The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-06-25

| 1t has long been an enigma to the ''upper ten
thousand" why the Trishman is Democrat
All sorts of explanations (but the right one)
have been advanced. The hvorite one with a
certain class of gentry is, that it is the high
sounding name of Democracy which dcceives
and induces them to enter within its folds
which, like the boa constructor, crushes smears
with saliva, and then swallows them. Others
with no more truth, but greater cunning than
our silk stocking friends say it is that dreadful
monster, their religion; and others with no soul
or patriotism, pretend to believe it is from down
right stupidity or maliciousness. 1t is strange
they have never analyzed the heart and feelings
of the Irishman. Had they spent one half the
time or shown one fourth tho sagacity in this
that they have in seeking out and magnifying
his faults, they would have discovered that ev-
cry impulse of his heart responds to the gener-
ous pure and holy principles of the Democratic
faith. Cold and selfish proscriptionists torture
into deformity his love of the green Isle, and
because they find themselves incapable of so no.
BILE an emotion for the land of their birth, they
stamp it in him as a crime, and would excite the
fears Of silly fanatics, to doubt the possibility Of
an Irishman ever having true love for the land
of his adoption. They cannot appreciate the
feelings which make the son of Ireland look
back with a sigh to the little cot, the fond old
mother who bore him, the green fields, from
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ems, pouring out the song familiar to his boy
hoods ear; the hedge, from which the thrush's
note woke him to his daily labor; the dance,
where love and froic were the order of the
night. Is it strange that thoughts of all these
should make the eye glisten and the manly
breast heave with sigh? No; thousand
times no! 1t gives the best proof that the heart
is honest and human. It is the best security o.
loyalty to freedom. He feels that oppression
has driven him from that home and he knows
that it was the same oppressor's had that drove
the colonies to revolt against the oppressor.--
This is why he seeks our land; and it is this
knowledge and feeling that leads him to sym
pathize with the party that has ever resisted
the encroachments Of the common enemy. De.
mocracy is born with him, it grows with his
growth, and strengthens with his strength. His
temperament is congenial to liberty, and his
spirit chafes under the unnatural and inhuman
restraint ofthe oppressor. He realizes in the
land Of his adoption that for which his country
men have long hoped for poor, old Ireland, sell
government, personal equality and freedom
Who shall paint the emotions of the adopted
citizen as he looks upon his little son, running
about (perhaps in rags) and knows that it il
possible that that son may yet 'chain the ear o
a listening Senate" or fill the Gubernatorial
chair, or better STILL successfully lead the SOL
diers Of the Republic against its enemies? In
this single fact he realizes the very essence Of
Democracy. His affections, his gratitude, and
his love ofjustce, all lead him to the Demo
cratic party, as certainly as a mothers love
draws to her the child she has nourished at
her breast.--M j. Nntos.