The Portland daily press., 1869-04-30
Demecrnts nnd nespets.

The following suggestive letter appeared in
the Irish People, Fenian newspaper publish
ed in New York, for this week. 1t is sent us
by Fenian of this city, and is worth repro
ducing here:
Reverdy Johnson's plum pudding treaty has
come to grief in the Senate. There was now
ever one man so poor as to do it honor Ihe
Cockney treaty mustered Just one champion
McCreery, a genuine Bourbon Democrat OF
Kentucky recorded his solitary vote ior .ne
English. The Democratic party mas tne non,
or of saving John Bull from Deing Ssatas sAunSeu
outright in the Senate of the Unlted otates.-
And its hosts of Irish supporters Will oe all the
more ioyous under its banners. Inc irish are
a generous race, and when Zoe is rescued
from modification or disgrace, we nonor, all
tbe more. his rescuers, provided they are Dem
ocrats. It is peculiar chivalry we possess.
Our Democratic masters know we "have it
bad" That is why they promote our Angli-
canized friends McCreery, and Reverdy John
son aud Others. Judge Thurman, OF Ohio, the
telegraph says, "canvassed privately for the
treaty" but after Summers broadside he wilt
ed, lost his nerve, and did not vote nay with
his gallant co-laborer, McCreery. Judge
Thurman supplants bluff Ben Wade, who
would have come down on the British like
tornado. But tie wise Irishmen of Ohio chose
a legislature to oust Ben and foist in the
Brltsher With this man in power, my coun-
trymen of Ohio and Kentucky can shake
hands across the river and mingle their joy
this morning. Their Democratic toiling is
bountifuly rewarded, and their race is every
where proud of their handlwork. All this, IN
thick and thin, which is joy in itself!
Mr.. Cleveland on Friday last, threw the
Congressional vote of this district against
Banks's Cuban resolution. Eldrldge, OF WIS
consin, the eloquent Democrat OF the west,
Messrs Niblack and Kerr, the Indiana leaders
in the House, and Judge Van Trump, the en-
inent Ohio jurist, who was sent to Congress
because in war times he gave q decision
against a recruiting law and paid special at
tention to "Lincoln's hirelings" voted with
our Orestes in favor of the Spanish. So did
many of the minor lights. In that list of
twenty-four nays the ,e is one Republican
Paine of Wisconsin.
Now mgy we not fairly ask our Democratic
friends why is this thus? Here in Jersey City
we are all for the Cubans We want the Span
ish hidalgos and Dons to get away from this
continent. Let them rule the Iberian penin-
sula, and let this struggling Cuban people have
tn ,ir way of ruling their own affairs. Ameri-
can colonists did exactly as the Cuban colo
nists are trying TO do. Men who voted against
Washngton's revolutiOnists were called To.
ries in those days. Mr.. Cleveland comes back
| to his constituents with this Spanish laurel or
namenting his brow. He fastened to gather
| it at the first dash before he had been two
months Congressman. We, Irish kepubli-
| cans, VINO cOulu nOL bWalIOW MT. OleVeiduu,
were deemed perverse set. Our countrymen
who go it blind for anybody nominated,
have the glory of striking a blow, through Mr..
Cleveland, at people seeking freedom. II
Cuba should become State of the Union, and
Ireland seek belligerent rights, the Cuban
Congressman may repay the compliment
Put yourself in his place" is good maxim.
1t is strange how the school of Conservatism
in politics trains citizens into reactiOnary at
tacks on everything looking to change or ad-
vancement at home or abroad. The Spaniards
shake crimson flag in the bulls face to lash
him into desired fury for the arena. These
Conservative Democrats are affected in the
same way by any banner with Equal Politi-
cal Rights inscribed upon it. Bankss reso-
luton sympathized with the people OF Cuba
"in their efforts to win freedom and equal po-
itical rights for themselvesi" But there are
blacks in Cuba, and black is as exciting at a
Democratic caucus as red is at the Spanish
bull fights. IG is grea5 pity, however, that
so many Irishmen still permit their own
generous impulses, and their fraternal feel
ing tor Revolutionary and liberty-seekiDg
pc oples, to be perverted by the Democratic
Retrogadists. In Democratic lands, the Irish
vote, instead of helping to cheer up the lowly
and oppressed, helps to keep them down as in
the case of the negroes, or to strike them down
when they rise as in this Cuban case. In
Connecticut our people have torn themselves
away, and in New Jersey also we are breaking
the bonds.