Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
FRESHMEN To IRIsHMEN.

From the address to Irish voters by the
Indianapolis Convention of Irish Republic
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You are aware, fellow-cou trymen, of
the successful ingenuity with which the
English Government labored to destroy
the manufacturing interests of our country,
Ireland, which had grown up in the midst
of our desperate and persistent struggle for
freedom. You cannot have forgotten the
heroic efforts made for their preservation
by the great and patriotic statesmen of the
last Irish Parliament, under whose foster
ing care their industries arose 10 such
state of perfection as to rival the best eff
forts OF the most skillful artisans of Eu-
rope. Nor can you forget that that Act of
Union contains among its other various
principles one clause which entailed more
misery and destruction on our country than
all the cruelties Of Elizabeth or Cromwell.
That clause provided for absolute free trade
between Ireland and all outside countries.
Nothing more was needed to complete the
fell work Under that bliehting legislation
all our industries, save and except the linen
trade alone, persisted, never to appear
again, thus reducing US to the condition of
mere agricultural laberers. and leaving us
to lie helpless victims of British rapacity
and Unsuitable greed.
NEED OF PROTECTION.
Compelled by such mereiless laws to
abandon the homes of our fathers. we
again encounter here in America the
same foe in the Democratic party, whose
ceaseless and persistent attempts to en-
graft ON our free institutions the same
English free-trade doctrine which wrought
such disastrous results to our own coun-
try, should quicken the indignation OF
every consistent freshman. In marked
contradiction we invite your earnest con-
sideration of the policy of the Republican
party on this subject, showing that under
its fostering care in less than a century
America has created aud brought to perfec-
ton the manufactures of all products which
enter into the profitable industry of the
people, and their consequent prosperity and
happiness. Thus has the Republican party
shown itself to be the champion and pro-
tector of American industry to the discom-
future of the avarice of British capitalists.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS MEANS.
We appeal to you, fellow countrymen,
whose history is long record of desperate
struggles for freedom, if your proper affilia-
lions are with the party which sustained
for many years human slavery in its most
degrading form, and only relinquished that
relic of barbarism when the Republican
party, by the hands of our martyred Presi-
dent, struck the shackles from the limbs
of the slave, wiped out the only blot on
the otherwise stainless escutcheons of
America, and extended the glorious prin-
ciple of free lands for free men over every
acre of our great republic.
We ask you, also, whether you are pre-
pared to turn over this Government, with
all its bright antieipations of the future,
to the tender mercies of the very men who
exerted their best ability for years to effect
its destruction. The accession of the
Democracy to full power in all departments
of government, in the light of it's past
record of treason and rebellion, cannot but
be regarded as calamity, the magnitude
of which can scarcely be imagined.
National Executive Committee Illinois
Hon. A. s. Morrison, Chicago Indiana
VIM. Tobin, Indianapolis; Ohio-T. E. Nc
Namara, Cincinnati Iowa-D. c. O'Rea-
gan, Des MONIES; Wisconsin, VIM. J.
Quinn, Milwaukee; Michigan-James Ca
pies, Detroit; Nebyaska-G. NJ. 0'Brien,
Omaha; Utah-General Eli ii. Murray,
Salt Lake City; California H. Ken
ney. San Francisco New York Thomas
r. Barnum, New York; New Jersey
John C. Bailey, Jersey City Connecticut
Patrick O'Farrell. Hartford Mary
land-W. O'Brien, Baltimore Rhode Isl
and-John C. Keegan, Providence !;
Maine-J. c. Looney, Portland Massa-
chusetts-E. w. Doherty, Boston Dis
trict of Columbia James r. O'Beirne,
Washington Virginia Donovan,
Harrisburg; Kentucky-P. G. Carroll,
Louisville; Missouri Nicholas Ford,
St. Joseph South Carolina james Bren-
nan, Charleston North Carolina Thomas
Keogh, Raleigh Tennessee. w. Law
less. Nashville; Mississippi-George r.
Mckee, Vicksburg; Texas William De-
vine, San Antonio