Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-10-10
THIN FENIAN GUN.

| Our Democratic friends in this place, hav-
| ing been rather uncomfortable and depress'
ed ever since the sudden and unexpected
victories they achieved in Vermont and
Maine, determined to search for some new
sensation to arouse them from the lethargy
of prospective political annihilation. There
fore when it was announced that big Fe'
nian gun would be let off in the oou''
House, on Tuesday evening, there was
general gathering of the clan, eager anu
anxious to hear thunder, II not 10 she"
powder. We are sorry to cay they were
doomed TO be disappointed. ln'tead oil
loud reverberations that would snake inc
very highlands of Lower Augusta, the report
,,os q mere fzzle. Colonel Mcany may be
verv clever Irshman, but he is no Curran,
Crattan or O'Connel, in eloquence, and by
no means in sentiment. Had he or any one
else uttered such sentiments on human liber-
,y and human rights, before O'Connel, the
great agitator would have scowled him from
his presence in language that he never would
have forgotten. The Colonel had but few
points in his speech, and these were exceed
ingly dull ones. lie read some extracts from
what he called radical campaign document,
abusive o f Irishmen, as if Republicans were
stupid enough to be guilty of such folly.
Some smart Democrat, no doubt, got up the
article for the very purpose Cor which the
Colonel used it, namely, to gull his own
couutrymen. Another of the Colone's
charges against the Republicans was, that
England at once, when he was arrested,
tried and convicted by that government for
having been engaged in conspiracy to
overthrow its authority. He referred to the
when arrested, was taken from an Austrian
ship by one of our commanders. lie neg
lected to mention, however, that Costa was
charged with no crime whatever, as was the
Colonel, but was simply claimed as q subject
of Austria. If the Colonel is really anxious
to benefit his Irish fellow citizens, let him
initiate the example Of his great countrymen,
who were not only Republican in principle,
but Republican in practice.
When Colonel Meany had concluded, our
old friend G. w. Zicgler, Esq, was called to
the stand lie soon became sufficiently cx-
cited to make one believe that he was in
earnest, and while in this mood, prophetic.
He said lie had predicted, several years ago,
that the radicals would give the negroes the
right of suffrage, and now he predicted that
if Grant and ColfaX were elected, this would
be the last time he and his party would be
allowed to exercise that right. This certain
ly would be alarming, but for the fact that
ga prophet has no honor in his own country"
Perhaps our friend means to convey the idea
that his party would then go out of eXis-
ience and turn up loyal under a new name
Nh H., also referred to fact, credtablc to
himself, that at the commencement OF the
war he strongly urged, by speeches and
otherwise, men to enlist to put down the
rebellion, and appealed to bis friend, Major
J. Cummings, to verify the fact. In CON
nection with this statement, he might also
have referred to the fact, that, at that very
time, the 5clinsgrove Times, the organ of
his party, controlled by the Major, advised
the Democracy of Snyder county to shoot
the officers wEo attempted to enroll them,
and subsequently expressed wish "that there
would be no peace until the independence
of the Confederacy was acknowledged. :"
If our neighbor has forgotten these little in
cidents of loyalty and patriotism in Snyder
county, let him search the records, to which
werefer him, to refesh his memory.
We learn from Democratic friend that
Maj. Cummings spoke after we left and
touched upon every subject, from the time Of
Noah's deluge to the shareholders rebellion,
excepting Columbus and Red Jacket.
TO TAXPAYERS.