The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-03-18
s. &C s. WELLINGTON O., THURSDAY, IS, 1880.

freedom and for the laboring man? 1t re-
pealed, long years ago-it seems like an age
aimost-the Missouri compromise, and there
* se snos
been converted into magnificent States, to
the blight @ Of ,.y, slavery, and to drive from i
prosecution of the great crime so far that IL
finally became part Of the Democratic creed
slavery was national; and yet, during these
dark and disgraceful periods in our history,
the rish-American Citizen voted solidly the
slavery fought against the % friefsds ,d Of free
sandsts ' Of slavery, and @ the % % -American s
citizen voted the Democratic ticket. Beaten
srai at the PSl beaten IN ne the pe%o
secured from the Chief Justice of the highest
tribunal in the United States the announce
millions of human beings upon our soil were
not citizens, and had no rights which the
rss fSamd TO And stu the
ticket. .r--a ar.,-. ~ ..,l.- t.--Ill 1. =
Humanity could not thus be reversed. The
conscience of the world, shocked at such doc
trine, was stronger than arguments drawn
from dictionaries, and beat the propagandists
at az sns sne tSen the heat n9
regarding the Institution OF slavery as divine
sought to establish an independent republic,
very should be the cornerstone. This. the
Democratic party Of the South did; and the
one accord. declared that the Nation had no
power to save itself, and that while secession
was wrong, yet secession could not be coerced,
and yet the majOritfes in the city of New
York, made up in large part of the solid Irish
vote, grew larger and larger for the Demo-
The great contest went on, freedom on ono
side, slavery on the other; and this Democratic
party Of Obstruction and destruction, denying
denying the right to conscript men to save the
Nation, organized riots throughout the coun-
and AM VIC would have called our soldiers home,
leaving a dismembered Nation, and the
hopes for the success of % the expert * r.
ment of self-government among men.
ocre psy 'ns
man, Irish or German. or American born
would have been the greatest sufferer, for
labor was as effectually excluded from it as II
an impossible wall had been reared between
people Of the Union insisted that by constifu-
tional amendment slavery should be extir-
pated from the soil of the republic, and it was
insisted, in language which no citizen Of for
eign birth should ever forget, "An persons
born OF natSIaii.ed % IN the United States, and
they reside" The Democratic party opposed
d i.ed Citizens Citizens Of the United | ststes and
covering them with its nag; and, TO the amaze
ment Of everybody, suppose, the Irish fellow
tion, and clothed with all the dignity Of the
citizenship Of great Nation, Joined it the op-
the same amendment, and in the same section
of the amendment, proceeded to declare:
"No State shall make or enforce any Law
m%Sites of CITIZENS Of tSs Tnsed ssaie Sc
nor shall any State deprive any person
QUE 1 ss 81 nor S5 so
of the laws" This great charter Of political
portion of our fellow citizens were more in
terested in Its adoption than the Irish fellow
citizen? But, voting solidly with the Demo
cratic party, our Irish fellow citizens opposed
It. The last great charter is the fifteenth
amendment. It provides that the right Of
be- denied abrd9ed by the Tned states
any State on account of race, color or pre-
vious condition. The Republican party of the
United States has made a know-nothing party
by that amendment impossible. No State can
interfere with the political privileges of the
hrsh tI,sh aa4pted @ Gvzen because ne Is OF issn
has done, but because the Republican party
has put that prohibitory clause in the funda-
Charter the Den Desnaeratse party part % soiily OPP oppose ,
and all the while the Irish fellow citizen voted
the Democratic ticket.
In 1858 the Democratic party sought the dc
basement of our currency and its vast infia
ton, so that 1t would be rendered valueless
and labor would be cheated of it's rewards BY
debt in greenbacks, which would have made
the greenback valueiess. and covered us with
This % WAS the ere creed Of the Democratic party ir
1868, and the Irish-American citizens ther
voted almost solidly the Democratic ticket
which have ~ named. am % the States SO Of New Yori
and Pennsylvania having been turned over II
tse OF yhese
ures had ratified. They failed, but ali thi
| time our Irish fellow citizens voted almos
| solidly the Democratic ticket.
All this time little leaven was working
wbo ssd Sae aelantIy fonaht wnder the sa fo
| the flag. He knew how much this great NatioI
| was worth; and in 1872 we began to hear o
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 adopte,
| Irish fellow citizens, and. losing that support
| the Democratic party is helpless and
| future, in the proposed policy of the Demo
/ cratic party, to inspire in the hearts OF ou
has se e1perienced % % no change Of heart, "a and sub
| still the old doctrine of State sovereignty,
| and denies the right of the General Govern
ment to protect its citizens at home, or D.
| antees and pledges. In other words, the Dem
| 0cratic party to-day would turn over the cit
of the privileges which the Constitution of tn
tender mercies of the State which has dc
This Democratic party, in shameless viola
tion of the fourteenth and fifteenth Constitu
people in i've States of the equality of poll,
| ical privileges which these amendments Sc
| cured to them, and in these five States we Sc
| the alarming SnQcfacle of the maiOritieS Dra(
tically DISTINGUISHED. Shouting loudly pre-
tensions of economy In one breath, 4
claims amounting in the. aggregate te
day to more than $3.50, ,0O0,0 Thei
revolutionary methods S are not confined @ TO an \,
In wellfed New England, in the solid Old Stat
of Maine, where the school house f1ourishe
tempted tenn to % steal Governor. II they Will viii d q
| this where intelligence spreads its humanh
pected rom the gentle Brisadiers, to whom
niscencef There is now pending in Congres
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 whe
the time comes for the final fraud, the prope
majority for its consummation may be fouu
Thus 1t is obvious that the Democratic pa
wickedness; evident that it is as danRerous t
day as 1t has ever been; evident that ono
the and crimes Which ii
so that there may be no doubt as to what th
purposes of the great and loyal people Of th
country toward 1t are.
Strange Devices OF Philadelphia 81
Il ciety Women.
Society women in Philadelphia al
accused of strange devices by the shol
keepers. One storekeeper in the art
. ficial-fiower business says it is quite
! common occurrence to have ladies ca
on the morning before a ball and hay
handsome flowers sent to their res
: dence for appreciation, which are faitl
,, fully returned the next day, with pc