The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-08-17

Tho Radical Bid for the Irish Vote.
The radicals have fairly commenced the
campaign for the fall elections. Their leaders
are already on the stump, and the first element
they have selected to appeal to is the Fenian
Brotherhood. The Fenians no doubt number
a great many votes, though they are not all
naturalized citizens yet. The radicals evidently
calculate on securing large Irish vote on the
ground that President johnson interfered with
the late Fenian attack on Canada and blocked
the game. In this they may be mistaken. for,
however disappointed the Irish portion Of our
population may be at the course which the adj
mnistration took in the Canadian affair, they
have always been among the most conservative
of the people, and regard the general interests
Of the country too highly to assist in keeping
its destinies any longer in the hands of the
bloodthirsty faction which, after prolonging
the late war two or three years more than was
necessary, heaping up taxation and obstructing
the restoration of peace, have the impudence to
ask for an extended lease Of power.
!. The so-called Fenian picnic at Chicago the
other day, at which, even according to radical
accounts, only ga fair portion" Of those present
were Fenians and their friends, Gov. Ogleshy,
Of Illinois, Speaker Colfax and Gen. John A.
Logan, the radical candidate for Congress, in
dulged in the most violent and beastly abuse Of
the President, and made direct proposal In
series of the merest clap-trap, buncombe
speeches for the Fenian vote. Governor Ogles-
by, who denounced the Chief Executive Of the
nation as "the scoundrel who stumbled into
the Presidential chair" oonjured all Irishmen
to vote for the radical "party Of liberty" pro-
missing that this party, which has kept our own
country in the vassalage Of fanaticism for the
past two years, would help the Irish people to
obtain their liberty, and swore before God that
he would utterly annihilate the bloody British
government After good deal more blarney
and blackguardism, ingeniously mixed, the Gov
ernor Of Illinois gave place to the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives, who, after making as
much capital as he could out of the Fenian raid
and abusing the President Of the United States
to his hearts content declared that the radi-
cal Congress was in favor Of irish independence,
and promised that the Irish should have par
lament Of their own on dublin Green"
wherever that Is; at which shallow nonsense Of
course tho Irish part Of the meeting laughed
and cheered immensely. General Logan fol-
lowed in tho same strain Of stump oratory,
boosted Of his Irish origin, and, we regret to
say for the reputation OF a brave soldier, made
statements with regard to the Presidents en-
enlargement Of Fenianism which are not borne
out by facts.
There is no better evidence OF the desperate
straits to which the radicals are driven than
this attempt TO capture the Irish vote. We ex-
pect to see great many other picnics got up
during the campaign, Of which "a fair por-
ton" Of the participants may be "Fenians and
their friends" The radical orators will be on
hand, Of course, and they may help to foot the
bills. The Irish people are always ready for
fun and enjoyment, but they are too sag acious
to be duped by such humbug as was furnished
by the stump speakers At Chicago. It il much
easier to get them to laugh at the transparent
blarney Of these men-who they know we'll
enough belong TO the same class that led the
Know Nothing, snti-Irish faction few years
ago, and would head another now r they could
make political capital out Of THAN to IN
duce them to vote against Vie welfare Of this
country, in which they have Q strong and en-
during interest.
II may be that there are men prominent
among the Fenians who have been choperonsd
in the Senate and the House by Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Collar, willing 10 make bargain Of
the Irish vote II they could accomplish IL But
we hardly consider such thing possible,
judging from the antecsdsnt action Of Irish
citizens, which has been always in favor ofcon-
servatism. Some OF our politicians imagine
that the Irish are easily dupsd II they were
only TO meet the Irish people in their native
element they might and that with all their sp-
parent simplicity, they ofssn manage 70 have
quiet laugh in their sleeve at The sxpsnss Of
those who try 70 dups them The fulminations
OF the radical stump orators may meet with
this result. No doubt the leading intelligence
Of the Irish community will take care that the
interests Of the country shall mot safer any
thing from the appeals Of the infamous radical
faction to the Ihsh vote. The shibbclssA o.
"liberty and equality" in the mouths Of these
men, who represent the party Of dssposisn
over the white ruce and Of annihilation 70 the
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