The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-09-09
IRISH AMERICANS.

cealed eXuItatlon, seeing that their places
e will be taken by English and Scotch far
J, mers, whose skill and knowledge, acquired
under happier auspices, will enable them
to obtain larger crops per acre with less la
{ Dor, and so pay higher rates 10 English
iaadlords and turn off large surplusses oi
6 produce for English markets. Then the
expatriated Irish, says The Times, are not
lost. Driven to America by the pressure
If famine at home, they earn better wages
and buy more British goods than they
we're able TO procure in their native land.
Pat, who could hardly cover his bones onco
! a year with some three.penny stuff while he
lived in Ireland, and jumped at the chance
of earning nnepence day, when trans
lterred to an American Railroad track or
lembryo canal and set to work at dollar
Iper day, soon clothes himself respectfully
in wooden and buys gingham, dresses his
vile and children, causing the heart Of Brit.
Iish Manchester to laugh outright. Ball
has habit Of regarding every body from
he shodkeeping point of view, and finds
THAT every lrishman in America is equal
as customer, TO three Irishmen 10 Ireland;
so the more he drives into exile, the great
er are his trades and profits. But no
does not seem to understand that the uses
Iof Pat are not all. exhausted yet. Seven
eights Of the Irishmen in America have
hitherto given their votes and their efforts
10 sustain the British Manufacturing SUI
premacy in this country.-Without those
votes, MIR. Clay could not have been de-
feated in 1874, nor the Tariff cut down In
1926. By these votes this country was
thrown back into the path of Colonial SUBJ
serviency, 10 British ascendency and Brit
ish policy. We are sure the voters did
not mean this, but such was the tendency;
such was the result.
During the agitation preceding the Rev
oIutionary efforts of lS4s, many meetings
ofihe friends Of Irish Nationality we're
held in this CITY, at one Of which the writer
hereof presided A resolution was handed
him while in the chair, p'edging every
| friend Of Ireland in America thencefor-
ward to the non consumption of British
Manufactures and the encouragement Of
their use in this country. lie objected to
put il to the meeting, not as improper or
ineffective in itself, but because it would
never be lived up to--would, in fact, be
only one more added to the innumerable
mass Of Irish resolves which have supplied
John Bull with amusement for the last halt
century. Bat all those around him said
Put the resolution and the meeting clam
ored for ii, and it was put and carried by
one unanimous yell Of approval. Five
Thousand Irishme n-born nearly tore the
Birmingham buttons eff the Lancashire
|cloih that served them for vests in shouting
I.Ayr to the resolutions, nine.tenths Of
whom have worn little else but British
cloth ever since, and not only worn il, but
voted steadily for the policy OF keeping the
country dependent on Great Britain for Tho
bulk OF its fabrics and metals evermore.
We have strong faith that the Irish A.
mericans, as body, will take different
course hereafter. They have at no time
meant to be the servi.ors Of British policy;
but they have been mislsd by the specious
tcry Of Democracy into supporting policy
opposed TO their own most cherished asp.
rations. We trust they will act and vote
hereafter for that policy which sustains
American L,bor and American Iodepen-
dence.--N Y. Tribune.
| GEN. SCOTT.
The following manly article we clip from
the New York Dutchman. The editors Of
the Dutchman are radical, uncompromisine
Democrats:
/ DrsGRAcEFuL-The attacks made by the
political Press of the country on General
Scott. Were they foot-pads, they could
not be more shsmefully abusing. Some
writer's think that the only way to be
politician is TO turn blackguard, and that
be is The most useful editor who is least 1T
10 associate with gentlemen. A few days
since, eThe Penasylranian" published
statement showing how Gen. Scott was
court t-mar,ialed ''for using insulting Ian
guage to his superiors, embezzling funds
belonging TO poor soldiers, and how he
challenged sick men to meet him in mortal
combat, and lodged his adversary's ball al.
ter having the first fire."
i Such statements disgrace the American
Press, and should en,itle the writer TO tho
privileges Of the horsepond. We were
with Gen. Scott from the bomberdment Of
Vera Cruz 10 the conquest of the city Of
Mexico, and we know that Drawer OF
II klnueF UedTtSu tHdu ucscl CIC" q e"oAot
or spared an enemy.
il As a Democrat, we shall vote for Gen.
Pierce as President. We do this, not be-
cause we consider Gen. Pierce more pat
riotic man than Winfield Scott, but simply
because We have greater admiration for
f his political platform. That man never
lived whose love OF country excels that Of
lold Cherubuscc.
| The writer who would charge WINFIELD
Scorr with cowardice, and embezzlement,
should 60 a step farther and hold up Wash
|ington as a traitor, or Franklin for an idiot
Such attacks as those made by the Penn.
sylranian will only result in injury to the
Democratic party. lfthat paper is really
ia favor of Gen. Pierce. the fewer Angs il
Icontains at Gen. Scott's courag and rosn
illness, the better In tho history which
will he written fifty years hence. the name
Of Winfield Scott will occupy position
second to none in our annas.
7 Unprncipled Locoiocos have puelisaed
? 80 MANY libels about Gen, Scott being =