Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-24
nEspoILINa TEE snurH.

Last week Hon. Richard 0'Gor
man, of New York, delivered al
eloquent address before the Democ.
racy of Flushing, l. l. From the
able and lengthy speech we take the
following eloquent defense of the
Southern States:
When the South surrendered, the Ado
lition party had fulfilled its mission; it,
time of dissolution had arrived. Since
then it has been a dead party. Il has had
no object or purposes. 1t has walked
about a corpse with no speculation in it
unless the speculation that led bad meu
TO plumber the defeated Southern laud,
Applause Oh. citizens, what man
with a heart, on looking back into the
past, will not gIieve to think OF the Op-
portunities wasted in those evil days.
How easy il would have been to pacify
the South The lancer had been cut
from her. All that was wanting was to
give her repose aud time TO recuperate
and regather her wasted forces. But IN
stead of that adventurers from the North,
the men that had failed in every effort
here, the ne'er-do-weels of the East. Of
the North, and OF the West poured in
upon that Southern land, an army as il
were, not to govern it, hut to conquer and
despoil it. [Applause am reminded
Of a sentence of a great orator, speaking
of such things in bis own land Curran,
speaking oil Ireland, subjected TO Just
such torture and agony, referred to tie
same class Of Adventures: THE
foundlings Of fortune" be called them,
=" that, like drowned hodies, lay at the
bottom while sOundness aud sanity re.
manned, till at length, becoming buoyant
by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted
aud aoated down the surface Of the pol
luted stream, an object of terror, conta-
gion, and a5omination." Applause !
Aye, sir, it seems as if the iuiquities
committed in Ireland in old times were
the chosen model and example for the
legislation adopted by this ministerial
party toward the Southern States. You
know the story told Of a countryman Of
mine, an immigrant who arrived at
Castle Garden during a contested cleo.
ton Somebody went to HIM and said,
" Pat, Wat do you think of the election?
How would you vote if you had a voter
II don't know, sir, but I'm agin the
Governmint anyhow Laughter Why
is that feeling commoH among lrisnmen2
Because the iron entered centuries ago
80 deep into the soul Of Ireland,
because its agony has stamped so indeli-
BILE a mark upon bis heart that genera
ton after generation have continued in
the sams thought. Irishmen have drunk
rebellion With their mothers milk. Every
promise made by Eogland, perhaps well
intended, is laughed at. The crime was
| too great; the suffering was too poignant,
its memories too full of agony. So
that the English government, perhaps,
never will have the confidence Of the
Irish people Was it just, was It wise,
was it humane, was it statesmanlike for
this ministerial party in Washington to
have tried the same fatal experiment
with the Southern p%eople2 Or will it be
wise for the people of all this land-fJr
we own it all, North, South, Fest and
West will it be wise for Us FAR four
years, for one year, or one hour more, TO
leave the power to inhict such iniquities
in the hands Of any government? Mr..
Blaine, the representative Of the party
now in power, makes no apology for
thes things. BE is the party; and do
you think the promises Of Mr.. Hayes.
well%-inteutioacd as they may be, or Of
any one OF my numerous friends in the
Republican party, soge Of whom have
addressed you here, will counteryail the
power of that man who went within
twenty-five of bAiug nominated by the
Republican party as their President
No; be is the Republican party as il
now stands There may be men who
hope against hope that they can reform
it, bat their hopes are impossible to BE-
realized.