The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-03
prrr OF 1nIsu AMERICANS.
4 Stirring Appeal Addressed TO Them BY
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columns Of your invaluable Journal to
make this last appeal to the Irish citizens
OF this city and State, OIL the eve Of It gen-
eral election, one Of tho most important
ever held In this country. Fellow conn-
trymcn, the devotion Of our race to tie
cause Of American freedom and tho int.g-
rity OF tho Union on every battle field,
furnish tho best guarantee OF our apprcci-
alton OF the liberty we enjoy in this great
country oil our love and our adoption.
Having been dcspoiled, degraded and i'm.
povctislted by allen power In the land Of
our birth, and driven,forth, wanderers on
tho ihce OF the earth, We can more readily
appreciate tho freedom and tho blessings
wo enjoy In this refuge Of tho oppressed,
this land Of the free, which has opened Its
arms like n fond mother to welcome aud
protect us. And having thrown around
us the safeguard OF her own children, and
raised us TO the dignity OF frecmen, it
would be strange indeed Il We could forget
Tho miserlcs from which she rescued us, or
DO ungra,cful for Il, c blessing which We
nov enjoy. 1t il, therefore, with implicit
confidence In your intelligence and patri-
osism Tint ] call your serious attention
10 the grave dangers that menace tho
prosperity Of the country, and the
happiness OF the people, through the nc.
ton OF the present leaders Of the great
political party, with which, for the most
part, the Irish people have been hereto.
lore identified. Having shown our graft.
tude to the Democratic party for tho pro.
lection given US in common with other
naturllized citizens, by nearly half Il cen.
fury OF devotion, OF UNREASONABLE obc.
lience 10 its leaders, believing that its
chiei aim was the public good, we arc to.
day rndely awakened from our dream Of
confidence to find the party In the llands
Of men who arc rcadyto betray Cur inter.
ests, and the interests OF tho working
classes Of America, into the hands OF for
eign manufacturers and capitalists. Yes;
fellow countrymen, the grand old party
OF Jefferson ind Jackson IL now under the
leadership Of political p!gmics, Anglo.
American dudes, free trade theorists,
,nonopoists and Know No,llings. These
men have treated the moderate requests
OF the industrial classes with contempt,
turned deGf ear 10 our protests, and
allied themselves with tho hereditary
enemies Of the Republic, and the relent.
less foes OF our race. The proceedings oil
the National Democratic Convention ut
Chicago have removed the last lingering
doubt from the mind Of every thinking
unbiased man, that the present party man.
ayers have determined to inausurate Il
policy of free trade should the people
trust them with power. -
The introduction OF the Morrison tariff
bill ut the last session OF Congress proved
this, That the greatest part Of the Demo.
Gratis arc in favor OF free trade. hut VIC
confidently expected the National Convcn.
ton to reprimand the traitors who would
bring the products OF foreign pauper labo.
into competition with the free lubor oil
American citizens. Our hopes were doom.
cd to bitter disappointment The Con.
vcntion no. only did not condemn the free
trade heresies and its advocates, but it en-.
dorsed them by placing Morrison at the
head OF the Committee on Platform, will,
Il sufficient number Of sympatlliserS to
defeat the real friends OF American indus.
try i'll their efforts to protect it. Having
spent three days in forming platform
that was ingeniously designed TO mystiiy
and mislead the people into supporting
their theories, these degenerate represen-
tativcs OF betrayed people cast aside
with contempt the claims OF the eminent
statesman from Ohio, who has devoted a
long life to the service OF his country, and
won for himself the universal respect and
confidence of his couutrymcu, to place in
stead for the highest office in the gift OF
the people the obscure country politician,
who was elected to the chief MAJ istrary OF
the grand Empire Suite, and who,
while masgucrading rs the "reform
Governor" has outraged common de-
cency by a base betrayal Of the
very interests he solemnly promised to
promote. a man who is libertilie, aud
who by the lowest arts OF the political
demagogue, courtcd the support Of tho
bigotcd, intolerant and proscriptive Gle
ment at whose demand he Inns been nom
limited, and who Glove him Tor the enc.
mics he has made" 1t was ut the de-
mand OF this clique Of political pharisces,
who would betay the Republic into the
hands OF lis most inveterate enemies, and
against the unanimous protest Of the Irish
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