Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-05-02
AN IRIsHMAN's REASON FOR
QUITTING THE DEMOCRACY.

waukce Sentinel as among the signs OF the
times When the Irishmen find it neces-
sary to leave the democracy on account of
its corrupting want of principle, and Its
degraded submission to the slave power,
such a party can hardly be worth keeping
in existence for any purpose whatever un-
less it be for plumber.
Just after the election, the editor OF the
Neenah Democrat wrote to the Ne1US, CIV
ING the vote of Neenah and Menasha, with
the following excuse for the unsatisfactory
result in the latter town;-'In the town OF
Menasha, the Irish voters were, through
the treachery of certain prominent Irish
men, sold out to the Republicans. We
expressed at the time doubts about the
story, and looked to see it contradicted.-
The last number of the Menasha COnser-
ratOr brings the expected contradiction, In
the shape of a spicy letter from Michael
Hogan, one of the prominent Irishmen re-
ferred to, addressed to his accusors, indig-
nantly denying the charge, and defining at
length his own political position. We make
some extracts from his letter:
MY POLITICAL POSITION.
have for some time felt it my duty to
abandon that party whose professions and
practices are so much at variance. l, in
common with most of my countrymen, at
tached myself to the so-called Democratic
party, for the reason that that party pro-
fesscd to be the friend of the laboring man,
and particularly those of foreign birth. L
have been long enough in 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 interests are ignored, and
the power thus created is used to oppress
a large majority of those whose suffrages
created it.
THE TARIFF MEASURE
The laboring and mechanical interests
of our latitude require positive tariff
Our country is depressed, times are hard,
laborers are out of employment, or are
compelled to work for a pittance hardly
sufficient to support life, from the fact that
there is no restriction upon foreign inPOr-
tations. Our country is flooded with the
labor of the Old World IN exchange for the
gold and silver required at home. This is
the result of Democratic rule, and all the
hardships and degradation of the labOring
Democrats of the North and West now suf-
fer. are the direct result of their votes.
RIVER AND HARBoR IMPROVEMENTS.
Our commercial interests are suffering
and millions of dollars and hundreds Of
valuable lives are daily sacrificed, for the
want of appropriations which Democracy il
its wisdom deems proper to withhold from
US, and bestows upon more Southern
Democratic latitude.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.
The millions of landless poor, from Ire
S land, England, Germany, &c, by who's
f sufrases the Democratic party have main
: tanned the ascendency, had a right to ex
pect that the Homestead bill would receive
b hearty support from their hands Blu
we are doomed to disappointment, and ou
only hope in this, as well as other meas
+ ures enumerated, was in the triumph 0
: those whom we labored to defeat.
n THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF LABoRERs.
s Labor is the poor mans capital. In
t Republican Government it should be re
pected. 1t is honorable even in the Mo
d narchical Governments of the Old World
= but in this country We see persistent ef
/ fort to degrade labor. Democratic Sena
i tors and Representatives in Congress de
d clare, and the sentiment is echoed by tn
l. press and sanctioned by the party, that Ia
s. Dor is the legitimate sphere of slayes-tha
:, slavery is the natural condition of the la
e bor-that labor should be owned and no
d hired, thus striking blow at the very lib
, critics of nine-tenths of the Democratic vC
q voters of the North, and no voice of con
ie demnation of the opposition is raised t
'e protect US, but by those whom We hav
been taught to regard as our political enc
Is mics.
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