John Binns (journalist)

[4] Three days later, George III, in procession to the state Opening of Parliament, had the windows of his carriage smashed by a crowd shouting "No King, No Pitt, No war",[5] and was fired at with a dart (the Popgun Plot).

[11] The resulting feud served to split Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Republican coalition and to embolden nativist attacks on "foreign extremists".

Denouncing Jackson as a corrupt demagogue and murderer (holding him culpable for the deaths of six fellow militiamen in 1812), Binns supported the Whigs with whom he repudiated attempts "to array the poorer, against the richer, portions of our population".

[2] An owner of some slaves himself, Binns responded to the ardent abolitionsim of Daniel O'Connell, the "Emancipator" of Catholic Ireland, by arguing that Irish-Americans were wise to avoid the issue of slavery.

This was the position of the Archbishop John Hughes of New York who, in 1841, urged Irish Americans not to sign O'Connell's abolitionist petition ("An Address of the People of Ireland to their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America") lest they further inflame anti-Irish nativist sentiment.

Assisted with material by the Young Irelander, Thomas D”Arcy McGee, in 1852 Binns produced his History of the Irish settlers in America (1852).