Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-10-02
The Irish Aroused.
THEY ARE GOING FOR GRANT.

THEY AXE 6OlNNt lOf dlSASI
In New York and some other parts of
the country there is an unprecedented
movement among the Irish against Sey-
mour in favor of Gen. Grant. AT no
time apparently have so many Irish ever
came out in open hostility to the demo
cratic party. They feel that they have
done the voting for the democratic party
long enough, especially since they re-
ceive very little in return. They see also
that the democratic party is nearest al
lied to their old and common enemy,
England. They are just beginning to
see that if the rebellion, with which so
large a portion of the northern democra-
cy sympathined, had euceoedod, it would
have been through the aid, comfort and
sympathy of the British power. They
are beginning to see that it is the repub-
lican party that are in favor of liberty
and free government, and not the demo-
cratic Ku-Klux party who are trying to
elect Seymour. They know, too, that
thousands of patriotic Irish went down
South and bravely helped put down the
rebellion, and don't propose now to have
that sacrifice go for nothing, nor to give
the rebels a new lease of life with which
to start another rebellion. Some of the
ablest and best men of the Irish have re-
Gently renowned the democratic party
as no longer worthy Of their support, and
are heart and hand for Grant and Col
fax. The democrats in the present cam
paign have raised the cry of " high tax
alton" and economical government,
when the truth is that New York City,
which is the quintessence of democrat
ic'' economy, and democratic govern
ment, is al instance where the taxes are
higher than in any other place on this
continent. The practice and preaching
of the democracy therefore are not at all
consistent, and the Irish are beginning
to seeit just as plain as anybody. Among
the more important of the recent "ac-
cessions" in favor of Grant and Colfax
we will mention few.
The True Democrat, the ablest paper
in the Irish district of New Jersey. has
abandoned Seymour, and come out for
Grant. Among the reasons it gives for
so doing are these:
Because the party that scas demo
cratic, that promised to tighten the taxes
that promised to give the country n
iolc tar candidate, allowed an ignoble
clique of traitors and bloated capitalists
to force their disloyal tools upon the par.
ty. Because there is rebel element
enough in the democratic party to gov
ern the party, and we desire to have lib.
erty in the South, at least long enough
to give Northern fathers and mothers
time to remove their dead sons where
they can lie uninsulted by democratic,
bone t:inket manufacturers
David Barry, heretoforea leading dem
ocraetic politician in Cleveland, Ohio
publishes card in which he says, refer
ing to Blair:
would as soon vote for that arch trai
tor, JeiT. Davis, or Benz. Disraeli of Eng
land, as for man who could so heart
lessly triile with the most cherished feel.
ings Of the race. The Irishman who ca .
calmly swallow down such an insult n
his country and her heroic efforts to h,
free, without resenting it at the ballo
box next November, is destitute of al
public spirit dead to the claims and suf
ferings of his motherland, and is any
thing but an honor to that proud, def
ant, sensitive old race whence he sprung.
The Irish People, one of the oldes
and most influential Of the Irish new,
papers Of this country, and hilbert
strongly democratic, has declared 70
Grant and Colfax, and pronounces nm
qualifiedly against not only Seymour an,
Blair, but Hoffman. This journal eye,
cises almost controlling influence owe
she Irish vote of America, being unde