The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-10-02

The following are the resolutions adopted
at the Convention of Irish Americans
jheld in this city on the oath, and which
were omitted for want of space in our last
issue:
RESOLUTIONS.
We, the lrish-Ameriean citizens of the State
of Virginia, favorable to the election of the Re-
publican candidates for President and Vice.
President of the United States, in Convention
assembled, pursuant to call of the members
of the Irish National Republican League Of the
U. s. for the state of Virginia. do declare:
That we rejoice i'll the enjoyment To-day,
privileges which true, impartial and upright
government secures to an Intelligent and free
people, guaranteed to us by the Constitution
under which we live and are governed.
That we furthermore rejoice that the lofty
spirit of Americas freedom and independence
is ours, as much as OF any other people under
its form of government; and that the right To
enjoy peace, happiness and prosperity j. secur-
ed to us as well as to all alike.
That we still Furthermore rejoice With all
other citizens, i'll the unparalleled prosperity
of our common country; that our children can
now obtain free education sufficient to quail
ify themselves for the duties of life and citi-
zenship, without having for ourselves and for
them to suffer the disgrace of having the word
"pauper' branded across their Young fore
heads; that the Union has been preserved, and
that we can point, with pride, to the establish
ment and maintenance of a free Government
in America; that our system of finance is the
best the world has ever known; that within
the last quarter of century the mileage of our
railroads has been more than Jrebled, our for
eign trade nearly doubled, our exports more
than doubled, our farms nearly doubled in
value and i'll number, our manufactures nearly
trebled and that our labor is dignified above.
and preserved from being brought into COM
petition with the pauper labor OF foreign coun-
tries.
That we say ''let credit be given to whom
credit is due - that to the policy of the Repub-
lican party is due the praises oflall this tinan-
cial, material and personal prosperity, and
therefore with that party do we cast our for
tunes, pledging to it that we will with our best
zeal and fidelity hereafter advocate and sup
port its measures and its policies-so long as its
measures are in the future as they have in the
past, for the material Interests and general
good of our country, and for the protection of
American industry, and the elevation and dig
nifty of American labor.
That we pledge our earnest support of the
Republican nominees for President and Vice.
President of the U. S. not only because JAMES
q. BLAINE is of Irish descent and JOHN a.
LOGAN is the son of an Irish rebel of 9S, but also
because Blaine towers giant-like above all the
statesmen of the day because he is the ablest
living exponent of the patriotic doctrine of
protection TO Americtn Industry and the ele-
walton of the toiling millions; because he was
one of the great Legislators who forced Eng
lands unwilling consent to the treaty of WASH
ington, whereby England was compelled for
the first time i'll her history to renounce her
old insolent dogma, "once subject. always
subject Because he stood up in his place In
Congress and demanded and obtained the re-
lease of Augustine Costello and others from an
English dungeon; because his foreign policy,
while temperate and dignitied, is at the same
time purely and exclusively American, believ
ing that America was made for Americans and
justly in terfere with jar. affairs, and because
his election will guarantee that the free flag of
our ytep9blic VIII he1eeforth protect it's citi-
zen5 to Nhe remotest c3nfineS OF the earth.
That We have not forgotten the terrible mis-
rule, the cruel wrongs. the insults. the con-
tumely, the unparalleled tyranny which
through seven dark and bluody centuries, Eng
land has inflicted on our. ancestors and our
selves; and we refuse longer to receive frem
rectiOn as to our duties as free American citi-
Zens; and we furthermore refuse to seek polit-
ical utilization with that party which has ever
been cOnspicuouSly prominent as the defenders
and advocates of English Free Trade and the
satirists and culminalors of the Irish race at
home and abroad.
In the language of the address of the National
Republican League I'VE do not here arraign
the great body of our Democratic fellow-coun-
trymen, bnt we assert that the entire course of
the leaders Of the Democratic party has been
marked by line of policy which has been in
imical to the best interests of the Republic in
general and Irish citizens in particular.
f.rhat during long series of years preceding
the civil war, the Democratic party held abso-
lutte control of the Government in all its
and vet such was the feeling OF con-
tempt for the Irish citizens Which pervaded its
ranks, that never during that long period did
1t bestoW upon them the full dignity of Amer
lean citizenship. The insolent claim of Eng
land that no man born under her flag could
ever renOunce allegiance to her government
was an acknowledged principle of interna-
tional law with all the Democratic Presidents
'.That the Democratic party has been and is
the sole and persistent advocate of the pro
English doctrine of Free Trade-the doctrine
which has wrought the utter ruin of Irish man
ufactories, crushed out our once fiOurishing in
dustries, banished our toiling masses to for
eign chimes and entailed on our hapless native
land, ruin, famine and desolation.
"That this same party by its barbarous sup
port of human slavery conspired to degrade
the poor labor of America and left q stigma
on our otherwise fair fame which was only
effaced by the sacrifice of half q million gallant
lives and the expenditure of four billion OF dol
airs,
.'Ihat inm many cases too numerous to recite,
Democrats have voted against and defeated
irish citizens even when they have been nomi-
lated by conventions of their party, and
THAT now, as if to show their contempt and
hatred OF the toiling millions, they have placed
opposed to the demands of honest labor and in
avor ofthe oyergrown mOnopolies of the coQn-
ry.
That in vain Gid our trades union, labor as
emblies and mass meetings protest against its
nomination of Grover Cleveland in vain did |
hey show that the overwhelming masses of
ge-workers were opposed to his election and I
hat what little was known of the man showed |
i'm to be friend of monopolies and an enemy |
o be dreaded by the working classes.
That we think the time has come when we |
IS free citizens of America should rebuke the |
nwarranted Interference in our affairs of the |
atred to America and Ireland, in Its demand |
hat Grover Cleveland, its friend and our en- |
my should be elected.
Therefore we declare in favor of the election |
t Blaine and Logan, and against the election of !
cleveland and Hendricks.