The Portland daily press., 1868-08-01

SOMETHING For IRfsHMEN TO CONSIDER
| The last number of the Irish Republic, one of
! the ablest papers in the country, contains a
spirited article on the duty of Irish voters,
which is certainly entitled to consideration by
Irishmen everywhere. Our adopted citizens
| will certainly receive the following para
| graph kindly since it comes from one of the
most patriotic of their countryman-one who
is exerting every possible effort to obtain from
England redress of the wrongs which Ire
land suffers:
For Irishman there is no excuse in the Dem
cratic party. They want liberty, and in the
Republican party liberty has her home. 1t
was called into existence to make America
free, and it has done so. Once settle this ma
| ton, and place her beyond the reach OF the
| assassin or traitor, and she will turn her face
| to Europe, and thrones and misery VIII vanish
| like mists in the morning sun. mat the De-
| mocracy is destined to be not only beaten, but
annihlated, at the next election, not even the
| Democrats themselves will deny. We should
| like to see our people en- nadSSe, even at the
| eleventh hour, make reparatian for the past,
| and cast solid vote for the party OF liberty.
1t is the business of all men, who wish to see
| the principle of universal liberty vindcated to
| swell the ranks of Republicanism Let Grant
| have such legion OF men-men who feel that
| light will conquer darkness and that intelli-
| gence and freedom go hand in hand-such as
| this nation has never seen, for treason must be
stamped into the earth at the next election, so
deep that she can never lift her serpent head
again. The nation has been fretted too long
and her glory defied by crime and ignorance
Let all men who believe in llberty-not me
| liberty of the low -browed ruffian-llDerVy 10
| kill and trampe the defenceless, but that I'D
| erty that is born of inteihgence-heip 10 Wlnd
up this eight years war Let not the victories
| that cost Inclination 50 much in blood and treas
10 hon, oil 4
| slip through the white-gloved fingers of
peace and tall into the CORY hands OF
treason. The lines are drawn. On one
side is the Confederacy, with its North
ern allies, commanded by Seymour and Blair;
on the other side, the men who rebuked trea-
son, with Grant and Coifax at their head. Let
not the serpent get out of the wilderness this
time until his head has been crushed and not
wriggle left in his tail.
The following is an extract from communi-
cation written to the Washington Chronicle
| by four Irishmen, Charles E. st. Clair NJ Duff
| fly. VIM. Rutherford, and Andrew McKenna
who had been enticed into Democratic meet
ing under the false pretense that it was Fe-
| MAN gathering:
| The head and tail and middle of the Demo-
| cratic party is Auguste Belmont, who is the
| American agent of the European money kings
the great supporters of crowned robbers and
mGrderers OF the Old World, the Rothschids
| & Co. -.- +-.
| Ii we Irish nationalists succeed, as we will
sooner or later, then down goes the British
Empire; and with it down will go the Roths-
childs and Belmonts and the rest of that crew
and, as the right of self defence belongs to ty-
rants as well as philanthropists, why they must
fight us with their money bags and every other
weapon within their reach. 1t Irishmen could
| be prevailed upon to support a party and its
candidates who are under the entire control OF
a power whose flag and whose garments are
| streaming wet with the best blood Of their race
then they would be acting the part of lunatcs
| but they cannot be. Whoever says they can
| knows nothing of the nature of Irishmen; and
| the party that employs the men who are striv-
| ing to cause Irishmen to destroy their nation
will find out that it has received no value for
| ifs money