Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-01
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rFrom the st. Louis Republican,
RADICALS AND THE IRISH.

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scals for Irishmen and Irish nationality
is at once instructive and amusing.
Just at this particular juncture it is in
structive in this, that it shows that Rad
icalism is beginning to feel its own
weakness and danger, and therefore
seizes at anything to bear it up, just as
drowning men are said to catch at
straws. Radical sympathy for the
Irish, therefore, is simply q confession
that Radicalism recognizes its approach
ing dissolution. Ha@A a.A
But sympathy for the Irish, on the
part of Missouri Radicals, is something
more than simply instructive-it is also
amusing. Indeed, it is so grotesque
that it resembles the broadcast character
of farce. The Irish of Missouri seem
very we'll to understand this. Hence it
is that we see, as in st. Louis, scarce
one Irishman in thousand who is q
Radical, and that thousandth man is
evidently an humble member OF the
Radical "bread and butter brigade"
Radical blarney has had very little, in
deed has had no perceptible influence
upon the mass of Irishmen in Missouri.
Indeed, this thing called "blarney" is
only to the Irish manner born. In the
hands of New Highlander, for instance,
it becomes very bunghng caricature
of the genuine article. As often as its
use has been attempted, by our Nilsson
ii Radicals, in the past two or three
wears, to influence the Irish vote. its
very thin and transparent mask has
been readily seen through, revealing
the hollow hypocrisy that lay beyond
Hence it has availed just nothing at all
in that direction.
The Irish of ST. Louis have hardly
forgotten, indeed it is impossible they
should forget, how, in 1864 and '65, the
Democrat I the Radical organ of Missou-
Ri threatened the Irish voter with the
bayonet and the bastile, in the event he
voted, unless, forsooth, he voted for Rad
ical candidates, or, what was even
worse, for the Radical new Constitution.
Irishmen, and Irish Catholics especially,
can scarce possibly fail to remember
now the Strongs and the brakes stood
I'D in the Mercantile Library Conven-
ton, each class intept upon the imposi-
ton of shameless and peridious oath
upon all preachers, priests and teachers,
having in view, as much as anything
else, the design to drive from the pull
pit and the State two-thirds of the
ablcst clergymen Protestant and Cath
olic) then in Missouri. "Let them 60
to digging railroads." cried the viptu-
Gus Strongs, eff they cannot take oar
oath" "Nay, better" responded the
brakes, eff they cannot take ours they
will be compelled to expatriate them
selves, and we will at once get rid Of
them and their rcbehsm"
The. Radicals of that day neither
wanted the votes nor the society of the
Irish, for the reason that the Irish were
not Radicals. The Radicals then, in
stead Of counting their votes, repealed
the voters, denouncing them as at least
"Copperheads," if not arrant rebels.
But Radicalism was in the heyday of
its glory then 4 lawless militia, un-
der the controfo Of trucking and uuscru-
pulous leaders, whose business was
to Keep the ballot-box fron defle-
,ncnt," guarded the polls in the interests
Of Radicalism, while the true Union sol
diers were placed in the front to fight
the common enemy. Radcalisn was
then rampant and defiant. Today it is.
humbled and eowcd. Hence the new
born sympathy OF Radicalism for Irish
Fenianism.
"Will some one tell us why asks
the Democrat" VIII some one tell us
why so many Irishmen in this country
vote with the Briton and the rebel, to
sustain the accursed doctrine that 'all
men are nnt created equalT" Simply,
the Irish, as class, do no such voting.
To vote with the Conservatives, to be
Conservatives, or Democrats, is not
maintaining such position as we are
left to infer from this query That all
men are not created equal, in the sense
intended in the query, is but truism.
But it is not true, that to vote that the
superior race shall rule, that the white
men Of all the States shall be the gov
.,r,aro a,d ,,of 90 Rad;caJ;ayn x,;lI h.vn