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[From the Belfast (Irelaud) Observer.]
Thoughts on Ireland.
WRITTEN JULY 12, 1868.
My native land, for thee I weep!
And shed the salt, salt tear,
To think that thon, who once wort free-,
Such chains as these must wear.
Yes, thou wert once a happy land,
And breath’d a free, pure air,
Whose only burden up to Heav’n,
Was sacrifice and prayer.
Oh. those wore glorious days for thee,
When holiness and lore
Call’d children from the far-off lands
To come and share thy store.
Thou wert then called the “Isle of Saints
Os Liberty the shrine,
The golden ark, wherein was kept
Things sacred and divine.
But, ah! how sad it is to wake
From fairy dream of past,
To gaze now on thy abject form,
And ask what griefs thou hast.
Tn accents sad, thou seem’st to say:
“My cup is fill’d with gall;
Mark the proceedings of today,
And from one woe learn ail.”
Ah, yes, 'tis true, for when I look
To-day upon this scene,
I must express the mournful truth,
-How chang’d from what thou’st been.”
Those jargon sounds too well express
How Furies here command;
Displays like this aloud proclaim,
Thou art a conquer’d land. D. G.
[From the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman.]
HON, F. TANARUS, BACKUS PROCLAIMS HIM
SELF A DEMOCRAT,
Hon. Franklin T. Backus, of Cleve
land, Hitherto has been a life-long oppon
ent of the Democratic party. In 1802,
lie was the Hepublican candidate for
Supreme Judge in thi3 State. He is a
man of decided ability and of unblemish
ed character. On the evening following
the nomination of Seymour and Blair
there was a large Ratification meeting at
Cleveland. At this meeting Mr. Backus
declared himself a Democrat in the fol
lowing admirable speech :
“ The last time I attempted to address
a crowd from this balcony, it was on the
occasion of a meeting held under the
same flag that floats yonder. The meet
ing was held in a gloomy hour of our Re
public. It was 1 at a time when treason's
brazen front was erect, and when the
South was arrayed in armed resistance
to the government of our Revolutionary
lathers, who gave us all we were proud
to own. On that night you rallied, and
sent your brothers and sons to the tented
field, to maintain those institutions.—
You rallied in your strength, and in the
providence of (Jod, were successful in up
holding the flag of the Union ; and, we
hoped, in preserving our Constitution for
us and our descendants. But, dark as was
that hour, quite as dark an hour lowers
over this Government now ; and wheth
er the gloom shall be dispelled, or wheth
er we are to have eternal night, depends
on the success of the ticket nominated
to-day. [Cheers.] Fellow-citizens— aye,
fellow Democrats! That has been a
hard word for me to mouth ! For a
quarter of a century I have been trained
as a Republican ; and it comes bard for
me to designate myself as a Democrat ;
but when treason at the South has been
crushed, and treason rises up at the
North, after the flag has floated in tri
umph over rebellion, when for the un
holy purposes of the party in power, the
1 men has been kept asunder—the Union
that all fought for, only to have it prove
an iynus faluus ; when one-third of the
Union to day is subject to a power, in
time of peace, unrecognized by the Con
stitution—not to secure victory, not to
render the triumph of the flag a triumph
for all time, but for the selfish purpose of)
preserving in perpetuity the power of a <
party unfit to wield it; when, all these
years, that party has been laboring, not
to heal sectional wounds and the bitter
ness engendered by war, but to see by
what assumption of power they can pre
the South from, coming back as De
mocratic Slates, and thus keep in place the
party that is rioting in spoils—l say,
when such conditions have existed for
three years, he that would slammer in
pronouncing himself a Democrat—
chose party is the only one to which we
<Gti look for succor from these woes — is
n " ?uan for the times. [Deafening
cheers. 1 And I say to-night what I ne
yer said before, that I stand here a De
mocrat--a Democrat as defined in the
platform of the New York Convention,
b am willing to tight under the banner
ot the Democracy, and, God willing, we
will achieve a victory. [Cheers.]
I did not come here to speak at length.
L 'tH I must say a word for that much de
spised man, Andrew Johnson. [Cheers.] j
No man need hiss the name of Andrew
Johnson. If ever a man showed devo
id
tion to the Constitution of the United
States, he is that man; [chews,] and I
challenge the most profound statesman
to controvert it. Look at his messages,
and compare them with those of his pre
decessors, including the immortal Wash
ington, [cheers,] and you will find that
his are unsurpassed in the annals of
American history. His devotion to the
Government has been proved under cir
cumstances more trying than ever sur
rounded prince or potentate. lie has
borne himself nobly, and has made him
self a sacrifice on the altar of his country,
and, but for a few men of honesty and
integrity in the Senate, he would have
been deposed. All thanks to him for
his faith!illness in the hour of trial.
It is unnecessary to descant on the
merits of Messrs. Seymour and Blair;
they are known to you and the world.
Horatio Seymour is one of the first
statesmen and truest patriots in this
broad nation. lam contented with the
candidates and with our glorious plat
form. We have nothing to do now but
to organize victory, go to the polls, re
cord our votes, and reform the Govern
ment, and bring it back to the status of
its glorious founders. I have faith that
we shall be successful. If we fail, God
help us and the cause of Liberty.”
[Cheers.]
THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE QUESTION,
This poor being, the object of the ex
treme illiberality of nature, and the vic
tim of the pride and tyranny of the white
race, is likely to continue the subject of
dissension in America. The doctrine of
secession, sprung from the opulence and
luxury which his unpaid labor produced;
and in the war carried on to reduce that
doctrine to the just principles of right and
justice, his fetters have been unfastened
forever; but the question of making a citi
zen of him, is already fermenting in the pub
lic mind; and while it is certain that the
discussion of the issue will lead to the
worst forms of political contest through
out the whole land, it is not uncertain
that it will plunge the country into an
other unfortuuate war. * *
The Negro, possessed of a vote, is a
greater prize than the same creature
under the lash of the master; and
for his ownership at the polls, every
description of deception and violence
upon communities and upon the laws,
will be committed. It needs but a small
amount of malignant agency to distend
causes like these into fury sufficient to
immerse the country in civil bloodshed.
The Negro is clearly a curse to
America. u
It is evident that, fundamentally speak
ing, it would be a violation of things to
make a citizen of the Negro. The rea
son of this is found in the difference be
tween the Negro and the White. The
prejudice of color may be shamefully in
tensified by odious causes ; but this pre
judice in the White for the Black has
been planted by nature itself; and it is
undoubted that in the majority of cases
the Negropholists have gone to unfortu
nate extremes in extirpating it. Aboli
tionism has led to many unfortunate ex
cesses. The Negro race is evidently un
der the ban of nature. Is there any obli
gation on the White race to try to undo
this ban—to the degree of making per
fect political equality between the two
races? Do the interests of the White
require such an act? Do the honor,
greatness, power, and perpetuity of the
country demand it? The proper an
swers to these questions are decided
negatives. The duty of the White to the
Negro, is to pay him for his labor ; the
White can secure no true advantage in
making the Negro his political equal;
and the country has no need whatever of
Negro suffrage.
The Irish citizens will be called upon
to exercise their great influence in this
matter. They will exercise it patrioti
cally. Treason and Abolitionism were the
causes of the late war. When they both
were full, the war burst forth. But
Abolitionism would have been full
much sooner than it was, only for the
barrier of the Irish vote placed before
it. A similar thing will take - place
now. Against Negro suffrage will stand
the Irish suffrage, guided by the Consti
tution ; and the opposition will save,
perhaps, forever, the country from an
other civil war, on account of Negro citi
zenship, a thing which is at once a vio
lence upon Nature, and an insult and an
injury to the Republic.
Phila. ( Catholic) Universe.
CONTINUED PUNISHMENT OF THE
SOUTH,
There is a party at the North whose
spirit of vengeance against the South can
neither be tempered by prudence, nor
softened by humanity, nor appeased by
any amount of ill-fortune and wretched
sorrows that may fall on the stubborn
of that unfortunate part of the coun- *
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try. It is unnecessary to designate what
party this is. It is too notorious not to
be well known ; it is also too Radical not
to be hated. But this party is to its neck
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