Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-01-09
The Republican Party and Irishmen.

The Republican Party and Irishmen.
From The Irish Republic, Dec. 7. III
We have already spoken of the Re-
publican party. We have admitted,
without hesitation, that they are far
from immaculate. Here and there tile
black sheep is only too conspicuously
evden in the center, If not sometimes
at the head of theh ock. The Judas APP
pears among the twelve and carries the
bag of his bribery with an unblemished
countenance. There are some such dis
graceful instances. These are, your
Radical(?) advocates of free trade with
England. But..after all, they are little
moro than exceptions TO the general
rule. The leading journals and most
oroUainent politicians of the great Re
publican party of Americd are true, heart
and soul, to the protection of their coun-
t1y'sind,tstry. They have resolved that not
England, but America, will be the worlds
great that they willkeep the
wealth Of their country to enrich their
own citizens, nottoaggrandizet the bloody,
bloatel aristocrats of Europe; that they
will preserve for their own workingliien
such wages as will enable them to live
and rear'their families in comfort and
intelligence, rs human beings ought
instead of sending the cash across the
sea to be squandered by spendthrift lords
and squires In the gambling hells of
London and Paris. They are resolved
that honest and industrious men in
America will be protected, and not left
! the naked victims of an Internal system
| which has clothed and lodged their
| brothers in England and Ireland worse
-tenfold worse--than the horses and
dogs Of English aristocrats. This is the
simple practical meaning of protection
I t., t<.n, fyrd dsacfpu fNhfo 10 ~ oroad
the pfincipal, and the practice OF that
very radical party which hundreds of
thousands of Irishmen would no more
1 think Of voting for, or supporting, than
| they wouldsthink of selling souls to the
author of evil himself. That is, in plain
words, they go enthusiastically against
the interests of their own country, OF
their own wives and children, of their
own wages, of the very bread they eat
and the raminent wherewith they are
clothed. They go right, and most en-
Enthusiastically, into support of the wealth
and power of England; of that country
whose rulers have robbed them ofevery.
thing but life; that they have made
them beggars and slaves In the land o
their birth that have hunted millions
of them into exile and the grave, and
that pursue them with their scorn and
vengeance to the end of the earth. W.
again ask, and demand an answer
Was there ever infatuation so complete
unrensoning obstinacy so unpardonably
besotted, as they are here?
We are sorry to say that we can flnt
no excellent exception to break the force
of the condemnation which, la connec
ton with this vital question, we arr
obliged to pass on the entire Democratic
party. Free trade with England lies a
the very foundation of the great Con
servative structure. This is q cardina
doctrine of their peculiar political creed
: Nor Is there u single Democratic Journal
from New York to San Francisco, whicl
, does not teach, from week to week an,
from day to day, this destructive an,
: disgraceful principle. And II there !
any truth, which we greatly doubt, ii
the boasted "reactionn which has beer
! so much spoken of, and II there 10 an.
additional chance of the Democratic
; party once more assuming the rule O
, this great Republic, then one thing ma,
I be loOked forward to as an absolute Gel
tainty, and this Ii free trade with Eng
a land. This will have a few effects whic
!. | II IL worth the while of nishmen TO pom
\ der seriously, before by their votes an
, influence they bring it to pass. On
I. will 6o to reduce the wages of the work
a ingmen one.half, so that those who I'm
: 1t difficult TO live In New York or Chios
4 &c, on 50 a day will have the pleasure {
. accomplishing the same task under th
: new English Free-Trade, Democrat
q regime, with 81. 1t will strengthe
. England by pouring into her Golfers th
!. wealth of America, so that her reign
= robbery and blood, instead OF coming
a close, will, like the eagle, renew i
!, age for another century or two, or pc
. haps for another such 700 years as Ir
y land has seen and felt.
" RaiIrsaa Train Blown over by the Win