Note: This post was recovered from the Sh.org archive.Username: jd755Date: 2019-09-17 18:40:03Reaction Score: 8
Using Gibiru and startpage.
Aaah something intriguing.
From here;
Blog: A History Minute: The 1844 Nativist Riots in Philadelphia
in 1843 newspaper editor Lewis Levin helped found the American Republican Association (later renamed the Native American Party).
From here;
The First Jewish Congressman
Lewis Charles Levin was the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844. He was born in Charleston South Carolina, on November 10, 1808. He graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) with a law degree. He was a founder of the Native American Party and published and edited the Philadelphia Daily Sun.
Lawyers check, religion check, politics check, Pennsylvania check, stir up trouble check, push division check, one would almost think nothing has changed!
From here;
archives.nypl.org -- American Republican Association of Locust Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania records
These papers of the American Republican Association of Locust Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania include minutes of proceedings held between December 15, 1843 and November 3, 1845; two letters dated 1845 from Thompson Westcott, the Association's corresponding secretary; and accompanying pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed material. This printed material includes "A graphic account of the alarming riots at St. Mary's Church in April of 1822" (published June 1844); the report of a committee to draft a delegate system for Philadelphia with manuscript additions and corrections; "Important testimony connected with Native American principles" (published in Philadelphia, 1845); an address from the Native American National Convention, July 1845; a Native American election ticket, 1847; and the Constitution of the Sons of America
From here;
Address of the delegates of the Native American national convention,
A readable scan of "Important testimony connected with Native American principles" (published in Philadelphia, 1845)
Too much to copy out but this bit stood out
privileges wisely reserved to Natives of the soil
An odd choice of words, unless they meant anyone born on the land of America as opposed to born on other land.
The gist is they were complaining about the United States becoming overrun with the 'wrong sort' of immigrant and clearly not all Natives of the soil were the same.
A long list of names at the bottom of the document. None stand out for me but for American people there may be some of note.
That document seems to have upset the Roman Catholic Church, boohoo, as it features in this long list of "Anti Catholicism" works
Browse subject: Anti-Catholicism | The Online Books Page
All roads lead to Rome as in the Rome featured in the bibles, there are so many of the things.
From here;
This certifies that [blank] is a member of the Native American Republican Association of Philadelphia
Now it gets too funny, funny peculiar and hilariously funny.
As the LOC page suggest the producer of the certificate was Washington Lafayette Germon so I goes looking for info on him, cos my suspicion is he was a 'low quality' European immigrant of the type the Natives were gunning for and whaadya know there is another "Washington Lafayette" whose life was identical in start and finish dates as Washington Lafayette Germon, George Washington Lafayette Fox,
There is no such thing as coincidence in my book. I guess their parents had heard of or seen this Lafayette;
The Marquis de La Fayette -- The Son George Washington Never Had - Archiving Early America
Anyway back to the Germon one. Precious little about him really. Seems his business was struggling in 1846;
Section 4: A Walk along Chestnut Street
McClees and Germon had become partners in 1846 when James McClees ended his business relationship with Montgomery Simons, and rather than follow his initial plan of joining Thomas P. Collins’s studio, instead joined forces with his friend Washington Lafayette Germon, who was struggling in an unsuccessful daguerreotype business with lithographer John Frampton Watson.
Cannot find anything earlier than this.
