Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — MR. ENGLISH’S BOLD FIGHT [ARTICLE]

MR. ENGLISH’S BOLD FIGHT

Against Know-Nothinglsm, and his Successful Defense of Civil and Religious Liberty. [From the Indianapolis People, Aug. 7j The Sentinel refers to the fact that both the proprietor and editor of that papVr lived in the district represented in Congress bf*4he Hon, William H. English at the time he made his celebrated campaign against the Know-Nothing party, which was then sweeping the country and making war not only upon our foreign-bom citizens, but civil and religious liberty as well. The Sentinel says: “The proprietor of this paper, and also the editor, lived in Mr. English’s district then, and remember well the gallant and glorious fight that he made in defense of religious freedom and the rights of our foreign-born citizens. So great was the excitement that men, women and children were slaughtered, just across the river from Mr. English’s district, because they happened to be born abroad, and the same spirit prevailed in all that region. BUT MR. ENGLISH, THOUGH THREATENED WITH MOB VIOLENCE, FOUGHT THEM ON EVERY STUMP, AND CAME OUT VICTORIOUS. NO MAN DID MORE TO OVERTHROW THIS FRIGHTFUL KNOW-NOTHING ORGAN IZ ATIONAND A FANATICAL‘SEARCH, SEIZ’ URE AND CONFISCATION LAW’, WHICH WAS THEN IN EXISTENCE, AND THERE IS NO DENYING THAT THE FOREIGN-BORN CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY, AND ALL LOVERS OF LIBERTY OWE MR. ENGLISH A DEEP DEBT OF GRATITUDE.