Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-12

the dishonest proposition ~ pny tho National
debt IN groonbaoks, which would have made
the Rrconback vnluoleaa. aud covered ua with
the shame aud humiliation III repudintiOn.
This WIS the creed Of tho Democratic party In
1858, and the lrlsh-Amcrcnn citizens then
voted almost sOlidy the Democratic ticket.
Subsequent 20 the adoption Of the amendment
which have named, the States Of Now York
aud Pennsylvnnia having been turned over 70
the Democratic party, that party undertook 10
withdraw the ratification Of these amend
ments, which previous Republican LoRslat-
ures hhd rntlhed, lheA lnleni nut hli thls
sOlidly the Democratic ticket.
All this time little leaven wns working.
There came back from the wars the lrlshWnn
who had galnntly fought under the hng for
the iiag, He knew how much this great Nation
wns worth; and IN 1872 we begun 20 hear Of
Irish Republican clubs, more Of them IN 1875,
and now the whole country Is filled with them.
The old Irish love of freedom Is awakened
upon our soil, and In the hearts Of our adopted
Irish fellow citizens, and. losing that support
the Democratic party is helpless and Is
/ now ask you what there is I'm the near
future In the proposed policy OF the Demo
cratic party, to inspire In the hearts Of our
Irish fellow citizens any affection for ~ II
has experienced no change Of heart, and sub
stantially no change Of creed. II reasserts
still the old doctrine Of State sovereignty, a
heresy which Is mt the bottom Of all our woes,
and denies the right OF the General Govern
ment to protect its citizens at home, or by
force, when force shall be deemed necessary,
to execute and carry out its own solemn guar
Ocratc party to-day would turn over the cti-
zen Of the United States, and the protection
of the privileges which the Constitution Of the
United States has guaranteed to him, TO the
tender merCics Of the State which has de
priycd him Of both.
This Democratic party, I'm shameless viola
tiOn of the fourteenth and fifteenth COnstitu-
tiOnnl amendments, has deprived millions of
people I'm five States Of the equality Of pOlit-
ical privileges which these amendments Sc
cured TO them, and in these five States we see
the alarming spectacle of the majOrities prac-
tcaly DISTINGUISHED. Shouting loudly pre-
tensions Of economy I'm one breath, in
the very next they present to Congress rebel
claims amounting I'm the aggregate to-
day to more than Sl,SOO,0OOO00. Their
revolutionary methods are not confined to any
In well-fed New England, I'm the solid old State
of Maine, where the school house iiourishes
and the church Is not infrequent, they at
tempted TO steal Governor. If they VIII do
this where intelligence spreads its humaniZ-
/ ing influences untrammeled, what may be eN-
pected from the gentle Iirgadiers, to whom a
bath-tub Is Il gewgaw and clean shirt remi-
niscenCef There Is now pending in Congress
a scheme to unseat a member clearly elected
and by fraud to turn his place over to his Dem
Ocratic defeated adversary, in order that when
! the time comes for the final fraud, the proper
majority for its contamination may be found
| i'm Congress.
Thus It is obvious that the Democratic par
| ty is unchanged in its tendencies, and in its
| wickedness; evident that 1t is as dangerous to-
| day MS II has ever been; evident that once
| more we must put it dOwn-put Il down and
| the heresies and crimes which II represents,
/ so that there may be no doubt rs to what the
| purposes of the great and loyal people of this
| country toward II are.