The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-15
GARFIEIF) AND THE IRISH.

I Probate of Chicago delivered stirring cam
paicn speech to the Democrats of Indianap-
/ oils one evening recently. He gave his Tea-
sons rs UniCn soldier for preferying Han
cock to GarSeld, and made maRv telling
points The feature of his speech was his
denunciatioa of Garfeld's hostility to Irish
aspirations sor liberty, of Garfield's bigotNy
toward the little Sisters of the Poor, and OF
his niggard{y opposition to placing General
Shields on -the pension list. The universal
. opinion there is that Gen. Wallace has killed
Irish RePHblicansm. Following is the per
ton of Gen Walace's speech relating t.
Garfield ard the Irish
come aow to a novel feature Of the ecu
vasS-theattcmpt of the Republicans iH their
last desperate effort to win the friendship of
class Of people whom they have always
treated with contempt-the lTish-AIHeri-
cans.
The appeal Of the Radicals to the irish
Americans to save them or they perish would
be supremely impeTtnent with any candi-
date Bet with Garfield no language can
justly describe the degree of inSolence which
the appeal implies.
Let uS see what claim Garfield has upon
the Irish. Mr.. Garfield was a representative
in Congress in 1861. During the first session
I of the fOTtieth Congress, on the Sth day OF
March. 1861, the Hon. Fernando Wood, of
New York. asked unanimous consent TO of
fer a resolution of sympathy with the IBish
people Mr.. BrOOmall, a kcpubiicOn, OBJ
jected Mr.. Wood then moved to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution Upon
this qHaStiOn there were l0i yeas and i 2ays.
OF these fourteen there were thirteen Re
pubIieons, and of these Thirteen two are now
Republican candidates one of them Is Jas.
4. Gars'eld, Republican candidate for Pgesi-
dent the other is Shelby NJ. Cullom, Bepub-
lican candidate for Governor Of Illinois.
I read the resolution, 50 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-thc country
men and comrades of Sheridan, Shields, Cor
cOrau atd Mulligan-shOuldh have opposed it.
Nay more, strike out Ireland and SUB stitute
Cuba, Poland Zululand, or any other StrUg-
CLING and oppressed nationality, and ask
What honest lover Of liberty should vote
against st? The language OF the resolution
was this
Hcsolroa That this House extends it, sympathy
to the people Of ireland in their pending struggle
for constitutional liberty. II Tho dcspotic govern
ments in Europe shall he allowed to establish
archical institutions in America, so should the
Republican institutions in Europe.
/ come to another event in Mr.. Garfield's
life. The sundry civi! appropriation bill of
the liFat session Of the fOTty-third Congress
was sent back from the Senate of the House
with certain amendments, including one ap-
preparation of S2J, 900 to the Little Sisters of
the Poor" The Little Sisters of the Poor,
/ neeo hardly say, is an organization of char
liable ladies whose lives are devoted to the
care Of the aged poor, and who never inquire
what Is tie creed of the poor or whether they
have any.erced or not. Mr., Garfield opposed
the appropriation on the ilimsy pretensc that
it was for a -SectaTian Institution Gen. But
Ter called Mr. Garfield 5 attention to the fact
that there was also an appropriation of So
600 which had received his sanction for the
''W Oman'S Christian Association of Wash
lngton. Mr.. Garfield replied that no woman
not a Catholic could be n corpOratOr in this
charity managed by the Little Sisters of the
Poor" General Butler replied that no wo-
man not a Protestant could be a cOrporatur
in the ''WOman'S Christian Association -
ct MI. Garfield persisted in his opposition
and voted against the appropriation, not
withstanding that it was defended by such
leading Republicans as General Butler, Mr..
IIoar of Massachusetts, Mr. John Cessna NJ
Pennsylvania and Mr.. Parker of Missouri.
say that only the most rele ntiesS fanatic,
the most. t.lntolcTaDt bigOt, could have opposed
this item; especially when he favored an
item giving the same sum, at the same time,
to another charity meIcly because it was I'M
der the control of ladies who worshiped the
same God according to the rules of a differ
ent creed.
1 also say that If James ~ Garfield had not
deserted his comrades on the field of battle
to 90 to Congress at time when even Ruth
ford B. Hayes said that man who left the
army 10 90 10 Congress ought TO be ScalDed,
he would have forgotten the creed of the
Little Sisters of the Poor and all the other
charitable bands of Sisters who fitted over
the battlefields to minister to the manned and
suffering. Had he remained to fight down
the rebellion instead of coming home 10 talk
it down IN the safety and comfort which sur
rounded a seat in Congress, he could have
borne testimony to the fact tnat Sisters who
do charity never ask the wounded or diving
what their creed was or whether or not they
had any creed. Had he waited on the bat
tleticld to do more than smell powder, had he
been shot down like Hapcock, had lie encased
his sword only when the enemy surrendered,
he would have favored this appropriation as
Grant did, for you will remember Grant was
President, and approved the appropriation
Garfield fought However much we may
differ about Grant course at other times he
was a 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 all American and a
Protestant. ] say, in no boastful spirit, that
| was soldier during the war of the rebel
lion. II was simply my duty TO be a soldier
then. But American and Protestant as am,
! should be an migrate did not bear teSti-
mOny TO the services of Catholic Sisters in the
I hospital; on the march, and oil the field OF
/ battle during those terrible years.
] They nurSed the sick. They bathed the
feverish. They fed the famshug. They
I held the saving, cooling dTaught To the lips OF
tho ScOrchcd and thirsty. They bandagcd
the wounded. They ootlied TIE jljn-, and