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58 THE KNOW NOTHING ALMANAC }
Broom, was educated and admitted to the
bar in 1882, being 24 years of age.
Mr. Broom, previous to his affiliation with
the American party, was a Jackson Demo-
erat, and, under the General’s administra-
tion, was tendered the office of U. 8, District
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
It was Gen. Jackson’s desire that he should
be nominated for one of the Judges of the
Territory of Arkansas, but upon consulta-
tion with some of the Western Senators, it
was deemed unadvisable, on account of his
age, he being at that time only in his 26th
year, Ife has continued in the successful
practice of his profession up to the present
time, and enjoys an enviable reputation as
an able lawyer, having argued several cases
in the U. 8S. Supreme Court, with marked
ability. Atan early age in life, Mr. Broom
became deeply impressed with the impor-
tance of the vast influence that foreigners
were acquiring under the workings of that
disgraceful+code, called the Naturalization
Laws—and he essayed to introduce a reform
in the Democratic party, previous to the
origination of the American party in 1848,
to repress the immense frauds and impro-
prieties practised in party warfare. On
one occasion, whije residing in Schuylkill
Co., some 60 or 80 foreigners applied to him
for their final certificates of naturalization.
They had but one witness to prove every-
thing for them, and although they promised
to vote the Democratic ticket, Mr. Broom
declined granting their request, because
of insufficient proof to substantiate their
claims. Subsequently these men who were
80 anxious to become Americans according
to law, applied to the court through the
agency of another person, but Mr. Broom
called the attention of the court to the cir-
cumstances, and the Judge, on examination,
declined granting the papers. This excited
great hostility against him on the part of
the foreigners in that county, and of the
party, and so far was their bitter dislike of
Mr, Broom’s independant action carried,
that on the night of the next ensuing elec-
tion, while returning from Pine Grove he
was twice fired at with a pistol, but, fortu-
nately, sustained no injury. Nor is this the
only occasion on which his life has been
placed in imminent peril, by his bold advo-
cacy.of American principles; he has been
compelled frequently to force his way to the
speakers’ stand through a crowd of Irish
Catholics, foes to the liberty of speech, who
sought to oppose his course. At one time
when threatened with death by a gang of
miserable popish cowards, he bared. his
breast and told them to “make a target of
that,” at the same time appealing to his
countrymen there present, to avenge his
fall, should these foreigners dare to imbrue
their hands in the blood of an American,
The Hon. Jacos Broom is at present the
Arch Grand Sachem of the ‘ Order of
United Americans,” and has occupied the
high and honorable position of R. H. D. M.
of the United Sons of America.” He has
been active in the formation of American
associations, and has adhered with great
tenacity to the American cause, through
every trial “and every reverse. AS a
speaker, Mr. Broom has been indefatigable
in his labors—having spoken in almost every
State in the Union, and being a national
union ian, standing by the Constitution
and the compromises upon which it is based,
he has become, and deservedly s0, very
popular with the American people. He has
been the chosen orator of the American
party on many occasions, and his speeches
are always replete with the soundest and
most exalted national American senti-
ments,
—$$— <2.
ion. Joun J. Crittexpry.—The Frankfort ; materiel of the American party—a party
(Ky.) Commonwealth gives the substance of | which had sprung from humble private
a great speech in favor of the American | citizens, not from politicians, and the mem-
party, delivered by Mr. Crittenden in that | bers of which were all native sons of the
place. We make the following extract:— | soil—men born in the land, who had here
‘““Mr, C. demonstrated the necessity for | the homes of their childhood and the graves
the American party to do what the old|of their fathers—whose love for their
parties—inefficient and falling to pieces as | country was inborn, pure, and strong, and
they were—would not and could not do. | in whose hands, if anywhere, the destiny
He paid a glowing and just tribute to the | of the country would be safe.”