The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-07-31
frish-Americans.

The following address has been issued by the
Irish American Republicans accompanying
call for o Convention 10 be held in Cincinnati
Sept. 80, 1884, 1t is a ringing appeal. and will
be read with interest and profit by all Irish
American citizens:
At a meeting of the executive committee of
the Irish National Republican League and
other prominent Irish-American citizens, rep
resenting the various states, held at Long
Branch, n. j., on the 18th of July, 1884, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the ADVISE
bility of holding national convention of irish
American citizens, who favor the election of
Blaine and Logan, and who are dissatisfied with
the nomination of GroverCleveland, unanimous
" resolved to hold said convention on the 30th
day of September 1881, at the city of Cincinnati,
O. and adopted the following address to be
submitted to their fellow citizens OF Irish birth
and lineage: M
American League once more entering the list
of freedoms advocates, is brought face to face
with the great issues nvolyed N the cause OF
eve Of an election for president and vice-presi-
dent to guide, by the will OF the majority of the
naople the deStinieS of the country they
love so well as the home of their children and
Responding heartily, and earnestly to the les
sons Of liberty learned and the great blessings
enioved under our free American Government,
we feel it a duty and privilege to appeal to you
in an address echoing the principles OF human
iibertv which have moved the management
and disposition OF governmental affairs so
wisely and successfully d9r our %eIiare whiie
If. as we believe and have always contended,
Won have for centuries longed ard struggled for
The great boon of free government, paying trlb-
mte in long years of blood and suffering to at
tain this inestimable boon both in this the
land of your adoption, as we'll as in your native
country the record of which is interviewer In
the history of both we think we have right to
invoke your best sentiments and Judgment in
behalf of that party and that record which has
demonstrated for nearly a quarter OF century
its fidelity and energy III fulfilling your best
wishes and hopes, identified with those OF the
American people, whose lands and laws you
have defended, and to whom, as an integral
mart of the nation, you are bound to give intel
iigent, honest and fearless support
The lofty spirit of free and proud America Is
yours and the pure American sentiment
which in its unmatched inspirations for the
elevation and freedom of man everywhere,
finding an echo throughout the world Is us
much yours as that OF any other people under
its form of govern ment. The patriotic aspira-
tions of proud, free America are part of your
heritage, and you are, by the genius OF It's IN
situations, Justly in the front ranks OF partlci-
patton as well as of defense in all that true, ilil
partial, and upright government secures TO an
enlightened free people. The constitution has
guaranteed this, and the republican party,
from it's first inception, has uncompromislngly
commended for the fulhllment OF the compact.
Hence you are no strangers to any part OF It's
genius, but sharers and factors in all that may
be regarded as the methods and trials OF govern
ment tending to the common end OF It's lnstl-