Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-04
To Whom a Il Due-NhO Fought for the
Rights Of ths Foreigner and Re
lfgiOua Rreedom7
Was ft Andrew johnson or she Demo
ratio Party hat Killed Know
nothineism:

people than the Irish Aldenites, with
loyal government labels, who ran ovel
a fallen foe like so many L~asseHdchs,
represented the true, generous Irishman.
l fully appreciate and indorse the
spirit that induces 80 many Irishmen to
prefer johnson in the present race. II
is the love of religious freedom and Irish
gratitude. But the same identical mo-
lives prompt me, Irish born, but reared
in Tennessee, and somewhat familiar
with its politics, to support Frank Cheat
ham strenuously.
The turning point in the Irish mind
is Johnsonis campaign against the
KnOwnothing gentry. My gratitude
is given to the Democratic party whose
convention put johnson in the field, and
who made up the issue in their platform
maintaining U rights when there We're
not a thousand Irish votes ia the State.
My gratitude is to the people Of Tennes-
see, who through Democratic orgsniZa-
ton voted down the vile imitation Of
Anglo-Saxon intolerance. My gratitude
is to the party that made the South one
solid unit against the Northern-born
midnight monster. My gratitude is to
the party that crushed it out Of existence
everywhere. 1t was no one man did it,
I AEAG " EANE - AAC OEAAADAA9 At
ic party didit, and that fact explains the
rancor against Democracy which incites
It's lifelong enemies to join hands with
their once "hated and despised foe, ~
Johnson, in trying 10 tear down that no
| ole old party. As the Nashville Banner
SAYS, they have not come to Johnson,
but he has gone TO them-gone out Of the
party which fought KnOwnothingism.
Do l give the nan no credit? you
ask. Certainly l do, just as | give Ben
Butler credit for doing the same work in
Puritanic Massachusetts,. They both
got their reward-gOt all they worked
fOr-and both have since abandoned the
party that stood for religious freedom.
In both cases | stand by the party, not
the man; for the man dies, but the
party won't die, so long as this country
is free, although there are many work
ing for johnson now who wish 1t to die,
and would pray for it if they believed in
prayer.
Some Of you say Johnson is Demo
cratic enough for you; but johnson
breaches from the stump that the De
mocracy is dead. Let me warn you,
fellOw-countrymen, when it m to
that the sun Of religious liberty in this
country is fast setting. The JeffersOnian
Democracy, which tore to tatters the
alien and sedition laws of the elder Adj
ams-that party who smothered native
A~mericanism and Knownothingism-
is the only party ever in this country
that has stood by the constitution, whole
and entire. Mr.. johnson himself will
tell YOU so. Other parties have tam
pered with one part Of it or another part.
Some day some party will lay unholy
hands on the clause securing religious
freedom, and it will have no defender If
the Democracy be dead.
We Irishmen appreciate this danger
more wildly than others. johnson
beat Gentry in 1875: Johnson may die
any time; Gentry is already dead, but
there are other Gentrys still among US.
Only two years ago one Of them in this
city was rebuked for stirring up re-
ligious strife by fighting the Franco
Prussian contest owe here in our midst
as q religious war. Later on, he was the
apologist of the Paris communists, de-
Tending them in the murder of bishops,
and nuns. Where IS he now?
For johnson, and / am against him.
Why Is he for Johnson? Because he
knows as well as / do that johnson is
trying to pull down in this State the
party that defeated KnOvnothingism
And he chuckles oven his innocent
Irish allies Of to-day, because they do
not see the drift of Tennessee politics as
as be and / do.
Later on, We have been warned by the
July riots in New York, and the secret
American Protestant League" which
5 still spreading in the North. This
AnownOthiDg question is never a dead
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,utiOn have branded il into u souls.
We know how it is liable TO come up.
When North and South are reconciled,
md everything runs smoothly, the poll
icians will be at their wits-end for a
resh subject on which to rouse the pop
liar passions. As Dean Swift told his
PREACHERS, "If you are at a loss for a
ermon, abuse the Pope; he is always
here" So with the politicians. When I
hey run out Of ready material, the pope /
always there. When Radicalism runs '
Is natural course, exhausting Northern 8
against the South, we may {
lear, within a few years perhaps, the s
ry, down with Popery; let it go the {
way Of slavery-twin relics of babarous
,ges." Woe, then, to the religious I
reedom clause ofthe constitution, which I
johnson adores, if the old Demo-
party, that made him all he is, be
lot in the field to beat away the bigOts.
Such is the main issue with Irishmen. {
few words on minor incidents: There l
3 no more question of Unionism or 10y
in voting for johnson or Cheatham c
han there was two years ago in voting c
lr the Ex-Confederate General John &. I
against that originally meek and s
model Union man, William A. Wise s
The real issue with the native
supporters Of johnson is the |
isruption of the Democratic party.
When johnson stumped the State
gainst the Knownothings, Frank
'heatham went with him to protect
i'm against threatened violence, with a
out Irish heart and ready fist for the
ght. The war record Of the two {
mounts TO this: Up to 1850 Mr.. John
)n did everything that a politician
Duld do to +" precipitaten war, denoun-
all compromise with the North as y,
,easOn to the South, and he canvassed y
lis State for Breckenridge against Il
A. Douglass. Frank Cheatham 1
ever so much rs lifted his little finger =
"precipitaten war, but when ii came y
e fought like a mar for what he y
lnsidered right. While Mr.. Johnson's U
was confined to non-combat- I
ats, preachers, ONE and children, u
heatham went with his children into a =
against what Mr.. johnson had Z
.ught them TO believe We're Northern q
ggressions on their rights. johnson o
udied the strong side, and went with :
lie government against his people. We :
often read Of the ike in Irish L
Frank wasted four years and Z
st his all. johnson made political =
ipital Of his Unionism, snd managed to !,
t a Radical nomination that landed y
m in the White House. y
But it Is urged that johnson is a man y
it'll a mouth, while Chatham ia no y
lker. Well, let US send q man TO I,
lngress who will work instead Of talk. =
leatham will work untiringly for our :
t~erests, while johnson would waste u
S whole strength in speeches on "'My =
and his old quarrel with his -
with an addition to the Litanies, -
hich reads, "From great preachers and L
Ikers, deliver Us, o LordV1 ~
II is said the Irish have no concern =
tn the murder Of Mrs. Surratt; that ~
e merely happened TO be q Catholic. y
1t we are taught that wilful murder "
TO W AAHAHNA AOA hEnAGdlitf anu I "a
ere is such q thing in morals as being
after the act, by approving it. gGi
have given Mr.. johnson the credit, 1
eh as IL Is, of being drunk on that ol
,ody seventh Of July, when be spe- l
lily suspended the hdbeaS corpus TO hss
ng that innocent woman. IS little ~
d she 10 do with il that her son, since al
was cleared of all completely. pf
i Mr.. johnson, in his late speeches.
to defead the act. II Is simply
iefensible in morals OF in law, before to
d or man. It calls for repentance, tn
defense. re
When / worked for Mr.. Johnson's co
mination by the Democratic Conven- he
n Of August Dist, / had reasons for Ia
hiking him repentant, not Of his ri
but Of the weakness and sp
hshness that led him into such acts an
that unjudicial murder. / had rea- an
IS for thinking that he sought to tn
Ike amends, and devote his declining tn
TO the service Of the Democracy In to
struggle against Radical corruption, sa
tionalism, and Russian-like despot- GU
J.. by
II. Johnson's present attitude toward w
Tennessee Democracy is eminentiy an
ish and ungratefuL. Nor Is it cal
ated 20 evoke gratitude In others.
cannot vote for him, wiz not
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