Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-10-02
Hardly a Composite Nationality
A telegram from New York saws.

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A movement has been set on foot for the
organization of a Grant and Wilson CITY
/ Club which is to be composed of leading
Irishmen from every ward in the city. Al
mass meeting of Irishmen last evening
1 Gen. Burke said that the true friend of the
! Irish citizen was the one who was doing the
most for his welfare, aud showed that Gen
Grant had done and was still doing more fol
the Irishmen than any of the party drma-
gogues who had boosted that they always
held Irish voters in their pockets.
A despatch from Manchester, y. H., is as
/ follows:
The French Republicans of Manchester
under the auspices of the Grant and Wilson
guard, who appeared with torches and uni
forms, raised the tricolored flag ot France
this evening, with the names OF Grant and
I Wilson inscribed thereon The flag is q
very large one. and cost about one hundred
dollars. The procession was preceded by a
band of music
We also hear more or less from Greeley
sources that the Germans have p0lit cal OF
CARNATIONS and are supporting the coalition
ticket. A year ago or more Frederick Doug
lass, the eminent colored orator, delivered in
various parts of the country ecture on
our composite nationality; and in the lee
turers glowing rhetoric, it was the crown OF
our civilization that we were all. white and
0lack, English, Irish French, German and
American, one nation, all American cit
izens. In that proud designation all distinc
tions other than those based on merit
were buried out of sight There is no law ,
10 this country, against any foreigner, hang
ing out the flag of his former country and
putting the names Of Grant and Wilson. or
Greeley and Brown, upon it Inasmuch.
however, as these foreigners cannot vote for
either of these candidates until they have
renounced their allegiance 70 their torei N
Gags and sworn allegiance to our hlZ.
wouldn 1t be well for them to be less for
eign and more American in their politics?
We don't know wherein Gen. Burke thinks
Gen. Grant ls the true friend Of the Irish
citizen, but if be puts it on the ground that
Gen. Grant, as President, treats the Irish
citizen as anything less or more than an
American citizen, he does not properly rep
ItHtul TIE 4 ItrlAtuA. " huOM LutIC dlG
Irishmen. as there arc Cubans aud other for
egners, in this country who clam to be cit
liens of the United States, but who act as
though they supposed the United States was
bound to take sides with them in all their lorss
eign hates or loves. Ne are glad to know Gen.
Grant has never encouraged such persons TO
keep alive their old animosities- whether
they led to Fenianism OF tilibustering IN
deed, the sooner these old race and old world
animosities are buried out of sight in this
new world the better; and as one step to-
ward it We shall be glad to see the time
when no one thinks Of distinctivciy foreign
political organization even of ward club.
1t is the interests that the people OF this
country have in common which are to be de
cded by the pending presidential election
and if we mean to have all nationalitics here
fused into an American nationality, we need
to forget, as the Constitution practically now
commands us to forget, all political dis
sinctions growing out Of race or color.