Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-06-19

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4 zen and business man, entirely free
+ from afiliation With eliaues or
factions in the Republican party, he
can be safely intrusted with the May
/ orally, which Office he WiH administer
7 With becoming dignity, efficiency and
i honor.
Irish Americans for Grant. Colfax
and the Republican Party.
An Irish Republican Campaign Club
has been organized in New York City
and has issued a stirring appeal 70 their
fellow citizens Of Celtic origin to cut
loose from Democratic conservatism
and ally themselves with the party of
/ progress and freedom. We regret that
we have not room for the entire docu-
ment though we would make no appeal
to any class as such, or have any one,
/ whether Of Irish, German or other ma
tigity, vote otherwise than simply as
i an American citizen. The address is a
! powerful appeal TO the reason and
! judgement Of any candid person, and
las such the following concluding ex-
tract deserves the attentive considera-
I tion OF all. We cannot see how any
Irish American whose heart yearns for
the freedom Of his native land can fail
to be Convinced by it that his political
alliances belong with the party which
sympathiaes with freedom everywhere
and with the oppressed Of all races and
c1imes.
What Is this Democratic party to
7 FffHre n M
men 50 drnllY adhere, rather from hab-
it and pref iuoice than from real sYnnpa-
thy with its prlncipIesg Ib is party
Of conservatism ana aIass privilege a
conservatism that aims to perpetuate
the abasement Of sucl OF Sod .ss=-sess@-
l1rrs assa fEEIIlITEitl nifty or aYarlce of his
fellOw-men has in times past cast down
and kept down for ages, and now, from
its tender regard for the Constitution,
this conservatism would put its heel
upon their neczs, and, under the guise |
of law, would make their education or
Improvement impossible. 1t is a party
of class privilege, because it aims to
divide the community into separate /
classes, having unequal political rights, !
and that inequality determined, not by !
any intrinsic superiority in the prefer !
red class, but resting wholly on arbi- /
trary and accidental grounds.
This is conservatism in the United /
States. 1t has its type in the Tory party I
that Of the despots OF continental Eu- /
rope. They, too, like the conservative s !
here, decry all change in the eX5stin e /
state of affairs. No matter how benef- /
cial the reform may be,every effort made /
to elevate the condition of the people, to /
give them a voice in framing the laws /
by which they are to be governed, they
denOunce as revolutionary, and as tend I
ing to anarchy: in word, it is Radical
ism.
a.
that to-day enslaYes Ireland and PO-
land-that has for ages drenched Eu-
rope with blood in its endeavOrs to prop
up crumbling dynasties andtO preserve
rotten institutions?
Was O'COnnel a conservative when he
stroYe for the emancipation of the Cath
oics of Ireland and the repeal of the
infamous act of Union Were Grattan
and Curran conservatives when they
shook the Forum and the Senate-hOuse
with denunciatiOns of the tyranny un-
der which the country grOaned? We're
the men of'49 conservatives when, with
soul-stirring eloquence, they sought to
rouse their countrymen to resist OPP
preston? 4
But why multiply examples? The
very name of conservative should be
lOathed by every Ir1shman as synO-
nym for tyranny and misrule. On its
escutcheon rests the blood of Emmett,
Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Of the
of Manchester.
But to return, If you please, to this
precious Democratic or Conservative
party Of our own time and country
Have you, who year after year vote
without hesitation OF question every
ticket labeled Democratic, ever c0nsid- !
cred what the real principles of this {
party are, who its leaders are, what It's T
sympathy with the cause Of Ireland !
has been2 No otherwise you would !
long since have turned from it with !
oathing and disgust. Are you aware I
hat it is controlled by mOneyed aristo- c
Gratis, who make its policy subserVient {
10 their own selfish ends What eX- z
preston of sympathy have you ever +
heard from these men for those who \
strive for Ireland's freedom? Why the
very man who at this moment holds
ihe highest official position in the Dem l
1eratic party is the agent of English @
capitalists, who have millions at stake, Z
nGhe preservation of the British Empire j..
whole and intact. To suppose that such
4 man would be friendly to the cause
If Ireland's freedom would be to fly in /
he face of all human experience. Q
The policy of the Dem ocratic leaders I
s to inf1ame your prejudices against a
he negro, in order to forward their own =
political fortunes, while in their hearts
hey despise the labOrer, whether he be i
white or black. /.
What was the aim of the men who j
3ndeavored to establish the Southern f
JOnfederacy but to erect an oHgarGhy, y
where the few would be aggrandized at a
he expense of the many, and where +
'apital would not only control but own !
abOr?
They designed, by reopening the Slave 4
Trade, to ill the country with negro
laves, and thereby destroy the system +
# free white labor, as witness the arti- !
lie in The Charleston Mecury, just be- a
ore the War entitled s'Phi1osophy Of Z
)" by L. w. Spratt of South 7
carolina, where, referring to the South Il
IN Confederacy, he says; ST regard &
he Slave Trade as the true test Of its
integrity. If that be right, then SIaV- =
ny is right, but not otherwise. re-
,ard the Constitutional Prohibition as
great calamity" (referring to the act q
the importation of slaves.) p
These men despised laborers of every C
lass and condition, as may be seen by Fl
heir sneering illusions to Northern h
imudsills, y greasy mechanics" "clOse- +
listed farmers" &c. And were they not y
or years in the closest afiliation with O.
he Democratic party? Did they not 81
hRpe Its policy? We're they not expo tl
rents of its principles, looked up to as
raeles by their Northern allies ? And
an you doubt that, if their political
privileges were restored, they would o
ceq9ra l9n HoT1Vd FoFaTl1 0rt in ifs ranks II