The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-24

ona existence our friend and has ever extended us he
warmest sympathythose Irishmen who in every ii
which we have been engagedon every battlefield from
Quebec TO Monterey have stood by shoulder to shoul
der and shared in all the pes and fortunes of the conflict
anything, Mr. Chairman, wanting after this to
noble the lrsh Brigade and give it its proper and con
suonal position in the great family Of American free
is the obloquy of his excelency Henry j. Gardner
OF massachusetts,, and the Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS
Baltimore. The gentleman cannot complain If thu
couple his with that of the black republican know
nothing chief magistrate of the State of Massachusetts, in
MS violent crusade against adopted citizens will show
similarity in feeling in sentiment almost in language be-
tween the know-nothng governor of backrepublican
state that gave thirteen electoral votes against Buchanan
and breckenridge because they planted themselves upon
the act and the represent
auye OF southern State hatsthrew her eight votes
against the same gentlemen because she was swayed by
the counses of those who would asen upon the South the
iniquities of the Wilmot proviso.
Hear what the executive funconary Of Massachusetts,
says In his late annual message in reference to the Irish
Brigade
Whe the horde of foreign born thus strio-
en- down noble cause Chat of Fremon) which appealed
to the moral sentiment and enlightened patriotism OF
whole history establishes that the foreign vote, with
hardly an exception always has been and in the nature of
things will and must be- attracted to that party which,
man. always practically co-operaes with slavery at the
South and banshes from its platform the moral questions
and nober instincts and enlightened sentiments of the
age"
Again, Gov, Gardner says:
"And is this alien body which has decided in the past
many OF great national elections and in the future
less checked is destined to thwar many the nobest
ments which New England cooperating with New England
sentiments morality and observation-disclosures through the
great West may undertake in behalf of freedom humanity
and the nober spirit of the century. II was the deadenng
influence Of this body which the great northern
Engand sentiments New England education and New Eng
land morality by of State colonization from the in
digenoq and unmxed population of these six States
an nttnp
cause offree territory triumphed."
Now sir examine the remarkable coincidence of speech
and sentiment in what is said this very question by the
representative of southern constituency dThey Foreign
born voters may not be disregarded for but for them
Pennsylvania were lost and with it the day. Yet what
will satisfy those indispensable allies now conscious Of
their power? q Again,
in the fierce struggle for supremacy men have forgotten
the ban which the republic puts the intrusion OF rel
gious influence on the political These influences
have brought vast muludes of foregn-born citizens to
the polls ignorant of American interests, without Amer-
can feelings, influenced by foreign sympathies to
American affairs and those have point of fact ac-
compished the present result
Thus find these two champions of deunct faction
attribute the result of the late election the fact that the
balance Of power is in the hands of the "Irsh Brigade y
and that this power has been used OF these gentle
men says TO strike down "a noble cause which appealed
to the moral sentiment and enlightened patriotism of
country and rs the other gentleman has expressed it, to
accomplish the present result Sir, in the of the
adopted citizens OF Irish and German BIRTH who constitute
full moety of my constituents in the of the democ
racy OF the nation, accept the compliment and here fec-
tate the adopted citizens who belong to the democratic
fold that by their casting votes they srke down
New England treason and vindcate the great charter of
American liberty II they have really welded this power
then they the who have saved this Union from dis
solution and ruin England and Massachusetts were the
headquarters of the agatos of whom Governor Gardner
of Massachusetts, is the mouh-plece. Enthralment
of the South dsunoD their fierce batte-cry One
of their British organs speaking in reference the proba
bilities of the Central American question used
these remarkable words "There three mil
lions of human beings held in cruel bondage in the United
States If therefore, the United States deny and is
solved to question the right Of Great Britain to her Cen
trail Anne ican possessions we the people Of the British
empire resolved to strike off the shackles from the
feet Of her three millions Of slaves And there are
among us those who will sanctfy such glorious
And in response to this dabocal and atrocous sentiment
the London News adds The abolitonsts would be with
us to man. The best of them are 60 now Sir had such
catastrophe befaen the civilized world as war between
the United States and England at that time it would not
have been to the of the "darkanern and the mid
night dagger to the abolitions would have looked
for defence We would find only in the rank and file Of
the national democracythe bone and snew of the coun
try and foremost among that democracy would be found
the "Irish Brigaderthe counrymen of Montgomery Kos
cusco De Kab of saucy Jack Barry and intrepid John
Fitzgerald They would come forward Walker the his
torian OF General Jackson says they did the of 1922
They would come forward, all of them capable of bear
ing arms, promptly and deermnedy to fight for their
adopted country and for freedom against their hereditary
enemy and oppessor In such contest with the balance
of power in their hands, they would give such old
a
more dangerous adversary in last November.
now purpose, Mr. Chairman, to address myself for
few moments, TO the honorable gentleman from Missouri
Mr.. AKERs,l whose generous impulses prompted him
rush to the of his friend from Baltimore city when
he him lie bleeding and PROSTATE under the stunning
blows OF his colleague lr Bown thought, indeed at
first that the gentleman from Missouri, who is learn
minister of the Gospel took the floor merely mission
of brothery charity and only intended pray with his
frend and give him the necessary spiritual comfort but
this illusion dispelled The dying and the living
quickly astrde of the hobby and while the one
exhauss all his powers upon the rish Brigade the other
with equal stretch of fancy but much vaser stride
space obrudes himself at bound, into the cabins
of the Irish peasantry far away the Atlantic must
confess Mr. Chairman to the pleasure with which listen
ed to his brilliant ami highly poetical peroraon Hailng
from State first settled by Catholics whose chief city
named by its pous founders after the ssnted crusader
poetry which that remniscence inspires The ages Of faith
came before my mind but ere long found that his
of hearing far acute than mine, and could
help remembering the reeds that whispered about King Mi
dass ears when heard the gentleman from Missouri al
most from the Catholic city of ST. Louis call you to
hear the Irish priest beyond the Atlantic holding
with his enslaved parishioners Mr. Chairman from boy
hood to manhood have known priests Of native and
at the cradle of infancy have been with them at the
deathbed OF old age but sir only those of
man never heard word Of the speeches the gentleman
from Missouri puts in their lips, and only hope that
my are not equally afflicted with the
disease of King Midas.
Is it not known, sir TO every candid and impartial
traveller who has visited that beautiful but ill-ated
island, that the only true devoted loyal sesacri6cing
friend that the Irish peasant has in the land of bis birth
Is the Catholic pres He stands between him and the
preston of bis naughty boodsaned rulers and when he
cannot ameorate his condition, he bears his own
shoulders bis full share of the burden In suffering and
misfortune he administers TO him the consultations Of his
religion and the counsel Of friend he sympathzes with
all nd xtha ;nia of