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of the democratic and American party respectively. At
a meeting of Scandinavians in Chicago resolutions were
adopted condemning slavery, the Kansas policy of the
administration, and the principles of the know-nothing
party as unjust to foreigners and inciting hatred
between natives and immigrants, and declaring in favor of
free speech and press, the republican national platform
and candidates, and the Illinois state republican ticket. [1]
The Swedes were so ardently opposed to the extension
of slavery that only the most pronounced know-nothing
planks in republican platforms could have kept them
out of the party. The liberal republican platforms in
the states harboring the bulk of Swedish immigrants
refuted the democratic charges that the republicans were
hostile to adopted citizens. In a latter addressed to the
Swedes in Minnesota written by Reverend P. A.
Cederstam, from Chisago Lake, printed in Hemlandet,
September 19, 1857, he says that he was a member of the
republican state constitutional convention. There were
two rival conventions, says he, democratic and
republican, which drew up separate constitutions. The
republicans had a chance to show their supposed hostility
to immigrants, but when the chairman appointed the
committee to formulate the article on suffrage, he
appointed three Europeans and two Americans, and made
the writer, who had been in America only four years,
chairman. Was this know-nothingism? asks Cederstam.
When the article in question was discussed in open
contention, most of the Americans were in favor of making
no distinction between natives and foreign-born.
In the election of 1860 the slavery issue was so
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