The Portland daily press., 1868-07-27

The lfAsu pOes
There is no denying the fact that whatever
ouestiop is in issue the Democracy control
LARGE norton of the Irish vote. BUTT is equally
impossible to deny that the Democrats do not
euioy this monopoly moment longer then
the emigrants from the old country perserve
their identity as foreigners complete. After
Irishmen have been here long enough to ac-
qpre familiarity with our institutions and to
reap the advantages, material and Intellectual,
of free democratic government, they no1ongeri
give an undivided support TO the candidates of
the Tory party of America Patrick lea-es eff
flourishng the shillalah at about the same
time that he ceases to vote the Democratic tick
ct. Patrick's children are likely 10 be about
half Democrats and half Republicans, the pro-
portions varying widely accoi ding to the edu-
cational privileges they enjoy. The original
Patrick's grandchildren are entirely undistln-
gnis BILE from other American citizens and
are likely TO be four-fifths Republicans S, the
number still being dependent upon their means
of obtaining an education.
1t is certain that our Democratic contempt
raries will not hesitate to avail themselves of
the above declarations to prove that we regard
the Irish as Ignorant brutes,' seattle" etc.
If we did so, we certainly should atrocously
lnisrepresent the Republican party which for
nearly two decades has been waging gallant
fight for the dignity of labor and the safety anu
honor of the laboring man against party that
in spirit of ultra Toryism has ehdeaVoreo TO
engraft the spirit of caste upon American IN
stitutions But we do not so misrepresent the
party.- We merely recapitulate certain facts
that are pateut to every observer. Men COM
ing to America from a despotic country, where
it will certainly not be claimed that the masses
have good facilities for mental culture, upon
their first arrival, ARE likely to fall into the
hands of that class of politicians who are most
eminent in the demagogue arts and who will
eso-t to the most corrupt ard unscrupulous
means to secure political supremacy. That
this i; lite rally true Of the Irish voters is motor
ous, and for confirmation of our statements
we appeal to any number Of that newspaper
called the Irish Republic, owned and edited by
frishmen--a paper, we may add, that ought to
be placed within the reach of every Irish voter
in America In the last number we find the
following: --a t..f f--f tt-t
/ While we believe that it is inconsistent in
the Irish people to support party in America,
as much interested as the former shareholders
Of the South, and while we feel that our race
! is helping, and has helped, to retard the march
| OF liberty, by throwing themselves into the
ranks of this slaye-breeding, conservative; ig-
| norant rabbie Democracy we know that
| it is but part of their national blindness, and
| that they know what they do
Let our countrymen in America, who are
| citizens, do their duty to America conscien-
| tiously, and as becomes men who intend to
NJ nF fhnIr nUn md
Let them shout for liberty for ireland, and he'll
the party of slavery in America. if their sense
! OF honor justifies them, but we ask them to do
| so ia quiet and unosLentatious manner. Let
them not drag their country through the sloughs
| of their politics, and act as though others had
| no rights, or that Irishmen cannot differ as
| well as Americans.
| In a word, Irshmen in American politics
must work from the American standpoint, and
| remember that it is their citizenship that emit.
| ties them to vote and shout, and not the fact
| of their being born in Ireland
No, it is not the Republicans who regard the
Iris h with contempt, though they deplore theil
inconsistencies and errors. 1t is the Democra
cy who by their acts and words fail in respect
to our adopted citizens. The Belfast journal
the bitterest Copperhead paper in the State, il
its last number,in an article respecting the prob
| ability that the negroes are SO ignorant that
they will vote the Demociat ticket after all
| says: .. 45.-sI... 5.., --.i.t.. ...--..... Ed.
| In an article published in March, 1867, in
which some comments were made on the Con-
gressional plan for the admission of the
Southern States by the acknowledgements of the
blacks, we made the sc remarks: withhold
ing eligibility to Office and comforting the ball
lot on the colored population might not prove
to be measures so fraught with evil conse-
quences as would at first appear. There would
he little question, We think that the negro
vote aoo,hd be controlled By men of influence,
employers and others, Uoters Of certain classes
are controlled at the North. Tue dociIity of the
negro nature is proverbial, and is proven abun-
| dainty by the fact of his long and almost un-
complaining bondage ~. ...,.....- ,..-.-,.
What say you, Irishmen, will you longer
endure to be tainted with base subserviency
to demagogues by the newspaper organs Of
those very men?