Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-09-09

Legally adopted, so she was safe, not only
in love, but in law, and with gentle Avis
we leave her.
Irish Meeting in New York City.
| SPEECH OF HON. PATRICK COLLINS.
! The following is an extract from the
speech delivered by Hon. Patrick Collins,
Chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee of Massachusetts,, at the great Irish
meeting held recently in New York City:
81 am here as one of yourselves. 1 am
here as an American. [Cheers.] Any
body reading my front name might sup
pose I was Irish. But | am not Irish.
Twenty years ago I was a man without a
country, and if James G. Blaine and his
old Know Nothing party and his new Re-
publican party had their way would be a
man without a country now. Applause.
happened to be born in Ireland. 1t is a
circumstance for which I am not at all re-
sponsible [laughter] and for which make
no apology. But took an oath of ale
glance to the United States of America,
and, by the grace of God, will keep that
oath and remain a true American. En-
thusiastic cheers. l shall never be party
to the creation of an Irish section of the
Democratic or Republican parties. We
are here as component part of this great
composite nationality. We ask no special
privileges or advantages on account of our
blood or religion, and with the help of
God, we will take no disadvantage on &C
count of either. [Cheers.] But we are
singled out for cajolery at this time, and
we are told that we should desert our. party
and vote for the Republican party. IA
voice: 'We won't do it'll Of course we
WON'T because, forsooth, the Republican
Ironical laughter and cries of 'Oh dear
BLAINE's RECORD.
"Now, suppose it were proper to discuss
American politics from an Irish standpoint,
let us see where we would land. Take the
record Of the man. Thirty years ago,
James G. Blaine turned up in Augusta,
Me-, and adopted fashionable religion.
A good friend of mine Father John Baptist,
was tarred and feathered there, and l be-
lieve ridden ON a rail. The Kennebec
Journal, Mr.. Blaine's paper, instead of de-
nouncing tue outrage. said there was great
provoeation for it. The only provocation
forit was that Father. r..Bapbst eIformed the
holy offices of religion differently from that
practiced by the readers and editors of that
paper. Nine years ago my friend James
G Madigan was candidate for Congress
in the Fourth Maine district. James G
Blaine was the editor and publisher of the
Kennebec Journal, and chairman Of the
Republican State Committee. That COM
mittee issued circular which I can't but
characterize as dastardly. 1t purported to
be published by protestant Democrat" f."
1t was charged upon Mr.. Blaine that he
circulated that document. Mr.. Madigan
was called LAY Jesuit 1t was said that
the Catholics wanted to have their repre-
sentatives in Congress-, and charged all
good Protestants to vote against him and
hit any Catholic head whenever they saw
it, The authorship of that document was
never disavowed until the present canvass
| have a friend in Boston, an editor. Mr..
Blaine sent confidential messenger to
him, sta ing upoh his honor as man that
he had nothing to do with the Madigan cir
cular, so-called. The circular was printed
in the office of the Kennebec Journal, Mr..
Blaine's own paper; it was printed with
the same type as that paper, and circulated
by the State Committee, of which Mr..
Blaine was chairman, and whose bills he
audited. And Mr.. Blaine said he knew
nothing about it! The printer, now out OF
the State of Maine, who set up the Madigan
circular, says it was in the handwriting of
Mr.. Blaine's amanuensis. To-day we have
the affidavits of Mr.. Blaine's own coach
man that he discovered bundles of the Cir
cular in Mr.. Blaine's house. Here is the
affidavit of the express messenger who took
them from Blaine's house. We have the
fact that they were circulated by that State
Committee and that they were intended to
stab an honest man in the back simply be-
cause he was a Roman Catholic.
Now, the time came when the son of
that lady in yonder box-[the speaker
pointed to Mrs. Parnell and the whole au-
dience rose and cheered, hats and hand
kerchiefs were waved, and it was more than
a minute before quiet was restored, Mrs.
Parnell bowling in recognition of the de-
monstration meanwhile lin my judgment
the ablest young man in Europe, came
hither for, hope, the last time carrying
the contribution box, but he came also to
| found an organization that, with the help
of God, will win for Irishmen free action;
and from the time that he came up to this
hour, though James G. Blaine was invited
at different times to participate in these
meetings for charity or for agitation, he
never deigned to recognize or respond to
the invitation. [Groans and hisses.I All,
but our Republican friends tell us, Mr..
Blaine will change all that when he be-
comes President of the United States, and
give us vigorous foreign policy. Well,
that shows that the policy must have been
very languid up to the present time. He
will make war with England. Will he?
What can he or will he do as President that
he could not do as Secretary of State if he
so desired? Everybody knows that while
Garfield was President Blaine dominated
him; and besides that, the constitutional
laws of the United States put the foreign
policy of the Government IN the hands of
the Secretary of State. And while we
stood upon platform after platform all over
this country; while the press teemed with
indignant remonstrances against the treat
ment of the American citizens who were
languishing in British prisons, Lowell
[hisses] was kept at his post in England
by James G.. Blaine, and Blaine himself
never said three manly words in behalf of
those men. [Groans] That's the man
who is going to give us vigorous fereign
and paid our money for it. We showed in
ON the other side. James G.. Blaine was
dumb and playing into the hands of the
enemy.
IRISHMEN AIDED BY CLEVELAND.
Where was one candidate on that issue?
AS long ago as the attack on Fort Erie,
when number of our people were arrested
for violation of the neutrality laws, young
lawyer of Buffalo, then somewhat obscure,
chivalrously came forward and volunteered
| to defend them without fee and without
reward. His name was Grover Cleveland
Prolonged cheers. He has been con-
sistent but not obtrusive, honest, gentle
manly friend of those in difficulty, with
hand ever open to any good cause; with an
honest government as his ideal Of the duty
of magistrate; and above all he has made
| r. his r,1la that nublic office ia a public