The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-22
AN APPEAL TO wORKINGMEN.

Richard O'Gorman, noted Irish American
citizen of New York City, made . speech in
one of the cities of that state, recently, ad-
dressed especially to workingmen and refer
ring to the question of their duty in the pres
ent political crisis. Mr.. O'Gorman calls at
tention to the portsntIous fact, full of signifi-
canoe to all who remember how in the latter
days of the Roman republic, the distinction
between the plebeian and the patrician, grew
so great that the poor sold their votss to the
rich, and liberty and public virtue persisted
together-thet the rich are growing richer
money for which are in debt has been spent,
and by whom it will be paid. He says:
Let me ask you, workingmen of the north, east
and west, do you desire to pay all the taxes nee
essary to pay all the interest on the four thous.
and millions of debt which now hangs over the
United States? If you do, crush down the south,
If you want to pay all, stop the south from being
able to work, and by its labor helping to paw
any. If you want to pay ALL prevent capital
from circulating in the south. If you want tn
pay all, keep hanging over the south that sulIen
cloud of insecurity that always prevents man
from setting his shoulder vigorously to any work
II you want to pay all the taxes and meet the
whole burden of the interest of the national debt
then, my respected fellow-citizens, the working
men OF the north, east and west, follow the
guidance of Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Sumner slam
the doors of congress in the face of southern rep
resentatives, and tell them to tell their people,
when they go back, that they have no hope of
any real union with the north, the east, and the
west.
Perhaps the most feeling part of Mr.. o.
Gorman's speech Is when he illustrates the
absurdity of supposng that one part of a tree
country can, under the constitution of the
United States, keep another as Russia kept
Poland, or Austria kept Venice; he draws a
parallel between the policy of conquest which
the radicals wish to apply to the south, and
that which for five hundred years was sppli-
ed by England to Ireland. After a lapse of
two centuries, there is no more bitter male
dlction In Ireland than this: "The curse of
Cromwell be on you" AS MIR. O'Gorman
we'll says:
falk to any English atatesman-to any man
VINO lives above the petty level of faction-and
ne ne Will say: "Would to God that, two hun
ored years ago, Cromwell never set his foot on
.nas ruined iand-would to God England had
oea' moro kindly by the sister island-woud to
200 tnat after the Irish people had been defeat
50 N war. war we mao trusted them in peace, and
took them to our hearth and made friends of
them, as we could have DONE" But tn ali This
there comes an answer, ''Too late, too late. u
The indelible mark is upon us we never Ga,
forgive. Citizens of the north, do Won vsn,
that cry to come out of the heart of the south
the fatal cry ''too late ?" Do you wish to hear
them say, You defeated u.s. you trampled Ms nm
der foot, but we expected when we acknowledg.
ed your triumph you would have not refused 70
receive US again as fellow-citizens? But Won
would not-you said to us of the south-because
you were our enemies once, you must forever be
ourenemies never approach US with the hand
OF friendship. The favorable hour for reconcilia-
fnra. mas gone-too late, too late; we never can
i0fget-we never can forgive