Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-10-31

| "FINNEGAN" BLAIR's SPEECH-In the Demo-
cratic appeals to Irishmen to vote for Seymour
and Blair, they have taken it upon themselves to
fatty deny the celebrated " Finnegan" speech of
the last-named gentleman, in which he told the
| Finnegans, as he called the Fenians, to go back
! to Ireland, as we could get along without them,
and other gross abuse. 1t is useless to deny
this. gentleman of this city, of prominence
and unimpeachable veracity, assures that the
speech was uttered as reported, and that as
printed was almost verbatim as he heard it,
Moreover when Frank left the stand, within
half an hour after the delivery of his abusive
and blackguard TRADE, he was met by one of
the abused Fenians, who said, 'General Blair,
you may be fighting maa and able to whip the
rebels, but you are liar and blackguard, and
unless you apologize for that speech and take it
all back within five minutes, | will give you
better threshing than you ever gave the rebels"
To which Blair replied, Don't mind it, | was
drunk" % Then, said the Fenian, :" t'publicly
| acknowledge you were drunk" This humli-
ating confession the original abolitionist, the
general, the now revoutionizer, reluctantly made.
But it was forced confession, and cannot be G.
| garded as coming from the conviction of his
error. Fenians must know that in Frank Blair
they have one of their bitterest enemies His
true feelings were spoken when drunk, for in
rino ceritas, and his apology was forced from
| him. The facts as have related them cannot
be disproven. Our informant himself heard the
speech, and was personally cognizant of all the
incidents related. While these scenes were
transpiring in ST. Louis. Colfax was addressing
the Fenians in Chicago giving them aid, and en-
couraging them in their efforts for their dear
native land. In one the Irish have friend and
in the other an enemy. 1rishmen who vote for
| Blair vote for one who wishes them well out of
the country, and told them we could get along
without them, and vote to defeat one who was
always their friend. Irishmen, if you have graf
H. r,0ft lad ~
you owe yourselves, you will vote for Grant and
Colax, and tell Blair that you can got along
without him-Sacramento Bee.
MODEL DEMOCRATIC SpEEcH.-At the grand
Democratic pow-wow at Indianapolis the other
day, the first speaker was Richard A. Ryan, who
spoke as follows
i My FelIow Citizens: At the request of my
i friend Mr.. Athon, President of your meeting, L
am informed-(it is not necessary for you to sit
down now. At the request of my friend, Dr.
Athon President of your meeting, he tells me
to inform YOU that Gen. Blair and Mr. Pendleton
will be here in a few moments to address you
AS was once said by Sergeant S. Prentiss, when
he was once speaking in the city of New Orleans,
and Henry Clay came upon the stand, " "hen
the eagle comes round it is time for the bats anu
owls to get out of the way" ana my n'Iua I
saved me from two or three ATTACKS VI .o",
tremens and if that be treason, make tnc inOSs
cheers told you daI4ag .Iat my insna' p
tha, ;s liz too for never drank drop in my
life What il 1s he'll ass yG5 the euf1af ony dsr sa
lOhee,s.J IVY NO and that other great man,
shSs ssereenera Andrew Jackson Of Thom some
/ horn a very short time before came. to this
conn.rv porn and he was born short time after he
came. ILaughter.] My fellow-citizens, love
the State of Kentucky. feel good deal like
Henry Clay once said be did. That the people
of that State and of Ireland were so much alike,
that it seemed to him that the two had origin
ally formed part of one continent, and had been
torn asunder by some mighty conyulsion of ma
ture. subscribe to that sentiment, my fellow
citizens, and allow me, in conclusion to say that
stand here before you to-day convulsed Ken
tuckian. Laughter and cheers.]
Here Mr.. Ryan's speech was interrupted by
the arrival of Mr. Blair
SAN FRANcIsco.-The Democrats have given
up the general election and the State election
Their only remaining hope is to carry this city.
They expect to do it by swapping. They know
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