Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-11-03
RICH MON d, VA.
Thursday Morning, November 2. 1884,
OUR ADOPTED CITIZENS.

ASSeCiooJ AiuCS, IL UIuCt " Cledlc plCJu'
dice with the adopted citizens against General
Cass, parades long letter from w. E. Robin
son, a notorious Aboiiionisl and a correspondent
of the New York Tribune, who attempts 10
show that it was through General Cass' influence
that the Irish Relief bill 10 lo47 did moi pass the
House. Whal gross injustice and deception TO
hold General Cass responsible for the loss Of the
bill in the House, when he eloquently advocated
II in debate, and finally vot Tor its passage i
Can any man -ead The following beautiful re-
marks OF General Cass, and argue, without the
blush OF shame tha, he had The least wish for The
deteatcf the bill7
"Mr. Cass said, as one member Of this body,
he felt obliged TO The Senator tiom Kentucky Tor
The motion he had submitted, and for the appro.
PIRATE remarks with which he had introduced il.
He had continued Mr.. c. expressed my SEMI
ments, bu; with an elcquence peculiarly his own.
While physical want is unknown In our own
country, the Angel OF Death is striking down the
furnishing population Of Europe, and especially
the suffering people Of Ireland. The accounts
which reach US from that country indicate a
slate OF distress, in extent and degree, lar exceed
ing any previous experience in modern times. II
fountains are drying up before Inc magnitude OF
the evil. 1t is national calamity, and calls for
national contribution. The starving millions
have NO Egypt where they can go and buy corn,
that they may live and not die From our
granary oil abundance let US pour forth supplies.
Ireland has strong claims upon the sympathy OF
the United States. There are few OF our citizens
who have not Irish blood in their veins That
country has sent on! large portion OF the emf
grants who have added numbers TO our popula-
lion, industry and enterprise to our capital, and
the other elements Of power and prosperity, which
are doing that mighty work from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, that is already exciting The admira-
ton Of The Old World, and will stimulate, by its
example, the exerion of the new. Our popula.
ton OF Irish descent have fought The battles OF
The country with as much zeal and bravery as
any class Of cllizens; and from The heights OF
Abraham, where Montgomery fell, TO the walls
OF Monterey, their blood has been poured out
like water in defence of liberty.
ave can now send u Ireland not, indeed, what
she has sent us, her children-these we cannot
part Without food fol- their relatives, our friends,
upon whom the hand OF God is heavily laid In
a petition presented yesterday BY lhr Senator
from New York, was suggestion, which am
gra,fed 10 find embodied in the bill reported hy
the Senator from Kentucky, and which should
be happy to see carried into effect-to employ in
the trans portalion OF provisions such Of the arm
ed ships OF the United States as are bot required
for the operations OF the war II would Re beau
,iultribu,e 10 The advancing spirit OF The age
The messenger OF dealh would thus become a
messenger Of life; the agents of destruction
agents Of preservation; and our eagle, which has
down above them, and carried our arms 10 The
very coast oil Ireland would then become the
signal OF hope, where il has been the signal OF
defiance. shall lend the bill my support with
pleasure"
Alter opposing an amendment calculated 10
embarrass The BILL Cen CasS on the 2nh Feb.
lS4T, voted tor the engrossmens, for third read
ing OF the bill, which WIS Immediately passed.
So much ior the gross misrepresentation cir
cuated by the Times. But snce that paper has
brought forward Mr.. w. Z. Robinson as vii.
ness, pe shall use him on on! side, 10 demon
slra,e that The Taylor party and the Native fac
ton, are one and the same. This same man, or
the 4th March, lS43, writing from Washington
said:
"Taylorism, in The principal places where j
has been supported, is simply resurrection o
the fo'ting remains OF naiyism. This weight NJ
patty can long carry in a political race in thi:
country. Follow lh,s Taylor movement IRON
Boston u Richmond, and VIVA, is in Why, IN
Boston, in Fanue Hall, there was a great lay
lur demonstration some time since, and Genera
Dear boIn, the leading native in hat State, and
believe recently the native candidate Tor Cover
nor OF Massachusetts, Gil not the candidate al TIT
approaching election for Vice President OF tht
United Sates,) was The presiding genius. In N
York, among the names 10 the call for public
mee,in. a, Niblo's, on the 22d ult, in favor Of
General Taylor, ] recognised The names Of TIT
leading natives OF that city. In Philadelphia, j
is The same native movement The correspond
ing secretary OF The concern there, seems TO bt
Peter Sken Smith, the leading native editor U
The United States. presume many OF he vol
ces which walked up echo from her sleep a, lht
Taylor meeting in the city of Brotherly Love or
the 22d ult, were The very same which sung no
sannas OF jov over burning churches and yelled
curses after hunted priests in The memorable riot.
in Philadelphia. Ia Harrisburg, Taylor eecior:
were nominated the same day. The only one
know among them is Thomas D. Grover, one OF
the leading men oil that ianatical gang whose
footsteps we're lighted by The burning churches
and whose soul-inspiring music was The crack Of
aqing temples and the cracking oil blazing libra
ries-deeds in comparison u which the acts 81
The Goth and VandaI assume The garb Of civil.
cation. Las, oil all, we have the Taylor gather
ing at Richmond, Virginia, on he same day
where the friends of Mr.. Clay were borne down,
and as a fiji accompaniment to such scene, w
5. Archer, the native nominee Tor President oil
the U. States ri the last election, was president.
ADO not understand me as attacking Gen. Tay-
or. In this only stare facts as plain as day
light. II isnou use 10 soy that Gen. Iay0r IS not a
natips The fact is Irishmen, Germans and Ca
tho!ics cannot, and will not, and ought not 10 vote
tor any man whose party is Differed and drilled
ny such men. II st. Pau ,oers the candidate for
President, and ST. Patrick heated tie electoral
Ticket, he aoould not reeeinc The sappnt of The Ca
M9Lic, end naturalized citizens under s,Nh an or
ganizotion. Is it worth our while TO drive the
tens oil thousands who now wish 10 vote the Wing
ticket back TO their first but betrayed love in the
BOSOM OF Locofocolsn7
LIE, The leaders of this new native movement
hunt down Henry Clay by malignant attacks
upon his character, but lei them not misrepresent
the facts. Henry Clay is nowihe strongest man
VIC can run. General Taylor cannot draw more
votes from the Locoioco side than Mr.. Gay can
in another campaign. There are thousands OF ma
turalzed citizens who were forced 10 vote against
the Wing ticket in 1874, because nativism joined
the Whigs IL now leads Taylorism) These
men believe the vilainous ISLANDERS heaped upon
the head OF Henry Clay.
"Almost every week i receive communics-
tions from naturalized citizens of influence, ask
log anxiously whether they will have an oppor.
,unity to vote for a man against whom they vo-
ted previously by false representations and
frauds. There are now one hundred thousand
naturalized and Catholic citizens looking with
anxious eyes to the Wing party to see whether
they will stand firm on Wing principles, or whe-
Their they will go into wild-goose chase again
through mud and mire after Jour Dearborn,, Le-
wins, Archsrs, and Sken Smiths, for the votes
they bring, only 10 frighten thousand votes
away for every one they give.
"Wbat protest against is, who wishes to be
supported or kno,Dn hereafter as Wing join
ing in this Taylor movement as noU organized,
,phieh is q mere golpanissd resurrection Of na!ip
ism, auhose 6lighiing touch killed US in 1874 !.
"Yet il he Clay is not 10 the field, iur my
part shall do as much for the regularly nomi.
mated candidate OF the Philadelphia Convention.