The Wilmingtonian., 1884-08-09
BLAINE'S HEAVY LOAD.

| seek TO ueVOlNe on HIS SHOULDERS, ne Will
indeed have accomplished feat compared
with which the labors of Hercnles will sink
into insignificance. Like Mr.. Bayard, the
'.Plumed Knight has more to fear from his
friends than the whole host of his enemies
''Puck" and "Harper's Weekly may tattoo
him and caricaturc him as they will, but it is
the Irish vote and the Negro claims which
will crush the man from Maine
John Kelly has missed his mark at Chi
cago and now stands with itching palms,
waiting for the grand deal which is to hand
the Irish vote of New York and the country
at large, to Mr. Blaine. 1t is mere ques-
ton Of price with Kelly everybody knows,
| a matter Of principle or everlasting odium.
according to the manner in which they cast
their votes We cannot believe that the
respectable majority of adopted Irish citizens
| will do Otherwise than support the party to
which they have been allied by training aud
tradition ever since they set foot in this
country. Why should tho Iriah-Amercans
bolt the Democratic party in the coming
election?
II we are to accept the statement of GER
tain Republican and Irish national organs it
is because the support of Mr.. Blaine will
mean slap in the face to England. Now
we have heard the story of the man who cut
his nose OIL to be revenged on his face, and
it strikes us this is just about the size of the
proposition submitted to Irish voters for
their principles, to change their traditions, to
give up every atom of consistency, to stnltiiy
themselves to the lowest depths Of folly,
merely to support man whose past actions
have been unacceptable to England. Can
any suggestion be more unworthy, more
childish, more imbece?
TO begin with, there is but one ques ion
at issue between Great Britain and this
country, namely the protection and encour-
agement of dynamiters. BY no section of
the press of this country has the O'Donovan
Rosa school of revolutionists been denounced
more vigorously than by that which supports
MIR. Blaine. The accredited minister of the
United States to Great Britain, who is charged
with lukewarmncss, not to say indiier-
ence respecting the fate Of Irish Americans
arrested in Great Britain, is a nominee of the
same party. Mr.. Blaine, in short, does not
love the Irish any more than he loves the
English, but he is not going to quarrel with
| England, if he gets into power merely to
crafty the spite of the more enthusiastic
Hibernans who have been bambo Jzlod by
his half-promises.
Yes, the Irish boilers will be a heavy load
for Mr. Blaine. He has very little to expect
| from them, and they, on the other hand,
| expect everything from him. They will
| expect, among other things, that il he comes
into power, he will set aside the claims Of
consistent Republicans, for the purpose of
awarding the offices to renegade Democrats.
They will expect him 10 put the same
embargo on British commere which brought
this country to the verge of ruin during
Jefferson's later administration. They will
expect him to become the sponsor and gro
tector of every cowaldly assassin who is
threatened with stern British justice for
blowing up buildings and slaughtering inno-
cent persons, men, women and children.
Such at least, is the course to which the
Irish World has in advance committed Mr..
Blaine, as the price of its countenance and
support. ."....
And when the man from Maine turns his
eyes to his colored friends, and tearfully
beseeches their sympathy, his prospects are
not any brighter. The negro has had the
first taste of freedom, and like Oliver Twist
|
ored men enjoy equal rights of suffrage with
their white brethren, and that a chosen few
of them have been rewarded with office
This is not enough, evidently, for the edito
of the New York Globe (colored organl. II
a column editorial he applies the lash heavil.
to the libertines of the South and at the SAM
time puts in weighty plea for miscegena
tion. He does more. He demands the fules
recognition of the inherent right of colore,
men to intermarriage with white women an
vice versa. Is Mr. Blaine prepared to sub
scribe to the sentiments of the Globes edito
when the latter says
eve do not hesitate to pronounce til
Q institution of marriage one Of the mos
G sacred and all-important of the institution
4 growing out of the New Testament theology
:, When we therefore find a people professin
: to be Chr stians openly defying or maxim
; impossible the speedieSt possible consumm;
1t tion of the marital relation when the partit
% to it desire it, we are free to pronounce IL
religion of such people living lie. We al
j., free on this deduction to pronounce the pr
fesson of the Christian religion by the wh
l. people of the South, upon this questiC
I'd alone, as huge lie as ever warped IL
y genius of any people-as huge a lie as ev
a. appealed to High Heaven for a benedict,
10 upon infamy aud outrage.
ccI "There is no escaping from the fact tn