Year: 1868




which is unequivocay loyal, the entire dependence
of the laborer upon and his control by the capitalist
| in short the state of things which made Rebel
lion on the scale on which it was commenced IN 1861
at all practicableshOuld cease and that class of
men hated because of their devotion TO the Govern
ment and helpless because of their poverty should
be armed with the ballot as a means by which they
might preserve heirnewly liberty. Natural
Justice and an overruling political necessity alike
| demanded this measure.


| The foreign policy of the Republican party has
ever been bold and vigorous. allowing as far as pos
sible no dminution of the National influence abroad
and ever striving to assist those who struggled for
freedom On the question of the rights of natural
lied citizens its leaders and organs have taken de-
cided stand in favor of maintaining the dignity of
American citizenship at all hazards in opposition to
the absurd claims of the English oligarchy. wit
ness the resolutions to that effect inserted in the
platforms adopted at the various Republican State
| Conventions and as is cOncusively established by
the bill which has just passed the House of Repre-
sentatiyes by an overwhelming Republican vote of
which the enacting clauses follows:


Therefore be enacted 5y he Senate and House Of Repre-
resentaCeS OF NE United states Of america IN Congress as
Sebled That any declaration, instruction. opinion, or
der. decision Of any officers of this Government,
of expatriaon hereby declared inconsistent with the
fundamental PRINCIPLES OF this Governmcnt -,
SEC 2. And be further enacted That all naturazed
citizens of the United States while in foreign States shall
be entitled to and receive from TINS the same
nativebOrn citizens in like situation and circumstances.
SIC g. And be II further enacted, That whenever it shall
be duly made known the President that any citizen
Of the United States has been arrested and Is detained
by any foreign government in contraventon Of the in
tent and purposes OF this act upon the allegation that
naturalization in the United States does not operate to
dissolve his allegiance to his native sovereign or any
citizen shall have been arrested and detained whose re-
lease, upon demand shall have been unreasonably de-
layed or refused the President shall be and hereby ia
empowered to suspend in part or whole commercial re-
latiOns with the said Government; in no other
remedy available order the arrest and detain in Gus
tody any subject or citizen Of such foreign goyernment
States except ambassadors and other public ministers
and their dOmestcs and servants and who has not de-
Clared his intention 10 become citizen of the United
States; and the President shall without delay give in
formation to Congress of any such proceedings under
! this act.


In regard to meeting the obligations which the
war imposed on a nation. the Republican party
is in favor of sustaining the Nationaho by fulfill
ing them to the letter. 1t favors the payment of the
National debt according to the understanding at the
time of its contraction, and not quasi-Tepudiation
by paying in greenbacks that which it was promised
would be paid in coin.


Every consideration of regard for the national
reputation, every feeling of common honesty and
every principle of sound policy, dictate that this
should be done; if it not. this first great
tona debt of would be the last for hereafterno
one would be found Who would lend to a nation that





The Republican party favors tariff which will
encourage and protect the American manufactures
and labOrer and prevent him from being mpoyer-
ished by the competition of the English manufac-
turer with his pauper labor.


Such is the position of the Republicans on the great
questions of the day.


On the other hand, what is this Democratic party
to which the great mass of our countrymen firmly
adhere rather from habit and prejudice than from
any real sympathy with its principles II is party
of conservatism and class privilege. conservatism
that aims to perpetuate the abasement of such of
Gods creatures the inhumanity or avarice Of his
fellow-men has in times past cast down and kept
down for ages, and now, from its tender regard for
the Constitution, this conservatism would put its
heel on their necls, and, under the guise of law
would make their education or improvement impos
sibe. 1t is party of class privilege because il aims
to divide the community into separate classes having
unequal political rights. and that inequality deter
mined not by any intrinsic superiority in the pre-
ferred class but resting wholly arbitrary and
| accidental grounds.


This is conservatism in the United States. 1t has


its type in the Tory party of England. Its policy is
identical with that of the despOts of continental
Europe They, too like the conservatives here, de-
cry all change in the existing state of affairs. No
matter how beneficial the reform may be- every
effort made to elevate the condition of the people TO
give them voice in framing the laws by which they
are to be governed they denounce revolutionary
and as tending to anarchy in word ii is Radicasm


Are you aware that it is conservatism that to-day
ensayes Ireland and Poland-that has for ages
drenched Europe with blood in its endeavors to prop
up crumblng dynastes and to preserve rotten insti
tutiOns


Was OCOnnell conservative when he strOve for
the emancipation of the Catholics of Ireland and the


~ III. TT,.o. w. Hr.Nf
and Curran conservatives when they shook the
Forum and the Senate-house with denunciations of
the tyranny under which their country groaned
Were the men of 4S conservatives when, with soul
stirring eloquence they sought to rouse their coun
trymen to resist Oppressioni


But why multiply examplesi The very name Of
conservative should be oathed by every lrishman as
a synonym for tyranny and mIsrule. On its foul es-
cutcheon rests the blood of Emmett of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald, of the martyrs of Manchester.


But TO return if you please, to this precious Demo
cratic or Conservative party of our own time and
country: Have yOu who year after year vote with
out hesitation or question every ticket labeled Dem
ocratc ever considered what the real principles of
this party are who its leaders are what its sympathy
with the cause of Ireland has beeni No otherwise
YOU would have long since have turned from it with
loathng and disgust. Are you that it is con-
troled by moneyed aristocrats who make its policy
subservient to their own selfish endsf What express
sion of sympathy have you heard from these men for
those who strive for Ireands freedOmi Why the
very man who at this moment holds the highest Of
fetal position in the Democratic party is the agent
of English capitalists, who have millions at stake, in
the preservation of the British Empire whole and in
tact To suppose that such man would be friendly
to the cause of Ireand's freedom would be to fly in
the face of all human experience


The peicy of the Democratic leaders is to infame
your prejudices against the negro. in order to for