Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-03-11
THE RADICALS ON F.EsIASs.

line ha0lcal parry 0iiS D0cs skUr4n8 LOT some
time past to secure the present syhpathss %
us TO obtain the votes next year, of the Irish
adopted citizens as q class, aud of the Fenian
brotherhood particularly. It is for no love of
the Irish MS o race, nor from any real friendh-
ness to the object Of the Fenian Brotherhood,
that they have started upon the manufacture
and manifestation of this sympathy. On the
contrary, out Of purely selfish motives, based
on their greed for success ia the Presidential
election, and for this alone, they now display
this freshly found admiration and kindliness
for the Irish rioters; and 1t h entirely game
of base hypocrisy, Of shameless duplicity, and
of utter per6dy, in them. to profess this admi-
ration, kindness and sympathy.
The Radical party of this day is the lineal
descendant of the old Federalist. Hartford
Convention party of the carly period of the
Republic; the direct osPring of the Native
American and Ksew Nothing parties Of the
last thirty years. And these grandparents
and parents of the party were alike chiefly
notorious for the malignant, envenomed, i'm
placable hatred they bore towards the foreign
born population, and particularly against the
Irish race As old Federalists, they sought to
deny the privilege of naturalization, or to so
hedge it about with disabilities as to render it
an empty, sounding, substanceless right. As
Hartford Conventionists they proposed to In
corporate into their projected Constitution u
clause by which it was provided that naturali-
cation could be acquired only after residence
of twenty-one years in the country; and that
no naturalzed citizen, and no Roman Catho-
lic," whether naturalized or native, could ever
hold any Office Of honor, trust, or emolument
under the Government. And as Native Amer
leans and Know Nothings, every reader is well
aware they labored to accomplish the very
same purposes
Since the organization of the present Radi-
cal party, the foremost men of which are the
very persons who most violently urged on the
hostility against the Irish in Native American
and Know Nothing days, there have been innu-
merable instances already to prove their latent
hatred or open contempt Of the Irish race and
Irish adopted citizens. In their search for
comparisons to make good their praises Of their
pet idol-the negro-they have never missed
occasion to contrast him with the Irish, and
have invariably declared the negro to be the
better race, and the better citizen. To exalt
the negro in the estimation of the people, Rad
ical leaders have decried the Irish and have
denounced them as the yilest Of any Of the civ.
ilized races Of the earth.
With all this record staring them in the face.
the Radicals have the effrontery, now that an
other Presidential election is ut hand, to ask
for the support Of the Irish adopted citizens to
their negroloving ticket. And as means to
the end that Irish votes shall be gained to their
support, the Radical Congress took occasion,
early in the present season, to display its SYM
patty for the Irish. and for the Fenians partic.
ularly, BY suppressing every measure presented
by Democrats for the actual relief. speedy lib
Grafton, and ample indemnity, OF the unfortu-
nate victims Of British injustice, persecution,
and barbarity. who have since suffered igno-
mnious death. or who still lipger, as con-
demncd, or awaiting trial, in British prisons,
for no other offence than that Of being Irish
men, or of having Irish blood ia their veins,
though bern on American soil; and, having
done this, to steal Democratic thunder, the
Radicals then set about preparing bill which
they hoped would enlist Fenian favor in their
behalf, and secure to their party Fenian and
other Irish votes. y. ....t..- r.. .s
Mr., Banks bill was the issue of that hypocrisy
and intrigue. Already it has been squelched,
but not until it was 20 ventilated a. to make
It's author and bis party feel that their trick
was discovered, and their duplicisy and per-
fdy exposed. But before the bin of Mr..
Banks came up in the House, there was intro
duced, by a Democratic member. o bill to an
propriate $4,000 for the relief Of destitute
American citizens native and adopted WHO
are imprisoned as Fe1ians abroad. The vote
upon CHS bill win somewhat exhibit the real
feelings Of the prominent Radicals towards
Fenians. We give the EsyS upon that bin, ~
fOllOWs:TQ 5nG t9ft95sT e62 f-hifi as@ t14hi
Msssrs. An,ss, 81 sass; pesmnsn.. Of xieh.: BROW.
nell. Of NJ; Broomal1 n Pa; BALDWIN, Of Mass
Butler Of Mass, 0otode Of Penn; Fsrnswofth OF
III Harding, Of H.; Havkins, Of Tenn; Hubbard,
OF Iowa; Highly, OF Cal; Kelley. Of Penn; Law.
renee, o. Penn: Marvin. 81 New York; Moore. Of
Num-, Of Tenn; Esl OF Rshn.; Psrhssa, az Maine
sehoneld OF Penn; TrimblG Qf Tenn. Wsshburne
o. WIS.,; Washburnc. on III; WAshbuxn. Of Iudinnas