The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-02

IRISH AMERICANS.
We have reached period in our his
tory when words and promises no longer
contain virtue in them; a period, when
every declaration, or assertion, is viewed
with doubt and suspicion. Still that
purest of heaven-born virtues, spotless
truth, has not wholly deserted the human
breast; but remains. and may be found
by those who seek it, by submission of
bare, authenticated facts Let every
Irishman, whose eye may fall upon this
article, read an extract in the Manitowoc
Plot Of August Goth purporting to come
from the Irish american [ saypurporttmg
because the Pilot is not responsible
paper, being conducted by every copper
head in town, to a certain extent. In
speaking of the great power of the Irish
vote, it says: ''In the days Of Democratic
asccndeney the Wings first and after
them the Republican party, bid for the
Irish vote, as means of helping them
selves into places of power and trust. +"
How very consistent with your past fat
terry and falsehoods, gentleman! Who
ever heard of Henry Gay being quoted
as authority, by Republicans, without
hearing the astonished copperhead reply
-"Henry Clay, indeed why he was as
true a Democrat of the present day as
ever lived Now if that coppery story
is a truth, then, since Henry Clay was the
founder of the Wing party, it follows
that it was the Democratic party that bid
for the Irish vote. -..-..
In the same article the writer says,
that I'VE having waded to power through
a derastofi5ag war. again bid for the
Irish vote" Oh there is confession
Mr., Irish American (if indeed you made
it, which uncovers your scaly back, and
reveals you in all your sulphuric dcform-
1ty. We did not then, so far forget our
patriotism. and purity as to stop and beg
Tor political power as y0n did: at 4 time
when rebel tyrants were rapidly marching
on to the seat of our government, and
our nation fate was i'll most solemn, and
terrible danger; we did not ask for the
Irish conservative element to help US
Men; no sir we did not need to ask
them, for they manfully and nobly-and
when again the glorious old flag of our
nation unity waved proudly in each port
and city-th then-oh then we turned to the
Irishman, who had proven himself man
worthy of America true5t love-and
asked him, as you truly say, to help us to
hold the standard proudly upon the ma
tional citadel, where he had helped us to
place it. Again he says: 'they forget
the animosity with which they once pur-
sued them" THAT is with which Repub-
licans pursued the Irish.)
| defy you Mr.. american to put your
corrupt fingers upon single page of the
past Republican history, from which it
will appear that they, as party, have
ever pursued the Irish with animosity.
Your re1y assertion, that they, tthe Re-
publicans) have always bid for the Irish
vote, contains the implication that they
have striven to show favor to the Irish
man. Else, what do you mean by bid
ding for the Irish vote, if it be not to
show favor? How consistent you Mr..
-Anler1can!
Again the .inertcan refers the Irish
man to the Know Nothing party. Now
if there is any one thing, more disgusting
than another, it is to behold man cast
ing the filth and wretchedness of his own
sins upon his neighbor In making this
allusion the -4ne,acun shovels up the
creeping worms and filth, the sad remains
of the defunct corpse, of its former power,
and hurting stones against the undetiled
shield of the Republican party, exe,aims
There behold the evidences of your
filth Look upon the shame and pollution
of this wicked party"
/ happen to know the history Of this
Know Nothing party but | will ask the
reader to be governed rather by his rea-
son, than reliance upon my word.
In the year 1850 there met in secret
and solemn conclave, at Rochester, New
York, representatives from the South
and North, to devise means Of putting a
stop to the great influx of foreigners to
this country, more particularly the Irish.
The motive for taking this step upon the
| part of the South, was this: As emf
grants came into their midst, they gener-
ally opposed slavery, because they found
it not only difficult toprocure labor where
it existed, but also because they were
called negroes and cattle, and treated as
slaves; if the reader doubts these facts,
will ask him to consider that circumstan
ces warrant their correctness. Who that
has ever been there, has not seen Irish
| men knocked down with handspikes, or
cord wood, upon the Mississippi river?
| Nothing but "a id Lssh o1" or
| Irish so,o' was the epithet hourly ap-
piled to Irishmen in the South; and for
that reason the poor Irishman began to
ha.a slavery. Then there alone at mid