The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-10-15
Trish Renublienns,

Ihe lfiSh hepuOttc, OF last week,
contained an eloquent and argu-
mentative address from the Rev.
Geo. w. Pepper 10 the Irish. Ma.
tionalsts OF Americs. A copy
should DO placed in the hands Of
every Irishman in the land. The
Republic is the only Irish Repubii-
can newspaper published in Amer.
ica lis editorials are sound, and
It is worthy OF a wide circulation.
If Republican Clubs would freely
circulate it among the Irish read
ers of their Districts, many votes
would be cast for Grant and Colfax
which would otherwise fall to the
Rebels.
Numerous Irish Republican
Clubs have been organized this
year for the first time in this coun-
| Try. The Irishmen cf the country
are fast seeing that the Democrat
ic party, closely allied as il is now
with the rebels of the south is not
their friend. Tho last Congress
was the first ono that ever took n
positive and uneqnivocal stand in
favor of the rights Of Irishmen and
foreigners generally. 1t is the
first that-ever passed law for
their protection abroad, and to a
Republican Congress they arc in
debted for a Homestead law giving
TO every one Of them 1850 acres OF
land. The Democratic party bad
it in its power to pass sach a law
for 20 years before it was thrown
out of power by the people, it new
er did it. One of tho first acts of q
Republican Congress was to pass a
Homestead law. Leading Irish
men all over the North are now
urging their fellow countrymen to
vote for Grant and Colfax.
Since writing the above we
learn that the irish People, the
leading Irish newspaper in this
country, has dropped Seymour and
Blair and como out strong and
bold for Grant and Colfaz. The
Irish People is edited by Johr
O'Mahonoy, of Fenian fame, and is
the oldest and most influential o.
the Irish newspapers Of this coun
try. Speaking Of tho following
speech of Blair, the editor says
The man that spoke thus is un
worthy a single Irish vote" Th'
following is the speech referred to:
"GENrLEMEN: l am with yol
heart and soul, and heartily say
God bless the Finnegans.' "a
voice. 'Fenians, General.
know what | am talking abou.
and | say Finnegaus. Laughte.
and confusion. And | say that
hope to see the cause flourish an
prosper, and shall bless tho day
) when Ireland is governed by Irish
men. In accomplishing this laud
able undertaking / will do all cal
to assist you. | will place mysel
: as needs be, at your head, marcl
with you TO Staten Island, overse'
your embarkation, will stand OF
the most elevated bluff on tn
: coast, and il you raise tho greer
emblem over the Stars and Stripe
while your steamers, under full
, headway, are turning their PROV
to the East, l will say goodbye
God bloss you, and may you b.
} successful in your undertaking
May you lift the British lion out o
his boots, and wrest from bis grasl
the emerald gem of tho sea; bu
whether or not you shall succeed
in this endeavor, may you each dnt
all remain in Ireland or eISewhere
and never again set foot upon TIES
Sh0reS Yon are wanted there anC
zee can get along ,cithOut yoat'
David Barney, Esq, n leading
Trishman Of Cleveland, Ohio, say
of the same speech: "The Irish
man who caD tamely swallow down
such an insult to his country anc
her heroic efforts to DO FREQ, with,
out resenting it n. tho ballot. bo,
next Noyember, is destitute Of al
public spirit, dead TO the claim
apd sutFerings of his motherland
and is anything but an houor t
that proud, defiant, sensitive ole
race whence no sprung.