The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-10-01
KNOW-NoTHlNGlSM RAMPANT |
Radical Opinion of HTishmen
and Catholics.

DenOc7IIt, the Vagarles OF the Chic'yo Oss
would not merit even passing notice. IL
has a penchant for squibs and weakness
for puns but rarely, if ever rises to the
dignity or an argument.
The article quoted below possesses sig>
nifcance only as illustrates the genuine
radical animus toward the Irish and for
eign element in this country tIhe editor
of The Post, be it known, is Mr. Charles
H. Ray, formerly principal editor OF the
Chicago Tribune and recognized as one OF
the chief leaders of the party IN ILLINOIS.
He was a member of the late Chicago
convention and was potential in the coun-
ellis of the Illinois delegation thereat !:
NIGGER, NIGER, NIGl ,.-sa-
"Do you want your daughter to marry
nigger 2" was the question formerly asked
Of the electors of Illinois by every Democra-
tic candidate on the stump. -
"Nigger equality at the polls is the sign
of nigger equality in the family" say all
the Democratic orators of the day.
"AllGw the bigger to vote and you have
both political and social equality every
where," cry all the copperheads OF the
north. , ~,
What o lie these assertion are--one an all!
Political equality is one thug, social equal
ity is another thing. Political equality is of
the Law. Social equality is of the woman:
The law says, come up. Madam says, stand
back @ s-t -a-r
Teddy O'Flaherty votes He has not been
in tie country six months. But he has been
through Dan O'Hara's court. he is natural
ized Terence O'Manus swOre for hlm that
be had been five years in the United States:
that he was a Jintienadn of good moral char
acter, and Dan o O'Hara knew that he was
Democrat And so he was naturalized, OF
course. s...-
He has hair on his teeth. He has never
knew an hour in civilized society. lie never
stepped on anything more solid than dirt
floor in his life until he stood on the deck OF
an emigrant ship. He is born savage--as
brutal a ruffian as uutamed Indian OF the
North American tribes. OF course he can't
read. He can't write. All books to hin
are scaled He only believes in the priest
and the priests only little less barbarian
than he, '.Be Jasus Pm Dimmecrat W is
his shibboleth. Breaking heads Tor opinions
sake in his practice. The born criminal and
the pauper Of the civilized world, and withal
the innocent victim of the statecraft of Eng
land and of the priestcraft OF Rome-a
wronged, abused and pitiful spectacle OF a
man capable of better things, pushed straight
| to hell by that abomination against common
sense called the Catholic religion, and that
outrage upon political decency falsely known
as American Democracy. To compare him
with an intelligent freedman would be an
{ insult to the latter. 4 -r5sEf
l. Do American women run alter Teddy
| O'Flaherty 2 Are they in haste to marry
him ? Oh, father of beautiful daughter
are YOU afraid that she will break away from
| your love and kindness and make Teddy a
companion Yet, how much less danger of
| her marrying a nigger The black man, if
| he has been at all favored by the chances
that slavery afforded, is the superior of Ted
| dy in the things which women value, but
| his color is against him and SO Cuftee and
and Paddy are equal-the first having the
most civilizations the latter, being the
| whitest. a
Now marriage is not thing of the law !,
save and except as the law directs how 1t
shall be celebrated. If decent woman
wants to marry Teddy O'Flaherty, the law
takes no cognizance of her low desire. II
she wants to marry niger, the law is
equally dumb. When, then, you can poiEt
out to us that the race of Americans Is 10
danger of destruction by the admixture OF
the O'Flaherty blood, we shall be ready to
believe that it is in danger of deterioration
by the aimixtu-e of niger blood. Putting
color aside what is there to choose between
Teddy and Cuffee arr. .ea.r--.-. /.
The country has survived the Irish emf
gration-the worst which any other country
was ever afflicted. The Irish fill our prisons,
our poor houses, our reform schools, our
hospitals. our eleemosynary and reformatoly y
| institutions of all sorts. Scratch convict
or a pauper, and the chances are that you
| tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic at the
same time,-an Irish Catholic made crimi-
nal or pauper by the priest and politician
who have deceived him and kept him in
| ignorance, in a word, a savage, as he was
BORN He has not, thus far, deteriorated the
American blood. Why then fear that with
these obtacles of race and color in the way,
the niger will accomplish that in which the
Irish have failed.
| Bah! This appeal to the fear of the pop
ulace that we must have a care lest this
country, like Mexico," be ruined by a
mixed race is only the gable Of rascals who
want to perpetrate injustice under cover oi
a popular prejudice. Mexico was not SC
ruined either. The priests, bishops, monks
nuns. operating upon the Catholic laity did
the Job for that unhappy republic. just as
Catholicism which is despotism, goes out.
Mexico rises.
The danger of nniscegenation, white with
black, is, then as remote as that Teddy o.
Flaherty will succeed in making his way by
marriage into the American families by
whom he is abhorred. We have been ac-
quainted with Teddy long time. He has
dug numberlsss canals. made many railroads,
fought many fight. voted the Dimmecratic
ticket, been in many Jail and pauper
house, and he has all the while been priest
ridden. The fat, sleek, rosy gilled liars and
scoundrels Consciously such) who have been
about him, have kept him in Ignorance. rob-
bed him of his pence, and given him after
many sprinklings of his holy water, what
they call passports to heaven; but he is
Teddy O'Flaherty yet and if he wore dis
posed to marry. there's-Blidget only. Mis-
cegenation is not for him. si---.-
There is not Democrat who would moi
boil over with rage if we should tell him
that Cuffee could accomplish that in which
Teddy failed. Let US dismiss, then, this
! question of the degeneration of the blood a>
one that is unworthy of our notice,-as cne
of those side-issues that the copperheads
and the man-sellers have raised to Obscure