The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-25
The Radicals and the Fenions.

The Radicals and the Fenians.
From the Worid.
The desperate, unnatural, and venal, but for
tnnately very transparent, efforts which the
radical leaders and press have recently been
making to cajole our Irish fellow-citizens over
to their internal plot for the dismemberment of
our country, in their evident determination to
rule or ruin, is happily arousing the vigilance
and contempt of the whole Irish race among
us, than whom, it is only fair to say, no portion
of our adopted fellow-countrymen have ever
done or suffered more for the maintenance of
those great principles of democracy and conser-
vatism which form the very foundation of a
free republic like ours. When the Union was
in danger OF being violently disrupted, no men
flew with greater alacrity 10 the post of danger,
and poured forth their blood more generously
and freely in defense Of their beloved adopted
country, than did the Irish
1t is, therefore, not to be wondered at if now.
when that Union is already happily restored
past all danger, when peace is proclaimed
through the length and breadth of our land,
those same stalwart defenders of the Union
should look with jealousy and suspicion upon
any set OF political incendiaries who, no matter
IN how plausible and hattering a shape they
come, would tempt them into tearing open again
the yet bleeding wounds of their country to
destroy that very Union they fought so braVely
to maintain, and to plunge us all into universal
anarchy and ruin.
Having had reason to fear, from the hitherto
eccentric movements OF one standing so high
with his cOuntrymen as President William r.
Roberts OF the Fenian brotherhood is supposed
to do-irom the lnsidous and fattering ad-
vances of such radical political schemers as
Logan, ColtaX, Oelesby, and Others and from
the tulsome adulatlOn daily poured forth in the
columns OF such wellknown haters and re-
vilers of the Irish race as the New York lri-
bune and its coadjutors everywhere-that our
irrlnt hp
the villanous snare being laid to entrap their
votes to their own destruction, we have thought
fit on one or two recent occasions, TO sound the
note OF warning. We are delighted to find it
was unnecessary; for already have our friends
discovered the wolf in sleeps clothing, and
already has tue tocsin o. alarm been sounded
from one of their leading watch-towers, in tones
that cannot be mistaken or unheeded. We
quote elsewhere from that able advocate of all
pertaining to true Irish interests and honor, the
UniUerSe, of Philadelphia, a powerful and un-
answerable article, which it is the duty of every
true IIlshman TO study most attentively.
The UnaUerSe reminds its readers that those
radical gro-worshippers, now blarneying them
so prettily to get their votes in the coming eec-
ton, are only the same herd of dark-lantern
Know-Knowings, anti-Catholic, anti-Irsh, pro-
negro, observation-disclosures burning people
whom they have such bitter cause to remem-
ber. 1t reminds them that this is the very same
faction (which has hitherto done all in its
power to Danish their religion from the United
States, to totally disfranchise them at elections,
and whose chief ann now is to command the
offices OF the republic by the hideous, unna-
tural, unconstitutional design of giving political
equality to the blacks.n 1t then pOintedly asks
now men like these-men who have over and
over again violated the Constitution of the
United States, repeatedly avowed their cardinal
principle that that Constitution is nothing but
covenant with iniquity-can pretend to have
any interest IN Ireland or the Irish; in Irish
men, whose platform Is inscribed with the noble
motto: "We pledge our ttreS, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor TO noqtntdtn The UNION, THE
CONSTITUTION, AND THE LAWS" ...
But the UniuerSe goes further, and exposes,
in vivid light the internal design of these radi-
cal propagandists to urge the country into an
other dreadful civil conflict before they will
forego their despotic determination to enforce
an unnatural equality between the white and
black races on this continent. Upon this point
the great Irish organ speaks out with an en-
pbasis that is unmisJakable 1t says:-
"We have had enough of civil conflict The rad-
Gals provoked the late war, and hundreds of thou
sands of brave Irish people fell to save the
tegrty of the Union. But they will not fight with
the radicals the elevation of the negro over the
Constitution, over themselves over general public
civil war on the matter-and the radicals VIII pro-
woke one should negro suffrage be dsaowed, and dis
allowed 1T certain TO be-the IRISH will be in arms,
of order"
When we find powerful Irish organ like this
ranged SO clearly on the side OF our laws and
constitution; when we know that the whole of
i1 tiIsnlJ lesPecIaOlei DOuy' Jne lrlsn clergy
packed by nearly every distinguished Irishman
maintain the same; when representative men
IKE Stephens and General Sweeney have de-
nounced al political designs on the Fenian
Brolherno93o; when their own CONGRESS at Pitts
any such political intrgues; When we find even
President Roberts under the late date Of August
Y, mdlgnSntly denying that the Fenian
Brotherhood is TO be used for politicaI party
purposes" we may reasonably hope % that tber9e
are but very few Irishmen who could he fonnd
silly or wicked enough to desert the conserva.
tive law-abiding ranks to which thew have ave,
belonged, and range themselves with tbei,
deadhest personal enemies, for nothing ~bni
their own and their countrys destructions T ~ ~
the radical fox praise and hatter as ne ukes .,
the foot of the tree the Irish crow kno Wa b.t a
by this time, than to open his besk and lei Sai
IL, bit Of phanaa-hig a.. ibl