National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-01-14

laud.
This council affected to base It's miserable
action upon the hostility of General GRANT to
Catholcty. Sir Catholic Ireland repudatcs
their assumption of defenders of the faith rs
/ heartily as the Protestants OF Ireland do.
When Catholic" ireland desires representa-.
ton she will not seek it at the hands ofa
council which is more than onc-third Protest.
ant, aud all lacking intelligence and hospital
| ity. SIR, | am, in blood and bone, of the old
Holy Catholic faith. l am u Democrat, too
aud very consistent one, having never eX-
pressed word nor performed an act that was
not in harmony with the political faith OF
ANDREW JACKSON and FRANKLIN PIERCE
since the day east my maiden vote lorJAMEs
| BUCHANAN, in the city Of Boston, more than
twenty years ago.
| say that the action of the town council of
| Cork Is by no class more thoroughly rcpu'
dated than by the Irish Democrats and the
/ Irish Catholics of the United States, aud that
! when that same council Is rclcgatcd TO that
| great and contemplate ignominy which awaits
| all bctnycrs of Irish feeling the Irish Catho-
lie and the Irish Democrat will prove that
their allegiance to the United States is based
| on broader and more liberty glowing grounds
than mere partisanship. orin creed or party.
| The editorial reply made to this most eX-
cellent and truly American letter, from
which we have made liberal extracts, is ex-
ceedingly bgoted and studiously offensive.
We copy the opening sentence, that our
readers may understand the insolent spirit
and tone which characterzes its remarks:
| 1t is not often that person is able to spread
/ so much sail with so little wind as our distin-
gushed correspondent. And yet we fail to see
wherein General GRANT has been grossly
wronged or republican institutions covered
with cOntumely by the action of the Corko-
mans.
After paying its respects TO Mr. BRosNAN
in this rude and offensive manner, it pro-
ceeds to cover the Objectionable action of
the council of Cork, which has aroused n
deeper and broader feeling of indignation in
the Irish than in the native American heart,
with words of mcndacity and sophistry. 1t
says
The moving cause of the icy manner Is
palpablc. 1t lies on the surface. GRANT in
suited Ireland and the Irish in 1876. Mcssrs.
| PARNELL and O'CoNNELL, both members of
Parliament, the former Protestant and the
| latter u Catholic, were sent to bear u friendly
greeting from Ireland to the United States in
our Centennial year.
This explanation is rs wanting in q proper
understanding of national courtesy as the
writer is of the true merits of the question
at issue. ireland is not nation; it is q
province of Great Britain, which is repre-
sented here by AN hOnorcd Minister When
Cork or any other section attempted TO rep
resent themselves upon national occasion
they forgot their proper national relations.
I a
not local, representatives from abroad to
our county in lis Centennial year This
was the policy of the occasion; and Presi-
dent GRANT did not elect to ignore Great
Britain and its honored representative TO this
Government and thus be gully of an act
of disrespect toward both, TO crafty the
local pride of Cork or any other section OF
the Old World The action of the Presi-
dent was digniiicd, respectful and just Ia
all concerned, when he informed these
provincial representatives that they would
be received through the accredited repre-.
sentative of tha3governmcnt of which they
were subjects. 10 have acted otherwise
would have involved an act of palpablc dis.
courtesy on the part of President GRANT
toward the government and representative
of Great Britain. This was not done, ant
the action of the President upon that occa
sion was simply dignificd and just. The
attempt now to condone an act of premedi'
tated discourtesy toward General GRANT
by attributing to him provocation that is
as absurd as it is hypocritcal, is in keeping
with that plane of political birOtry and in.
sincerity occupied by the rude Corlionian'
and their defenders in America. An attempt
to give any other reason for the action o
the council of Cork than that given by
themselves is as ridiculous as it is dishonest
Mr.. BRosNAN wrote a manly, patriotic let
ter, and we hope he will not suffer serious
discontinue from the insolence that ha
fallen upon him from u Democratic source
on that account.