The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-09-19
Irishmen, Read!

from that staunch Republican paper, the Chi
cago Post. The Post, of late, is read with
even none avidity by the radicals in this vi
cinity than the Tribune, because they say the
Post is more honest and outspoken, and more
spicy The "spice" of the article below is of
the kind that particularly gust ates the radi-
icala in this vicinity Let such of our Irish
friends particularly as tage stock in John
Pope Hodnott and imagine they have a single
friend left in the radical party, read the fol-
lowing attentively:
Mig ger, Niger Mig!
"Do you want your da tighter to marry q ng
ger ~ was the question formerly asked of the
electors of illinois by every democratic candidate
on the stump.
"Nlgger equality at the polls is the sign of Mig
ger equality in the family" say al! the democrat
lc orators of the day
Allow the niger to vote and you have both
political and social equality everywhere" CRY all
the copperheads of the north.
What lie these assertions are-one and
all
Political equality is one thing, social equality
IL another thing. Political equality is of the
law. Social equality is of the woman. The law
says, come up. Madam says, stand back!
Teddy O,Flaherty votes. He has not been in
the country six months. But he has been through
Dan OHara's court He is naturalized. Ter.
renee O,Manus swore for him that he had been
live years in the United States that he was
ltnAenaan OF good moral character, and Dan O.
Hara knew that he was a democrat. And 30 he
was naturalized, of course
He has hair on his teeth. He never knew an
hour in civilized society. He never stepped on
anything more solid than dirt floor in all his
lite until he stood on the deck of an emyrant
ship. HE'S born savage-as brutal rufian "a
an untamed Indian of the North American tribes.
VI course he can't read. He can't write. All
books to him are sealed. He only believes in the
priest; and the priest is only little less barba-
rian than he. 'Be Jasus I'm dimmecrat " is
his shibboleth. Breaking head. for opinions
sake is his practice. The born criminal and pau.
per of the civilized world, and withal tho limo
cent victim OF the stateeraft of England, and OF
the priestcraft OF Rone-a wronged, abused, and
pltful spectacle OF man capable of better thing
pushed straight to hell by that abomination
against common sense called the Catholic relig.
len, and that outrage upon political decency
falsely known as American democracy-what
else does he know? To compare him with an in
teligent freedman would be an insult to the lat.
ter.
Do American women run after Teddy O'Flah
erty? Are they in haste to marry him 2 Oh. faith
er Of beautiful daughter are you afraid that
she Will break away from your love and kindness
and make Teddy companion !? Yet how much
less danger OF her marrying niger The black.
man, if he has been at all favored by the chance.
that slavery afforded, is the superior of Teddy in
the things which women value but his color il
against him, and so Cutfee and Paddy are equal.
the first having the most civilization; the lat.
ter, being the whitest.
Now - Al
and except as the law direct. how it shall be cell
ebrated. If d decent woman wants to marry
Teddy OFlahsrty, the law takes no cngnizance
of her low desire. If she wants to marry q mig.
GER the law is equally dumb When, then, YOU
can point out to us that the race Of Americans il
in danger 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 admix.
ture OF Niger blood. Putting color aside, what
IS there to choose between Teddy and Cuffee?
The country has survived the Irish emigra.
tion,-the worst with which any other country
was ever afflicted The Irish fill our prisons, cur
poor-houses, our reform schools, our hospitals.
our eeemosynary and reformatory institutions
OF all sorts. Scratch convict or a pauper, and
the chances are that you tickle the skin of An
Irish Catholic at the same time,--an Irish Cath.
Ollie made criminal or pauper by the priest
and politician who have deceived him and kept
IN Ignorance. in word, savage he was born.
de 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 &C.
complish that in which the Irish have failed.
Bah This appeal to the fear of the populace
that we must have care lest this country, "like
Mexico" be ruined by mixed race, is only the
gable OF rascals who want to perpetuate injus-
tice under cover of popular prejudice. Mexico
was not 80 ruined either. The priests, bishops,
monks. nuns, operating upon the Catholic laity
did the job for that unhappy republic. Just as
catholicism, which is despotism, goes out, Mex
leo rises.
The danger Of miscegenation, white with black.
is, then, as remote a. that Teddy O'Faherty will
succeed in making his way by marriage into the
American families by whom he is abhorred We
have been acquainted with Teddy long time.
lie has dug numberloss canals mh,ie many rail-
roads fought many fight, voted the dimmercrst-
ic ticket, been in many Jail and pauper-house
and he has all the while been priest ridden.
The fat, sleek, rosy-gilled liars and scoundrels
consciously SUCH who have been about him,
have Kept him in ignorance, robbed him of his
pence, and given him, after many sprinklings Of
holy water, what they call passports to heaven
but he is Teddy OFlaherty yet; and if he were
disposed to marry, there's Bridget-Bridget only.
Msccgenation il not for him.
There is not democrat who would not boil
over with rage if we should tell him that Cutfee
could accomplish that in which Teddy failed
Let us dismiss, then, this question of tho degen-
Grafton OF the blood as one tina: is unworthy of
our notice,-as one Of those side-issues that the
copperheads and the nan-sellers have raised to
obscure the merits Of the issue before the people.
When after both Teddy and Cuffee are civ
iiSed, they want to marry white women and the
white women are willing, we should like to SEQ
the Jaw that would prevent them. But the