Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-10-09
Irishnien Ara Issd nld lib
spfrit revived The old Celts re-
volt against Hoffman and Blair.

The Er5sh People, one of the most
prominent of the Celtic American
newspapers, and hitherto strongly Dem
ocratic, this week declares for Grant
and Colfax. From a brilliant article,
defending this change of front, we ex-
eerpt the conclusive summary OF the
reasons why Irishmen should not vote
the Democratic ticket:
AS a great many of Us vote for this
or that-party for very slight reasons,
or for no reasons at all, venture to
offer some cogent reasons for not vo-
ting the Democratic ticket. If one or
all Of these arguments has weight With
any undecided or upTejUdiced Irish
man, the effect will be the salutary di-
vision Of the Irish vote. l forbeaF to
offer any reasons adverse to the Radi-
Gals, because there are enough and too
many of our people at present opposed
to them.
First: The Democratic party Is al
lied to the Anglo-COnfedera party in
the South, which carried on the war
for the destruction Of the Union
Had England and the Confederates
been successful, this Republic would
have been ruined and with its disin-
tegration the hopes of all succor for
the Irish exile, and all aid for his
cause, would have been lost forever =
The success of secession would
have been a great calamity for Ireland,
and as such the Irish citizens Of
| America resisted it and in resisting it
they resisted the policy and the mani
fest handiWork of England. There
fore it is unreasonable for them now
to ally themselves with England and
England's devoted friends; for this is
what they would doif they connect
themselves with the Southern De
moeracy." ~
second. The Southern planters
formed real aristocracy, with peeu
liar and unjust political privileges just
as fagrant as those Of any European
aristocraey. The var has leveled them
down and leYeled the negroes up. But
! the planter party are now trying, un-
! der the pseudonym Of Democrats, to
recover their former aristocratic posi-
lition and privileges. Now, aristocracy
and true democracy cannot exist
Therefore every genuine friend OF
American democracy must resist the
/ planters poiics.
Third: Reverdy johnson has ta-
Ken. occasion IN assure the English In
! advance that whoever may be elected
/ President he viii be a friend to Eng
/ land. Doubtless it was Mr. Seward,
| the ninety day prophet, who silvi@ed
! him to VaEture on this agreeable pre-
/ dietiou, aud impose on the j Ohm Bulls
! by a reck less disregard for veFacity.-
| IF this statement we're as true as it is
4 manifestly false, we should be. just
i fed in voting for neither Seymour nor
/ Grant. But We suspect that johnson
/ has a better right to know the opin-
4 ions of the former than those of the
4 latter, and therefore the declaration
made at Sheffield should prejudice us
against the Democratic candidate.
4 We should be the most egregious fools
in the world If we voted for a true
friend to England
4 Fourth The Democratic party are
4 now obstruetiOnisti,c conservatives tor
les, reactionists, while the Republi-
cans are progressive, liberal and ag-
gressiye. It is with the party which
moveef forward, and that loves liberty
for liberty's sake, that the Irish should
I advance for it's only from these that
We can hope for any help. M
/ Fifth, The Radicals passed the
| bill for the protection of paturallzed
lrishmen, as we asked them to do
and be it remembered that only one
4 Democrat voted for the reprisaI claus,
| in the original bill, while seven Re
| publicans votes were given to sustain
! it.
! SiDlh We hold the Democratic
party mainly responsible for the anti
irish and pro- English policy Of Presi
dent johnson. He has shown him
! self Indifferent to the fate Of our com