The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-02


his practice. The born criminal and
pauper of the civilized world, and
/ withal the innocent victim of the state
craft of England, and of the priestcraft
of Rome; a wronged, abused, and pitt
ful spectacle of a man capable of better
/ things pushed straight to hell by that
abomination against common sense
called the Catholic religion, and that
outrage upon political decency falsely
known as American Dem0cracy-wh
else does he know? To compare him
with an intelligent freedmen would be
an insult to the latter.
! Do American women run after Ted
dy O'Flahertv? Are they in haste to
marry him? oh, father of beautiful
| daughter, are you afraid that she will
break away from your love and kind
ness, and make Teddy a companion ?
Yet, how much less danger of her mar
rying niger! The black man, if he
has been at all favored by the chances
! that slavery afforded, is the superior of
| Teddy in the things which women val
ue; but his color is against him, and so
! Cufee and Paddy are equaI-the FIRST
| having the most civilization, the latter
being the whitest.
Now, marriage Is not thing Of the
! law, save and except as the law directs
| how it shall be celebrated. fla decent
woman wants to marry Teddy O'Flah-
erty, the law takes no cognizance Of
her low desire If she wants to marry
a niggar, the law is equally dumb.
When, then, you can point out to us
that the peace of Americans is in dan
ger Of destruction by the admixture Of
the O'Flaherty blood, we shall be
ready to believe that it is in danger of
deterioration by the admiXture Of mig
ger blood. Putting color aside, what
is there to choose between Teddy and
| Cuffee?
The country has survived the Irish
| emiG Gration-the worst with which any
other country was ever afflicted. The
Irish fill our prisons, cur poor houses,
our reform schools, our hospita ais, our
eleemosynary and relormatory institu-
tions Of all sorts. Scratch a convict or
pauper, and the chances are that you
tickle the skin Of an Irish Catholic at
the same time-an Irish Catholic made
a criminal or pauper by the priest
and politician, who have deceived him
and kept him in ignorance; in word,
a savage, a. he was born. He has not,
thus far, deteriorated the American
blood. Why, then, fear that, with
these obstacles of race and color in the
way, the niger will accomplish that
in which the Irish have failed
Bah This appeal TO the fear Of the
popuIace, that we must have care lest
this country, like Mexico" be ruined
by a mixed race, is only the gabble Of
rascals who want to perpetrate injus-
tice under cover Of popular preju-
dice. Mexico was not so ruined eth
er. The priests, bishops, monks, nuns,
operating upon the Catholic laity, did
the job for that unhappy Republic.
Just as Catholicism, which is desoptism,
/ goes out, Mexico rises.
The danger Of miscognation, white
with black, is, then, as remote as that
Teddy O'Flaherty Will succeed in max
ing his way bymarriageiuto the Ameri-
can families by whom he is abhorred.
We have been acquainted with Teddy
long time. He has dug nuinberless
canals, made many railroads, fought
! many a fight, voted the DimmecfaGc
ticket, been in many a Jail and paupcr-
house, and he has all the while been
priest-ridden. The fat, sleek, rosy
gilled liars and scoundreIs consciously
such) who have been about him have
kept him in ignorance, robbed him Of
his peace, and give him, after many
sprinklings Of holy water, what they
call passports 10 Heaven; but he is
Teddy 0'Flaherty yet and If we were
disposed to marry, there's Bridget
Bridget only. Misccgnation is not for
him.
There il not a Democrat who would
not boil over with rage if we should
tell him that CuGee could accomplish
that in which Teddy failed. Let US
dismiss, then, this question Of the de-
generation Of the blood as one that is
unworthy Of our notice-as one of
those side issues that the copperheae|s
and the man-selIers have raised to Oh
scure the merits OF the issue before the
! people.
When, after both Teddy and Cuffee
are civilized, they want 10 marry white
women, and the white women are vii,
ling, we should like to see the law
that would prevent them. But the
truth IS, that with civilization will
come that dislike to mixture of blood
| which white ana black alike maintain.
They are barbarians like the old nigger
drivers of the South or the Democracy
of the Five Points, who commingle the
two streams, white and black.
The Chicago Tribune of Saturday
contains a communication with refer
ence to the above, from an Irish Pres
| byterian, who says:
Such articles as that which appeared
in the Post will do more to convert
honest Republicans and to place them
in the ranks of the Democracy than all
| the speeches that could be delivered.
| /, for one, intended to support the Re
publican ticket at the coming election.
| As an Irishman, cannot allow my
countrymen to be sIandered and hold
myself aIoof Henceforth | shall be
/ found in the Conservative ranks, an
advocate of liberation, which my re-