The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-16

own laws. and in respect to treaty obligations,
TO pursue precisely similar measures. Not
70 have done 80 now. NOuid have been the
most fatal mistake the preaident could have
committsd--fatal, alike, Tor the honor OF the
t,oantry. for the advantageous position
- now stand in @ against England, for
| tho Irish cause itself. and would havs
yieldsd ingloriously, aud 70 no purpose,
Che strong hold we still have upon England
for her piracies, the violation of her treaty
obligations, and for her manner of holding
her neutrality. All these things are yet to
be settled for, and the bill is to be paid with
interest Had President johnson suffered
our laws to be broken in the same way, our
treaties to be violated In the same shameful
| manner, we would have been just like Great
Britain, and could have had, henceforth,
nothing to say against her.
All this the radical republican leaders
know as we'll as any one But they think
| they see an opportunity to pander to the feel
ings of some disappointment and some anger
| which they hope to fan into decided animosi.
ty and antagonism, which feelings they pro-
pose to take advantage of for themselves at
| the polls. The daring to make such an at
| tempt is, in our judgement, the best evidence
| that could be adducsd of the low and con
temptuous opinion they entertain OF the Irish
| character. To suppose that they could sue
| cessfully caiole the Irish. American voters, is
to suppose that the voters of that class, like
mean ours and whipped spaniela, can bt
made to lick the hand that smtes them, ant
| to fawn upon the wretch whose disposition II
| to degrade and outrage them; it lie to sup
pose that long series of offences and enmi
| ties against our people, as mass, can bt
atoned for aud wiped out by condescendinI
| emile which is bestowed upon them for q sci.
| fish, if not reasonable, purpose.
Such men as have dsgraced themselves by
condescending to turn little natural feeling
| of disappointment. in a time of excitement
| against the administration. for the ignobl'
purpose of oaioling voters by false pretences
must surely suppose that the Irish Amerl
cans are all fools to forget so soon the scan
dalous uttsrances of radical newspaper
against them-not once only, but CONSTANT,
aud through months and years.
1t is not so that we reply to the insulting com
parsons OF the n. Y. Tribune, the defamstor
speeches of such men as Boutwell,, the undis
guised sneers of the whole pack of smaller pa
| pers and smaller men, who take their cue froT
such envenomed leaders.
We do not disguise from ourselves that Their
| was q moment when considerable numbers Tel
and expressed an opposition to the administrs
ton from what it had done. But the sobe
second thought his come and that feeling ha
subsidized The truth is, the lrishmen who hav
come here to plant their homes who have bee
| naturalzed here, true to the country OF thei
| adoption, its constitution, and its laws The
have fought for the Union, they love it, and the
will defend it and its defenders against all con
ers. The attempt to manufacture political cap
tai out a temporary and not widespread alien;
, ton from President johnson and the princip lie
| he represents, is worthy only of the party tins
| made the attempt. No other party would hav
/ had the unblushiug impotence to do so. FC
the Irish American to vote for the radical tradE
: GERS of Ireland and Irish Americans, would
like throwing ones self bodily into the jaws of
. hyena. 1t would be sacrifice the most intstu
, ated that some men ever were guilty OF. Tn
radicals and the principles they represent, al
the natural enemies of everything that is Gale
Irish. They hold up the negro as our superio
They put US against him in comparison that the
may Justify their course of high laudation
the negro, and they have heretofore omitted I
opportunity to load US with opprobrium al
scorn.
We know where our true interests lay
know who represent the principles that we no
dear, and we recognize Andrew Johnson as Il
exponent of those principles, and so long as
:. is true to himself and his emphatic declaration
so long will the great body of Irish American
d hbide by AID sustain him.
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