The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-05-06

From the Rochester Democrstl
LETTER FROM A DEMoCRATIC IRISH
MAN.
MEssRs. EDIToRs:-
lam an Irishman, and have always vo
ted the Democratic ticket, as the large ma
| iority of my countrymen do as soon as they
acquire the right. claim no especial "a
vors on this account from the Democratic
party for myseIf, and think all my coun.
trymen will agree with me. wish every
distinction founded on the accident ol
birth to be forgotten and abolished. All
that want is that when mans political
claims are in question, it should not matter
where he was born. Now ! had hoped
that both parties intended TO practice upon
this plan. The Wing party profess to do
so, and professed nothing more. The
Democratic party processes to do the same.
except that it pretends to have higher
regard for Irishmen than the Wing, and il
continually making the most Of that pre-.
tence for the purpose Of securing the votes
Of my grateful country ymen. | used 10
think that it really was the case, that an
Irshman was rated at little higher value
by the Democratic party than by the Whig
But several instances have occurred lately
under my immediate observation, that
speak very strongly to the CONTRARY
For example, at least four worthy Irish
men Of this city, were recommended strong
Iy to the Canal Board this spring, for Ca
nal officers. Not a single one of them
wa. appointed! Tho Wing Canal Board
put aud kept in office the following four
lrishmen, Of this city: NIessrs. Joseph
Cochran, John Jenkinson, John McCor
mick, and Patrick J. Mcnamara, and sci
up no claim to our gratitude for either
At the Democratic CITY Convention; the
names ofai least two lrishmen were urged
nv their friends for nominations. and both
nf them were oyersaughed. In the fifth
Ward Democratic Caucus, the name OF an
es,imsbie Irish citizen was presented for
Alderman, and he too was whistled off
course. Now there seems TO be rather too
much Of this to be accidental, and cant
help turning il over in nv mind, and think
ing about il, especially when ] know that
The same conirast--warm friendship in
words, and turning the cold shoulder 10
practice, has been manifested by the Dem
,cra,s in many Of the cities Of this State.
There is another thing | can't help
about. The Democrats suppor'
The British Free Trade policy, bv which
England has ruined the destiny Of Ireland
# tho power Of protecting her own domes
tic industry, BY which England istrving to
keep the monopoly of manufacturing. for
the world compels them to come to her
shops to trade instead Of trading at home
with one another. 1t is this commercial
supremacy of Englan that the Democrats
do oil they can to uphold while the Wing
party struggles TO pull il down, and thus
DESTROY the power Of England to force IN,
native land to be nothing but potatoe
garden and her sons and her daughters to
tlv from the hearth stones Of their fathers.
10 obtain that employ ment thew can no
longer get at home. The Democratic par
" breaches that We ought to support Eue
iish labor for the sake Of buying in the
cheapest market, regardless Of supporting
labor in this country, which we have been
driven here to seek, because wages that
English policy compelled Us TO submit to 10
the old country, will not keep soul and bnd.
together. In short the Democratic policy
would keep us in subsection to that very
British control that we came here to avoid,
while the Wing party would give US fair
wages for fair work.
cannot help thinking of these things
nor can help thinking that it is the Wing
party which has projected and carried
through all the great works Of internal i'm
provements, the keeping Of which a going
is question Of bread or 10 bread for s."
many Of my countrymen on their first arri
val in this land.
l shall keep thinking about it; and. il !
don't act about il, too, mighty soon then ]
did not come from
ERIN.