Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-30

far greater and so long as lrlsnmen de-
mand liberty only for themselves or tor only
portion of American citizens they will fail
and ought to fail Great cheering. Ev-
cry English administration has been against
liberty have never loved the. English
nation, and III tell you why Because it
gives all its influence against liberty, here
and everywhere else Lord Palmerston
and Lord Russell under him did all they
could to break up our free Government.
hated these men during the wal, and will
always hate all men who hate liberty
Loud cheers met you not as Fenlans,
but as American citizens, and tell you the
whole truth the truth wish could be SCUM
ded across the ocean to all the furtherest
shores of Europe. | don't know that we
shall ever be able to hurt England much,
Confusion and cries Of ooh, yes, we will,"l
but | tell you, before my God that mean
to cultivate public opinion against the
English Government. We never have hurt
them we only let them alone, and all we
asked of them was to be let alone, but the
moment we got in trouble, the moment
the bloody head and hand of treason were
lifted up in our midst, old Palmerston, old
Russell and old Derby, and every other
scoundrel of them, set themselves to de-
stroy our free Government. There was no
other corner Of the world where rebel pi-
rates and assassins could find so safe
shelter as under queen Victoria'S petticoat.
! Great laughter. Now want every Irish
man to help me to notify Queen Victoria we
don't mean to forget what she did for these
villains. Now | will tell you what don't
like. Andrew johnson, a lifelong Demo
crat and hereditary haterd of the English
Government by virtue of his being demo
crat when he came to the Presidency made
MS all afraid he would plunge US into
needless war with England but we thought
| he would regard the wishes Of the Union
men who made him Vice President And
here comes in mystery. One-third Of all
the loyal soldiers killed in the late war
were killed by British bullets and British
powder Groans Now the war is over,
and what now do we hear from the British
| Government Why, they're down on their
knees to u.s. apologizing Well keep them
there Yes, | give them notice we under
stand them well. | desire you to under
stand these questions, whether you vote
one way or another But about that mys-
terry; | want you to tell me, if you can, why
Andrew Johnson is the friend of the British
! Government and the champion of the rebel
! leaders. find him to-day, the President Of
! the United States, holding confidential con-
versatlon with the correspondent of the
London Times, and through him, telling the
English nation what his policy is going to
/ be. What business has this traitor to dis
grace our peope so How about you Fen
lans now How do you like him Groans
and cries OF Never vote for him PLAYED
+ out - &c. Well, it's time you said So
/ Never too late 10 mend. am sorry to CON
! tess that they have had your votes long
enough. | want it stopped to-day Great
cheers, and shouts of ''it's all played out l'l
When you got up your organization, of which
l know nothing, you understood Billy Sew
ard and Andy johnson to tell you to go
ahead and they'd stand by you Didn't
you: Yes yes ! Well, when you got
ready to go to Canada, what did our great
| Democratic President do for you Nix 4
Did he help you? Oh no ! When Queen
Victoria wrote him a letter to surprise the
Fenians he put himself in the position of q
/ hod-carrer to the British Government If
Andy johnson had enforced the neutrality
laws as Queen Victoria enforced them du-
ring our war, lrishmen would have covered
Canada to-day. Great applause.
| find it best in politics to be candid. You
can't fool voters any longer | hope the
time has come when Irishmen will read
and think for themselves each man for
himself Ii party suits you don't 90 and
ask some priest or some demagogue if YOU
can JOIN 1t act as men. This Democratic
rule has kept you down, and unnamed
you. Teach yourselves to speak and think
for yourselves. | used think it was very
{ I of
older grew wiser I learned that if | ex-
pected anybody TO respect me must tear
out this prejudice against the black man.
When this war began and marched down
South, | found the black men praying for
liberty as the lrshmen pray for liberty
said, are you willing to fight for universal
liberty under a Government that never
gave you any liberty? and they all said
we will fight and die for liberty, whether
we can win it for ourselves or not. And
50 they fought and died, 10y the side OF
lrishmen. Then | said, cannot hate this
| treedom-lovIng American citizen any more.
Great cheering. Do You agree with meI
Yes Yes All Of US. Does it hurt you
to let the black man have his liberty MOL
Arn't you glad he's free ? Yes 4 Now,
want TO know how many Irishmen will 90
u lllC pOllS HcAS NONcluDtt ana vote
against the Republican Union Party of Tn
iversaI Freedom: Loud cries Of Not one;
they're all dead !" etc. Well, that's good
news The Governor then discussed with
great clearness the essential principle o!
the constitutional amendment, and was
constantly interrupted with vociferous APP
plause. You Irish-AmGrean citizens ought
to preserve the liberty you have found here
1--WE will W Then III tell you how to do
it. Go to the polls with liberty-loving pat
riots, and vote against Andy johnson and
jeff. Davis. Immense cheering aud cries
of 1--WE will, every one !" Andy Johnson
| fooled you, and he fooled us We wern'
any smarter than you We're but he wont
| fool us again. Can he you? Never
never!" | have the profoundest respect
! for the President of the United States, and
| perfectly despise the traitor Andy John
son, Long cheering. The difference be-
tween Mr.. johnson and me is that he was
a Fenian, | wasn't, but he isn't for liberty
and am. If | could do anything to help
the lrshmen to regain their liberty, 50
help me God I'd do it, if it cost me both my
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