Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-06-25


1t would require history of the rise and
progress and decay of American political
parties for the last seventy years to answer
the above query satisfactorily.
When Jefferson and Jackson were the
representatives of Democracy, it was party
worthy of this Republic But when "Brick"
Pemeroy essays the role of Jefferson, and
johnson, with his treacherous stubbornness,
imagnes himself acting the role of jackson,
Democracy is but comedy" put on the
boards to please the vicious, by appealing to
the baser passions and prejudices of the ig-
norant and the false. 1t is but dragging the
mantle of the olden gods through the pur-
licus of crime, and drinking hob-nob with
pothouse politicians, for the purpose of over
throwing Intelligent justice and well-regu-
lated liberty, and setting up crime and Ii
cense and saturnaIia in their stead.
When the s.i4ttle Giant" of the West
breathed his last, counselling his children to
be true to the nation, then Democracy should
have died. What was loft was but the body,
filed with the worst passions, the soul having
departed. Then the mantle Of the great
leaders of Democracy should have folded
the giant of the West in his grave, instead
of being torn into shreds by hungry huck
sters to be Haunted over the planks OF the
old platform, broken up by the conflicting
elements into dozen RATS, one raft steering
South with treason for its banner; another
steering North with riot and murder for its
ensign another, the smallest, but the one
that had the live oak timbers and the hickory
flagstaff of the old craft, from which flew
the 'sWar Democracy"
II was for its early virtues the Irish peo-
pie joined it, and themselves being change
less, they have failed to understand how the
principles of one generation become Gillette,
and will not suit for the next, especially in
a progressive age like this, and among a
progressive people like the Americans. I'm
fortunately for Ireland and her people, we
| are always content with things as our
fathers left them. We associate all old
things with sacredness, and look upon men
who are not content with q Constitution
| framed in another age, and by generation
| surrounded by old institutions, as fanatics.
| Iconoclasts who are going around smashing
| the brazen images Of the past we look upon
with awe and hatred, even though those
| idols are pressing down the world, and we
ourselves are groaning beneath their weight
while protecting their sacred uginess.
|
sAs it was so, so il is" with our people.
They cannot see that the Republican party
is the first-born of the old Democracy, in
heriting all its parent virtues, and laying in
a plentiful stock of its own to suit the adj
vanced days in which we live. Convince
the Irish of this fact, and you make them
Republicans. Until SO convinced, they will
be the honest " old guard OF the Democra-
cy, around which treason and corruption
| will rally, to use our honest c0untrymen to
destroy the Republic and ride into power
We ask the members Of the Republican
party, and the editors of Republican journals,
whether they have taken the proper means
to reach the Irish people!
The principles of the "Republican party
are for no sect, but for all men. 1t become,
the duty of every member Of the party tt
invite all men to share in its councils ant
avail themselves of its privileges. On til,
other hand, the man who stands upon III
universal platform, and h0ists his banner o
prescription. should be hurled from it I'm
tremendously. BY what right will some
narrow bgot stand under the protcctin:
,egis of Republcanism and cry, We wan
no Irish here2 We want no Catholic
here p etc.
The majority of Irish people of Americ,
, are Democrats because they believe tina
party is right. They are led and used H.,
knavcs, hut the people are honest. Con
vince them of their error. Act UP to TIL
professions of Republcanism. Show then
that you believe in the rights OF man. Tlia
you are of no creed. That the Catholic
I and the protestant and all Others are equal,
dear TO you as men. Kindness and sympa
G thy will reach the hearts of our people. Bu
t reylc and abuse them, and your enemie
catch up your words, and whisper them int,
every IRISH ear in the land.
Let meu not ilatter themselves that Catho
licity in its true Interpretation is opposed t.
Rcpublcanism and universal suffrage. Tn
Y bishops and priests to a large extent may b
e opposed to those things. This is not OWN
to the Church so much as to the fact tina
they are Irish, and share the prejudiccs am
: feelings common to our race.
C At the altar of God the Church make
! men equal The most violent Copperhea
), in the land, if Catholic, 1lust-for tn
y Church says so-kneel beside the blackes
II and lowlest African, and receive the "bod
h and blood of Christ" from the same hanGs
What is this but setting the seal of equalit
+ before God on all men?
: 1t makes us sigh to behold the littlenes
!, of some Republicans who cramp the spir
a of their great party to suit their own sina
e comprehensiveness
The very unclangeablcness of the Iris
> should induce the Republican party to pl
70 forth all their efforts to gain them over.
J. They are not of these who have to |
" coaxed to stand by principle. You cannt
4 drive them from you by abuse if they al
A. satisfied that they are right on principe
is The manner in which they are insulted IN
Of abused by the Democracy fully proves Il
in correctness of this assertion.
D. In word the Irish are true to liberty,
ID they understand it. Convince them that the
in are too sectional in its application, and the
G will enlarge their action.
is AS has often been said, the Irish are q
he right at heart, but their heads are wron
10 Their hearts have been cultivated by the
s, kindly natures, but their heads have bee
%. ''cut off" by the English. Rel1ubd
py May 9h.