The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-08-31

nor of the State, and denounced VIII
unusual violence the policy OF Lincoln
At a great meeting of the Democracy
held in New York October 10, 1867, ac
cording to the accounts OF the time. the
greater part of the assembly were Irish
They amused themselves by SINGING
"Garryowen" and THE Widow Machree.
Cooper Institute had never gathered such
a boisterous crowd, and among the vice
presidents were Tilden, Herman, Norton,
| Rynders, Connolly. Ottendorfer, Wood.
Seymour spoke, the victim evidently OF
delusion. An Irish orator declaimed
| against abolition. The language OF the
/ speakers was comparatively moderate,
but their purpose could not be mistaken.
/ Too many Germans, as they have so Of
/ ten done, Joined the ultramontanes. On
the Both they held a meeting, at which
). S. Cox, Rynders, Gunther and others
\ spoke, and OttendoTfer assailed Sigel and
Carl Schurz because they stood fast by
the Union and freedom. To shield and
perpetuate slavery seemed the only aim
of the Democratic leaders; Of their ul-
tramontane masters, to grow rich and
great on the ruins of the republic. In
1876 another great meeting of the Roman
Catholic Democracy has been held, and
the Jesuits may well triumph in their
positive success. The wealth of New
York since 1862 has been poured into
the lap of their Church. The nation has
been impoverished, but the ruling sect
has grown rich and powerful. The me-
tropolis is still an ultramontane city.
Aid once more, of the half-treasonable,
half-rebellIous assembly that met in 1862
to embarrass the government and de-
mand the perpetuation of slavery, the
L. a. Il.
ing at Tammany Hail. and still are kept
in power "by the solid, unbroken Catho-
lie vote" In 1862 the chief actors in the
meeting at Cooper Institute were OCon-
or, Tilden, Herman, Tweed, Sweeny, Sey-
mour, Rynders, Mort on, 0ttendorfer
Connolly, and Fernando Wood. In 1876,
at the recent meeting at Tammany Hall,
nearly the same ominous names appear.
Tilden is the ultramontane candidate for
the Presidency. Wood is the leader of
the ''reformers" in Congress. The Irish
orators are heard again. Tweed and
Sweeney have been sent into transient
exile, for the Church" could no longer
protect them-perhaps no longer desired
it. But of the vice-presidents of the re-
cent meeting the ultramontane complex
ion is perfectly discernible. DAILY, Brady,
Brennan, Benjamin, Wood, Kelly, Bel
mont, and the leaders of Tammany Hall
presided over the Irish Catholic assem-
blage, and melted their misguided audi
ence TO support men and measures fatal
to the land that has made them free.
For if the Ku-Klux Democracy rule in
Congress in 1877, or Tammany Hall and
the Roman Catholic leaders seize upon
the national Treasury, the disasters of
France may be repeated in America, and
the republic sink before the intrigues Of
Jesuitism.
In 1862 it had nearly reached that con-
summation. The immense Roman Cath
olic population; so recently swelled by
sudden tide Of emigration, was swayed by
a deep discomfort. Ignorant to an unu-
sual degree, moved by foreign impulses
and prejudices, the victims of an intense
faith or superstition, they were an easy
prey for political agitators, a centre of
peril to the nation. Some generous and
patriotic exceptions were found, some
excellent Irish Roman Catholics proved
by heroic deeds their devotion to free
dom But in general the ultramontane
vote from New York to ST. Louis was
turned away from the defenders of the
Union. Its Representatives in Congress
were Messrs Wood, Cox, Randall, Ker-
nan, Ward, Chanler. They assailed with
increasing bitterness all the chief meas
ures of the administration, and reused
the fierce rage of their ignorant adher-
ents against the innocent negro. How"
exclaimed Mr. S. S. Cox to an excited |
meeting in the. Park, October %, 1862, |
would they like to see black minister !
from Hayti received in Washington on a
par with white Minister'S etc, and the |
audience cried out, mo, never" The |
said leading New York |
journal, October 81, 1862, mean to use
the negro vote to crush out popery."
The ignorant ultramontanes were misled /
by such coarse arts; the more intelligent |
yielded to the influence of the Church" |
the examples of Tilden, Seymour, O'Con- |
or, Hendricks, Pendleton, Randall; and |
in 1862 and 1868 a wild reaction swept |
over the Northern States that seemed to |
promise the revival of slavery, the tri- |
umph of the Confederates, and new ac-
cessions of power to the Papal Church.