Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-28

near ~ years mas sefVeu the saine chuicu'Piea'"
ed an admirable discourse from Acts 2:sO. The
subject of which was ''The relation of the
church and especially the ministry of the times
in which we live. and the duties or owing ,out OF
this relation. The usual routine of business OF
the Synod was duly attended to, and on Monday
morning Synod adjourned to meet in Marshall
1883. Taken all in all this was a mos.
meeting. and one that will he long re-
by all who were in attendance.
A ISLANDER ANSWERED.
What An Irishman Has to Say
About the Party Responsible for
the Deeds OF the Knownothings.
Our republican contemporary has .on its patent
side, this week, AN article entitled. ''The Irish and
the Republican Party" which was clipped from
the Indianapolis journal. The following reply
to the same article. when printed IN the st. Jo-
seph Herald a few days ago. will be read win
interest by all voters of foreign nativity:
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct. Is, 1882:
To THE EDITOR OF TIE CATHOLIC TRIBUNE:
The St. Joseph Herald copied q communica-
ton, signed by three Irishmen, from an Indian
apolis paper, a few days ago. l have waited TO
see come Irishman answer the base faisehoods
set down in that letter, but none having replied
to it take 1t upon myself, in the name oil
thousands Of Irishmen. to rcpudlate the accusa-
ton that the democratic party was the original
knownothing party, and that the Cathoiic
| priests wish their people to vote the republican
ticket. The thing 10 SO absurd that l presume
| none thought It necessary to answ+r.
1 believe Of the 4, 800 or more of the Catholic
| ..:.,,a ~, tho Irn,rol St.f.a Father ('DunOlue.
l am glad TO say. is the only priest who voiun-
teers to dictate to the Irieh people of this coun-
try which party they should adhere to. l
should like 10 know how long Father O'Dono-
hue, or the thr. g illiterate Irishmen, have been
in this country, or do they know the antece-
dents of tile republican party? DO they not
know that it ia as natural tor an lrlshman l" De
u democrat as for y duck to take to the water al
ter coming from the she'll? Do they not know
that this matter of party ID presented 10 the
minds of the foreign element OF this country In
every ioIm. and that the most highly educated
Irishmen, who have come 10 this country, have
Judged OF the two parties and chosen democracy
from the time OF Thos. Adds Emmett, brother
of the Irish martyr. down to Thos. Francis
Meagher. l venture to say that three iourths
of the Catholic clergy of this country, were
they to yote-which they seldom vote
I y06 IN y
q Catholic priest advising or instructing any
member of his congregation as to what political
party they should support, for they we'll know
that the most ~illiterate Irishman knows who the
friends of the foreign element arc, and, rs fol
these three tailors OF Tooley street, who signed
their names to the Indianapolis paper, who are
they that they should presume to dictate to the
Irishmen of this country as to how they shouio
vote? This committee of three sO-caiied Irish
. men would instruct Chas. O'Conor, John hel'
!. lev. Richard O'Gorman, Francis Herman, ant
millions of other intellectual Irish democrats
how to vote. General Meagher. the brave sol
der, who fought so nobly for the preservation
of the union with his brave Irish soldiers, woul'
not allow George B.. McClellan's name to be re
hecled on as he WAS = democrat. Compar
:, those men 10 these three tailors oil iooie
street.
Now let us see what truth there is in thei
!. statements-of how much we owe our Iepubl
can friends. The republican party is the dc
=, scendant of the old federalist party, who, wit
John Adams at their head. passed the alien an
sedition law. The democrats. as soon as the
got into power. repealed that odious law
They, this party, next became wings. The
thought to extend the naturalization laws
twenty-one years. but the democrats defeate
them at that. Then they became native Anne
leans, burned q lew Catholic churches. q fe
converts, but the democratic party .stOpp'
H. ~. Th.n thov became tnowno,h1nps and
Ia. wish to emIna my Indiana friends that in
party was started in the east by one Ned Blu
=, thine, Lam sure no friend of q democrat, or
Irishman or German either. The principles
- that party spread all through the north as w
- as the south, and although these Indiana Solo
say it was carried by a large majority in vi 81
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