Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-07-11
Address OF the Irish Republican Campatrn
Club of New York.

The New York Tribune furnishes the able ad-
dress of the Irish Republican Club, signed by
Dennis F. Burke, Geo. C. Mccarthy, Robert Hag-
gerty, James Murray, David H. Smyth, Thomas
Honly, Francis Fitzpatrick, Daniel O'Leary,
John Nugent, David Lynch, John Graham We
have only room for the following extracts, which
we commend to our Irish fellow-citizens
THE RE AL PRINCIPLES OF THE so-cALLED DEMOCRACY.
But to return, if you please, to this precious
Democratic or conservative party OF our own
time and country. Have you, who year after
year vote without hesitation or question every
ticket labelled Democratic, ever considered what
the real principles of this party are, who its
leaders are, what its sympathy with the cause
of Ireland has been? No otherwise you would
have long since turned from it with loathing and
disgust. Are you aware that it is controlled by
moneyed aristocrats, who make its policy sub
servient to their own selfish ends? What ex-
preston of sympathy have you heard from these
men for those who strive for Ireland freedom
Why the very man who at this moment holds the
highest official position in the Democratic party
is the agent of English capitalists, who have
millions at stake, in the preservation OF the
British Empire whole and intact. To suppose
that such a man would be friendly to the cause
of Ireland's freedom would be to fly in the face
of all human experience.
The policy of the Democratic leaders is to in
fame your prejudices against the negro, in order
to forward their own political fortunes, while IN
their hearts they despise the laborer whether he
be white or black.
What was the aim of the men who endeavored
to establish the Southern Confederacy but to
erect an oligarchy, where the few would be ag-
grandzed at the expense of the many, and where
capital would not only control but own labor.
They designed, by reopening the slave trade,
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completely destroy the system of free white la
bor, as witness the article in the Charleston
Mercury, just before the war; entitled Philoso-
ply of Secession, by L. w Spratt, of South
Carolina, where, referring to the Southern Con-
federacy, he says: 81 regard the slave trade as
the true test of its integrity. If that be right,
then slavery is right, but not otherwise. re-
gard the constitutional prohibition as great
calamity" (referring to the act prohibiting the
importation of slaves).
These men despised laborers of every class
and condition, as may be seen by their sEeering
illusions to Northern &C mudsills, "greasy me-
chanics," "close-fsted farmers etc. And were
they not for years in the closest affliation with
the Democratic party? Did they not shape its
policy? Were they not, as exponents of its prin-
ciples, looked up to oracles by their Northern
allies +? And can you doubt that, if their polt-
ical privileges were restored, they would again
be found foremost in its ranks 2
You were told that if the negroes were eman-
cipated they would flock to the North and CON-
pete successfully with the Irish and German Ia
borer. Yet the threatened exodus did not oc-
cur Was it because the promised Moses proved
recreant?
If anything could tend to drive the negroes
from the South, it would be the return to power
of the rebel element, and consequent inaugura-
ton of persecution and oppression If they are
treated with any reasonable degree of fairness
they will be sure to prefer the cougenial climate
of the South to the more rugged one OF the
North.
In addition to its unpatriotic, if not absolutely
dsloyal, course during the war, the Democratic
party would now virtually repudiate the honest
debt of the nation for which the national faith Is
pledged, and thereby bring on financial crisis
whose effects would be sure to be felt by alH and
by none more than by the laboring class. This
hateful doctrine of national dishonesty is the
principal stock in trade of the leading Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
APPEAL TO THE INTELLIGENCE AND MANHOOD OF
IRIsH-BoRN AMERICANS.
What considerations then, of either duty or in
terest, can prompt you to act with this degener-
ate faction? Are you enraptured with the spir-
tied foreign policy of the conservative john
son, the anxiety which he has displayed to re-
lieve such of our countrymen as have come un-
der the ban of British law, and the admirable
manner in which his creatures Seward and
Adams have upheld the honor OF the United
States in their dealings with our old enemy Or
mayhap you applaud the scurrilous abuse with
which the Democratic orators and press have
saluted the poor, MANNED veterans, whose only
fault was that they periled life and limb in de-
fense of this land, the last refuge of liberty on
earth.
In conclus sion, we would ask you Irishmen, to
think we'll on these things.
Do not be swept along in the tide of prejudice
and intolerance, but assert your manhood, and
shake off the trammels of party in which you
have been too long entangled.
Free yourselves from the control of the men
by whom you are led, and who laugh at you for
your credulty.
Concede to others that which yeu demand for
yourselves, and give helping hand to push for
ward the, car of Freedom, which is even now
slowly, but steadily advancing overturning as
it goes the eminences on which Tyranny has
erected her altars, and bring joy and good It'd
ngs to the oppressed of all climes.