The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-10-13
Infamous Know Nothing Ribaldly
A Radical Paper Speaks of tIlt
IriShmen.
Am Insalt to the Negroes to
Compare Irishnen with
Them.
Outrageous Attack Upon Cathol iclt!
The CithOlic Priesthood ssFat.
Sleek, ROsy-Gilied lars and
ScOundrelS.o
THE SENTIMENTS OF A GRANT
NEWSPAPER.

The spirit of political intolerance, since
the nomination of SCHUYLER C6LFAx, a
member of the Know Nothing order, has
again broken forth. Some days since,
we copied from the Chicago Post, a
leading Radical organ, bitter and saw
age attack ON the Irish as class and
upon their religion.
That which we copy below is from
the same Chicago Post, of the 9th in
stant. The issue of that date contains
two remarkable editorial articles. One
describes a personal interview which the
editor has had with General GRANT, at
Galena, showing him to be a bosom
friend and on very intimate relations
with the Radical candidate for President.
The other article is an argument to prove
that the political equality which the
Radicals claim for. negroes does not
involve social equality. This doctrine
the writer illustrates by reference to
Irishmen and Catholics, which we give
below. Their appearance in GRANT
newspaper, accompanied by the senti-
ment of Mr.. CoLFAx on the same subject,
will attract great attention. We have
seen nothing that so fully and undis-
guisedly shows the true spirit of the
Jacobins towards Irishmen and Catho-
les as the following:
From the Chicago Post, Sept 81
Teddy OFlaherty votes. He has not
been in the country six months. But he
has been through Dan O'Hara's court.
He is naturalized. Torrance O'Manus
swore for him that he had been five years
in the United States; that he was jim
tleman of good moral character, and Dan
O'Hara knew he was Democrat. And
so he was naturalized, of course.
lie haSkair on his teeth. He never knep
am hour in cirilized society. He new
er stepped on any thing more solid than
dirt floor all his life until he stood on
the deck of an emigrant ship. He is a
born savage-as brutal rufian as an
untamed Indian of the North American
tribes. Of course he can't read. He
can't write. All books to him are seal
ed. He only believes in the priest, and
the priest is only little less barbarian
than he. "Be Jasus, I'm Democrat p
is his shibboleth. Breaking heads for
opinions sake Is his practice. The born
criminal and pauper of the civilized
world, and withal the innocent victim of
the s.atecraft of England, and of the
priestcraft of Rome-a wronged, abused,
and pitiful spectacle of man capable of
better things, pushed straight to hell by
that abomination against common sense
called the Catholic religion, and that
outrage upon political decency falsely
known as American Democracy-what
else does he know? To compare him
with an intelligent freedman would be an
insult to the latter.
The country has survived the Irish
emigration-the worst with which any
other country was ever afflicted. The
Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses,
our reform schools, our hospitals, elee-
mosynary and reformatory institutions
of all sorts. Scratch convict or pau
per, and the chances are that you tickle
the skin of On Irish Catholic at the same
time-an Irish Catholic made Grimm
al or pauper by the Priest and politi-
clan, who have deceived him and kept
him in ignorance; in a word, a savage,
as he was born. He has not, thus far,
deteriorated the American blood. Why
then fear that with those obstacles of
race and color in the way, the niger
will accomplish that in which the Irish
have failed
Bah! This appeal to the fear Of the
populace that we must have care lest
this country, ''like Mexico" be ruined
by mixed race, is only the gabble of
raseals who want to perpetuate injustice
under cover of a popular prejudice.
Mexico was not so ruined either. The
priests, bishops, monks, nuns, operating
upon the Catholic laity, did the job for
that unhappy Republic. just as Catho-
licism, which is despotism, goes out
Mexico rises.
The danger of miscegenation, white
with black, is, then as remote as that
Teddy O'Flaherty will succeed in max
ing his way by marriage into the Ameri
can families by whom he is abhorred.
We have been acquainted with Teddy a
long time. He has dug numberless can
ais, made many railroads, fought many a
fight, voted the Democratic ticket, been
in many jail and pauper house, and he
has all the while been priest ridden.
The fat, sleek, rosy-gilled liars and scoun-
drels Consciously such) who have been
about him have kept him in ignorance,
robbed him of his pence, and given him,
after many sprinklings of holy water,