Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-06


struction has not tended to improve the
state of society or the morals Of the ne
rroes. Crime is confined almost exclusive
ly to this class, and it cannot be charged
that pre- JUDGE against the negroinfuenced
these convictions, as the Judge, the Sher-
iff Deputies, and Clerk are all Radicals,
and there was not jury in the box but
what contained at least four or five ne
groes
Appeal of the Disfranchised Irish OF she
South to their Irish Fellow-C1tIzens of
! the North.
Fellow-countrymen of the North
To you who were born on the same soil;
to you who, like ourselves, are natives Of
oppressed, down-tTodden, and sorrow
; stricken Ireland
Fellow rishmen, to you we appeal in
this our day of distress and trial, of oppres-
sion and misrule. Like you of the north,
we were once citizens of the United States;
we had share in the election of the men
who administered the Government, and Of
those who made the laws We were recog-
nized as an integral part of the body poll
itic, and the most honored and respected
of our Acknowledged were eleted to
positions of trust, honor and distinction.
Now all this has changed.
We are no longer citizens.
We have been deprived of our right to
vote, and in many places have been driven
from the polls.
The Radical registers havo refused to
enter our names on the registration lists.
Thousands and tens of Thousands of our
fellow-countrymen in the southern States
have thus been DISTINGUISHED, while every
negro who presents himself is admitted to
the rights of citizenship.
We are to-day regarded by the Radical
party as the inferior of the negro, and
we have no rights, political or otherwise,
which they are bound to respect.
Hundreds, yes thousands of Irishmen
have been deprived of the official positions
to which they were elected or appointed in
different cities throughout the South. We
J need only refer to the cases of Mobile and
New Orleans, where Irishmen have been
elected from Offices which were afterwards
conferred on negroes.
Fellow Irishmen Of the North, all this
has been done by the Radical party, which
, now asks your support, on the ground that
it is the friend of the adopted citizen
Trust it not. Radicalism is proscrip-
ton. If that party gets into power an
other four years, they will dsfranchise
you, Irishmen of the Northern States, as
they have 3isfranchised us, Ir;ehmen of
the Southern States.
To you we are now earnestly, anxiously,
, eargerly looking for political redemption.
Save us, by your votes, from negro SILL
, premacy!
Save us, by your votes, from the rule of
the bayonet !
Bear in mind that every Irishman who
votes with the Radical party votes for our
enemies.
We entreat you by all you hold most
, dear not to be roisled by so called Irish
men in your midst-traitors who have sold
out to our political enemies and yours,
renegades who have accepted the ever
ready bride for the advocacy of policy
that has made US aliens in the land of our
adoption, and subjected US in this country
to all the injustice and outrages inflicted
upon US in the land of our birth, down
: trodden and oppressed Ireland.
J Restore to US, through your honest, man
> ", honorable, unbought auffrages, the
, rights of citizenship-thoser rights of which
5 we have been deprived, that we might be
degraded by the Radical party below the
2 level of the negro
I Fellow Irishmen we appeal to you, by
- the wrongs and sufferings we now endure,
by the love you bear to your wives and
l little ones, to save us from the biighting,
!; whitening curse of negro rule and negro
, domination.
Remember that every vote you give to
the Radical candidates is vote given to
q keep us in political bondage, and to sub
iect our families to all the horrors of negro
p equality.
Remember that it was here in the South
that opposition to Irishmen, because they
e were Irishmen, received its death blow
4 from Henry A. Wise in Virginia, Alexan-
[ der FL. Stephens in Georgia, and Andrew
s Johnson in Tennessee
g AS you would free us from political bon
I dage and negro supremacy, vote against
8 the party that has deprived us of our citi-
: zenship vote against the party that has
made US the political interiors of the ne,
0 gro vote against the party that is now
y making the South another oppressed and
down trodden Ireland.
j. We are now looking to the success Of the
t Democratic candidates,
HoRAr1o SEYMOUR
and
j FRANK P. BLAIR,
) to free us from political bondage and the
/ curse of mongrel rule.
Your fellow countrymen. now on a visit
y to the great metropolitan city of New York,
:: JAMES G. MOORE,
u JOHN COLLINS,
81 BERNARD MCCABE,
ANDREW MCGUIRE,
of New Orleans.
MICHAEL TKEAEoE,
: OWEN MULLINS
HENRY O'TooLE,
of Mobile.
J. THOMAS O'CoNNoR,
a EDWARD O'NEILL,
: PATRICK FLYNN,
d of Savannah,
and many others, in behalf of the
= DISTINGUISHED FRESHMEN OF THE South
ERN STATES.