Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-16


national executive committee was appointed
consisting of one from each State and Ter
ritory. Judge Morrison was chosen chair
man of the committee. An elaborate ad
dress by the committee appointed yesterday
was presented, the burden of which were
many reasons why Irishmen of the United
States should swear allegiance 10 the Repub
lican party, as that party had appointed and
elected a very much larger number of Irish
men to positions of trust than the Demo
cratic party. The convention closed to.
night with monster meeting at the Wig
| wan.
THE ADDRESS.
| The address of the Irish American Repub-
lican convention to the Irish voters of the
United States, is as follows:
Fellow countrymen-With high sense of
| the necessity of placing before the world in
their true light the motives which actuate us
in avowing our support of and cooperate with
the principles of the Republican Iarty, by a
distinct organization under the title of Irish
American Republicans. we feel called upon to
state briefly the reasons which prompt
US thereto. For many years in this country
the support of the irish for any cause or party
was sought through the channels of prejudice
or affiiction. Instruction was out of the ques-
ton, and thus an unreasoning adherence was
given to the Democratic party for period of
years long umbered with the past. With the
advent and rise of the Republican party in
American politics new era was reached.
Intelligence and critical examination
of the arguments why the other party should
receive a manly support became the guides of
political action. and the Irishman, alike with
his fellow-citizens of other nationalties, no
longer gave in his adherence by party action,
because of the leadership of those who they
had previously trusted and followed. This
convention therefore has for its object
the lnitiatory action, which, with
firmness and energy, followed by
promptness and industry in sustaining the
course, principles and policy of the Republican
party shall show the world that the Irish of to-
Gay are capable of something more than being
treated as mere slaves, and they are capable of
independent and intelligent thought and &C
tion, and that they are friends of that party
which most truly represents that liberty, equal
lty and equal rights which they have duly
found in the land of their adoption.
The claim of the Democratic party that it is
the only true friend of foreign born citizens is
not susceptible of proof, as all students of
American history are we'll aware; that during
the administration of the Democratic party it
utterly failed to compel the acknowledgment
of those rights which the constitution guaran-
tees to all who swear to support and maintain
it. The infamous and despotic doctrine ..once
a subject always subject" was permitted to
exist as principle of international law
until the accession to power of the Republican
party. Then and not until then England was
compelled to recede from that insulting as
sumption, and thus the adopted citizen for
the first time was clothed with all the rights
and guaranteed to the same protection outside
the United States as the citizen born on
American soil. SO also to the Republi-
can party do we owe the enactment of that
most beneficial law which has thrown open over
public domain to all actual settlers, thus fur
nishing free and happy homes to thousands of
our oppressed countrymen, who are fleeing from
the horrors of British oppression.
You are aware, fellow7countrymen, of the
successful ingenuity with which the English
government labored to destroy the manufac-
turing interests of our country, Irelead, which
had grown up in the midst of our
desperate and persistent struggles for freedom.
You cannot have forgotten the heroic efforts
made for their preservation by the great politi-
cal statesmen of the last Irish parliament un-
der whose fostering care these industries arose
to such state of perfection as to rival the best
efforts of the most skillful artisans of Europe
Nor can you forget that that act
OF the union contains among it's
other various principles one clause
which entailed more misery and destitution
In our country than all the crueLties of Eliza
beth or Cromwell. That clause provides for
absolute free trade between Ireland and all
side countries. Nothing more YVES needed to
complete the full work under that blighting
legislation. All our industries save and ex-
cept the linen trade alone per-
lshed never to appear again, reducing us
to the condition of mere agricultural laborers,
and leaving US to be the helpless victims of
British rapacity and Unsuitable greed. Com
PEELED by such merciIess laws to abandon the
homes OF our fathers, we again encounter here
III America the same foe in the Democratic
party whose ceaseless and persistent
attempts to engraft in our free institutions
the same English free trade doctrine which
wrought such disastrous results to Jour own
country, should quicken the indignati,n n of
every consistent Irishman.
In marked contra.distinction, we invite your
earnest consideration to the policy of the Re-
publican party on this subject, showing that
under its fostering care in less than one-fourth
of century, America has created and has
brought to perfection manufactures of all the
products which enter into the profitable Indus
try of people, and their consequent prosperity
and happiness Thus has the Republican party
shown Itself to be the champion and protector
of American industry, to the discontinue of
the avarice of British capitalists. We appeal
to you, fellow countrymen. whose history is a
long record OF desperate struggles for freedom,
IL your proper affiliations are
with a party which sustained for
many years human slavery in it's
most degrading form and only relinquished
that relic of barbarism when the Republican
party, by the hands of our martyred President,
struck the shackles from the limbs of the slave.
wiped out the only blot on the otherwise stain
less escutcheon of America, and initiated the
glorious principles of free lands for free men
over every acre of our great republic.
We ask you also whether you are prepared to
turn over this government with all its bright
anticipations of the future, to the tender mer-
cIes OF the very men who exerted
their best ability for years to effect
its destruction. The restoration of the
democracy to full power in all the departments
OF the government, in the light of its past re-
cord OF treason and rebellion, cannot but be
regarded as calamity, the magnit ude of
which can scarcely be imagined.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The following names were reported and
accepted as the Irish American Republican
executive committee, the vacancies to be filed
hereafter: Hon. A. s. Morrison. of Chioaao
was chosen chairman and D. W. Nowlan. of
Chicago, secretary. Illinois, Hon. A. s. Nor
rison, of Chicago; Indiana, Mr.. W. N.
Tobin, of Indianapolis; Ohio, It.
E. Mcnamara, of Cincinnati: Iowa
d. @. OReagan, of Des Moines; Wisconsin.
VIM. j. Quinn, Milwaukee; Michigan. Jas.
Caples, Detroit; Nebraska, G. Nj. OBrien. Oma-
ha; Utah, Gen. Eli II. Murray, Salt Lake CITY:
Gala, z. Fl. Henry, San Francisco; New York
Thos. r. Banneman, New York; New Jersey,
John @. Bailey, Jersey City; Connecticut, PAT.
rick OFarrell, Hartford; Maryland, W.
O'Brien, Baltimore; Rhode Island, John @.
Reegan, Providence; Maine. j. O. Mooney,
POrtland Massachusetts,, e. w. Dohertv.
Boston; District of Columbia. Jas.
B. o. Brien, Washington; Virginia, J. Donovan.
Harrisonburg; Kentucky, P. G.. Carroll, Louis.
vile; Missouri, Hon. Nicholas Ford, St. Jo
seph; South Carolina Jas. Brennan, Charles
ton; North Carolina, Thos. Keogh, Raleigh;
sippi, Geo. Il. Mckee, Vieksburg; Texas VIM.
Davine, San Antonio.