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the political power of the north. He admitted that the
patience of native Americans had been sorely tried by
the critical attitude toward American institutions and
laws assumed by the German radicals and Catholics,
but he could not sanction the methods of the
know-nothings. Secret organizations are foreign to a republic,
and their methods belong more to Russia than to a free
people. He charged that the nativist papers tried to find
all the faults of the immigrants and to deal with them
as though they were thieves, drunkards, and rowdies.
As for the Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes, continued
the editorial, they were too few in number to have had
much influence either for good or evil. Almost
everywhere they were looked upon as industrious peoples.
The democratic and the newly organized republican
party in their appeals for the votes of the Swedish
naturalized citizens tried to pin the stigma of
know-nothingism on one another. In editorials and letters to
Hemlandet it was admitted that in the past the democrats
had favored foreigners, but in later years the democracy
had degraded itself by affiliating with the slave power
and those interests which had opposed the best interests
of immigrants by defeating a liberal homestead bill and
espousing measures designed to curtail the rights of
naturalized citizens. [1]
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