Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-16
IRISHMAN'S REASONS FOR LEAVING
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.


From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Just after the election, the editor Of the
Neenah Democrat wrote to the Netcs, givins
the vote Of Neeuuh and Menasha, with tn,
following excuse for the unsatisfactory result
in the latter town.
"In the town of Menasha, the Irish voter,
we're, through the treachery Of certain prom
inent Irishmen, sold out to the Republicans.
We expressed, at the time, our doubts about
the story, and looked to see its contradiction
The last number of the Menasha Conseruator
brings the expected contradiction, in the
shape Of a spicy letter from Michael Hogan,
one Of the prominent lrshmen" referred to.
addressed to his accuser, Indignantly denying
the charge, and defending at length his own
political position. We make some extracts
from the letter -
MY POLITICAL POSITION.
have for some time felt it my duty to
abandon that party whose professions and
practices arc so much at variance. !, in com
mon with most of my countrymen, attached
myself to the so called Democratic party, for
the reason that that party professed to be tho
friend of the laboring man, and particularly
those of foreign birth. l have been long
enough in that party to know that their pro-
fessions 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 and degrade a large majority
of those whose suffrages created it.
THE TARIFF MEASURE.
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 com
PEELED to work for pittance 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
required at home. This is the result Of
Democratic rule, and all the hatdships and
degradation the laboring Democrats of the
North and West now suffer is the direct re-
suit of their votes.
RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.
Our commercial interests are suffering, and
millions Of dollars and hundreds of valuable
lives are annually sacrificed, for the want Of
an appropriation which Democracy, in its
wisdom. deems proper to withhold from us,
and bestow upon more Southern and Dem
ocratic latitude.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.
The millions of andless poor from Ireland,
England, Germany, &c, by whose suifrages
the Democratic party have maintained the as
tendency, had a right to expect that the
Homestead Bill would receive hearty sup
port from their hands. But we were doomed
to disappointment, and our only hope in this
we'll as other measures enumerated was in
the triumph of those whom we had labored
to defeat. 40.
THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE LABoRER.
Labor is the poor mans capital. In Re-
publican Government it should be respected
1t is honorable even in the monarchial gov
ornment of the Old World, but in this count
ry we see persistent effort to degrade labor.
Democratic Senators and Representatives in
Congress declare, and the sentiment is echoed
by the press aud sanctioned by the party, that
labor is the legitimate sphere of slaves that
slavery is the natural condition Of the labor
er, &c that labor should be owned and not
hired. thus striking a blow at the very liber-
ties of nine-tenths of the Democratic voters
of the North, and no voice of condemnation
or opposition is raised to protcel us, but by
those whom we have been taught to regard
as our political enemies. 49,
KNow-NorHrNGrsX'
Once year the dead and defunct carcass
of Know Nothingism is brought out, and
dressed upin fantastic robes to frighten Irish
men and Germans with. But when the dust
and smoke of the battle have cleared away
we survey the ground and find that Massa-
chusetts, Republican, and South Carolina,
Democratic States, have trampled upon the
rights of foreign born citizens alike. see
this step on the part of those two States con-
demued by the Republican State Conventions
of every other State, while the Democratic
Conventions have no word of censure for
South Carolina | see under the administra-
tion of james Buchanan the rights OF natu-
rallied citizens shamofully trampled upon.
The position Of Mr.. Cass, in his letter TO Mr..
Clere, called gRwn the unqualified reproba-
ton of the Republican press, but no word of
censure from the Democracy.
see that many Democratic States make
property. and not manhood. the basis of suf-