he is there
by unworthy Of confidence.
Is this really Republican doctrine?
organ to offer such a wanton insult
to a very large number Of citizens.
Germans and Jews, who mostly vote
the Republican ticket, and whose
votes next year will be absolutely
indispensable to the success of the
party?
You ought to muzzle your dog.
the National Republican. A recent
and notorious overdose of govern
ment pap has given him an indi-
gestien, and he is swapping at the
heels of your friends. If you let
him 60 on, he will presently do the
party a damage.
We are to have important cleo.
tons this fall; and next year there
will DO q Presidential election. Have
you forgotten this {? Is it not an
insane folly to let your official Or
gan, under your very nose, fling a
gratuitous insult in the faces of sew
eral hundred thousand German and
jewish voters, and this in the name
Of the Republican party, and pre-
sumably an official declaration Of
tho sentiments of the party chiefs !?
Do you really want to drive these
voters away from the Republican
ranks or do you imagine they have
no self-respect or resentment And
have you no fear that tho Demo-
Gratis will use such declarations
made in your chief organ, against
the party next year? Or ever in
Ohio and Pennsylvania this year?
The Republican party should
have o respectable organ in Wash
ington. But if you cannot get rid
of the National Republican, you
ought at least to change it's name.
You might call it the National Idiot.
make tho suggestion as sincere
and earnest Republican.
Yours truly,
CHARLES NORDHOFF.
Atlanta, Ga, June %, 1875.