Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-25

noble example of our patriot fathers OF l176!
What can be more distinctly opposite, more di-
rectly at war, than tho different characters OF the
two peoples exposed In this contrast? Has any
thing transpired since, in the affairs Of either peo
pie, to alter or vary the contrast Nothing. In
deed the subsequent history of Ireland merely CON
tnues the old catalogue Of maleyolence and crime,
Of plumber and confagration; while the Criminal
chapter Of the history of America demonstrates
that, in their emigration to our shores, the Irish
have transported all their malignity, all their su-
persttions, all their cruelty, their turbulence, and
their crimesl
Who, then, possessed ofthe slightest justice, ofthc
smallest Judgment orrcason--neitherc corrupted by
a licensed plumber ofthe public lucre, nor super
stitious slave Of ecclesiastical knaves despots
can for moment doubt, upon nh impartial review
and contrast of the past and present history OF
Ireland and America, and Of the characters OF
Irshmen and Americans, that the Irish, armed to
the teeth, and manifestly acting in concert with
Predetermined plan, were the murderous assaute,s
Ia the /" Louisville tragedy n Is it probable that
upon that bloody occasion the Irish were suddenly
netamorphosed from sanguinary human wolves
into meek and unolending lambs, or that Ameri
cans should have as suddenly changed from their
high and noble manhood into conspiring fiends ?
Is it not only improbable but impossible that
day should have produced SO complete, so un-
heard Of revolution In the historical character Of
tionsp None, opine--not even the most auda
cious and reckless Consequently, when we couple
the sworn proofs elected upon the judicial invest
CATION with the immemorial historical character Of
the Irish, is not demonstration of their guilt COM
pletc, and all controversy ended? hunlbly sub
nit it ia.
Hence, the American public can approximate an
estimate Of the extraordinary and unparalleled
mendacity and wckedness of that malevoeDt
press, which, like the Boston Pilot and WASH
ington Union, in order to escape the over
whelming odium naturally consequent upon such
{demon-like deeds as those enacted by their
papal confederates in the streets OF Louisville,
and to transfer the burden of their obloquy to
the persons of American natives, have, through
untold columns Of the vilest vituperatiOn labori-
ously libelled every sentiment and motive, every
act and policy of tho American party, and have,
in the bitterness Of their mngnity and hate, trail
torously endeavored to degrade our native people
to the debased and grovelling level of the pauper
and criminal slaves of Europe, who comprise the
bulk Of their motley and heterogeneous congome-
ration nicknamed party. The Boston Pilot, in
contradiction OF impartial Irish history, which pro-
claim that Ireland has been immemorially desoa-
ted by herds or gangs of murderous and fendish
rufians, associated, secretly aud in midnight as
sembles, under the most fearful oaths, to attain
their feonious ends by plumber, torture, and muir
der and that treachery, cruelty, assassination and
perjury have ever been the natural and nalienable
characteristics Of the papal Irish ercely denounc-
I'd, US unparalleled in any country, the punish
inents which, in defence of their own lives, the
Americans were coerced TO infiict upon the Irish
assassns at Louisville, and the Americans only as
inurderers, burglars, &c. g
The Washington Union, influenced by the same
raaevolent and libellous hate. and in an indecent,
unnatural and unnecessary haste, which would al
most justify the presumption that it had previous
knowledge Of the existence and Intentions of the
Irish conspiracy, because in violent contradiction
Of the first telegraph accounts, which uniformly
declared that the Irish were the criminals and
that the Americans acted merely in self-defence,
disgracefuly palilaed the murderous atrocitie6 OF
the Irish, and savagely denounced the Americans,
It's own countrymen, us the authors of the ARRAY
us midnight plotters OF outrage, assassination, and
conaagrationl ~ 5t1s4 aft.at
This prostituted press still continues to hurl
every infamous and degrading epithet, involving
torture, boodshed, and crime upon the American
party. What can be more deliberately wicked
more studiously Infamous and anti American, than
this systematic policy oil vituperation and libel
upon so large a body of American natvess What
an alarming commentary upon the baleful consc-
quences of Papa influence; and what a fearful
premoniton OF positive danger TO the perpetuty
Of American institutions, and Of the American
Union IL in the comparatively short period in
which it has openly dared 10 exert its proves in
the affairs Of the American Union, Il can entirely
divorce Americans Of their native aud hereditary
character; IL from an instructive adherence Of
dishonor and crime, it can convert Americans into
accessors and pancgyrists Of assassination and
bloodshed; IL from bis high historical vigor and
manliness, 1t can change the American Executive
into puerile and imbecile nollity--ridculed con
temned, and dishonored abroad, despised and ali.
cnated at home; II from happy, peaceful, and
thriving communities, 1t can change our prosper
ods cities into psndemoniums Of strife and carnage.
and their industrious and quiet citizens into strug-
Cling and numbering fends; who, II this subtle
and disorganizing influence is allowed to enlarge
its disastrous and fatal rcign-sapping and cor
rupting our national character, oyerthrowinp and
destroying our Institutions, setting aside and de-
grading our native populations and substituting in
their stead its corrupt and supersttious seifs-who
can doubt, rho does doubt, that, under It's malign
and sanguinary ascendency, tie 1merican Union
Iuould Be, as ireland has ever been, An AcELDA-
MA FIELD or BLOOD,
Hence for the first time in the history OF our
Confederacy, the extraordinary alternative is pre-
scented 10 American freemen, 10 choose either the
degradation or the honor Of their country-either
20 combine with American apostates and dema-
gogues, with priestly knaves and superstitous
slaves, in their nefarious crusade against the in
tegrity Of our Observation-Disclosures the stronghods,
the very foundations Of our Union; or to unite
with their lcllow-freemen-the American party
In the grand the NOBLE the patriotic effort to pre-.
serve, undiminished and undefled, and In all their
vigor and majesty, the unequalled institutions Of
our glorious Union and bulwarking them high
and deep in the hearts Of every true American
impervious TO the corrupting malice of the black
vile and sorcery Of Jesuit magicians, 10 the APP
proaches and cndeavors Of priestly sappers and
piesty mincrs-impregnab to the trcacherous
intdgues and assaults Of foreign dcspots, and Of all
combinations OF American traitors and supersti.
tious saves-to transmit and perpetuate them, in
all their native dignity, in all their native glory
through all ages and all posterity, TO the end Of
timel" What American, truly loving his country,
her honor and her glory--what one, not corrupt
ed 70 his hearts core, not polluted to his souIs