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STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S “ALLIGATOR” CAN BE obtained at all hours, at
wholesale and retail, at No. 114 Nassau Street, (Second Story), near Ann
Street, New York.
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A Precious Fossil.
_Mayor Tiemann’s trickery and treachery to
the Americans thoroughly exposed._
The following CARD was placed in every house and store and workshop in
1843, by direction of Daniel F. Tiemann, and was published in all the
newspapers of that memorable period:
“TO THE VOTERS IN THIS HOUSE.
The inclosed Ticket is presented by the American Republican Party,
for your suffrage—it is composed exclusively of Americans who have
withdrawn from the great contending parties of the day, for the sake
of the country and its institutions; their character and standing in
the community is well known to be unexceptionable and highly
honorable; they have pledged themselves, if elected, to support and
carry out the principles of this party, which are as follows, viz:—
1st. We maintain that the Naturalization Laws should be so altered
as to require of all Foreigners who may hereafter arrive in this
Country, a residence of twenty-one years, before granting them the
privilege of the Elective Franchise; but at the same time, we
distinctly declare, that it is not our intention to interfere with
the vested rights of any citizen, or lay any obstruction in the way
of Foreigners obtaining a livlihood or acquiring property in this
country; but on the contrary, we would grant them the right to
purchase, hold and transfer property, and to enjoy and participate
in all the benefits of our country, (except that of voting and
holding office,) as soon as they declare their intentions to become
citizens.
2d. We advocate the repeal of the present Common School Law, and the
re-establishment of the Law, known as the Public School Law.
3d. We maintain that the Bible, without note or comment, is not
sectarian—that it is the fountain-head of morality and all good
government, and should be used in our Public Schools as a reading
Book.
4th. We are opposed to a union of Church and State in any and every
form.
5th. We hold that native Americans, only, should be appointed to
office, to legislate, administer, or execute the Laws of their own
country.
These are our principles—if you like them, we ask your support for
the enclosed Ticket. We believe the time has come when we may, with
truth, exclaim, “Delay is dangerous.” The above principles aim at
_existing evils_, which have grown to such enormity as to threaten
seriously our dearest and most sacred rights. We have waited long
and anxiously for some movement from among other parties to check
these evils, and we have waited in vain. The only hope that remains,
is for Americans to organize a new party, to combat and counteract
them. This we have done. The Presidential question we have nothing
to do with.—We invite you to our Standard: it is raised in the cause
of Civil and Religious Liberty, and no true American can fight
against it. It is the same Banner that was raised by Americans in
’76.
DANIEL F. TIEMANN, _President_.
J. B. DENNIS, _Secretary_.
New York, November 1, 1843.”
This will do pretty well for a man whose father is a Holland Dutchman,
and cannot now speak the American language so as to be easily
understood,—who is appointing the ejected garroters of European
Capitals, to the most lucrative and honorable positions, while poor and
honest and intelligent Americans (for whom he professed such boundless
love in 1843,) are haughtily denied the humblest appointments in his
gift,—who has toiled with sleepless vigilance,—since his recent election
as Mayor by the Americans,—to reinstate the odious George W. Matsell,
and who has, after an arduous struggle, succeeded in effecting the
reappointment of Captain Leonard, a Canadian, and of Captain Dowling, an
Irishman, (both of whose naturalization papers I would like to see, or
the man who has seen them,) who were smuggled back to their old quarters
by Cooper, Gerard, Tiemann, Bowen, and Stranaham, to cut the throat of
Seward, and to diffuse poison through the Police Department, and to
re-create the perjured carcase of Matsell on the ruins of Tallmadge and
Wm. Curtis Noyes, his noble son-in-law. Tiemann aspires to the honors of
a Governor, and himself and his brother Edward Cooper, (the Street
Commissioner, and the own son of Peter Cooper,) are appointing all the
ruffians of both hemispheres to office, to effect the nomination and
election of Tiemann as Governor of the Empire State. But Peter, and
Daniel, and Edward will be foiled. No man can attain the distinguished
honors of America, who prostitutes his own integrity and that of his
fellow citizens, to effect his ungodly designs. Aaron Burr and other
ambitious rogues tried that experiment, and they were resisted and
foiled by the God who loves and protects our beloved America, and they
went down to ignominious graves, whose ashes will be loathed and
trampled by a thousand generations. Mayor Tiemann is a ninny and a
hypocrite—has basely disowned his native Holland skies—has never been
naturalized—bamboozled the Americans in 1843 and 1857—loves neither
American nor foreigner, nor his God—but adores himself and Peter Cooper,
and fears George W. Matsell and his Matron Mistress on Randall’s Island,
whom he forced and nearly strangled, while he committed a deed of hell,
in the violation of her person, for which, in any city of Europe, he
would be dragged to a dungeon or the block, and perhaps torn to pieces
in the market place, by the indignant and phrensied populace.
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Editorial Career of James Gordon Bennett.