The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
REPUBLICAN KNow-NorHINGs.

General j. II. Martindale, of Rochester, N.
Y, soon after the nomination Of Garfield,
made rafting ratification speech in which
he denounced Irish American citizens in
style of advanced Know>Nothingism We
publish an extract or two just to show that
the spirit of Know Nothingism is deep seated
in the Republican party:
1 had an Irish regiment in my command
during the war. They were cursed with
Colonel of their OtCn race.
They 1.-THE Irish were prieSt-ridden in the
times of the Druids, more than 1900 years ago,
and so they are today. With rare and choice
exceptions, they have belonged and always
will belong, to the Democratic party.-History
does not record a single half-certt,uy olen that
people, as a race, hare done anything for liberty.
They have given us individual specimens,
like selections in a cabinet Of minerals; some
sparkling with choice metal, others dark as
ebony drought from bog.
Look through history, from the day when in
the oldest England, on a peninsula OF the Ger
man Ocean. the Sleswick Of the Angles-the
German race of which they were pioneer con-
querors, took the lead-Angles, Saxons, all the
while Germans-in the words of the historian,
"whose long HAIR ioated over a neck that ne'er
bent to Lord" They conquered and popula-
ted England and part of Scotland. Unhappily.
they left ireland aside not north The trouble Of
conquest.
This General Martindale is a representative
Republican, and speaks for his party. The
Rochester Union and Advertiser says OF him
"that he is a graduate Of West Point, who
resigned his Lieutenancy in the army after
eight months service and took to civil pur-
suits. He became lawyer and has resided
and prscticed in Rochester since 1851. In
August, 1861, he obtained appointment
as Brigadier General of volunteers
and served in various capacities
with various record, until Septem-
ter ID, 1864, seven months before the close
of the war, when, owing to impaired health
he resigned. During his residence of
twenty-nine years here General Martindale
has been a leading Wing and Republican,
and a frequent aspirant for office. In 1866
the Republicans nominated and elected him
Attorney General of the State. Thus, it
will be seen, he is representative man Of
the Republican party-the representative
man in the Garfield campaign here, as his
selection for chief orator at the Garfield rati-
fcation meeting by the Garfield Committee
of Arrangements fully sttests. His speech
was one not prompted by or delivered from
the impulse of the moment II was care
fully written out in advance of the meeting
and delivered from manuscript"
Such are the Republicans who are now en-
gagged in their ribald abuse of Irlsh-Ameri-
can citizens. When this Martindale was
called upon to take back his vile SANDERS
upon Irish-Americans, he replied: 81 should
suffer from conscious cowardice II, in the
presence of the discussions that have been
going on in this city during the past week, /
should apologize for or take back one word
of my speech" And still we Lear Of Irish
Republicans, as we do of Irishmen in Ire
land who favor the policy of England in
subiugating their countrymen.