The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-29
IMPORTANT TO RIsHMEN.
Appeal Of the Disfrnnchised Irish Of the
South to Their Irish Fellow Citizens Of the


North.
FELLOW CoUNTRYMEN OF THE NoRTu-To YOU
who were born on the same soil; to you, who, like
ourselves, are natives Of oppressed, down-trodden
ana S0rr0W-Strlcken lreand-lellow IriShmen, to
you we appeal In this our day OF distress and trial
or oppression and misrule Like you OF the North,
we were once citizens OF the United States; we had
share In the election OF the men who administered
the government and OF those who made the laws.
We were recognized as an integral part Of the
body polite, and the most honored and respect
ed Of our fellow countrymen were elected
10 positions OF trust, honor and distinction.
NOW az hays Is caanged we are no longer c
and in many places have been driven from the polls
The radical registrars have refused to enter our
names on their registration lists. Thousands and
tens OF thousands or our fellow countrymen in the
Southern States have thus been DISTINGUISHED, while
rights Of citizenship We are Today retarded nv the
radical party as the interiors Of the negroes and we
have no rights, political or otherwise that they
bound to respect, Hundreds, yes, thousands of
Irishmen have been deprived of the Official positions
to which they were elected appointed In different
the cases OF Mobile and New Orleans where Irish
men have been elected from oces, which were after
Fellow Irlsunen OF the North, all this has been
done by the radical party, which now asks your sup
port, on the ground That IT is the friend OF the
adopted citizen Trust 1t not I! Radicalism is Know
NOthingsm in another form. II that party gets into
power another iour years they will disfranchise you
franchised US, Irishmen Of the southern states To
You we are now earnestly, anxiously eagerly look
ing Tor pOltlcal reuenlpuOn. save us, by votes
from negro supremacy Save us, by your votes
from the rule Of the bayoneti Bear in mind thar
every Irishman who votes with the radical party
votes for our enemies. We entreat you by all you
hold most dear not 10 be misled by so-caled Irish.
men in your midst-traitOrS who have sold
out TO our political enemies and yours, renegades
who have accepted the ever ready bride for the adj
vOcacy Of policy that has made us aliens in the
land Of our adoption aud subjected In this coun-
try 70 all the injustice and outrages inflicted upon us
in the land Of our birth, down-trodden and CD
pressed Ireland. Restore to u.s. through your honest
manly, honorable, unbought SURFACES The rights OF
citizenshp-those rights OF which we have been de-
prved, that we might be degraded by the radical
party below the level Of the negro
Fellow 1rishmen, we appeal 10 yOu by the wrongs
and sInerings we now endure, by the love you bear
to your wives and little ones to save US from the
blightfng, whitening curse OF negro rule and
negro domination. Remember that every vote you
give to the radical candidates Is vote given to keep
US In political bondage and to subject our families
to all the horrors OF negro equality Remember that
II was here in the South that Know Nothingism re-
ceived its death blow from Henry A. Wise, In yir-
gina, Alexander H.Stephens In Georgia, and Andrew
Johnson, Of Tennessee. n you would free us from
political bondage and negro supremacy vote against
the party that has deprived us Of our citizenship.
Vote against the party that has made the political
inferior OF the negro Vote against the party that IL
now making Of the South another oppressed and
d0wntrodden Ireland. We are now looking 10 the
success OF democratic candidates to free US from
political bondage and the curse or mongrel rule.