Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-27
Another lrishman Banished from
the South.

The Democrats at the South, knowing that
all the Irish will be needed at the North next
fall to vote for the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, are driving them hither with
out ceremony. 1t seems that James Gran
gale, second Irishman, had been imprison-
ed, tarred and feathered, and expelled from
the South, under an accusation of Abolition
ism made by man Of whom he tried to COL
lect debt. Down South, an Irishman, like
slave has no rights which white (Saxon)
man is bound to respect We trust that for
the future the Celts will remain at the North,
where the Democracy is the weakest. The
Roman Catholic organ in New York city, the
Tablet, thus concludes an excited article upon
the outrageous wrong done Crangale:
'If,the safety of the Union is only to be
accomplished by the prescription of the free
dom of speech, the freedom of the press, the
freedom of circulation for every free citizen,
be the destruction of the habeas corpus, by
the substitution of mob and lynch law for
that of the Courts of Justice,by thescontemn.
ing of constitutional rights and the disregard
of constitutional guarantees, then we say
again, the Union is not worth saving, and we
for one, would not lend hand to save it."
Until the press and people of the North
unite in the expression of such sentiments
as those of the Tablet, just such wrongs may
be expected from the fire eaters of the South.
As long as there is party at the North
which countenances, or at least apologies for
such violence, just so long will it continue.
The whole responsibility of these rash acts
rests with Democratic orators and Democrat.
ic presses of the North. They are continu-
ally misrepresenting and falsifying the views
of the Northern people, and claiming for the
Democratic party alone the cognomen of
s'Friend of the South" We ask particular
attention to the following extract from the
Louisville Democrat. 1t will be seen that
the talk of the Doughfaces and fire-eaters
about Northern aggression, is not held in
very high estimation by that paper: -sf"A
..Itis fashionable now to declaim upon the
aggressions of the North and the wrongs OF
the South. We are told that the South has
compromised and yielded, and yielded and
compromised, until she has nothing left, and
that she must now stand upon her constitu-
tional rights. This is all very vague and in
Aammatory; but it is, perhaps, not popular
to suggest that there is more gas than reality
in an these TRADES.
ssThe South has had the President of the
United States forty eight years, while the
North has had it but twenty-foIr; ); while
the South has given majority Of her>votes
FOR each one Of the Northern men who
have been elected, with two or three excep.
tions the South has, in the meantime, had
controlling influence in Congress almost
always. There is no policy of the Govern-
ment that moso EXISTS for aohich the South i.
not responsible. We ask these declaimers
to name one measure of aggression, which
they talk SO much about, on the Federal
statute book, for which the South is not az
much responsible rs the North ? What
particular act Of aggression is complained of
Let it be specified and rectifed. Is the
South now dissatisfied with herself? She
has had the pow er Of the Federal Govern
| ment, and if she is illrused, she has hersel
to blame for it. 1t is to be regretted thai
she can't be satisfied with her own acts.''
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