Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-05
LOYlI. IRISHMAN's APPEAL TO HIS
C0TNTRIMEN.
Ed. RobEer on the Political Duty of
American ErtshIneu I'm the
Present Crisis.


ties that rest upon the shoulders of every
( freeman of America, be he native born or
/ adopted. and willing to discharge faithful
/ ly the duties which | owe to you, my
/ countrvmen. as we'll as those duties which
! every Irishman owes 10 America, | lift tc
you once more the voice of reason and the
voice of caution 1t is with boundless in
/ dignation and justifable rage that ] see
a majority Of my countrymen bound hand
and loot bv the chains of American trai-
+ tors and led INTERESTINGLY to the slaughter
house of Irish and American liberty; and
/ 10 the slaughter house of the hope of the
world. NV countrymen, let me ask you
| what benefit can we as people hope TO
reap from tho destruction of America or
| the destruction Of American liberty In
/ the same connection would also ask what
! the traitors give US In exchange Tor our
present happiness and liberties If We obey
I their iniunctions ard plunge the North
/ into the vortex of civil war; They can
/ give US nothing, nor would they if they
/ could. They would stand and wiring their
| hands in ecstacies of tiendish delight,
while their tools apply the torch Of treason
/ TO the temple of freedom only TO burn and
/ be consumed with his victims.
/ 1t is said, and believe it to be true,
/ that the infamous traitor Nallandigham,
who has done more injury to the Irish
/ character than any man on earth, re-
marked to British officer at the Clifton
! House, that he always upheld slavery
/ because he believed it TO he right lie
! also repeated the damnlng lie of a Rlch-
rnond paper, that "the normal condition
( of the laboring man is slavery, be he
/ black or white whereHpon the officer IN
/ question wanted to know OF the traitor
| why he did not go South where he might
own slaves and thus reduce his doctrine
to practice? The traitor replied in a tone
! of exultation that it was not necessary to
/ 90 South to own slaves, "fOr,' said he, II
/ have even now ten thousand Irish slaves
and as many Dutch in the state OF Ohio
who are howiing themselves hoarse over
my downfa !.
And what is true of Ea'landigham is
true to great extent of every leading
copperhead and traitor IN America
| They al lay claim to every ignorant for
| eigner who lands upon American soll- as
much as the stakeholder claims the mig
ger" that hoes his cotton, and for which
he has paid one thousand dollars. And
i. must be admitted that this system of
white slavery is far more abject and de-
grading to its victim in the North, than
since the ens'aving of the white man Is a
voluntary act of his own, in which he
yields up his reason, his liberty and his
manhood; whi e in the case of the negro
it is the result of coercion, and, therefore,
no fault of his
Ny countrymen, beware of those vaga-
bonds who are constantly appea'in to our
passions and preiudices, and never to our
reason. You know there is a class of bull
frog orators who are constantly groaning
out the same o'd song, the burden OF
which is that 'sthe abolitionists are trying
to make a niger Just as good as white
man" Now, my brethren, when an indi-
vidual addresses YOU with such propo-
sition, you may be well assured that he
looks upon you as the inferior of the
niger; and you will act wisely in setting
him down as q rotten Drained IDIOT, or
knocking him down as thief or a robber.
No man is afrail to compete with the
negro except those who know themselves
to be inferior to the black race, and who
hate the negro for his superiority.
But, my countrymen the time is draw
Ing near. and is even at the door, when
many of us wiz be called upon to perform
one of the most important duties that a
freeman ever discharged and a duty we
never had to perform until we landed in
glorious and free America. ! allude tC
the casting Of our votes fer the Chief Ma
gistrate of the greatest nation on earth
and it behOoves us to divest ourselves o.
passion and prejudice, blindness anc
bigotry, lest VIC act not wisely in making
! our choice.
On the one hand stands Platform tina
is as broad as the universe, and large
; enough for the whole human race to stanC
on And on that platform. head an,
; shoulders over all stands the creates
mora hero and the highest statesmen tha
has ever been given to the world. Hi
{ big feet are firmly planted on the immo7a
! + be rocks Of eternal right, while IN In
: brawny hands he ho'ds up the ConstItu
: tor Of his country, and thunders lorti
from its sacred pages the great and glorIou
: laws of universal freedom need no
! tell you that is the giant minded Lincoln
On tho other hand stands Platform;
|. platform. did / say? ! meant n scaffo
! YES. and scafo'd on which hae beer
:, executed e7ery loval and liberal minded
j Democratic statesman. But that scaffo {
{ is now reduced 10 one single rotten p 'ank
q and none know the significance of tha
: plank better than the pirates who reare'
: it under the very nose Of their INTENDED
7 victim, and on that p ank they have put
!, not statesman-not peace man-not
q war man-in fact, not a man at al; bu
d as if in derision Of the immortal LincO n
e they have mounted their p'ank with
0 hybrid warrior and politician-a sort Q
5 Janus faced patriot, that can be turned t
e putty under the manipulations of hi
i keepers And this Is the image that tn
American traitors ask Us TO fall befor
q and worship-this is the Mcclellan the
e ask US to vote for But / would as6 then
J. which half of little Mack they want us /
y vote for, since 1t is a well known fact tina
he has actually split himself from crup
II per 10 crown in his mad endeavor I
stand with one foot on Lincoln p atforn
: and the other on his own2 And this, toe
T was done in the face Of the fact that a
: eternal gulf Of distance yawned betwee
: the pirates plank and the patriots pla
IS form This is the self stultifier the tral
o tors ask US to vote for-this Is be VIII
d accepts an unconditional peace plank, an
9 in the same hour proc,aims war.
II But enough, my eountrymen; Littl
e Mack will be supported by every whit
/ slave and American rebel, and by noood
e'se. lie. us go forth like rational being