Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-25
AN INTOLERANT BIGOT.
Gen. Gart9eld's Altitude Totcards the Irish
and the Charlottesville little Sisters of the
P00f-Gen. Shields Pension.

Gen. GGr1leld's ALTITUDE T0tU1rds the Irish
| and the Charlottesville Little Sisters of the
POor-Gen. Shields Pension.
Indianapolis Special Sept. %.
Gen. r. 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:
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 contempt--the Irish
Americans. q
The appeal of the radicals to the Irish
Americans to-, save them or they perish
would be supremely impertinent with any
candidate. But with Garfield no language
can justly describe the degree of insolsnce
which the appeal implies.
Let US see what claim Garfield has upon
the Irish. MIR. Garfield waa representative
In Congress in 1867. During tho frat 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 resolution of sympathy with the
Irish people. Mr.. Broomall, Republican,
objected. Mr. Wood then moved to suspend
| the rules and adopt the resolution. Upon
| this question there were 104 yeas and IA
nays.
Of these fourteen there were thirteen Re-
publicans, and Of these thirteen two are now
Republican candidates; one of them Ia James
| A. Garfield, Republican candidate for Preei-
dent, the other is Shelby M. 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 Muiligan- 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:
| ResoIved, That this house extends its SYM
pathy to the 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. 80 should the United States foster
and promote the extension of republican in
stitutions in Europe.
| During the Fenian invasion of Canada, o
number of prisoners were captured by the
British authorities. Among them was
priest, Rev. Father McMahcn. 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
| priests duty-to minister to the spiritual
wants of his countrymen. With view to
securing the release Of this h-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, conference is now being held
between Joint high commissioners representing
| the government of the United State and that
of Great Britain; and,
Whereas, 1t is expected and desired that the
| several questions which keep up unkini feel
| ing between the people of the respective coun-
| joint high commissiOners; and,
Whereas, The prolonged incarceration in the
| prisons Of the dominion of Canada of persons
accused of violating the neutrality laws ia q
source of irritation to large number of
American citizens; threfore,
| Resolued, 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 off 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!
| I come to another event in Mr.. Garfeld'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, 900
to the "Little Sisters of the Poor.'' The
'Little Sisters of the Poor" 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 tho aImsy pretense that it
was for sectarian institution. Gen. Butler
called MT. Garfeld's attention to the fact
that there was also an appropriation of
$25, 900 which had received his sanction for
the "W0man's Chistian association of
Washington. Mr.. Garfield replied that no
woman not Catholic could be corporator
in this charity managed by the "Ilittle Sis
ters of the Poor" Gen. Batter replied that
no woman not Protestant could be cor
porator in the "Woman's Christian assooia-
tion." Yet Mr.. 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.
I 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 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 battlefield 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
Lee on his front, and kept facing the danger
until Lee surrendered. Garfield was then
facing the temptation of rotten paving fees
and Credit Mobilier shares, and kept facing
them until he surrendered. am not Irish.
am not a Catholic. am an American and
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