The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-03-26
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.


cago, the ablest conducted Irish journal
in the United States is doing good work
for the ameiloration of our Irish citizens.
1t labors to elevate its countrymen and in
doing so grasps the subject which is the
cause of all their humiliation with a mas
ter hand. We commend to the earnest
consideration Of the men of Irish birth
the following extract from its columns:
One thing has been long and mourn
fully evident to all Irishmen, who have
minds intelligent enough to understand
the truth, and conscience honest enough
to feel il, and that is that our race, IS eu-
e,ylchere Inundated as ,oeU Us oppressed
They haye been driven to the sluns and
sewers of the great cities Of the earth, to
the hard lot OF unencouraged, ILL., rewarded
toll, not only in their own hapless land,
but In the mines and on the prairies of
America, and on the burning sands of
Australia, and all over the world What
has made them so? British tyranny? Yes.
But not that alone. They hare had false
political instruction. They haye been
taught by men who were not. and are not
true to human liberty. These men
these Tamnany Hall traitors and plotters
and pilferers-do not want our people to
become either intelligent or independent
That would not pay them. They want to
keep them what they have made them
mere ToILING, VOTING MACHINES.
There
were men of our race ana countrx
saw this vile game, and who resolve496
check it. They resolved that Irishmen
would have an opportunity Of knowing
what the true principles of liberty really
are-of liberty for themselves and all
men: and for this purpose the Republic
was projected and published.
We announced, from the first moment,
as emphatically as words can give utter
ance to thoughts, that We were one with
the great party of progressive liberty in
America, and that, SO far AS the Re
publicans Of the United States were for
freedom to all men-Irish and German,
GENTLE and Jew--we were, and must be,
Republicans. We declared. as We now
declare. that to slavery and oppression in
any and every form and shape, VIC are
mortal foes.
Truth, every word Of it! ''Thcy have
had false political instruction., which is
the cause Of all their humiliation nd deg
radiation. They have and are still bat
ting III the ranks Of their worst enemies
aud nothing will ever better their condi
ton, until they can see as plainly as the
Irish Republic sees the path in which
their duty to themselves lies. The demo.
cratic p:o-slavcry party which they are
supporting, is the very party which op-
presses them and keeps them down in
their humiliating condition. They are
used as 'mere to,siag oting machines
and the truth Of this assertion every
Irishman in our own county can bear wit
ness to. With but one or two exceptions
whenever an Irishman has been nomina-
ted by the democratic party of this demo-
cratic county for any Office, they have
been defeated. And why is it so e? Be-
cause the great majority of the party
leaders whom the Irish have helped to
place in positions of honor have scratched
their names off the ticket and secretly
worked to defeat them. But the eyes of
the Irish are being opened. They are
getting on the right track.