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

The Kindergarten has taken up and ad-
justed the CorkOnian GdscO in its own states
manlike way, throwing all possible preiu-
dice upon its own country and General
GRANT, and making all sorts of sophistical
excuses for those who attempted to insult
him. This is the natural course of jour
nal which subsists upon narrow-minded
prejudice and its concomitants. Sheer
prejudice has never yet been known to en-
gender patriotic and just motive, OF to
prompt to wise or beneicent action, and
hence we are not surprised at the very sim
gular and offensive conduct OF the Kinder
gdrteR in this instance. The occasion for
its insolent and unpatriotic ebullition on
this question is found in the fact that Mr.,
ID. A. BROsNAN,a a very intelligent and highly
respectable Irish Roman Catholic citizen,
wrote very well-considered and temperate
letter to the kmdergdrtea, in which he criti-
cises the action of the council of Cork to-
ward General GRANT in terms equally just
and emphatic. lie says;
1t is safe to say that tho recent action of the
town council of COrk-thoir utterly vulgar re-
luhhl 10 ItCtlNt tA-l ItSlutul bkANT--luS
caused more widespread Indignation than the
action of any town council recorded by history
where town councils have rendered them
selves important enough by their traditional
stupidity to be recorded of history That IL
must have struck the American people with
to use q respectable wOrd-surpriso, it is use.
less TO deny. That IL has struck the Irish
American people with surprise and indigna-
tiou-aye, with very shame-must certainly
be sufficient atOnement for the Cork blunder-
| crs. All American citizens Democrats and
Republicans, have been equally well pleased
at the reception given the eX-President of the
| United States by the governments and people
/ of Europe, We have carefully divided GRANT,
| the individual, the Republican, from GRANT,
tue commander of proud aud great army and
the ex-Presdent of the American people. 1t
was as the representative Of the United
States-the representative of achieved
aud preserved independence, aud national
| power which commands even the homage of
| those who hate it-that monarchists and des.
pots, who could have no sympathy with re-.
publics, received and honored him il was as
the representative Of great people and free
country thai the people everywhere in Europe
| hOnored him. Thus monarchs hOnored him
/ through fear or respect for power, and the peo-
/ pie honorod him through loye-for the op.
| pressed aud downtrodden everywhere look
toward the West as the refuge and hope of
mankind.
For these reasons Democrats and Republ.
cans were alike pleased at the ovations ten-
dered General GRANT, not exactly to the man,
but TO the Republic. The Turk and the Span.
lard, the BritOn and the Italian, the German
and the Frenchman, hating and intriguing us
they may have been against each other, formed
common ground ON which they could stand in
honest rivalry-for there seemed to be heart in
all their receptions-profound honor to the
man who represented the United States
That mau goes to Ireland-Ireand, whose
sympathies and hopes have ever been with and
for America-whOse sons, from Burke and Graf.
tan to the last gallant heart that poured out
his hot blood with the old brigade in Virginia,
have spoken and fought and died for the Re
public-Ireland, whose humblest cottager and
whose proudest peer bend in homage at the
name Of America--that Ireland, through a
stupid council of one Of our most spirited aud
liberal cities, does violence to the feelings OF
millions of her expatrlated sons here, and out
RACES her traditional ehivalry and hospitality,
by an unexpected and uncalled-for insult Ia
her guest, the representative of that country
which has given homes and honor TO twice
more millions Of Irish people, including theiI