Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
Irish Newspapers for Grant and Colfax


That thorogh-going Democrat
and Catholic organ, the New Yorl
| Freemen's Journal, is making prepa
ratlons to desert the camp Of th
| Democracy. In its last issue it use
the following language ominols o
Democratic disaster:
We decline being hu'nbugged b,
political parties. There are princi
pies at stake, or nothing is at stalk
We care for. a year ago Genera
Grant was great favorite for tn
Presidency among Democrats, Mr.
Chief Justice Chase was their dread
This year, even Mr.. Seymour wa
tn. advocate Of the candidacy o
Mr. Chief Justice Chase as a funny
candidate of the Democratic party
The idea was not accepted. Mr. Sey
mour himself was put in nomination
| by the very interest to which he has
shown himself most bitterly oppos'
ed-the party that insist on paying
off the five twenties in greenbacks
He has accepted the PLATFORM an {
must sink or swim with it. Affairs
are very remarkably mixed up
Men may be excused for getting THEN
heads muddled We are called ON to
support u candidate, on national
grounds, that was himself avowedly
in favor of. anotner candidate, moss
antagonistic to all decent and probel
idSas Of federal government. We
acknowledge that the affair is mud
died" Our correspondence is Of u
character TO excite our alarm. -
There IS no use Of disgusting tie fact
that there IS distrust and diSGfection
among Uery many democrats"
The Boston Pilot, another leading
organ Of the Irish Catholics in this
country, disposcs Of u copperhead
faIsehood respecting Mr.. CoLFAx, as
follows
A correspondent Of ours at South
Bend, Ind, Thomas McGrath, who il
not politician, says that the charge
advanced against Schuyler Colfax OF
having been sworn into u Know
Nothing organization in 1854, is not
true. lie further incoses TO us an
extract from the speech Of Mr.. Col.
fax at South Bend, July Both, 1868,
relative to this very charge, to which
the speaker responds thus i: You
know is u talsehood; you know
that never ia my public life, from the
commencement TO the close, in ary
year, month or day, have | held any
other doctrines than that principle
and character, not birth place and
creed. were the true test for Official
promotion. Men who may resort TO
forgery may sign my name with
their ielonious fingers, for forgery
is a felony. You here know that
ihaHe has not been an election 10
the past twelve years that have not
gone to the polls, not with q closed
ballot, but AN open one, and voted
for men OF foreign birth, and who
worshiped at a different altar from
what | did myself. Here is the only
place W here | will answer that call
jimmy. Let it be buried in the tomb,
where are buried calumnies and for
geries like it, in the graves of the
past
The True Democrat, q leading Dem
ocratic organ OF the Irish population
in New Jersey has recently hauled
down the names Of SEYMOUR and
BLAIR, and comes out for GRANT and
CoLFAX" Among the reasons it
gives for so doing are these
Because the Party that ,cds Dem
ocratic, that promised to tighten the
taxes-that promised to give the
country loU tar candidate, dil0lred
an ignobie clique Of traitors and dioat-
ed capitalists to force their distoydi
tools upon the party. Because there Is
rebel clement enough IN the parfy 70
control tie party and we desire to
have liberty in the South al least
long enough to give Northern faith
ers and mothers time to remove
their dead sons whore they can lie
unnsulted b. Democratic bone trim
ket manufacturers.
The IrjSh People an old and lead
ing Irish paper in this country has re
Gently declared in favor Of GRANT
and CoLFAX. 1t says: :" We owe il
to the God we worship, we owe it tc
our cilizenized self and every human
cause we hold most dear that, by ev-
cry honorable deed and word of ours
the cause of Grant and Colfax be
uppermost in our paper till after tho
November election. We cannot be
tray the country we have sworn t
stand by-knowing that more wal
and treason are in the bargain shoulc
Seymour aud Blair be elected"