Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-09-05
WEEKLY EnIPIRE.
f [Frofh the Indiana State sentnell
what MIR. Schurz Really said OF
AtA the Irish.

There is controversy springing up between
Mr. X. j. Ryan and the Journal as to what
Mr. Schurz said in his recent speech, bearing
upon the Irish, or whether he said anything.
Mr. Ryan, in his speech of Saturday last, is
reported 70 have said:
''He could prove by intelligent Germans,
Democrats and Republicans, who had heard
Carl Schurz's late speech, that he had said that
if the Germans could not be induced to leave
the Democratic party because of their love of
its principles, they ought to do so because the
dirty Irish belong to it, aud contact with the
dirty Irish ought to drive them outside such
party.
To this the Journal reJ lies:
"Mr. Schurz never named the Irish once
during his speech, and the only remark that
conld be possibly misconstrued into such an al
lusion was this: The Germans should leave
the Democracy on account of their principles;
but if they didn't leave on that account, they
ought to leave ON account Of the company the
party keeps"
With the denunciations ofMr. Ryan against
Mr. Schurz, and the ridicule which the Jour.
nal attempts to cast upon Mr.. Ryan, have
nothing to do, but desire to state what Mr.,
s. really did say, because both Mr.. r. and the
Journal are at fault therein.
Mr. Ryan states more than Mr.. Schurz real
| " said, and accuses him Of blsckguard slang
which do not believe he would ever conde
scend TO. On the other hand, the Journal
states too little, and gives the remarks Of Mr.
Schurz an application, which in connection
with what Mr.. Schurz has said before, would
involve him in selfstultfcation. For Mr.
Schurz, Just before, argued with great plausi
bility, that Know Nothingism was dead, and
that, though in some future time, natural an
| tipathy and Jealousy against foreigners might
again assume shape as political element the
men who had burned their hands in the Know
Nothing movement would be the very last tC
commit the same folly over again.
That Mr.. Shurz did not, therefore, refer e
the Know Nothings as the company which
| German Democrats had to keep is evident
enough, even lift would notappear that he diO
refer to the Irish, which | maintain he did
Mr. Shurz, Immediately before the remark il
question, had argued that the Germans ough
to join the Republican party, because theil
interests were best cared for In proof ht
vauntingly referred to the large number o.
German Republicans in the Chicago Conven
ton; boasted of the controlling influence
which they had exercised there-how it wa'
charged by Democrats that they had too much
|
so-called Dutch plank" &c In contrast, he
tainted the German Democrats with their po
sition in the Democratic party; they haC
never been anything but hewers of wood anC
drawers of water they had no delegates il
the Charleston or Baltimore Conventions
their interests had not been thought of o.
talked Of in either They we're but the willing
slaves and tools of the Democratic politica
leaders (0f course | do not propose in th
connection to examine into the justness o
these boasts or taunts) Recapitulating Mr.
Shurz continued:
ain 1854 the Democratic leaders proclaime,
for breaking down the Missouri Compromise
opening Kansas and Nebraska to slavery, an'
in favor Of the bubble of popular sovereignty
aud straddliRg behind them pe find the Ger
man Democrats in company Nth he-Irish
l In 1860 the Democratic leaders proclaim
in favor Of orening all the Territories Il
slavery, and stiH straddtiRg behind them VI
find German Democrats in company with tn
1 Irish.
ut seems 10 me, you are not ashamed o
your principles in 1854, you ought at least l.
b. haze become suspicious by the company int
which you were thrown; aud if by keeping thi
company you had become use TO it you ough
in 1860 90 have become ashamed Of your priu
ciples
Such was the precise sense, II not the yer
words, used by Mr Schurz in that connection
. because it struck me at the time, and afte
my return home from the speech. l too
notes Of this and some other points for tn
purpose Of replying to them at some futur
time. f.
When this demagogical appeal was uttered
/ felt shocked that man Of Mr. Schurz's Ia
ent should make use Of it. But little relied
ton satisfied me that il was but inexorabl
logic Of Republican ideas which led thereto
Republicanism bases its claim TO oexistence ~
on the hypothesis Of directly antagonistic an
opposing interests Of North aud South, and G
an irrepressible conflict going ON betwee
them This conflict is 10 be ended by tie CT
tire victory Of Northern and the entire sui
ljugaton Of Southern interests To brn
about this result, Renublicanism appeals I
: Northern sectional prejuuices and interests,
excites other fractional antagonisms, il fatlel
! specions aud sect o ial interests
4 Thus il proclaims negro equality in III
4 Northeast, and calls itself the white man
2 party Ia the Northweat Ii forms an nllianc