The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-29
To Irish Republicans.


The Irish Republican National Con-
vention, lately in session at Indianapo-
is, adopted the following address to |
Irish voters:
TO the Irish Voters of the United States:
Fellow Countrymen-With high sense OF |
The necessity Of placing before the world in |
heir true light the motives which actuate us
n avowing the support of and cooperation
with the principles OF the Republican party
oy a distinct organization under the title OF
Irish-American Republicans, we feel called
upon to state briefly the reasons which prompt
he support of the Irish for any cause or party
was sought through the channels of prejudice
lion; and thus an unreasoning adherence was
given TO the Democratic party for period OF
years long numbered with the past With the
advent and rise of the Republican party IN
American politics q new era was reached Intel
ligence and a critical examination into the ar
sument why the other party ShTnia f Ii,ea
action, and the IrisInan alike with his Fellow
citizens of other nationalities no longer gave
the leadership of those whom they had pre-
viously trusted and followed. This Conven-
action which, with irmness and energy fol-
lowed by promptness and industry in sustain
Republican Re- party, shall show to the world that
the Irish of to-day are capable OF sometning
more than being treated as mere political
and Intelligent Thought and action, and
that they are friends TO that party
which most truly represents & that son liberty, epN
only found in the land of their adoption:
The claim of the Democratic party that it is
is not susceptible of proof, as all students of
American history are well aware that during
party it utterly failed to compel the ac-
| knowledgement of those rights which the Con-
sttution guarantees to al VINO swear nd 10 SUP SUP
potic doctrine, "once a subject always sub
ject," was permitted to exist as a principle OF
International law until the accession to power
| until then, England was compelled TO
sss fr3b 9se eze oT tns
time was clothed with all the rights and
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soil. So, also, to the Republican party do we
| owe the enactment of that most beneficial Law
ali actual settlers, thus furnishing free and
| happy homes to thousands of our oppressed
of British oppression. You are aware. fellow
countrymen, of the successful ingenuity witt
which the English Government labored &c
destroy the manufacturing interests of oul
country, Ireland, which had grown mp in tht
midst of our desperate and persistent struggle
the the '' heroic efforts made made for or their pres
eryation by the great and 1a;s, paPesiG,ii PsI,,
ment, under whose fostering care these indus
tries arose to such state OF perfection as I.
rival the best efforts of the most skiiliui artl
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act of union contains, among its othe
various principles, one clause which entaiie,
thsn Se all se tse cr%eities Of Eiizabeth and Crom
| well. That clause provides for absolute ire
trade between ireland and all outside eSan Iat
the fell work. Under that blighting legisla
ton all our industries. save and except tn
again, reducing us to the condition of mer
, | agricultural laborers, ami leaving us to be tn
helpless victims of ,5oa British rapSS'y san an
merciless laws to abandon the homes OF GU
!, fathers we again encounter here in Americ
! cesseless and persistent attempts to cngrai
|, | in our free institutions the same English FREE
trade doctrine which wrought sS,d sHen oSicSe
, the indignation of every consistent lrishmal
7 In marked contradistinction, we invite yot
publican party on the subject, showing th'
under its fostering care, in less than
: quarter of century, america mas crea,. re,,,
: of all the products which enter into the prof
I able industry of a people, and their co
Z the Republican party shown itself to be Il
d champion and protector of American industr
to the diseomMtnre anoeai oe me to Vou feiIowcou
; trymen. whose history is long record OF &c
: perate struggles for freedom, if your prop
). for many years human slavery in its mo
n degrading form, and only relin9nish
d that relic of barbarsm when the Repu
8 lican party, by the hands of our martyr
n president, struck the shackles from the linn
n Of the slave, wiped out the only blot on Z
b | otherwise stainless eScutcheon of AmeI1c
e and established the glorious principle of fr
n | lands for free men over every acce or o
# great Republic. We ask you, also, whethery y
b are prepared to turn over This GovernmeI
+ with alf its bright anticipations OF the futul
3, TO the tender mercies of the very men W
IS | exerted their best ability for years to elect
,f destruction The accession of the Democra
r to full power in all the departments OF I
,f Government, in the light of its past record
ID treason and rebellion, cannot but be regard
q as a calamity, the magnitude of which C
p scarcely be imagined.