Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-09-12
A PURITAN IN IRISH GARB.

That shameless and hypocritical paper, the
Irish Republic, which processes to be an organ
of the Ftnans and IRISH in the United States,
but which is in reality a stool pigeon to lure
Irish voters to the Radical party, and is edited
by Orangemen under Radical pay, thus ma
lgns and insults the great mass of Irishmen in
this country. 1t says:
Who are the men who claim to be Irish in
America today
The majority of the loud-mouthed political
boobies who stagger around the polls, and
swagger and insult respectable men by their
overbearing and ignorant rOwdyism. are men
who barely escaped starvation, collins, and
pauper graves in IreAnd They could not tell
the Republican from the Democratic ticket,
were there not some peculiar hierOglyphlcs on
the latter, such as galnecock or buffer.
These men have no more respect Tor the
ballol-box than they have for the dice-box.
They would vote as often as they would drink,
were not irOn-handed law ever on the watch
to rebuke them.
That such men as these ever can rise to the
dignity of Republicanism is as impossible as
that they would help to hberate their own
country, or be anything but danger IN any
free State.
The men who came to America fifteen.
! twenty and thirty years age were men con.
ceiv-d aud born while their fathers crouched
| in chains aud their mothers cr0oned III despair
They came to America and were blinded 6y
the glare of its freedom and confused by Its
independence. They rushed through the cities
aud fled To the canals aud railroads, aud went
at their old congenlal work OF cutting the
throat uf any man Who dared TO 6e-not merely
from Africa or covered with black skln-bu
from Cork ur Antrim, and white, as Ireland
produces her children They fought and drank
and dug; and when the railroads and canals
were built, they settled ON their banks. Towns
sprunp ND around them; and civilization built
iails and raised churches. The latter, backed
bv the former, shamed them into decency
They were allowed more license by the Demo
cratic party than by the Wings; and the,
went with the men who appealed to their pre-
iudices and deserted the party that had the
Iiuterrst of the nation at heart
Is il not the most insutitrable lnpudence tOl
q race, numbering altogether not much over
eicbt millions ut home and abroad. and ground
down in ireland by the most monstrOus des
potism, rnd crying to the world for pity. We
when they run away from their own country
existence being denied them there-and are
received IN this universal Republic, that thes,
same runaway slaves should turn around ant
below and roar that negroes, Chinese, nor II
fact anybody else, have rights which shoul'
be respectcd2
J They have been invited TO the feast, but taxi
possession of all the good things. and pelt th'
loaves at the heads Of everybody else.
If this spirit of crowding out is inherent il
the race, it is well for America that Irelan'
has only population of five millions, for il
like the German race the Irish numbered sixt
or seventy millions, and could send over half
million year, they would take possession q
the entire country, and shove everybody els
over the rim of the world. Like the cucko
in the sparrow's nest.