Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-24
AN INTOLERANT BIGOT

IAN LIN lOuUnANl DlUOl
Gen. Gay1lsId's altitude To,Uards the Irish
and the Charlottesville little Sisters of the
Poor-Gen. Shields Pension.
Indianapolis Special Sept. a..
Gen. Il. M. Wallace, ex-judge of probate
OF Chicago, delivered stirring campaign
speech to the Democrats this evening. He
gave his reasons as union soldier for re-
ferring Hancock to Garfield, and made many
telling points.
The following is the portion of Gen. Wal
lace's speech relating to Gen. Garfield and
the Irish:
I come now to novel feature of the can
vass-the attempt of the Republicans, in
their last desperate effort, to win the friend
ship of a class Of people whom they have
always treated with contemplate Irish
Americans.
The appeal of the radicals to the Irish
Americana to save them or they perish
would be supremacy impertinent with any
candidate. Bot with Garfield no language
can justly describe the degree of insolence
which the appeal implies.
Let US see what claim Garfield has upon
the Irish. Mr.. Garfield was representative
in Congress in 1867. During the first ses-
sion of the Fortieth Congress, on the 9th day
of March, 1867, the Hon. Fernando Wood,
OF New York, asked unanimous consent to
offer a resolution of sympathy with the
Irish people. MIR. Broomall, q Republican,
objected. Mr.. Wood then moved to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution. Upon
this question there were 104 yeas and IA
nays.
Ut these fourteen there were thirteen Re.
publicans, and of these thirteen two are now
Republican candidates; one of them is James
A. Garfield, Republican candidate for Presi-
dent, the other is Shelby NJ. Cullom, Repub-
lican candidate for governor of Illinois.
read the resolution, SO that all fair mind
ed men may judge whether or not any lover
of liberty could consistently vote against it,
and whether or not any American Congress-
men who remembered the loyal sacrifices of
Irishmen in the Union army-the country
men and comrades of Sheridan, Shields,
Corcoran, and Mulligan- should have op-
posed it. Nay more, strike out Ireland and
substitute Cuba, Poland, Zululand, or any
other struggling and oppressed nationality,
and ask, what honest lover of liberty should
vote against it? The language of the reso-
luton was this:
ReSOtUed That this house extends its SYM
pathy to tho people of Ireland in their pend
ing struggle for constitutional liberty. If the
despotic governments in Europe shall be allow
ed to establish monarchial institutions in
America. SO should the United States foster
and promote the extension of republican in
stitutions in Europe.
During the Fenian invasion of Canada,
number of prisoners were captured by the
British authorities. Among them was O
priest, Rev. Father Mcmahon. This priest
probably remembered the centuries of
wrongs which his country had suffered at the
hands of the British government and sympa.
thized with the invasion. But his purpose
in accompanying the little army was to do
a priests duty-to minister to the spiritual
wants of his countrymen. With view to
securing the release of this Irish American
clergyman and the other prisoners then held
in Canada, on the 18th day of August, 1871,
Mr.. Kinsella. of New York, offered the fol-
lowing resolution, and moved the suspension
of the rules and its adoption:
Whereas, A conference is now being held
between joint high commissioners representing
the government of the United State and that
of Great Britain; and,
Whereas, It is expected and desired that the
ing between the people of the respective coun-
tries shall be settled through the labors of such
joint high commissioners; and,
Whereas, The prolonged incarceration in the
prisons of the dominion of Canada of persons
accused of violating the neutrality laws is
source of irritation to large number of
American citizens; Therefore,
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be respectfully requested to have the
case of such persons presented before such
Joint high commission, to the end that their
release may be effected.
James A. Garfield objected to the suspen-
sion of the rules, and then voted against the
resolution directing the President to use his
influence to secure the liberation of q nom
combatant clergyman, and few poor men
who had been in prison several years. And
now Irish Americans are asked to support
him for the Presidency!
come to another event in Mr.. Garfield's
Congressional life. The sundry civil appro-
priation bill af the first session of the Forty
third Congress was sent back from the
Senate to the House with certain amend
ments. including one appropriating $25, 600
to the "Little Sisters of the Poor.' The
'Little Sisters of the Poor" I need hardly
say, is an organszatian of charitable ladies
whose lives are devoted to the care of the
aged poor, and who never inquire what is
the creed of the poor or whether they have
any creed or not. Mr.. Garfield opposed the
appropriation on the fimsy pretense that it
was for sectarian institution. Gen. Butler
called Mr.. Garfeld's attention to the fact
that there was also an appropriation of
$25, 900 which had received his sanction for
the "Woman's Chistian association of
Washington. Mr.. Garfield replied that no
woman not Catholic could be corporator
in this charity managed by the "Little Sis
ters of the Poor Gen. Batter replied that
no woman not Protestant could be cor
porator in the "Woman's Christian associa-
tion.' Yet MIR. Garfield persisted in his op-
position and voted against the appropria-
ton, Notwithstanding that it was defended
by such leading Republicans as Gen. Butler,
Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Mr.. John
Cessna, of Pennsylvania, and Mr.. Parker,
of Missouri.
l say that only the most relentless fanatic,
the most intolerent bigot could have opposed
this item. Had he remained to fight down
the rebellion instead of coming home to talk
it down in the safety and comfort which sur
rounded q seat in Congress, he could have
borne testimony to the fact that the sisters
who do charity never asked the wounded or
the dying what their creed was or whether
or not they had any creed. Had he waited
on the battle field to do more than smell
powder, had he been shot down like Han
cock, had he encased his sword only when
the enemy surrendered, he would have fa-
vored this appropriation, as Grant did, for
you will remember Graut was President and
approved the appropriation Garfield fought.
However much We may differ about Grants
conrse at other times, he was soldier
in the hour of his country's
peril. Grant then faced the danger of