The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-09-26
The DISUNIoNISTs AND THE FOR,
ElGNERS. " 9 i

.ElGNERS. :" 4
For some months past, the disunion' 'ab-
,litiou preqs and speakers, have been in
austriously engaged endeavOring to Get
The earnest. true and patriotic Irish de-
mocrscy caught in Their web Of corrup..
ton and tyranny. AS election time ap.
the shallow trick Of the radicals
Is more readily discernable--they desire
to secure the Irish vote. ,,- Y I.
This is an unparalleled piece Of impu-
deuce. This is the same party that has
opposed the bestowing Of the right Of cit.
senship upoa an Irishmau, until he has
resided here nearly life time, and now
that he has been admitted to full citizen
ship by the action of the democracy,
they step in and ask favors Of him
What has the abolition party ever done
for Irishmen that it now presumss to ask
their votesi 1t has mobbed them. It
has burned their converts and their
churches. 1t has denied them the privi-
lege Of voting. 1t has charged them will
every vice which humanity is capable
1t has alleged that lrishmen fll our jails
and penitentiaries; that they are the cut.
throats, thieves, burglarg, and highway
robbers infestipg society. With all these
prosecutions fresh in the memory Of the
lrishman, we do not feel much inclined
to think he is going over to his persecu
tcrs. ,fr grl . .,.f
The abolitionistp have been such faith
full friends Of the Irish, that they have
done oil they could to prevent his voting,
and here are some choice extracts to grove
our points. The Cleveland Herald, a
paper which has always opposed the dem.
ooratic party, said:
aye unheiitatingly aver that seven
tenths Of the foreigners in our land, who
bow in obedience to the Pope of Rome
are not as intelligent as the full blooded
Africans Of our State-we will INCLUDE
the part bloods.D ih +.
The following, from the Chicago Tri
June, will equally illustrate our point, tha,
the opponents OF Democracy have deemed
it nec:ssaay to their purpose to browbeat
the foreign voters into silence. In allu
ding to the monster torch light procession
that turned out to welcome Douglas t.
Chicago, October s, 1850, the TriOun'
said ...........
"Taken altogether, the squatter recep
ton, last evening, fell below what had
been promised, but furnished an Instance
of what few determined wire pu'lert
can do with few hundred poting cattle
|-(alluding 70 the Irish and Germans }
In q Republican meeting in Putnam
county, Illinois, in 1860, Mr.. Elijah W
Green delivered himself as follows
p, MIR. CHAIRMAN 1T is claimed b,
some here to day, that it is not policy L
nominate full ticket, on accoun: Of tn,
Dutch. Some suppose that we shoult
not nominate man qgq nst Rothcman. -
! say, Mr.. Chairman, we don't want I,
favor the Dutch ; we don't want ts hor
row any Dutch votes, nor trade them an,
white votes. If they don't want to vot
our ticket, let them 60 to hell We bav
,ohite votes enough, and can do withou
them Neither do we want the Irisl
Catholics in oar party. We have Whit
men in our party, and don't want tn
Irish or Dutch .s..,f.
A Republican candidate for the Senate
IN Rock Island county, ILL.,, in 1850
said; .'t ie... '.'"i z.
| "Suppose I were to tell You that des
pise the Pope pnd hate the Papists, an,
detest the Irish Catholic voting cattle
who swarm around our polls at. electio
times
The Douglasites depend upon the faith
fitness and Ignorance Of their Irish Cath
olic element in the next election. Al
that was worth having Of New Yor
Americanism and Know Nothingisr
joined the Republican party weeks ago.
"The real cause Of the war must b
traced to tho influence Of worthless fol
eigners over the press and the deliber'
tiOns Of tho Government in all iss braucl
es.-Response to the Message Of Co
Strong, of Massachusetts, by the Assem-
bly,, June, 1914. ,,rss..,r,r,T
"If had the power, I would erect
, gallOws at every landing place in the cit
Of New York, and suspend every curse
Trishman as soon as he steps upon OF
shore.-Remarks Of Mathew L. Davis Q
receiving the news Of The Democrat
: triumph in New York, in 1856: 4. d.
"Itip our opinion, as our readers We
know, that no man Of foreign birth shoul
! be admitted to exercise Of the polite
rights Of an American iEen.-Albdn
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