The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-09
GRANT AS AN IRISH CITIZEN.

phnANi 40 AhAN biNArAi - ''S''%''
No fact concerning General Grants likes
and dslikcs is better known than the fact
that he hates the Irish. During the war
and during the eight years of presidency
he as completely ignored that people as
he could have done had they formed no part
of our population. Furthermore, in his
Dcs Mones speech and in his last annual
message he laid down the planks for IN
anti Catholic, Know Nothing platform,
manifcsty in the expectation that the Re
publican party and the old American Gle
mcnt of the Democratic party would rally
upon the basis indicated and take him up
for third term in the presidency.
But the teclcrs he threw out caught no
gudgcons" The people didn't rally, and
for that reason alone the contest Of 1876
was not a Know Knothing raid against for
cign born citizens and the Catholic church.
with General Grant at the head of it,
In view of such record as that what
American is not disguised and where is the
freshman who is not insulted at the Gen.
erals speech in the city Of Dublin. To
a crowd of citizens who received him, he
said:
l feel very proud of being made citizen Of the
principal city Of ireland, and M honor that have
received has given me greater satisfaction. am by
birth the citizen OF country where there are
lrishmen, native born or by descent than in all Ire
land. When in Office had the honor and It was
great honor indeed, Of representing more lrishmcn
and descendants Of iishmen, than does Her Majesty
the Queen of England. ! an not an eloquent
speaker and can simply thank you for the great
! courtesy shown me
The belittiing speech Of General Scott in
which he spoke Of "the sweet Irish broguc
Of many Of his fellow soldiers
was manliness itself compared with
the officiating and bcl'y.crawling of
General Grant before the people Of Dublin,
The despicable dcmagogucry OF the man
was not hidden from the thiakest-skuled
Irishman that heard him, and we can thank
the warm hearted hospitality of the Irish
people for the spirit Of patience and cndur-
ancc necessary for the swallowing of such a
dose of palpabc stuffing, without grimacc
or protest.
Now that he has his heart fixed on Il
third term" General Grant boasts of the
honor he had of representing more Irish
men than Her Majesty, the Queen OF Great
| Britain. How did he represent thcml In
what manner did he serve them, In what
way did he ever recognize their existence
and how, when and where did he bctray
any consciousness of the 'honor' Of which
he boosted before his Dublin audience!
1t has been truly said of President Grant
that not only did he give the Irish citizens
no consideration, even inside Of his own
party; but that by his blgotry, his ntoler-
ance and ill-disguiscd bate Of the race, he
drove out of the party most Of the Irishmon
who had joined it because Of their inability
to sympathise with the Southern policy Of
the Democratic party.
That such a man--thc man who, ms we
have minated, sounded the keynote for a
bitter and perhaps bloody anti. Catholic
campaign should make such humiial
Ing bid Tor Irish support in his conicm
plated race for the presidency, surprises
and disguss the people in general, and in.
suits the people in particular for whose ear,
the pnlavCr was uttered.