Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-11-03

an appeal 20 Af10AMo0.
Michael Scanlan, formerly editor
of the Irish Republic, and one of the
most gifted and eloquent Irishmen
in the country, has issued a powerful
and stirring address to his country
men in the United States to support
the candidate of the Republican par
tv In the present contest. The ad-
dress throughout is most admirable
in composition and matter. 1t ap-
peals rather to the reason and sense
of justice Of those to whom it is ad-
dressed than to their passions and
prejudices. 1t graphically and elo-
quently contrasts the records of the
two parties now asking the votes of
liberty loving Irishmen and demon
strates conclusively that the party
that saved the nation and preserved
the hope of constitutional liberty in
this country and the world, the par
ty that resisted successfully the en-
croachments of despotism and rescu-
ed labor from vassalage, the grand
Republican party is only wor-
thy Of the support OF men
who detest wrong and love Justice.
We have only space for the conclud-
ing portion OF the address, which we
commend to the perusal Of the sons
of the Green Isle:
But whatever others choose to do
IN this serious crisis, the duty of
Irish Republicans, and of all Irish
Americans, who place the nations
welfare above party affiliations, is to
give a hearty and enthusiastic sup
port to the Republican party.
Young men Of that race which has
never been false to liberty, yet which
through false notions of honor, by
association and sympathy, has often
been dragged at the heels of conser-
vatlsm and tyranny to our shame!-
it is to you address myself. 1t is
useless to speak to those who have
grown gray in blind allegiance to a
party which has flung them across
the path Of every grand movement
for the liberation and elevation of
mankind. What is this Democracy
for which the Irish people have for
gotten the teachings OF their own
history? For which they have rang
ed themselves ever in America on
the side of the enslavers of men, ev-
ell while they themselves were, in
their souls the very champions of lib
erty? In the entire history of De
mocracy, has it enunciated single
great principle which has affected
mankind? Yet the Irish emigrants
of tho past thirty years have given it
an allegiance second only to their al
legiance to their native land-if we
can call 1t second even to that; an al
legiance which has almost entirely
merged the Irish name with Democ-
racy, and labeled us as the old guard
of conservatism and tyranny; an allie
glance to which we have yielded up
our intelligence, our duty as Ameri
can citizens, and the inheritance
which our fathers bequeathed us
from British scaffolds and dungeons,
Of being the vanguard OF liberty and
the enemies of all sorts of enslave-
ment. Consider, then, young men
of the Irish race in America, how
much devolves on you in this hour
of "revolution,"-an hour fraught
with more danger to the nation than
the hour when the army Of the South
confronted the Union army on the
battle-feld!-and cut loose from con-
servatisn and Democracy.
Would you help to let loose the
old food of hate which IS damned
up behind shallow pretence of love
and acquiescence in the South; re-
store the old law of the revolver and
the Bowie knife; place the colored
men, for whose freedom so many
gallant Irishmen died, and SO many
of yourselves bear the honorcd marks
Of war on your persons, at the mercy
Of the slave-driver of yesterday, who
but waits the opportunity to lash
and tear his victims as of old? If
you would, vote for Democracy.
Would you, as the representatives
of the greatest working class IN
America, help to restore British free
trade; re-light the furnace fires of
England, and quench in darkness
those of America, pauperislng your
adopted country and riveting the
chains more firmly, by adding to the
strength of England, on your native
land? II so, cast your votes for De-
mocracy. Ifyou still desire to pre-
serve the links of shame which have
bound our people to that juggernaut,
which, while we worshipped it, has
only rolled over us, sinking us deep
er in the mire; if you wish to sacri-
flee your duties TO your adopted
country, sacrificing her welfare for
mere party affiliations, vote for Dem
ocracy. But if you would rise to the
dignity of the race which has lit the
battle fields and the senates Of the
world with its chivalry and eloquencc
in behalf Of liberty; if you would
serve your adopted country and de-
feat the free trade schemes of En-
gland; if you would convince the
American people that You are wor-
thy Of the high privileges OF citizen
ship, and that you are not the slaves,
the blind, suicidal slaves of conser-
vatism, cut clear from Democracy,
and rally to the support of that par
ty which has done SO much for the
happiness Of America and for the lib
erty of mankind.
Fraternally yours,
MICHAEL SCANLAN.
Washington, d. G. Oct., 1876.
AN EDlTOR CALLED TJARlN Hrs