Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-09-28
THE IRISH ADOPTED CITIZENS
AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

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My fellow-citizens of Irish birth who
know me for over twenty-five years in
this city and Brooklyn as an active
worker in the Democratic ranks, know
full well that never held an Office I'M
der any party in this country, and that
1 have never asked any favors of either
of the parties now contending for the
suffrages of the people. They will
therefore, do me the justice to believe
that it is not for lucrative motives that
/ thus address them. I will therefore
state at the outset, that the present
Democratic party, in my decided opin-
ion, for the following reasons, with
thousands of other objections too num-
erous to insert in this brief communi-
cation, is entirely unworthy of our
support, and that we should organize
at once to elect the men vino saved this
asylum of our people from being hand
ed over, body and soul, to England, by
JEFF. Davis and the Southern rebels
We must aid in DISCRIMINATING rebel
sympathizers and Know-nothing DEM
ocrats. Can we consistently vote for o
party that has such men as August
Belmont, who is positively reported to
be an emissary to the British Govern
ment in relation to the Fenian money
in his hands, and Reverdy johnson,
our Minister in London, who is at this
moment riveting the chains tighter on
our oppressed native land, by assuring
the bloodthirsty English that the Amer
lean people approves of their past ac-
tons in every respect, and Know-noth-
ing Brooks, and Andrew johnson. the
greatest enemy of our race and count
ry, and thousands of that stamp, as its
leaders ? Are we going to support
party who, in their late platform, never
mentioned one word concerning the
outrages committed on our brave coun-
trymen now confined in English dun
geons, and many of whom who fought
nobly for the preservation of this IN
ion, and who, like ourselves, are citi-
zens of this country Where were the
Democratic members when the bill for
the release and protection of Irish
adopted citizens was introduced in the
United States Senate by the Hon. John
CONFESS, an Irishman and Republican
member from California ? Where was
Brooks, of the Express, and oil the
other Copperhead satellites of rotten
Tammany Not one of them was to
be found to support the bill by a FIVE
minutes speech. Our old tried friend,
Mr.. E. Robinson, of Brooklyn, was the
only Democrat to aid Mr.. CONFESS
when the test question was before the
House. And yet, like whipped spaniels,
they expect that we will support their
hungry ofice-seekers at this election
Forbid it Irish manhood Sooner
would I support that English Tory,
Diseraeli, and his anti-Irish crew than
such deceitful and Atreacherous politi-
clans. Again. have Seymour, Blair,
Hoffman, or even our countryman,
O'Gorman, ever attended meeting in
this city or country to sympathize with
or aid the Irish people in their efforts
to free our native land AS member
of the Fenian Brotherhood I emphat-
ically say so. Let your verdict, there
fore. go forth through the land that the
days of the avaricious and vile politi-
clans of Tammany are numbered-that
they have been weighed in the scale
and found wanting. Form clubs at
once, in every Ward of this city, and
every town and hamlet throughout the
country, to oppose, at the ballot box,
the corrupt vipers of this so-called
Democratic party. In conclusion. I