The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-18

Il LEND Ills AlD w liz UEfUTED AhDOk EOts
THE CAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
THE IRISH CONSERVATIVES INyOKE
THEIR FOREIGN-BoRN FRIENDS IN THE
UNION TO SUPPORT TIDEN AND HEN.
4 DRICKs, ETC.
At the regular meeting Of the Irish Con-
servative Club held night before last the
following stirring address WINS adopted:
Fellow Citizens, ,-For seven years the
people OF the South have endeaYored by
every means to re6stablish, amid the politi-
cal and financial ruin OF their States, the
foundations of true republican govern
ment. The history and traditions Of their
country were full OF admonition that the
peace, order, and tranquility which free
governments alone secure are the essential
conditions OF public and private prosperity.
Such was the desperate situation of their
fortunes, and such their profound faith in
this as the first necessity OF relief, that they
avowed their readiness to endure with for.
titude every extremity of wrong and every
endurable form of oppression in the hope
that the returning reason and sense OF JUS
tice OF the. northern. people might at last
supplement their manifest interests and Sc
cure reversal Of the policy OF mingled fear
and hate which since the close Of the war
has dominated the ruling party in the
Union in it's dealings with the South.
The extraordinary result of this sagacious
resolve of the southern people already
amply yindicate its wisdom and rewards its
observance. Except in the single Com
monwealth where deluded black majority
has hitherto enabled the Republican party
to work its will unchecked, peace reigns
throughout the South, nor is there any ap-
prehension Of its disturbance save that
which springs from the desperation OF the
Republican cause and the greater despera-
ton of those who lead it.
In this long period Of self-denial and pri-
vation the foreign-born citizens OF the
South have horne part which must forever
entitle them to the grateful regard OF their
countrymen. We claim, with a pride that
we deem fully justified, that no portion OF
our people have borne the hard lot Of out
rage and oppression with more f0rtitude !;
none have labored for the rehabilitation Of
their States with more unselfish zeal; none
have spurned the temptations Of place with
more resolute refusal than the citizens OF
foreign-birth and descent in the southern
Commonwealths.
The spectacle OF brave and magnanl-
nous people especially dear to US Tor the
generous warmth with which they We-
coined and defended us, when others
spurned us-bearing calamities unparalleled
and insults without precedent, animated
only by the hope Of winning freedom and
equal government for their children, ii not
for themselves, appealed powerfully to the
sympathies OF the alien-born citizens, many
OF whom had sought these shores only as o
refuge from political oppression, and in
every labor and every sacrifice Of their fel-
lows they bore cheerful part.
At last the sky brightens with assured
prospect Of victory, and all the omens point
to triumph in November which will be the
fitting crown to our seven years OF toll and
endurance.
The sober sense OF the North is realizing
that even for the cherished purpose OF per-
mitting the Republican party to crafty its
vengeance the profigacy and lawlessness OF
that party is too dear price, and the belief
is at last finding hosts Of followers that
loyalty can be better stimulated by Justice
than by rapacity, by equality than by op-
preston, by law and liberty rather than by
the sword. ...r.., -,
b And now in the last desperate strait OF
the corrupt horde that the people are about
to scourge from the high places OF the land
the resolve has been taken by their leaders
to seek assistance in two great sources OF
peril to American liberty:
1. A dragonnade is to be established in
the South. ,s.a.
3. Known Nothingism is to be revived.
With the first we have no concern that is
not shared by all; but the second appeals
with special force to us. An organization
has been formed, denominated the " Ameri.
can Alliance" the second article OF whose
constitution reads as follows:
article Ii.
/. The object for which this order is or.
ganized is for the maintenance OF American
principles, as follows: ..as .t,.
An amendment to the naturalization laws
limiting the suffrage To PERSONS BORN IN
THIS COUNTRY OR OF AMERICAN PARENTS the
Ielection Of AMERICAN-B0RN CITIZENS ONLY
to official positions in this country.
/ The final sentence Of the official oath OF
membership is as follows:
"I do soiemnly swear that I will not vote
for any person or persons for any Official
position IN this country, under the laws
thereof, who are not American-born cltl-
zens," sc.
On the 4th and 5th Of July, Of this year,
| this proscriptiye organization held grand
council in Philadelphia, and adopted, among
others, this resolution
"That the nomination, Of Rutherford b.
HAYES, of Ohio, for President OF the United
States, and William A. Wheeler, OF New
York, for Vice President, be and the same
are hereby ENDORSED BY THE. AMERICAN
ALLIANCE CONFERENCE, and we earnestly
advise all who are in favor OF American
l principles as advocated and set forth In
these resolutions to give these nominations
an active and determined support"
This resolution was communicated on the
7th Of July to Rutherford B. Hayes by the
secretary of the Alliance, and instead OF
treating these plotters against public liberty
! with silent scorn, or rebuking In hitting
phrase their infamous prescription, vller
even than that OF 1856 rs far as alien-born
citizens are concerned, he responded on the
10th in a letter, whose authenticity is openly
admitted, declaring himself "deeply graft.
| fed by this expression OF confidence" and
promising Haid and cooperation" at the
proper time.
Happily the oaths Of secrecy of the al.
lance have not suficed now, as they did
not In 1856, to screen the plot OF these enc
mics to liberty, and it is now revealed In all
its deiormity. Nor have the Republican
Journals been sufficiently cautious at oil
times TO preserve the secret OF their desires.
ON the second day after the late elections
the New York Commercial Advertiser, one
OF the most influential Republican journals
/ in the land, began its comments on the re-
turns as follows 81 ~ ~...ss+sl3.., s
nThe foreign yoters-Jew and GENTLE
seem to have combined in Ohio against the
/ American-born voters. This Is most ex-
1 traordinary combination, and should nd
j monish the American people OF danger 10
the future. saisS.s j, :.