The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-26

well dressed, well fed English arlstocracy to
allude TO fine ragged soldiers OF freedom who
left the bloody trail of their naked 1eet on
the frozen SHOWS of New Jersey, or 10 the
quaint and emaciated battallions VINO starved
through the cold and hunger Ihroug Rnr Inc
horrid winter of 177S, at Valley foISe.
Nothing but fulsome adulation :, OF the
Mother Country" the Queen OF England,
the Anglo Saxon blood, the EflglSh f0ce 70
Wbich lce belong and the English language;
(which has no vocabulary for tyranny anu
oppression"
Irish Democrats of Mainel Exiles and refu-
gees from the most cruel tyranny ana OPP
preston that ever cursed the earth Wnat
think We of that? The language IN whlch
the brutal, merciless penal laws which con-
demned whole generations of your race 10 d
fate more degraded than the helots OF spar
ta or the slaves of America, was written,
in which the same reward was offered Tor
the head of a priest, schoolmaster or
wolf; in which fine of few pence was tne
penalty for numbering "a mere freshman:
land were doomed for life to herd with the
lowest of England's convicts; in which
Wolfe, Pone, William Orr John and Henry
Sheares, Father Murphy, Robert Emmett,
and hundreds of others as good and true,
were sentenced to die on the ignominious
gibbet; in which Michael Davitt and Charles
Stewart Parnell were sent to Jail like COM
mon felons. This is the language which has
no vocabulary for tyranny and oppression.
l concede that it would be very great pre-
sumption on our part to expect that Demo-
cratic Minister, possessing the eminent scho-
laStic attachments of Mr.. Phelps should have
wasted any of bis valuable time in studying
the history of our unhappy country. But
one would think that even he might have
turned his enraptured gaze from the con-
temptation of England's projections Sutfi-
GENTLY long to acquire little knowledge of
the history of the country which claims the
distinguished honor of giving him birth.
Has he got to learn that just before the Rev
olution the expectation of wool and wooden
goods from the American colonies was abso-
lutely forbidden? that the carriage of linens,
woolens, iron wares, paper, hats and leather
from our colony, or even from one planta-
ton to another was prohibited? That
rolling mills, tilt hammers, FORCES or
steel furnaces were declared by English
law to be common nuisances, and were or
dered to be Suppressed as such? Has Mr..
Phelps ever read the Declaration of indie
pendence? If not, | would advise him to do
so, and he will find that as a full and COM
plete justification of the conduct of the Colo
er-Step-M other-Country and taking up
arms against her authority, she is charged
in that document with numerous acts of
tyranny and oppression" against the peo-
pie of the Colonies. But the men who
signed that instrument were supplemented,
plain-speaking Americans, who did not hesl-
tate to call things by their right names, and
who did not believe that the English Ian
guage 'has no vocabulary for tyranny or OPP
preston" They had bitter experience to
the contrary in their intercourse with Mr..
Phelps's Mother Country.
Now, my countrymen, part OF your reward
for your uneXampled devotion to the Demo-
cratic party is to be represented at the Eng
fish Court by man capable of using such
language as | have quoted. Little did he
know or care that the sentiments expressed
by him in the midst of your enemies were
in the highest degree offensive to the very
men whose votes placed him in a position to
misrepresent and insult them. Little did he
know or care that no greater offence could
be offered to you than to say that England is
your Mother Country" or that the English
race is ''the race to which we belong" And
when he asserts that ''the blood that has
made England what she is, has also made
America what she has become" he ignores
your existence as entirely beneath his notice !;
he either does not know or cOntemptuously
concealS the facts that Irish talents have
adorned every station in the Republic, and
that Irish blood has been freely shed on
every battlefield where America has contend
ed with foreign or domestic enemies. You
cannot deny that you are directly response
BILE for every word uttered by Mr.. Phelps in
an official capacity and until you openly re-
pudiate by your votes the man and the party
who thus wantonly insults you and your
race, you viii be regarded as entertaining
the same sentiments as your representative
at the Court of st. James.
Yours,
A. L. MORRISON.