Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-31

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are made up of hatred to the "nayg,tr," and
never has, nor never will have good or
kind word to say,of any man from, the
Green Isle, except about election times, |
unless, indeed, instead of " wearing of the |
green." he carries an Orange tint, is now |
out billing and cooling and lying like a |
very drab for Irish votes for GRANT and
The Negro Suffrage party, and the Jour
nal, its organ, now tries to make the Irish
people believe that the Democratic party,
which threw itself into the breach in the
days of Know Nothingism, against this
same Negro Suffrage party and this same
Journal then, as now, the Know Nothing
organ, is the British party, and that it holds
the "whole Irish population OF the coun-
try" "subject to British orders" That the
| Irish people-the most prompt, by the bye,
to resist an insult of any people on earth
''have," the Journal says, "been kicked
about and spit upon, and the spit has been
rubbed in by the Democracy for so long a
time, that proof of perfidy on the part OF
that tthe Democratie) party would have no
4 Influence" This, and much more of coarse
falsehood and abuse, the Journal heaps up-
on the Irish, and fool like, thinks it will be
taken for fiattery, in the hope of getting
Irish votes for General GRANT, and CoLFAx
his Know Nothing associate on the Radical
tickect. ''''-' ... go s-s,
To call names-to plaster people all over
with abuse-to rank them below the negro
in intellect, is not the way to convince a
high spirited people of the error of their
| ways. The Irish vote, as a general rule,
the Democratic Ticket. And why? Be-
cause they have had reconstruction In their
own countrywide it on their own per-
sons and seen it in the depopulation of
the most beautiful land upon Gods foot
stool. England holds ireland as s. con-
quered province" as the Radical Congress
now holds the South. England has ssre-
Constructed" Ireland, as the Radical Cor
gress is now reconstructing the South, and
the Irish people having seen and tasted of
the sweets of such government, are un-
willing to vote to extend it upon the peo-
pie of the South. Because of this, and be-
cause they will not vote to give the negro
the privileges which they deem alone the
white mans right in white mans Gov
ernment, the Journal, in the very article in
which it attempts to wheedle them out of
their vote, forgetful of its cunning, thus
perpetrates an atrocious libel: sis .I1al
The bulk of the Irish voters seem to be
content to be shouldered about, and trans
ferredl from one place to another like pig
in poke, to be sold by this Democrat or
thatin the highest market.'' d"
The mingled cooling and sneering-
sweet-tongued words and coarse and
foul libels on the Irish Americans
in our midst, are based upon a charge
as unsupported by proof as it is
mendacious and false that Mr.. AUG
UsT BELMONT, of New York, Chairman
of the Democratic Executive Committee, is
the custodian of $4,000, asiagent of the
British Government of Fenian money. MI.
BELMONT Is banker, and that fact is used
to give plausibility to the stale. The Britt
ish Government has its own agents in the
person of Consuls and ofspies, who are not
of the class of men who vote the Democratic
| ticket. The English Ministry knew where
to lay their hands on the proper persons to
do the same thing, years ago, when these
bloodhounds swore to the death purer Z
ADLER, truer and more patriotic men than
ever voted Radical ticket or wore an
Orange badge. Giving thescharge against
Mr.. BELMoNT the lie direct-false in letter
and false in spirit without single parti-
Gle of truth to sustain it, weiadd to the de-
nial, what we honestly believe, that the
journal knew it was false when that sheet
gave itrcurrency. ~ag a19d5o o"
The Journal adds the following:
f"If our Irish friend will but reflect for
momehts hewill be able to give very de-
cided answer to the question, aohat has the
Democratic party IN America eoer done for
We give the above extract, italics and
all, as we clip it from the Journal. r,i.,.f b,r
In the days when riot and bloodshed and
death were rife in the streets of Philadel-
phia-Irishmen shot down in the streets OF
that city merely because they were Irish
and Catholics, and churches to the ever
living God were committed to the flames,
because they had cross upon their spires
by an incendiary band of as arrant scoun-
drels as ever graced halter, the Democ-
racy defended them at the peril of their
own lives. -,-7.z f,.-.fu,,o .zahi7 o.
| When Convent of Nuns, near the godly
city of Boston, was attacked by an incendi-
airy MOI .. native Americans, and the un-
protected females, who had dedicated their
lives to the service of their God, were
driven forth, with scarce clothes sufficient
to cover their nakedness, at the hour OF
midnight, their pathway lighted by the
flames of the burning Convent, the DEM
ocratic party, powerless to act, because in
a fearful minority, denounced the deed
and insisted upon the punishment of the
scoundrels, and that the State of Massa-
chusetts should make good the loss. This
has not been done, and the blackened walls
of that Convent still stand, as memorial
of Boston bIgotry and intolerance. M 3{l
/, In after years, when church burning
violence took its more appropriate name
of Known Nothingism-t object of its
vengeance still being levelled against.
Irishmen and Catholics-the Democratic
party, of all the parties in the country,
stood bravely in their defence and, in near
ly every State of the Union, suffered defeat
and disaster, rather than bow its head to
the fierce storm which had gathered at the
bidding of the Know-Nothing Lodges.
/ In our, own city, during the last three
weeks, because the Irish people would not
vote the negro suffrage ticket, they have
been denounced and a maltreated and
/ threatened with all sorts of Radical yen-
geance. And had it not been that the
Democratic party, true to its instincts Of
right, stood between the Irish and the ven
geance of the Journal and its satellites, CO.
lumbus would have been an unhealthy