The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-26
The Attempted sale ,f The Irish Vote
the Republican Party.

W 'o'eIotA, IAL' July 81
To the Editor of the Chicago Times:
In all vouv citv papers of last week were publish
ed certain reso lutions purportng 90 have been
unanimously adopted at a meeting OF the fenian
brotherhood held 10 Chicago on the previous
SATURDAY. ere il sort of hszy obscrrity
about their rNraseolc~y, arising, in party snip
pose from the liter not having attained the
facility cf putting his ideas into tolerable Eng
lish, which leaves it at first light rather difficult
to guess for what purpose they were either adopt
ed or published. Coupling them, hoTever, with
the programme of the meeting advertised to he
holden ut Haas park on the 9th of August, the
purpose becomes something palmer, and the III
tention mare ineligible. 1t is that the leaders
of the Roberts faction of the ieniaI brotherhood
propose to place the " e OF the lrlsh-American
element at the disposal ofthe radical know-aoth-
ing party at the coming election, in return Tor
certain favors, which, take it, the said radicals
propose to extend TO the ieniau organization and
operations at some future time.
If the members of the fenian brotherhood had
only proposed to barter their own votes for
consideration, to a party whose antccedents
should brand them with the contempt and exc
Grafton of every Intelligent Irish American, how
ever much il might be to be regretted, yet pa
triotic and honest Irishmen would have looked
on in silence though in SORROW while the unholy
traffic was being completed. But when three or
four obscure individuals, who have risen TO the
surface Of the Irish organization only by the
bouyapcy of their own rottenness, pretend to
speak in the name and with the authority of the
| Irish-Ameriean people, and to speak in d way
that if sanctioned, would reflect everlasting dis
grace upon the Irish name and race, it is surely
| time that something more than the silence of
| contempt is awarded TO them. Who are these
| precious trio who have the signal impotence to
| TO stand for and append their names to a set of
resolutions fraught with more SANDER, libel and
insult of the Irish people of America than any of
| their bltterest enemies have fabricated
! against them? Who have the effrontery to
| place record, through the public Journals the
| infamous falsehood that the Irish people are ig-
norant enough and worthless enough TO auc-
tioneer their political honor and integrity at the
| bidding of few blatant demagogues Who
| suppose them devoid of principle and of hon
esty as to lick the hand that has been so often
| raised to strike them to the dust, and to crouch
| and fawn at the feet of those whose voices were
never raised except when insult and contumely
were to be heaped the Irish and Irish
| racer
| It is enough to make mans blood boil with
| indignation TO think that these fellows could
/ ever suppose they had the power TO outrage my
| countrymen into such an unhallowed compact
| When our know-nothing enemies proclaimed
| from their political house-tops that we were I'M
| worthy of the freemans franchise, because we
| had not intelligence enough conscientioasness
enough to exercise it honestly and honorably,
/ what more did they say, what more could they
say than have said these Tevley street taiiors OF
| Chicagog They proclaim it rumpet-tongued
that are voting chattels, not of party, but
of hungry set of agitators who can transfer US
| body and soul at their own sweet will and at
| their own inclination into the camp of our Bit
| terest enemy, that We have neither minds, nor
souls nor conscienees of our own but can be ere
SC ved' into any position these renegades may
| choose to appoint US No, though our race and
| nation has beenfor centuries oppressed and per-
| secuted, we have yet, thank heaven, integrity
and independence enough remaining to hurl back
into the teeth of its fabTicators with scorn and
loathing the foul accusation whose stigma these
| traitors would endeavor to cast upon US.
/ We work not evil that good may come We
will not serve the devil that through his good
offices We may reach paradise. Let Sumner,
Greeley, Colfax, hoe geus oneae, manipulate the
niger; we want neither their fri 1dship nor
their favor. If their oaths, soielnnly taken on
the proof leet of the "fre ,dmen's bureau bill,
were pledged to us end to our cause,we would not
| lend them credence We know the willy, treach-
erous, lying nat, re of the master they serve too
well for that. Doubtless he cal sometimes as
| sttne the appearans We of an angel Of light, but
| 4Venfoot or eiuda' appeadage is sure to betray
DIM. And SO with these gentlemen, his servants.
Their antecedents glare forth too darkly signifi-
cant The horn and hoof are far too visible,
| even though their tongues ut, ar soft words aud
ter faces are clothed with smiles
NO, we will be true to the party that was
true 70 US ana 10 our peop]s, when the Summers
/ and Greeleys of the land were arravod AGAINST
| US. True, not as our enemies would mal;en us.
j but as freemen, conscious of the right and will
] ing to maintain 1t. Psnegades NAV sell their
| votes, and souls and bodies, if they win 20 Inc
| hereditary enemies of their race, but trust me.
Mr. Editor, the vast majority of the Irish Amer.
| lean people viii be instinctively true to their