The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-09-28
The Policy Of the Radicals.

lcais towards the South the same as that
pursued by CROMWELL towards ireland:
'Wh hat is the policy Of the Radicals =?
! How long Is the North to keep paying in
tcrcst-payiug taxes? will answer You in
the words Of one Of these gentlemen. How
long are the Representatives Of the South
to be excluded? Until the heavens melt
with fcrvid heat" | trust, gentlemen,
that such an astronomical catastrophe is
not soon to happen. But is it not simply
absurd? DO we all not know that this sort
of thing can long continue? Do we not
know that we cannot, under the Constitu
ton of The United States, keep ten South
crn States as Russia keeps Poland, OF as
Austria has been keeping Venice? Do we
not know, !, an Irishman, do | not know
that the Southern States cannot be kept
under the feet of the Northern States as
England has been keeping Ireland for the
last five hundred years? Oh, remember
to have read this sort Of language before.
'lre'and at one time was swept from end
to end by great soldier and a great states
man. who formed his starting idea that the
on'v way to hold Ireland in peace was to an
initiate its people 1t is two hundred wears
ago since his track blasted that fair island,
and yet there are many men among you
whose faces | look upon tonight. who know
that In Ireland there Is no more bitter NAL
pdiction in the Irish tongue than this
The curse of Cromwell on you!" ireland
never forgot Cromwell: it never can forget
the iron hand Of that grim chieftain, which
eripped it too firmly and too sorely; forget
fulness and forgiveness can never come from
that people. 1t remembers forever, be-
cause there are some wrongs that burn into
the heart so deep that they live from gen
Grafton 10 generation, and cannot be cffaced,
while it lives, while ;hat race is living Do
you wish. fellow citizens, to deal with the
land? tCries Of No, no Talk to any
English statesman; to any man who lives
above the petty level Of action-and he will
say: "WouId to God, that two hundred
yeais aco, Cromwell never set his foot upon
that ruined !and-would to God that Eng
land had dealt more kindly by the island.
! Would to God that after thc Irish people
had been defeated in the war we had trust
ed them in peace, and taken them t. our
hearts. and made friends of them. as we
could have done. But to ali this Puritan
! ISM there comes an answer, Too late. too
late. The indeIible mark is upon US; We
can never forget, and we rcvcr can forgive
'CitizeHs Of tie North, do YOU want that
cry to come cut of the heart Of the South?
That fatal cry, 'too late!" DO you wish
] to hear them say, You defeated US, you
tramp,ed uS under foot, but we expected
when we acknowledged your triumph you
would not have refused to receive us again
as fellow citizens. But you would not-you
said to US of the South, because you were
our enemies once, You must forever be our
enemies, never approach us with the hands
of friendship. The favorable hour for re-
Cancellation is gone. Too late too late; we
never can forget, we never can forgive"
Is that the state of mind you want to force
upon the Southern people? Citizens. as I
told you when | commenced, am giving
you my thoughts in unarcss. | am talking
to you candidy. In one moment l shall be
done. The duty is now upon you of excr
cisirg the right of suffrage. Do it eau
tionsly and wisely, yet ttaressly, voting
only for such men as are pledged to admit
the Southern Representatives into the Con
gress Of the United States. Vote for them,
and vote for no one else. Do not be con
fused by any side issues that is the great
/ question. Look at it; union or dSunion. =
Refuse to admit the Representatives of the
! Southern States; that is disunion; admit
them, and that is union. Keep these two
facts before you. and then you will have no
difficulty in deposltlng your votes as they
ought to be deposited. And now, farewell.
! [ may say to you, as | used to say in the
kindly Old times, God speed you ALL -
| May He protect you from the errors of
those who are honest; anl. isaG. the mach
nations of those who are HFfso May he
guide and guard You so, that you may leave
to your children, unstaincd and uassa paired,
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