The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-03-01


; Y 4esil 4euslHi a. ItsafI 3d
VraHgsD From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
An Irishman's Reason for Quitting tn
fra Democracy. -a.Eta
Just after the election, the editor of tn
Neenah Democrat wrote to the Meas, Civ
ing the vote Of Neenah and Menasha
with the following excuse for the unsat
isfactory result in the latter town: a
e In the town of Menasha, the Irisl
voters were, through the treachery o
certain prominent Irishmen, sold out t,
the Republicans" We expressed, at th,
time. our doubts about the story. ant
looked to see its contradiction. The las
number of the Menasha Conservato,
brings the expected contradiction in the
shape of a spicy letter from Michael Ho
gan, one of the prominent Irishmen' ;
referred to, addressed to his accuser. in.
dignantly denying the charge, and de,
Tending at length his own political posi-
tion. We make some extracts from the
letter !: 49,
MY POLITICAL POSITION.
l have for sometime felt it my duty tc
abandon that party whose professions and
practices are so much at variance. /, ir
common with most of my countrymen,
attached myself to the so-called Demo.
cratic party, for the reason that that par
ty professed to be the friend of the labor.
ing man, and particularly those of for.
eign birth. l have been long enough II
that party to know that their professions
are false, and made only to delude the
ignorant in order to secure their votes
and when secured, their rights and in
terests are ignored, and the power thus
created is used to Cypress and degrade {
large majority Of those whose suffrage'
created it.. t. .,..e ~
THE TARIFF MEASURE. d.
The laboring and mechanical Interests
of our latitude require protective tariff
Our country is depressed, times are hard
laborers are thrown out Of employment
or are compelled to work for pitlance
hardly sufficient to support life, from the
fact that there are no restrictions upon
foreign importations. Our country is
flooded with the labor Of the old world
in exchange for the gold and silver re.
quired at home.a This is the result o
Democratic rule, and all the hardships
and degra daton the laboring Democrats
of the North and West now suffer is the
direct result Of their votes.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENTS.
/. Our oa,,, n..~:-i : .-.l - -l-- n -
and millions of dollars and hundreds OF
lives are annually sacrificed, for
the want of an appropriation which De-
mocracy, in its wisdom, deems proper to
withhold from US, and bestow upon a
a more Southern and Democratic lati-
tude. a.a sal s4s 3 s.
ra. THE HOMESTEAD BILL. .lsi#
The millions of landless poor, from
Ireland, England, Germany, &C., by
whose suffrages the Democratic party
have maintained the ascendency. had a
right to expect that the Homestead Bill
would receive hearty support from their
hands. But we were doomed 10 disap-
pontment, and our only hope in this as
well as other measures enumerated was in
the triumph of those whom we had la
bored to defeat. - ef
THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE LABoRER.
Labor is the poor man S capital. In a
Republican Government it should be re-
spected. 1t is honorable even in the
monarchial government of the Old
World, but in this country we see per-
sistent effort to degrade labor. Demo
cratic Senator'S and Representatives in
Congress declare, and the sentiment is
echoed by the press and sanctioned by
the party, that labor is the legitimate
sphere Of slaves. That slavery is the
natural condition of the laberer &C.
That labor should be owned and not hir-
ed. thus striking blow at the very lib
critics of nine tenths Of the Democratic
voters of the North, and no voice Of con-
demnation or opposition is raised to pro-
tect US, but by those whom we have
been taught to regard as our political en-
emies. 49, I: g.s So fas tf &
raN KNOW NOrHINGISM. s.
Once year the dead and defunct car
cass Of Know Nothingism is brought out
aud dressed up in fantastic robes to
frighten Irishmen and Germans with
But when the smoke and dust of the bat
tie have cleared away we survey the
ground and find that Massachusetts,, Re-
publican, and South Carolina, Democrat
ic States. have trampled upon the rights
Of foreign born citizens alike. I also see
this step on the part of those two States
condemned by the Republican State Con-
ventions of every other State, while the
Democratic Conventions have no word
Of censure for South Carolina. / see un-
der the administration of James Buchan-
an the rights of naturalized citizens
shamefully trampled upon. The position
Of Mr.. Cass. in his letter to Mr.. Clerc.
called down the unqualified reprobation
of the Republican press. but no word oi