Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-26
After Election.

After Election.
MAY We take the liberty of asking our thor
ough-paced partizans, now that they hive time
to cool their heated heads and answer plain
question, what have they gained by their party
action previous too and upon the 4th day Of No
vember? We suggest, as points of comparison,
New Years Day '56, aud New Years Day ST.
We give them six weeks to make up their an
swer, and we defy them to prove that they have
advanced Irish character one peg by all their
campaign politics.
What have we gained9 we next ask of the
sober citizen, too proud to be made tool Of
and too honest to play the decoy duck among
his neighbors.
We will answer: some fire thousand men OF
Irish birth, have been out night and day for the
last six weeks, nsturalzing," "rallying,"
drumming up" voters. They left their shops,
their stores, their benches; they have forsaken
the wages of industry to earn the wages of par
ty; they have kept late hours-all hours; they
have laid the foundation of habits which some
of them never will shake off.
These five thousand biped whippersin have,
perhaps, given TO the Democratic party fifty vo-
tiers each-25O,OOO Irish votes. Of this num-
Der, how many voted intelligently or on the
merits? Yet the rude mass of their one-sided
rious apprehensions in the minds even of liberal
Americans. This Presidential election of 1856
has, we fear given the death blow to Irish infu-
ence-such as still remained-in the free States.
Here, where they live, where they must contin-
ue to live, s. the foreigners" have met " the ma
tiyes" in two embatted bodies. Here, on a
question not their own, on which, if they took
any side, it ought to be the side of the slave,
not of the landlord aristocracy of the South
here. the Irish citizens, once fugitive slaves
themselves, have had the folly, the inconceivable
folly to array themselves almost en- masse against
that North which they cannot do without, and
which cannot do without them. In vain our re-
peated warnings; the demagogues have pre-
vailed, and the bitter seeds Of future trouble are
sown broadcast by the hands Of our own class.
We care as little for the rabid enmity of such
papers as the Boston Bee and Boston Traveller,
as any man; we shall shrink as little from our
share of the coming trial as any man; in oppo.
sing the prejudices Of our natural supporters,
we have shown better courage than any pam
derer to popularity ever felt; yet we do look
with melancholy prescience to the results OF
this miserably inisdirected "kriM vote" of 1856.
And how could ue help it? We had Catholic
organs and hllibuster organs; the Pilot and the
Irish American, Mr.. Meagher and Mr. McMaster,
all vociferating together in the same orchestra,
stunning the ears and abusing the judgment of
the people. We remember with pride that one
voice at least was heard above that demented
din, and how respectable and conscientious
minority stood by that enc dissentient in de
claring that the whole emigrant multitude should
not be dragged at the tail of a party Yet what
have we gained? Five hundred out of .fse thou
sand whippers-in may get fifth or tenth rate
places: the nine tenths will be disappointed
the whole body of the voters will be detested
or despised.
We assert now, and we ask our readers to
bear in mind our assertion, that the indecent ex.
hibition Of their Irish stock by the Democratic
managers in. 1866, will lead within few years
to fundamental alteration of the naturalization
laws.