The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-08-12
A Republican opinion Of Irishmen.

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The Republicans have never looked Will
much favor upon the foreign-born element o
the nation, and particularly the Irish. Th
irrepressibIe conflict between the Puritan
and the Celts, commencing away back in tn
times of Henry II, and continued in BLOODY
repetitions IN the reigns of Elizabeth. ant
Cromwell, has left a spirit of inefacable hos
| tility between them, which is reborn will
every generation, and which can never b.
associated in peaceful utilization while frt
and water remain opposing elements in ma.
ture. The following extract from the Sar
francisco Flag, the officially announced State
organ of the Republicans of California, ex-
presses this inherent hatred against Irishmen
in language distinct and strong enough for
any man to understand: 1t refers to the last
Democratic meeting in San Francisco-prior
to the Presidential election
Eat the gorilla meeting last night, the process.
sion which marched and counter marched before
terlal which traitors always use. Mel of violent
passions, low and brutal instincts! Men of such
desperate fortunes that almost any change would
seem to benefit them. Is it not notorious fact
that every bloody riot, which has occurred in the
United States, startling the whole world by the
conhagratdCn of cities, and the most cowardly and
horrible murder of citizens. were IRISH RIoTS
Look at our short history, Union men, and an
swer Who resisted the draft in New York, and
spread desolatlon, terror and death through that
city! The IRISH Copperheads Who attacked
asylums, and with the malice of infuriate devils
dragged helpless orphans into the street, beat
them out of the form of humanity and hung their
torn and mangled corpses to awnings and lamp
posts Who are toansWer? Who even now stand
convicted before the entire word, of the dannable
guilt, the unutterable disgrace and infamy of those
atroelous crimes They are IRIsHMEN! Of what
is the vast majority of the traitor party in this
State composed? lRIsHMEN!
Last night nearly every man in the Copperhead
procession was an Irishman. They bore aIott
'ransparencies covered with the watchwords of
me most wicked and abandoned traitors that ever
plotted against the lives and property of citizens
II the laws and constitutions of country. In |
nltlng and reasonable notices were Haunted in
ne race OF loyal Americans by a herd composed |
Almost entirely OF alien Irish Copperheads- aliens
sentiment, feeling and purpose, and traitors in
CO. Inc fact is startlingly apparent. There
neV are Go to any CoppeThead meeting, where
h~meless scoundrels publicly proclaim the indie
'endence of the Southern Confederacy, and you
7lll ind Irish Copperheads yelling approval of
ne accursed sentiment. The rear, wings, front,
entire and vanguard Of treason at the North are
opposed Of stupid Irishmen. led on and Offered
y men false and wicked as hell itself.'
The above is only one of hundreds of arti-
les OF the same tenor, which habitually fill
be columns of that paper, and which are re-
choed by less influential Republican sheets
Il through the country. Was it for such in
lmous language as this, and worse, that tens
t thousands of the heroic sons of Ireland
ave given their lives in the late war; Is it
> such men as these they win intrust them {
elves hereafter?