Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-02
nay The Radical newspapers of Mis-

NJ E M Z II 81 hN
Thursday Evening, january 2, 1865.
pg~ The Radical newspapers of Mis-
souri, are now seeking favor with Irish
men, and endeavoring to arouse their
preiudices against the Democratic Union
party, by pointing to the South, and en-
deavoring to produce the impression that
the South has no sympathy for Irish lib
erty or the Fenian cause. There is no
danger of Irishmen being deceived by
this newborn, pretended love and puri-
,tan argument. Every Irishman knows
the puritan race, from which Radicslism
springs, is a more inveterate enemy to
his race and religion than England it
self. When Radical puritanism domi-
mates America, religious liberty will be
no more for Irishmen forever. The dog
ma Of the elder Beecher that the doc
trine Of infallibility Of the Catholic
Church is at war with republican lib
eriy is the doctrine of the churches
and clergy of the. whole puritan North.
And there is no reason to doubt
they lack only the power to overthrow
the Catholic religion in this country.
When Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
waved his hand back, and Influenced a
Catholic mob to desist in 1888 from
destroying Protestant church in re-
yenge for the destruction Of Catholic
cathedral, iDr. Lyman Beecher made a
crime of it. He SAID suppose the Cath
olic Bishop had waved his hand on in
stead of off, and the whole North has
ever since rung with the sentiment that
power intrusted to Catholics is dan
gerous to liberty. As the puritans never
prosecute, nor do anything wrong, of
course they insist everything will be safe
when placed in their hands But Irish
men will never be deceived by them.
The Missouri Republican has the fol-
lowing comments in answer to this new
born, hypocritical love Of puritan Radi-
cals for Catholics;
The Irish of St. Louis have hardly
forgotten, indeed ii is impossible they
should forget, how. in 1864 and 60, the
Democrat threatened the Irish voter
with the bayonet and bastile in the event
he voted, unless, forsooth, he voted for
Radical O. ndidates, or, what was even
worse. for the Radical new Constitution.
Irishmen, and Irish Catholics especially,
car, scarce possibly fail 10 remember how
the Strongs and the brakes stood up in
the Mercantile Library Convention, each
class intent upon the imposition OF q
shameless and perfidious oath upon all
preachers, priests and teachers, having
in view, as much as anything else, the
design TO drive from the pulpit and the
State twc-thirds Of the ablest clergymen
protestant and Catholic) then in Mis-
souri. Let them go, to digging rail-
roads" cried the virtuous Strongs, if
thew cannot take our oath. Nay,
better" responded the brakes, " If they
cannot take ours, they will be compelled
10 expatriate themselves, and we will at
once ee, rid Of them aud their rebelism.
The Radicals of that day neither
wanted the votes nor the society OF the
Irish. for the reason that the Irish we're
not Radicals. The Radicals then, I'M
stead of counting their votes, repelied
the voters, denouncing them as at least.
" Copperheads," If not srrant rebels.
But Radicalism was 10 the heyday of its
glory then. A lawless militia under the
control of trucking and inscription
leaders, whose business was to keep
the ballot-box from deflement,' guarded
the polls in the interests of RadieRlism,
while the true Union soldiers were
placed in the front to fight the common
enemy. Radicalism was then rampant
and defiant. To-day it is humbied and
cowed. Hence the newborn sympathy
Of Radiealism for Irish Fenianism.
"Will some one tell us why" asks our
Pine street neighbor-" viii some one
tell MS why so many Irishmen in this
country vote with the Briton and the
rebel, to sustain the accursed doctrine
that all men are not created equal Z
Simply, the Irish, as a class, do no such
thing. To vote with the Conservatives,
TO be Conservatives, or Democrats, is
not maintaining such position as we
are left to infer from this query. That
/" all men are not created equal, in the
sense intended in the query, 10 but a
truism. But it is not true, that to vote
that the superior race shall rule, that the
white men Of all the States shall be the
governors, aud not. as Radicalism
would have it in the South, be the
subject race, with the heel OF ARR
eau despotism on their necks; it -
not true that this - q denial that
"all men are created equal" as
understood BY the author Of the senti-
men, and the intelligent, popular nnder-
standing Of to-day. The insinuation,
therefore. that Irishmen vote with the
Briton and the rebel" Is only covert
declaration Tor admission rather that
Irishmen do not vote with Radicals And
ti,ey never will. Nor will they be found
voting with I" the Briton" any more than
with the Radicals Irishmen understand
but TOO veil that " the spirit that prompts
the EnrKshman to crush down Ireland
beneath his heel is the very spirit which
a to-day tramrling the white men Of the
South beneath the heels Of Radical
sdseniurers sod iEasssHt Africans
The value Of liberty has been taight
20 Irishnen BIZ 100 many centu-
ries Of sal experience, 20 permit
them % unite with any party IN
crossde srainsi tie Liberties and happi-
ness Of Q people, many tens Of thousands